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La Mirada and McCoy Rigby are set to present the third show of their 2011-2012 season with the Los Angeles regional theatre premiere production of THE 39 STEPS, adapted by Patrick Barlow (based on the Alfred Hitchcock film) and directed by Jessica Kubzansky.

Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy have a date with destiny-and South Coast Repertory-in the season-opening production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, closing Oct. 9 on the Segerstrom Stage.

One of the most beloved novels of all time, Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has so consistently resonated with readers since its first publication in 1813 that it has spawned a plethora of dramatic adaptations on several different mediums. Continuing the trend is South Coast Repertory, now running an enjoyable new stage production continuing through October 9. This brisk, high-tech, yet faithful stage adaptation imagines the story coming to life before the eyes of a young teenager observing the drama.

Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy have a date with destiny-and South Coast Repertory-in the season-opening production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, running Sept. 9 through Oct. 9 on the Segerstrom Stage.

UK playwright Alan Ayckbourn is revered internationally as a virtuoso at penning highly comedic plays. Ayckbourn, like Neil Simon, writes funny one-liners and creates very humorous characters, but uniquely manages to surprise his fans each and every time with a new and compelling artifice. In his brilliant Absurd Person Singular, for example, three couples spend three different Christmas Eves together over the course of a few years. The Norman Conquests is a trilogy wherein each play has the same time span and series of events, but in each one we see things from a different perspective. Table Manners is in the kitchen, Living Together in the living room and Round and Round the Garden speaks for itself. Now in Life of Riley, receiving its US premiere at the White Theatre of San Diego's Old Globe, the dying man everyone is going out of their way to accommodate is never seen, but his presence is felt throughout. Riley is a dramedy with less physical comedy than other Ayckbourn pieces. Here three couples struggle to find a sense of peace and happiness outside and within the confines of their failing marriages. The action takes place outdoors in four different garden patios. It boasts a splendid cast, with superior direction from Richard Seer, and succeeds quite admirably as engrossing and entertaining fare.

Life of Riley looks backwards, forwards and, now and then, sideways with wry comic affection on the lives we lived or might have lived.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley. Directed by Richard Seer, Life of Riley will run in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of The Old Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, April 30 - June 5. Preview performances run April 30 - May 4. Opening night is Thursday, May 5 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the Bard's most joyous comedies, and director Mark Rucker is taking that joy and running with it in South Coast Repertory's moon-drenched production, which runs Jan. 21 through Feb. 20 on the Segerstrom Stage.

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the Bard's most joyous comedies, and director Mark Rucker is taking that joy and running with it in South Coast Repertory's moon-drenched production, which runs Jan. 21 through Feb. 20 on the Segerstrom Stage.

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the Bard's most joyous comedies, and director Mark Rucker is taking that joy and running with it in South Coast Repertory's moon-drenched production, which runs Jan. 21 through Feb. 20 on the Segerstrom Stage.

TheatreWorks Stage 2 Program will present Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical RENT, based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village.

TheatreWorks Stage 2 Program will present Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical RENT, based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village.

In Lenny's Back, a vibrant one-person play about the late controversial comic Lenny Bruce, Sam Bobrick and wife Julie Stein penned an unpredictably exhilarating look at a man that for many fans was the king of comedy. In Bobrick's latest comedy The Psychic, he does not choose anyone famous; on the contrary, he creates a fictitious struggling writer and five ordinary people with quite extraordinary ambitions and goals. Bigger than life, not unlike cartoons, the sextet create one unforgettably entertaining evening of theatre at the Falcon.

The Falcon Theatre is thrilled to present the world premiere comedy The Psychic written by Sam Bobrick and directed by Susan Morgenstern, the final production in its 2009-2010 Subscription Season.

The Falcon Theatre is thrilled to present the world premiere comedy The Psychic written by Sam Bobrick and directed by Susan Morgenstern, the final production in its 2009-2010 Subscription Season.

L.A.'s Classical Theater Ensemble, The Antaeus Company, announces that their critically-acclaimed (LA TIMES Critics' Choice, BACKSTAGE Critic's Pick) smash-hit production of their World Premiere adaptation of the literary classic, COUSIN BETTE, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the novel by Honore de Balzac and directed by Jeanie Hackett, will be EXTENDING through Sunday, March 28th at Antaeus' interim home, Deaf West Theatre, located at 5112 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.

The Antaeus Company ensemble offers a devilishly dark and venemous Cousin Bette to relish. I haven't had such fun since Nicholas Nickleby.