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The Los Angeles Chapter of Women in Sports and Events (WISE Los Angeles) announced today that Judi Cordray (Vice President, ESPN Los Angeles Production Center), Blanca Gonzalez (Vice President/General Manager of the West, Nike), and Jennifer van Dijk (Vice President, Team Marketing and Business Oper

(mostly)musicals returns to the E Spot Lounge on Wednesday, October 7 with TAKE FLIGHT, the company's 14th entry in a series of themed cabarets.

Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields has issued a statement in response to what the company says are false and defamatory allegations made by playwright Tommy Smith to the press and on other media.

Heart and Flame Productions presents the World Premiere Pop/Rock Musical, WE ARE THE TIGERS, book, music and lyrics by Rebekah M.

Musical Theatre West (MTW) opens its 2015-2016 season with Lerner and Loewe's Tony Award-winning musical MY FAIR LADY, October 23-November 8, 2015, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.

Critically-acclaimed Broadway, TV and animation star Susan Egan will release her seventh solo CD, SOFTLY, November 11, 2015 (advanced purchase available October 14, 2015).

On Monday October 5, zany comedienne/singer Diane Vincent brought her act: Diane and Lucy & Betty: A One Woman Show to an SRO room at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal.

Transgender actress/singer Alexandra Billings has done quite remarkable work on LA stages over the last decade, as well as being one of the stars of the current amazon TV hit Transparent.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a young, upcoming playwright whose Neighbors back in 2010 was an alluring eye-opener about racism and the human condition.

A play about the off-stage troubles between Louis Prima and Keely Smith is having its own off-stage troubles.

Award-winning artists' collective Rogue Artists Ensemble presents its most ambitious project to date in association with Bootleg Theater: a modern, mature and delightfully macabre adaptation of Carlo Collodi's "The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Legends about Hollywood stars are often difficult to prove or disprove.

So does FIRST DATE---the relatively new musical comedy now playing its Southern California regional premiere at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through October 11---merit an outing? Sure! If you're looking for a cute, charming little musical that's giddy and entertaining and features a

Laugh your (BODY PART)_____ off at this one-night-only encore performance of Billy Mitchell's improvisational comedy Villain: DeBlanks, tonight, October 6, at The Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles.

Geffen Playhouse presents the West Coast premiere of GUARDS AT THE TAJ by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Steinberg Award recipient Rajiv Joseph.

They made history 45 years ago when they starred in LOVE STORY, the most talked about film of its day -- Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal now reunite for LOVE LETTERS, a special theatrical tour that will make its official tour launch at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

The NoHo Arts District and members of the "PRO99' Los Angeles theater community are throwing a block party to raise awareness about the impact that new regulations from Actor's Equity Association, the union of actors' and stage managers, is having on the local community -- including AJS Costumes wh

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' razor-edged new comedy APPROPRIATE opened this weekend on October 4 and continues through November 1, 2015, at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum.

Over the years, there have been several interpretations of Irish writer Sheridan LaFanu's 1872 controversial masterpiece Carmilla, from literature to TV to film to stage.

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The West Coast premiere of playwright Martin Zimmerman's involving SEVEN SPOTS ON THE SUN receives a splendid, mesmerizing mounting with all the artistic elements artfully converging into one of the best and riveting theatrical experience I've seen in the Los Angeles theatre scene this year.

?CASA 0101 Theater will present a Panel Discussion on the subject of physical abuse following the 5:00 p.

Kritzerland at Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal presents THE SHOWS OF MY LIFE – A PERSONAL DISCOVERY on Sunday, October 18, 2015 (5:30 PM dinner, 7:00 PM show).

The 20th anniversary revival of the Odyssey production of Clifford Odets' classic AWAKE AND SING! receives a raw and reverential mounting.

The playwright had begun urging audiences and the media not to attend or cover the production, claiming, 'I literally have had my play stolen from me.