Greg Taylor is back and will be directing UTEP Dinner Theatre's season-opening production of the spoof "Xanadu."
It opens Sept. 30, but tickets went on sale today.
Taylor, the company's founder, was on hiatus last year and is back in the fold for the new season.
Performances of the musical, a take-off on the awful movie that starred Olivia Newton-John, will run through Oct. 16 unless it is extended, as many UDT shows are.
Dinner will include chicken wellington, pasta roma, julienne vegetables, salad and dessert.
Tickets range from $14 to $40, and are on sale now at the UTEP Ticket Center, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
In other news:
• New Mexico State University has announced its 2011-2012 Cultural Series, which includes performances by Albuquerque-based Cuban son group Son Como Son (Sept. 22), Canadian banjo virtuoso Jayme Stone (Nov. 3) and the veteran vocal group New York Voices (Feb. 16).
Also performing: the multi-culti Jose Conde Quartet, which mixes Latin and American music and storytelling (Oct. 6); uillean pipe band McPeake and Detroit Celtic singer-songwriter Cathie Ryan (March 1); and classical music's Eden Stell Guitar Duo (April 5).
All performances will be at 8 p.m. in the NMSU Atkinson Recital Hall.
Tickets are $15, $10 for NMSU students with ID. Series tickets are $81.
They are on sale at the Pan Am Center box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
• That Plaza Classic Film Festival screening of the Billy Townes/Mark Love movie "Border Lords II: Dark Secrets" that was wiped out by a water main break has been reset for Sept. 17.
It was going to show Aug. 14, the last day of the festival, but a water main break shut down water service to the El Paso Museum of Art, which was forced to close.
The Sept. 17 showing will be free and start at 2 p.m. that day in the museum's El Paso Electric Energy Auditorium.
• That Natalie Grant concert Sept. 29 at the Coliseum is a fundraiser for the Salvation Army's anti-human trafficking program.
In addition to Grant and rapper KJ-52, Poema, Josiah James and El Paso's Altarmotive will perform at what organizers are calling the Save the Brave Music Fest.
Tickets are $10 GA, $20 for box or floor seats, on sale at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
• Pony Productions has firmed up four shows, starting with British comedian and hypnotist Peter Kingsley at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 and 6 and 11 p.m. Sept. 8 at The Percolator.
They're all-ages shows, $10 at the door.
Tickets for the Black Dahlia Murder Club show Oct. 20 at Club 101 are $15, on sale at Ticketbully. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Also performing: All Shall Perish, Cannibis Corpse and A Day of Bloodshed.
Pony also is bringing the Motel 6-sponsored "Rock Yourself to Sleep" tour with Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Sleeping with Sirens, Attila and Memphis May Fire at 6 p.m. Nov. 9 at Club 101.
Tickets are $15 at Ticketbully.
• Border Theatre will celebrate its one-year anniversary with a new staging of its first performance piece, "Exhibitions in Dis/Connection" at 7 p.m. Sept. 23-25 and Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at the Glasbox, 1500 Texas.
Founder Austin Savage is promising "more plays, more artists, more bands, more vendors, better food, better ticket deals and a greater sense of community appreciation."
It will feature six short plays, which will be performed sequentially, instead of simultaneously, at three locations inside the Glasbox.
Tickets are $5 online at bordertheatre.org and ticketbully.com, $7 at the door. Sundays will be free for military, police and firefighters.
The Sept. 22 preview performance will not have a set admission price. Instead, patrons can pay what they want, or what they can afford.
Ten percent of ticket proceeds will be donated to the Sunset Heights Block Party.
• Mexicans at Night will headline the Sept. 2 "Go Local Fest" at Bombardiers, 109 E. Castellano.
Also performing are Shaka Toki, Rubicon, Touch Tone Telephone, Frank Zavala, the Bella Fusion bellydance group, APT Movement (an offshoot of the Border Theatre) and Mindy Chanson.
Doors open at 4 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. It's a 21-and-older show. Admission is $10 at the door.
• San Diego Chicano comedy and political satire troupe Teatro Izcalli will perform free sh0ws at 7 p.m. Oct. 7-8 at the Studio Theatre in UTEP's Fox Fine Arts Building.
The group will be performing some of its greatest hits from throughout its 15-year history.
Doors open at 6. Seating is limited.
• Ceramic artist Kurt Weiser, who judged the Las Cruces Museum of Art's "From the Ground Up XXV" exhibit, is still speaking Sept. 1, but at a new location.
His free talk will be at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main, Las Cruces.
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