A Wartime Farce: The Town & Gown Players kick off their 60th season with a production of Philip King’s 1944 farce See How They Run. Set in the thick of World War II, the play deals with antics, hijinks and shenanigans among the residents of a tiny English village as they prepare for an expected German invasion. As panic ensues all around, the local gossipy spinster has it in her head to expose an affair involving the town vicar’s wife while the vicar prepares for a visiting bishop. Meanwhile, there’s a Russian spy lurking about, multiple cases of mistaken identity and chaos from all corners. The play is a popular bit of silliness, and it bodes well that Rebekah Williams, a gifted comedic actor, is directing this production.

See How They Run runs Friday–Sunday, Oct. 5–7 and Thursday–Sunday, Oct. 11–14, at Athens Community Theatre on Grady Avenue. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15, $8 on Thursday the 11th for students with ID, and reservations can be made online at www.showclix.com.

As usual, Town & Gown will hold auditions for its next Main Stage production in the midst of the run of the current show. Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8 & 9, the doors will be open at 7 p.m. for open auditions for the musical Pippin. Auditioners are asked to select a song to sing a cappella for 30 seconds to a minute and be prepared and dressed to dance.

Preya will perform as part of “The Insurrection Ball: A Cabaret Coup-de-Grace” at Go Bar on Saturday, Oct. 13.

Check Out a Classic: The UGA Theatre will present a new production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in the Cellar Theatre of the Fine Arts building (on the corner of Lumpkin & Baldwin streets) Tuesday–Sunday, Oct. 9–14. If you know Chekhov, then you know this play, filled with sadness and regret, deep characterization and beautiful language. If you don’t know Chekhov, well, you need to know Chekhov. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $12, $7 for students. Contact www.drama.uga.edu/box-office or call 706-542-4400 for more details.

Local Laugh Factory: Thursday, Oct. 11 brings the Free Range Comedy showcase to Farm 255. Hosted by local stand-up impresario Andrea Boyd, the slate of comedians bringing the funny includes Keenan Burton, Matt Gilbert, Natalie Glazer and Craig Hoelzer. This looks to be a good show because, as we all know, free-range comedians are plumper and juicier than comedians raised in cages. The show starts at 10:30 p.m., and admission is free.

What's Your Kink?: Fall is upon us in all its splendor, which of course means it’s time to break out those restricting but exciting garments made from various shiny, nonporous materials. Sirens of Sin, a new arts collective dedicated to bringing Athens’ goth and fetish communities together for regular multimedia events, makes its debut with “The Insurrection Ball: A Cabaret Coup-de-Grace” at Go Bar on Saturday, Oct. 13. This looks to be a pre-Halloween celebration of fashion, electronic music, performance art and kink. I’ve tried to nail principal performer Preya down on what the onstage show will be like, but she just gave me a coy, adorable smile and said, “You’ll see.” Whatever is going to go down up there, it’s going to be interesting. DJ Incubus will spin for dancing, and there will be complimentary shots at 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. There’s a $5 cover, and guests are asked to dress goth, fetish, kink, drag, sexy or at least formal—think on it as an evening at one of the racier clubs in SoHo and you’ll do all right.

Forest Frolic: The Rose of Athens Theatre company is booking gigs for its touring production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set to move around the region performing for schools and adults. But for one night only—Saturday, Oct. 20—they’ll be getting their Puck on at Ashford Manor in Watkinsville. One of Shakespeare's most beloved works, AMND is the delightful tale of four lovers who get lost in the forest and cross paths with faeries. Mistakes and hijinks follow, as they surely must, and someone wakes up with the head of a donkey, as he surely must.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream plays Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. at Ashford Manor and is available for school bookings through March 2013. For more information, go to roseofathens.wordpress.com/midsummer-tour or call 706-340-9181.

Masked Ladies: Those of you who need a warmup before the Wild Rumpus can get your frisky motors going by checking out this month’s installment of Burlesque Beta at Go Bar on Friday, Oct. 26. The monthly talent showcase/excuse to show naughty bits is calling itself "Grotesque Burlesque" this time around in honor of Halloween, and the Beta girls do love them some Halloween, so this looks like extra-special good fun for everyone (well, everyone 21 and older). The show starts at 10 p.m., and admission is $3.