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Looking to take in a show or two this week? Here's a quick look at what's playing on stages around the Erie region.

Meadville's Academy Theatre stands at the ready to lead audiences over the rainbow and into a land of enchantment with The Wizard of Oz.

This month's The Wizard of Oz ushers in a season of Timeless Tales at Meadville's Academy Theatre. Most main stage selections take inspiration from the world of film, with the stage adding an extra layer of magic.

Since its inception in 2010, the Performing Artists Collective Alliance PACA has enriched downtown Erie by providing a space for various artistic endeavors, including concerts, art shows, private parties, paint nights, classes and nearly 50 plays in its 100-seat theater.

A public debate earlier this decade raised the question of whether a reconfigured Pleasant Ridge Manor could be financially self-sustaining. Now Erie County officials are wrestling with the answer to the tune of seven figures a year.

Four evenings a week, Connie Goodwill and Diane Davis set up shop near the finish line of Presque Isle Downs amp Casino's thoroughbred racing track.

Nick Scott Sr., president of Erie-based Scott Enterprises, said he's pleased that an effort to reinvent Family First Sports Park in Summit Township will receive 3 million through the stateRedevelopment Assistance Capital Program.

Natalie Pacileo, the owner of Erie County Farms, is prepared to lose her house to save her business.

ALBION 8212 An Erie County school is one of only18 Pennsylvania schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as 2016 Blue Ribbon Schools.

BORN ON THIS DATE Jeanne Kaehly, Clara Waiter, Gary Peres, Sharon Loper, Virgil McArdle, Debby Bates, Jeffrey Kraus, Jim Sherred, Ellyn Hill, Jeff Nick, W.A. Davis, Kenneth Zimmer, Norie Yarrington, Marcy Banak, Julia Straub, George Kane, Shelly Alchadeff, Agnes Hickox, Mary Gifford, George Kaufman, Heidi Hayes, Thomas Blount Jr.