Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. July 11 and July 25. New dean at FSU Bruce Halverson, head of the theater department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been named dean of Florida State University's School of Theatre. The '60s Musical, which was a big hit at Gainesville's Hippodrome State Theatre last summer, is coming back. The show, a six-woman musical review featuring more than 35 pop songs from the '60s popularized by women like Leslie Gore, Petula Clark, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner, will play the Hippodrome from July 9 through Aug. 8. There are eight performances a week, including a late afternoon performance on Saturday and a matinee on Sunday.
Positions are open for the alto, tenor and bass sections.
Georgia art show The Thomasville Cultural Center's 10th annual Summer Showcase, a juried art competition and exhibition of work by artists living within 275 miles of Thomasville, Ga., will be on display through July 25. Jacksonville sculptor David Endgahl won first place with his wood sculpture Lamelliform 135. Hours at the gallery, located at 600 E. Washington St. in Thomasville, are 9 a.m. 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Florida Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Florida will offer a special program on bats from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday.