PALMDALE PLAYHOUSE TO FEATURE SHAKESPEARE, VETS, GOSPEL.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Shakespearean plays, a three-week-long tribute to veterans, and gospel music are coming up in the second half of the Palmdale Playhouse's 10th season. In honor of the anniversary, many of the performances will be acts that have played at the theater. ``We put together a great second half, if you will, for the Best of Ten,'' said Dea McAllister, cultural arts/theater manager. The 10th season includes Grammy-winning New Age musicians Tingstad and Rumbel in a Feb. 14 Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. concert, and Frank Graves and Jump performing a Motown tribute in a Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day show. The cast of ``Beatlemania'' will perform Jan. 21. Performances in March of ``A Piece of My Heart A Piece of My Heart is the 18th novel by crime-writer Peter Robinson, published in 2006 and is 16th in the multi award-winning Inspector Alan Banks series. Plot summary ,'' a play about the true experiences of women during the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. , will help raise money for the amenities fund for the planned William J. ``Pete'' Knight Veterans Home in Lancaster. The play was first performed at the Playhouse in 1999. Accompanying ``A Piece of My Heart'' performances will be the film travelogue ``Raise the Bamboo bamboo, plant of the family Gramineae (grass family), chiefly of warm or tropical regions, where it is sometimes an extremely important component of the vegetation. It is most abundant in the monsoon area of E Asia. Curtain'' on Vietnam and Burma, the Vietnamese music group Khac Chi Ensemble, a flag dedication and patriotic quilt raffle to benefit the veterans home, and traditional songs about war by Celtic ensemble Golden Bough. Palmdale's ninth annual Shakespeare Festival in April will feature performances of ``Macbeth,'' an ``Othello'' ballet and ``A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and ,'' a one-man portrayal of Shakespeare reminiscing about his career, and acting and Renaissance jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. workshops. A May 7 gospel music concert will pay tribute to Wilma L. Collor, a longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective Palmdale Youth and Community Choir member who died in September. For general theater information, call (661) 267-5684. The box office at the theater, 38334 10th St. E., is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. The box office telephone number is (661) 267-5685, or go to www.cityofpalmdale.org/departments/playhouse/ |
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