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Fox Valley Repertory, previously known as Noble Fool Theatricals, has announced its 2011 season, which will open with Tim Clue and Spike Manton's Leaving Iowa (January 20 - March 13). Rachel Rockwell will direct this play about a man revisiting the places he and his family traveled to when he was a child.

Also on the theater's schedule is Ted Swindley's Always, Patsy Cline, to run March 24 - May 15. John Gawlik will direct both this production and Mark Brown's adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, to run June 9 - July 31.

The season will also include the musical They're Playing Our Song (August 18-October 9), Stephen Malatratt's adaptation of Susan Hill's The Woman in Black (October 14-30), and It's a Wonderful Life - A Live Radio Play (November 10 - December 24).

The theater will also host a Summer Arts Festival, which will run July 14-31. The event will be anchored by Gawlik's staging of Around the World and by a production of Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates (July 7 - August 7). The festival will also include a play development program that will focus on plays with scientific subjects and themes and a ten minute play series.

For further information visit: www.foxvalleyrep.org.