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ArtSpark 2008 applications are available through 3/31, and this year HBMG is awarding $15,000 in prizes to two winning creative teams. For the uninitiated, ArtSpark throws a "spark"—a piece of visual art or music—to a group of creative teams and tasks them with creating a new play or video game. If you're active in almost any creative field, check it out.

Did you know you can take an acting class from none other than Rob Nash? Yes, the Rob Nash. Sounds like fun! We're thinking of doing it. Join us!

Totally cute playwright of GLAAD award-winning i google myself, Jason Schafer, is flying down to A-town to check out the final performance of the regional premiere of his play. Now there's an author we wouldn't mind rubbing shoulders with.... Tonight, 7pm, Blue Theater.

Winners of week two, Frontera Short Fringe:

• Aimée Gonzalez's Larius Likler. Larius Likler is almost an anagram for serial killer. And so, Larius Likler has decided to almost become one. Excerpted from a play in progress.
• Andrew Varenhorst's Jails, Hospitals, and Hip Hop, by Danny Hoch. Three monologues from Danny Hoch's one man show.
• Girls, Girls, Girls' _______ the Musical! You shout out a location where you'd like to see a musical take place and we make up one on the spot with the help of our musician.
• Troy Fortenberry's Joe Normal, by Mark Farias. An ensemble piece exploring the nature of heroism and societal acceptance of its absence.
• Charlie Watkins' The Ballad of The Three Actorteers, by Alan Metoskie, Jason Newman, Chuck Watkins. The epic saga of the three greatest actors in the universe as they struggle to perform some of the most challenging plays known to man, as sent to them from the mysterious gods of theater.

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