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Joseph Kesselring's dark comedy farce Arsenic and Old Lace dates back to 1941 and was made into one hilarious film starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra in 1944.

Fourth time's the charm for Musical Theatre West as the award-winning regional theater company opens its 63rd season with the 1956 Lerner and Loewe Broadway classic MY FAIR LADY.

The Celebration Theatre has picked a perfect production, the Los Angeles premiere of playwright Robert O'Hara's BOOTYCANDY, to inaugurate  their new home @ the Lex.

PRAIRIE-OKE!, the musical mash-up parody that rocked Los Angeles, returns for three weekends only to the Cavern Club Theater.

The second annual Cabaret Is Alive and Well and Living in Los Angeles, a 4-night, 3-show, 3-venue celebration of Los Angeles Cabaret as a benefit for The Actors Fund will take place November 13th-16th.

Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN will have its West Coast premiere November 20 - December 20, 2015, at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre, directed by Lee and presented in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.

Celebration Theatre at the Lex presents its first play in its new home, under the artistic direction of Michael Matthews &Michael A.

Red Cup Theatre Company presents DNA by Dennis Kelly opening December 10th at Atwater Village Theatre.

Flight springs to life through storytelling, physical theatre, and acrobatics to create a whimsical world inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's story The Little Prince.

The west coast premiere of THE SPARROW successfully intrigues as a stylistic performance art piece with some stunning visuals utilizing backlite scrims, clever choreography and inventive staging, with some haunting original music by Gregory Nabours.

Tony Award nominated actress Jonelle Allen will star in BLACKBIRD, The Story of Broadway Legend Florence Mills, this weekend, October 30th and October 31st at 7:30 p.

Collaborative Artists Ensemble has announced their Fall production, a new adaptation of Ibsen's 'The Lady from the Sea'.

Michael Mezmer's 'TranceNosis' comedy hypnosis and 'BrainStorm' award-winning magic phenomena shows come to The Grove today, October 30th.

The Laguna Playhouse Youth Theatre presents Shakespeare's classic love story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, the star crossed lovers who defy their families and marry in secret in THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET, which comes to Laguna Playhouse Moulton Theatre November 6 - 15.

Theatre of NOTE, in association with Opiate of the Masses, brings a bonus production to its 2015 season: the world premiere of RIO HONDO by Bill Robens, the author of Entropy, Kill Me, Deadly and A Mulholland Christmas Carol and directed by Jaime Robledo, of Stoneface and Watson fame.

This just in! The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director) and Lythgoe Family Productions (LFP) announces John O'Hurley ('Seinfeld,' Broadway's Chicago, 'Dancing With The Stars,' National Tour and Vegas production of Spamalot) as Captain Hook, Chrissie Fit ('Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Teen Beach

Phantom Projects Theatre Group will bring Lois Lowry's dramatic story about the Danish Resistance during World War II to life at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, one-day-only, November 19th , 2015.

After a critically acclaimed 3-week run at The Brick in Brooklyn, Buran Theatre will bring their evocative and surreal meditation on love and destruction to Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica (November 20-21) and Tricklock Performance Space in Albuquerque, NM (December 11-12).

BREAKING THROUGH, a world premiere musical, features a book by Kirsten Guenther, and music and lyrics by Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz.

Los Angeles' Broads' Word Theatre Company presents the premiere of Women w/o Walls by Robin Rice (Lichtig) This is the second production for the company after their inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival hit, 50 Shades of Shrew.

Stoppard's most moving play explores the entanglements of self and relationship, love and fidelity, art and artifice.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre, presents two free, staged readings this fall: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been by Eric Bentley, directed by Apollo Dukakis, on Wednesday, November 11 at 7 pm; and, on Monday, November 16 at 7PM, in partnership with East West Players,

Chico's Angels are BACK for a Halloween Encore!! Come join Kay Sedia, Chita Parol & Frieda Laye as they go under the covers to find a High school hooker witness! There are only five shows beginning tonight, October 29 thru Sunday, Nov 1.

The Falcon Theatre welcomes Kevin Blake now performing the role of 'F.

Greenway Arts Alliance continues their season of world premieres with FRONT DOOR OPEN, a drama written by veteran playwright Tom Baum, directed by acclaimed theater and television director Asaad Kelada.