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Alabama Theatre Christmas Movie Festival
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December 16-22
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Art - Collarmoth Holiday Show
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December 18, 7-10 PM
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Art Exhibit - A Crow Show
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Through December 15
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Art Exhibit - Christmas Show
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Through December 16
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Art Exhibit - New Works by Arthur Price
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Through December 22
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Art Exhibit - Oil Paintings by Mark Singer
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Through December 17
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Art Opening - Gallery Artists' Holiday Show
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December 2, 5- 9 PM
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Art Opening - Works by Esther Levy and Mitzi Levin
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December 11, 2-4 PM
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BCRI - Children't Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
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December 17, noon-2 PM
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BMA - Old Masters to Modern Methods
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September 4- January 2, 2006
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BMA - Stitching Beauty: Kuna Indian Textiles from
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Through January 1, 2006
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BMA - Through the Looking Glass: Birmingham Celebr
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September 11 - December 18
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Booksigning - Help Me Remember
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December 12, noon-2 PM
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Dance - Swing and Wings
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December 16, 6-8 PM
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Film - Reel Paradise
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December 13, 8 PM
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Film - Santa vs. the Snowman
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Through January 1
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Home for the Holidays Open House
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December 1- 23, Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM
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Performance - A Christmas Memory
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December 14, noon
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Shine 2005: Annual Holiday Group Show
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Through December 30
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Theatre - A Christmas Carol
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November 20-December 24,
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Theatre - A Song for Christmas
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December 8-18, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 PM; Sunday, 2 PM
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Theatre - Forever Plaid
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December 16-18, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 PM; Sunday, 2:30 PM
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Theatre - The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge
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December 1-17, Thursday-Saturday, 8 PM; Sunday, 2 PM
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The Alabama Theatre present Christmas classics, including "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation" (Friday), "White Christmas" (Saturday-Sunday), "A Christmas Story" (Monday), "Elf"(Tuesday), and "Its a Wonderful Life" (Wednesday-Thursday). Monday-Friday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. .
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Dates and Times:
December 16-22
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Admission:
Adults, $6; seniors and children ages 12 and younger, $5
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Location:
Alabama Theatre
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Contact:
251-0418
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More Information:
www.alabamatheatre.com
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Collarmoth Holiday Show features handmade gifts, accessories, decor, and fashion by Julia Peerson, Jess Marie Walker, Andrea Paschal, Anne Puckett, Jennifer Wallace, and others.
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Dates and Times:
December 18, 7-10 PM
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Admission:
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Location:
Sakura
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Contact:
999-8777
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More Information:
www.collarmoth.com
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A Crow Show features works of Bethanne Hill, Randy Gachet, Jim Neel, Marie Weaver and Brian McGuffey.
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Dates and Times:
Through December 15
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Admission:
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Location:
Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts
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Contact:
252-9241
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More Information:
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Christmas Show features art and gifts by Nelson Grice, Bettye Kimbrell, and Ivy Young.
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Dates and Times:
Through December 16
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Admission:
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Location:
Cobb Lane Gallery
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Contact:
939-0450
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More Information:
www.cobblanegallery.homestead.com
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New works by Arthur Price on display at Schindler Minchin Fine Art. This exhibition is comprised of an environmental installation of large canvas panels in addition to smaller-scale works. Price is known for his canvas tapestries depicting nature spirits and earthly angels.
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Dates and Times:
Through December 22
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Admission:
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Location:
Schedler Minchin Fine Art
2815-A 18th Street South, Homewood
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Contact:
870-4772
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More Information:
www.schedlerminchin.com
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Oil paintings by Mark Singer. Show runs through December 17.
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Dates and Times:
Through December 17
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Admission:
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Location:
Littlehouse Galleries, 2915 Linden Ave., Homewood
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Contact:
879-7022
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More Information:
www.littlehousegalleries.com
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Hawthorn Gallery's accomplished artists present their newest paintings, drawings and sculpture.
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Dates and Times:
December 2, 5- 9 PM
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Admission:
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Location:
Hawthorn Gallery
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Contact:
879-2588
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More Information:
www.hawthorngallery.net.
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Mixed-media works by Esther Levy and Mitzi Levin at the Levite Jewish Community Center.
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Dates and Times:
December 11, 2-4 PM
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Admission:
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Location:
Levite Jewish Community Center
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Contact:
879-0411
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More Information:
www.bhamjcc.org
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Childrens Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration allows children to learn more about Kwanzaa through activities and crafts.
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Dates and Times:
December 17, noon-2 PM
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Admission:
Free
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Location:
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
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Contact:
328-9696 ext. 2
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More Information:
bcri.bham.al.us
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A rich survey of the museum?s rarely exhibited collection of fine art prints from the late fifteenth century to the present day. Highlights range from woodcuts to screenprintings and illustrate the dynamic history of printmaking.
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Dates and Times:
September 4- January 2, 2006
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Admission:
Free
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Location:
Birmingham Museum of Art
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Contact:
254-2566
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More Information:
www.artsbma.org
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The Kuna Indians live on the mainland and off the coast of Panama. Kuna women are known for their intricate and colorful textile panels, called "molas." This exhibit features thirty molas, along with field photographs of Kuna women making and wearing them.
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Dates and Times:
Through January 1, 2006
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Admission:
Free
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Location:
Birmingham Museum of Art
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Contact:
254-2076
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More Information:
www.artsbma.org
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Were you aware that Birmingham had a sister city in Senegal?
You should learn a little about the sister you never knew you had at the Birmingham Museum of Art. "Through the Looking Glass" is an exhibition of 30 reverse-glass paintings brought back from Senegal by Birminghamians who traveled to our sister city, Guadiawaye, Senegal in February of 2005.
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Dates and Times:
September 11 - December 18
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Admission:
Free
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Location:
Birmingham Museum of Art
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Contact:
254-2566
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More Information:
www.artsbma.org
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Elaine Blanchard signs "Help Me Remember" at Little Professor.
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Dates and Times:
December 12, noon-2 PM
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Admission:
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Location:
Little Professor
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Contact:
870-7461
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More Information:
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Swing and Wings features swing dancing lessons and free chicken wings with Pasquale Williams.
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Dates and Times:
December 16, 6-8 PM
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Admission:
$10
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Location:
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
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Contact:
254-2731 x21
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More Information:
www.jazzhall.com
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Sidewalk Cinematheque presents "Reel Paradise." The story of John Piersons family at the end of a year-long stint at the 180 Meridian Cinema in Fiji, where he showed free movies to the locals.
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Dates and Times:
December 13, 8 PM
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Admission:
General, $7; students and Sidewalk members, $5
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Location:
Workplay
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Contact:
380-4082
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More Information:
www.workplay.com
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The IMAX® animated holiday feature "Santa vs. the Snowman" offers a bag full of laughs for the holidays. This tale of ceaseless hilarity and visual magic is a popular, must-see holiday family tradition and a wildly revolutionary Yuletide story.
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Dates and Times:
Through January 1
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Admission:
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Location:
McWane Center IMAX Dome Theatre
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Contact:
714-8300
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More Information:
www.mcwane.org
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“Home for the Holidays” Open House features seasonal decorations created by local designers, decorators, and florists.
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Dates and Times:
December 1- 23, Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM
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Admission:
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Location:
Aldridge Botanical Gardens
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Contact:
682-8019
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More Information:
www.aldridgegardens.com
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"A Christmas Memory" is a performance by storyteller and actress Dolores Hydock.
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Dates and Times:
December 14, noon
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Admission:
Free
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Location:
Arrington Auditorium, Linn-Henley Building, Birmingham Public Library.
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Contact:
226-3600
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More Information:
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Shine 2005 is the Annual Holiday Group Show at Bare Hands Gallery.
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Dates and Times:
Through December 30
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Admission:
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Location:
Barehands Gallery, 109 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. South
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Contact:
324-2124
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More Information:
www.barehandsgallery.com
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival presents "A Christmas Carol." Scrooge’s attitude brings him face-to-face with his past, present, and future as he is visited by spirits that reawaken his conscience and teach him lessons in caring. Call for schedule.
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Dates and Times:
November 20-December 24,
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Admission:
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Location:
Festival Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival
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Contact:
800-841-4273
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More Information:
www.asf.net
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Summerfest stars perform favorite Christmas carols in "A Song for Christmas" at the Summerfest Cabaret Theatre.
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Dates and Times:
December 8-18, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 PM; Sunday, 2 PM
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Admission:
$30-$55; students $20
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Location:
Summerfest Cabaret Theatre
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Contact:
324-2424
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More Information:
www.summerfest.org
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STARS Series presents "Forever Plaid." Four male singers are killed in a car crash in the 50s on the way to their first big concert. They are miraculously revived for the chance to perform the show that never was.
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Dates and Times:
December 16-18, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 PM; Sunday, 2:30 PM
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Admission:
General, $13; students, $8
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Location:
Virginia Samford Theatre
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Contact:
251-1206
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More Information:
www.virginiasamfordtheatre.org
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A year after Dickens’ Christmas Eve, Scrooge has forgotten lessons learned and has charged the spirits with kidnapping, trespassing, stalking, and slander.
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Dates and Times:
December 1-17, Thursday-Saturday, 8 PM; Sunday, 2 PM
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Admission:
$17
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Location:
Birmingham Festival Theatre
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Contact:
933-2383
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More Information:
www.bftonline.org
No show December 4.
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