Fall Arts Calendar 

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PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY will perform September 1 at 8pm. One of the world's best-known and most respected dance companies returns to Charlotte after a 20-year absence. The performance will be at the Performing Arts Center. Tickets range from $20-$55. For more information call 704-372-1000.

THE SECRET GARDEN This major Broadway hit and musical treasure for children and adults will be performed at Little Theatre of Gastonia, 238 South Clay St., Gastonia, directed by Leslie Hodnett and Susan Lisle, September 26-29 and October 3-5. Tickets: $12, $10 seniors and students. 704-865-0160.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2001, UNO NUNCA MUERE LA VISPERA by Monika Bravo. Bravo made this film while she was an Artist-in-Residence on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. The McColl Center for Visual Art, 721 N. Tryon St., will show the film on September 11, 11am-4pm, free admission. Call 704-332-5355.

SHIRLY VALENTINE will be presented by the Davidson College Theatre Department, September 4-8, in Hodson Hall. Tickets are $20, seating is limited. Call 704-894-2135

SHOW BOAT part of Theatre Charlotte's 75th Performance Season, this musical will be performed at Theatre Charlotte, 501 Queens Road, on September 12-14, 19-22, 26-29. Tickets: 704-334-9128, www.theatrecharlotte.org.

SNAPSHOT The Farm Theater Group, under the direction of Anthony Cerrato, presents a dramatic anthology of vignettes interpreting a photograph of two people at Mount Rushmore. The production will take the audience on a guided tour through The Warehouse Theater and the Hart-Witzen Gallery and through the authors' realities. Performance dates are September 26-28 and October 3-5, 8pm; tickets are $15. For more information, call 704-455-8542.

WEST SIDE STORY The classic musical update of the Romeo & Juliet story will be performed at Belk Theater September 10-15 as part of a new national tour. Individual tickets range from $20-$58. Call 704-372-1000, or visit www.performingartsctr.org.

THE WROSLAV CONNECTION The Charlotte Civic Orchestra performs in remembrance of September 11, 2001 on September 22, 2002 at 3pm. Tickets are $6-$17. First United Methodist Church, 501 N. Tryon St. 704-344-0098.

OCTOBERBALLET HISPANICO Hispanic culture comes alive in this fusion of ballet, modern and Latin dance. This traveling show will be presented at Belk Theater, October 6 at 7:30pm. Tickets: $15-$40. 704-372-1000, www.performingartsctr.org.

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST adapted by Marisha Chamberlain, based on the story by Oscar Wilde, will be performed by Children's Theatre at Spirit Square October 18-27. Recommended for ages 7 and up. Tickets: $10-$15. 704-376-5745, www.ctcharlotte.org.

CAROLINA WRITERS NIGHT Sponsored by Creative Loafing and the Novello Festival Press, this longstanding tradition welcomes distinguished regional novelist Lee Smith, NC novelist/playwright Jim Grimsley, Novello Literary Award winner Ron Rash, Novello Festival Press poet Irene Blair Honeycutt and Novello Festival Press children's writer/illustrator Lauren Faulkenberry to Neighborhood Theatre on October 16 at 7:30pm. Admission is free. www.novellofestival.org.

CASSANDRA KING wife of Pat Conroy, will be at Park Road Books, formerly known as The Little Professor, Park Road, October 9 at 7pm to talk about and sign copies of her debut novel, Sunday Wife. Call 704-525-9239.

CHESTNUT BRASS Queens University Friends of Music sponsor this concert at Dana Auditorium, October 4, 8:15pm. For more information, call 704-337-2213.

COPPELIA will be danced by the Shanghai Ballet at Belk Theater on October 28 at 8pm. Tickets: $85-$295. 704-527-6680, www.carolinasconcert.com.

DAVID SEDARIS best-selling author, humorist and contributor to NPR's This American Life will perform at Ovens Auditorium on October 21 at 8pm. Tickets are $20-$25. For more information or to reserve tickets call 704-522-6500.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK will be performed by the Davidson College Theatre Department. New adaptation is by Wendy Kesselman and will be directed by Sharon Green, at Duke Family Performance Hall, Davidson College, October 23-26 at 8pm and October 27 at 2pm. Tickets: $12, $8 faculty/staff, $6 students. Recommended ages 11+. 704-894-2135.

DRACULA will be presented by Off-Tryon Theatre just in time for Halloween. Performances are October 24-26, 30-November 2. All shows start at 8pm at the Off-Tryon Theatre. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors. Pay what you can on October 30. 704-375-2826, www.offtryon.org.

EMANUEL AX considered by many to be the world's greatest living pianist, performs at the Performing Arts Center for one night only, October 5 at 8pm, as a part of the Charlotte Symphony's Classics series. Tickets: $40-$75. 704-972-2000, www.carolinasymphony.org.

ENCORE! LINDA EDER! Broadway star, actress, and singer Laura Eder is back by popular demand. She performs at Ovens Auditorium with the Charlotte Symphony Pops October 25-26 at 8pm. Tickets: $15-64. 704-972-2000, www.charlottesymphony.org

AN EVENING WITH A'LELIA BUNDLES Great-great-granddaughter of the famous African American entrepreneur, philanthropist and political activist, Madam C.J. Walker, Bundles is considered the authority on Walker's life, winning high acclaim for her biography On Her Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. She will appear at the Great Aunt Stella Center, 926 Elizabeth Ave., on October 18 at 7:30pm, as part of the 2002 Novello Festival of Reading. Tickets are $15. 704-372-1000. www.performingartsctr.org.