OPP, AL (WSFA) - The Opp Rattlesnake Rodeo is just around the corner and organizers are working to finalize many of the events for 2013.

Thursday evening, the organization revealed two of the entertainment acts it has secured. The band Little Texas is slated to perform on Friday, March 22.

The Andalusia Ballet will be performing Summer Dances tonight, August 3rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Solon & Martha Dixon Theatre on the campus of Lurleen B. Wallace Community College.

Summer Dances is the culmination of the Summer Intensive, a two week class that allows experienced dancers in-depth training with excellent teachers in ballet technique, jazz and modern.  It is presented by the students who participated in the Summer Intensive.  The performance is an exciting program of both classical and contemporary works.

The Dixon Theatre is located at 100 Dannelly Boulevard on the Campus of Lurleen B.Wallace Community College in Andalusia.

For more information, contact the Andalusia Ballet at 334-222-6620 or email them at info@andalusiaballet.com.

Source:  The Andaluisa Ballet

Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) and its Executive Director Keith Cromwell, in collaboration with Lee Sentell (Alabama Tourism Director) and Dr. Lawrence J. Pijeaux (President and CEO of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute) are hosting a national search for a one-act written piece to be produced in honor of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

The one-act theatrical presentation (play, musical or spoken word) will become the second act of a fully-realized theatrical event that features a first-act dramatic reading of the “Letter to Martin Luther King” by a group of clergymen and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written during his incarceration in 1963. 

Submissions are due no later than September 1, 2012, and the winner will be announced on October 15, 2012.