THEATER
The Calvin Presbyterian Church youth group will stage "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday as well as Nov. 19 to 21 with a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for students. Call 724-452-7560.
Freeport High School will present "The Secret Garden" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 and 21 in the high school auditorium. Tickets are $7. Call 724-295-5143.
Comtra Theatre, Route 19 in Cranberry Township, is presenting the play "Shady Business" from Friday through Nov. 28. Curtain is 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>The 2009 Radio City Christmas Spectacular</B> starring the Rockettes opens today and continues through Dec. 6 at the Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave. Single tickets range from $30.50 to $100.50. Call 412-456-4800 or visit the Web site, www.pct-arts.org.<B>Parallel Exit, a vaudeville-like and slapstick comedy</B> plus a tap show, will be presented Saturday as part of the 2009-10 Hillman Performing Arts Series at the Hillman Center for the Performing Arts on the Shady Side Academy campus, 423 Fox Chapel Road. Single tickets range from $10 to $35. Call 412-968-3040.<B>Pittsburgh Public Theater</B> continues its 35th season with Lillian Hellman's tale of greed and family, "The Little Foxes," opening today and continuing through Dec. 13 at the PPT's O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays (except Dec. 8 when the show is at 7 p.m.), and at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays (except Nov. 14 and 21. No performance on Thanksgiving. Tickets range from $35 to $55; students and anyone younger than 26 pay $15. Call 412-316-1600 or visit www.ppt.org. <B>Quantum Theatre</B> is presenting "Candide" with music by Leonard Bernstein through Nov. 22 at the former Don Allen Auto City, 5315 Baum Blvd. Not musical theatre as most know it and not quite opera, "Candide" is a sung tale of the discovery of evil and the endurance of hope based on Voltaire's satire of the earnest principles of the Enlightenment period. The stage is discarded in favor of staging this masterpiece in a former car dealership. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and at 7 p.m. Sundays. Tickets range from $28 to $40 with a limited number of $16 student tickets available. Call ProArts Tickets at 412-394-3353 or visit the Web site, www.quantumtheatre.com.<B>Pittsburgh International Children's Theater</B> presents the Enchantment Theatre Company in "The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon" through Saturday at various locations. Today it is being presented at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. at Pine-Richland High School. Tickets are $11. Call 412-456-6666 or visit www.pgharts.org.<B>CLO Cabaret</B> is presenting "Forever Plaid" through March 28 at the CLO Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave. "The Plaids" is the story of a 1950s all-male singing group. Tickets are $39.50 for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, $44.50 for Saturday evenings, and $34.50 for matinees. Call 412-456-6666.<B>Attack Theatre</B> presents "Incident(s) in the Strip," a journey of action and reaction through high energy dance and original live music, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Nov. 16, 17, 20 and 21 at 2425 Liberty Ave. in the Strip District. Tickets are $20 in advance, or $25 at the door; students, teachers and senior citizens pay $15. Call 412-441-8444 or visit the Web site, www.attacktheatre.com.
<B>Community Playhouse Inc</B>. will stage "Trust," a new play by Bill Duncan, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the fifth floor of The Arlington Hotel, 1 Seneca St. in Oil City, as part of the area's 150th celebration of the discovery of oil. Tickets are $12. Reservations can be made by calling 814-677-7469 and leaving a message.
