THEATER
Young Actors Christian Kompany will perform the musical "Godspell" at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Friday and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Strobel Hall at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 215 N. Main St., Zelienople. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Call 724-452-4767.Comtra Theatre, Route 19 in Cranberry Township, is staging "Rain, The Story of Sarah Thompson on a South Sea Island," written by Somerset Maugham, through Saturday. "Seussical, The Musical" will run June 20 to July 5. Shows start at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Admission is $12 for plays and $15 for musicals. Box office opens at 6:45 p.m. the day of the show. Call 724-773-9896.
<B>Pittsburgh CLO</B> begins the 2008 summer season of musicals with "Oprah Winfrey Presents The Color Purple" running through Sunday at the Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave. For tickets, call 412-281-2822.<B>The Backstage Bar and Cabaret at Theater Square</B>, a project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, in Theater Square at 655 Penn Ave., is showing "Shear Madness" through Sept. 28. Performances start at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays and at 1 p.m. select Thursdays. Tickets are $39.50 for evenings or $34.50 for matinees. Call 412-456-6666 or visit the Web site, CLOcabaret.com.
<B>The Red Barn Players</B> group will perform "Nunsensations!" which takes the sisters on a brand new adventure of a Las Vegas revue through June 21 at the Red Barn Theatre on Route 288, Ellwood-Zelienople Road in Franklin Township, Beaver County. Performances start at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 for plays and $12 for musicals. Reservations can be made 24 hours a day by calling 724-773-7150.<B>New Castle Playhouse</B>, 202 E. Long Ave. in New Castle, is hosting "Echoes of the War," two short plays by J.M. Barrie, famous for writing "Peter Pan," through June 22. The one-act plays are "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" and "The New Word." Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $10. Call 724-654-3437 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
