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Denise Pierre performs Sept. 18, 2010 with Swing Fever at the Rrazz Room, at Hotel Nikko, 7 PM. Stanley Bennett Clay's "Armstrong's Kid" Benefit performance is SEPT. 17-19. Three times NAACP Theatre Award winning playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and actor Stanley Bennett Clay lends his talent to the fight against HIV. “Oakland’s Dinner Club” in collaboration with “SMACC (Sexual Minority Alliance of Alameda”, presents Oakland’s premier of “Armstrong’s Kid”, starring Clay and Thandiwe Thomas DeShazor, September 17-19 at SMAAC Youth Center 1608 Webster St., Oakland California. Fri & Sat at 8 PM and Sun, SEPT 19 at 3 PM. Stanley is joined by writer activist, Jesse Brooks and Nursha Project™ artist Thandiwe Thomas DeShazor is an actor, writer and comedian originally from Detroit. Brava Theater and African-American Shakespeare Company present the US Premiere of IPH… from playwright Colin Teevan. Director Dylan Russell helms this lyrical, edgy adaptation of Euripides’ Greek tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis. Set at the beginning of the Trojan War, General Agamemnon has a difficult choice to make – should he sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia or condemn his entire army, and nation, to defeat? The gifted cast assembled for this co-production features acclaimed actor and incoming African-American Shakespeare Artistic Director L. Peter Callender, Bay Area favorite C. Kelly Wright, and up-and-coming talent Traci Tolmaire. We close with playwright Genny Lim, whose Paper Angels is up through SEPT. 17 at Portsmouth Square Park in San Francisco's Chinatown as a part of SF FRINGE, produced by NY Company DIRECT ARTS.