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OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, April 15, 2009 · 28 Wedding bells Plays, poetry and signings Oakville comedian and playwright David Raitt is presenting his show, Between Commutes, on Friday, April 17 and Friday, April 24 at 11 p.m. at The Second City, 51 Mercer St. in Toronto. The show enjoyed a very successful run at the 2008 Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival and named a patrons' pick of the Fringe Between Commutes is a sketch comedy show about how we battle our way across the urban landscape. Everyday, characters move back and forth from work to home and elsewhere, fighting their daily frustrations even as they fight to just get where they want to go. Popcornfree offices. School exams. Sorting junk mail. Wrangling kids. The Afterlife (currently on strike). And everywhere, traffic. The show stars Raitt and Carly Jones. Tickets cost $15 and are available from The Second City box office at 416-343-0011 or online at or www.secondcity.com. For information, visit www.davidraitt.com. Arts Briefs held at Moonshine Café, 137 Kerr St., are: · Poetry Cafe on Sunday, April 19 from noon to 2 p.m. The Poetry Cafe is featuring John B. Lee who is an award-winning poet. · Poetic Multiculturalism on Sunday, April 26 from noon to 2 p.m. The event will feature two Guyanese poets, Peter Jailall and Ian McDonald. There will be eight other poets reading their own works. For additional event information, go online to www.oakvillepoetry.org or e-mail Elka Ruth Enola at ere@sympatico.ca. Book signing Vesna Bailey, a Leamington mom and speech-language pathologist, is holding a book signing for her books, the international twotime award-winning, Notes To My Son Before You Go, (2008 "IPPY" Book Award, and 2008 Writer's Digest Book Award), and the newly released, Notes To My Daughter Before You Go, on Saturday, April 18 from noon-3 p.m. at Chapters Oakville, 310 North Service Rd. DEREK WOOLAM / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER THERE GOES THE BRIDE: Brian Banyard as Charles Babcock, Katherine Kormus as Judy Westerby, Maggie Luxford as Ursula Westerby, Susan Jackson as Daphne Drimmond and Nick Forrow as Dr. Gerald Drimmond star in the Burl-Oak Theatre Group's production of There Goes the Bride, by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, at the Oakville Centre of Performing Arts, 130 Navy St. from Thursday, April 23 to Saturday, April 25 and Wednesday, April 29 through to Saturday, May 2. Show time is 8 p.m.When harassed advertising executive,Timothy Westerby, hits his head on the morning of his daughter's London society wedding, he comes to and discovers Polly Perkins, an iconic 1920's flapper straight Poetry Month Poetry Month in Oakville continout of his current marketing campaign. Can Timothy's family and friends lead him back to reality, before his daughter's wedding day is abandoned? Tickets cost $27 and are available through the Oakville Centre of Performing Arts by call- ues throughout April. Two special events, both being ing 905-815-2021 or by going online to www.oakvillecentre.ca.