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Birney Performance Will Inaugurate Library Theatre

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David Birney will perform in his own adaptation of Mark Twain’s “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” to inaugurate the Library Theatre when the newly expanded Huntington Beach Central Library opens on Oct. 15.

The 320-seat Library Theatre will become the new home of the Huntington Beach Playhouse and will be rented out for children’s theater, music and dance performances, according to a library spokeswoman.

Birney, a television veteran who starred in a GroveShakespeare production of “Macbeth” last year, will be joined on stage by Gwynyth Walsh, who appears periodically on TV’s “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

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Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are $75 and benefit the library. Tickets to a reception with the performers are an additional $25. The library is at 7111 Talbert Ave. Information: (714) 960-8836.

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‘LIGHTS’ ON: “The Lights” by Howard Korder, a play commissioned by South Coast Repertory and given a NewSCRipt reading at the Costa Mesa theater in November, 1992, will begin preview performances Oct. 13 in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Theater Festival of New American Plays.

SCR chose not to produce the drama, described in a Lincoln Center press release as “a dark vision of urban hell that chronicles the spiritual homelessness of life in an unnamed city.”

David Emmes, SCR’s producing artistic director, said in a recent interview, “We felt we couldn’t find a spot for it and, rather than hold up the opportunity for him to get a production, we told him he could take it elsewhere.”

Korder was in rehearsal Friday at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where the play is scheduled to open Nov. 5, and could not be reached for comment.

“The Lights” was produced for the first time in August in Burlington, Vt., by the Atlantic Theater Co., which is remounting Korder’s play for the Lincoln Center event.

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NEW COUNTRY CLUB: The Country Music Cafe has opened at 23822 Mercury Road in Lake Forest, offering a mix of recorded country songs and live music by local country groups, and about 2,200 square feet of dance floor. The owners of the 589-capacity club say they hope to book occasional performances by major country acts.

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‘BEAUTY’ AUDITIONS: The New York City Ballet will hold auditions Oct. 5 for children and young adults seeking dancing and non-dancing roles in Peter Martins’ production of “The Sleeping Beauty” Oct. 14-20 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. Information: (714) 556-2122, Ext. 557.

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