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Butler Little Theatre hosts its annual business meeting and social from 6:30 to 10 p.m. June 11 at Haser's on Main Street. Reservations are due no later than June 3. Cost is $10. Call 724-287-6781 or visit www.bltgroup.org. BLT's 2011-12 season will feature five shows: “The Trip to Bountiful,” “Rounding Third,” “Christmas Belles,” “The Smell of the Kill” and “Is He Dead?”

Comtra Theatre, Route 19 in Cranberry Township, presents “Father of the Bride” through June 4. “Titanic to All Ships,” a historical drama, will run June 10 to 15. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are $12 for plays and $15 for musicals. Reservations can be made at 724-773-9896.

<B>Unseam'd Shakespeare Company</B> presents “Out of This Furnace” from Wednesday through July 2 in the Studio Theater in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave. The play is about three generations struggling to build a life in the shadow of Carnegie's first mill. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and at 4 p.m. Sundays, with an extra performance at 4 p.m. July 2. Tickets range from $20 to $25. Call 412-394-3353 or visit the website www.proartstickets.org. For the Shakespeare company call 412-621-0244 or visit www.unseamd.org.<B>Pittsburgh CLO's</B> summer season continues “9 to 5: The Musical” through Sunday at the Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave. This musical tells the story of three unlikely friends who conspire to take control of their company and learn there's nothing they can't do — even in a man's world. Tickets range from $26.75 to $55.75. Call 412-456-6666. The musical “Jekyll & Hyde” will run June 14 to 26.<B>Playhouse Jr.,</B> Point Park University's children's theatre company, presents “The Diary of Anne Frank,” a new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman performed for the first time in Pittsburgh, through June 12 at 7 p.m. Fridays, at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays. Area Holocaust survivors will speak after the 2 p.m. performances on Sunday and June 12. Tickets are available by calling 412-392-8000 or visiting www.pittsburghplay house.com.<B>Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret</B> presents “The Marvelous Wonderettes” starring Butler native Marlana Dunn along with Stephanie Maloney, Tara Geisler and Courtney Bassett through Oct. 2 at the CLO Cabaret Theatre, 655 Penn Ave. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays plus some Tuesdays and at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Seats range from $34.75 to $44.75. Call 412-456-6666.

<B>New Castle Playhouse</B>, 212 E. Long Ave. in New Castle, presents the drama, “The Rose Tattoo,” Friday through June 19. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays. All tickets are $12. Call the box office at 724-654-3437.<B>“Songs for a New World”</B> will take the stage of the Charles A. Barrow Little Theatre, 1223 Liberty St., at 7:30 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. “Songs” is an abstract musical connected by theme rather than story. The show uses four performers who do not play the same characters through the course of the show. Tickets are $15 and are available by calling 814-437-3440 or 800-537-7769 or by visiting the website www.barrowtheatre.com.

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