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Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story

Host Organization: Hill Country Arts Foundation
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Venue: The Point Theatre
120 Point Theatre Road, Ingram, TX

David Cockrell directs the story of the rock ‘n roll pioneer from Lubbock, TX who changed the face of popular music. Over 20 of Buddy’s greatest hits are featured. The play runs through July 23.

For more information and tickets: (830) 367-5121 or hcaf.com


Who's In Bed With the Butler?

Host Organization: Boerne Community Theatre
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Boerne Community Theatre
907 E. Blanco, Boerne, TX

In this farce by Michael Parker, only the butler really knows who's getting what after a billionnaire passes away leaving a daughter and three mistresses. The play runs through July 30.

For more information and tickets: boernetheatre.org or (830) 249-9166


Fredericksburg Opera Fest

Host Organization: The San Antonio Opera and the Hill Country Opera League
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: The Fredericksburg Theater Company’s Steve W Shepherd Theater
1668 Highway 87 South

Grammy Award nominee, Ava Pine, soprano will be the featured guest. Pine will be joined by David Gashen, tenor, famous throughout Europe and the Americas and Christopher Dickerson, bass-baritone.

For more information: (888) 669-7114, (830) 997-3588 or fredericksburgtheater.org


Balcones Heights 18th Annual Jazz Festival

Host Organization: Balcones Heights
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 7 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Venue: Wonderland Mall Amphitheatre

The Annual Jazz Festival concert series will feature well known smooth Jazz artists. The concerts are every Friday night through August 5. Guests are welcome to bring lawn chairs and blankets. No coolers please.

For more information: (210) 732-0055 or sanantoniocentral.org


Buried Child by Sam Shepard

Host Organization: Classic Theatre of San Antonio
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Sterling Houston Theatre at Jump-Start
1400 S. Alamo, 108 Blue Star in the Blue Star Arts Complex

The Classic Theatre of San Antonio opens the 2011-2012 Season with a haunting and darkly comic masterpiece. This 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner punctures the Norman Rockwell-like exterior of American family life, revealing a disturbingly rotten core. The play runs through July 24.

For more information: (210) 589-8450 or classictheatre.org


Miss Saigon

Host Organization: Woodlawn Theatre
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Woodlawn Theatre
1920 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, TX

This musical is based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon tells the tragic tale of a failed romance during the 1970’s Vietnam War. The play runs through July 24.

For more information and tickets: (210) 738-1117 or woodlawntheatre.com


The Lady with All the Answers

Host Organization: Cameo Theatre
Date: Friday, July 22
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Cameo Theatre
1123 E. Commerce Street, San Antonio, TX

Based on favorite letters and memoirs of one of the most well know advice columnist, Ann Landers, the Cameo Theatre brings this successful off-Broadway play to San Antonio. The solo show depicting Ann Landers’ true life drama runs through Sunday, July 31.

For more information and tickets: (210) 212-5454 or http://www.cameotheatre.org/

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