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The Pasadena Playhouse has extended by popular demand A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN, which will now play through August 23, 2015.

Playwright Martin Sherman, most famous for his Pulitzer and Tony-nominated play Bent is in town for the Mark Taper Forum's revival of  the classic directed by Moises Kaufman.

Phantom Projects Theatre Group ends one season and begins another when they take over the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts on August 8th, 2015.

From the moment you enter the Group rep theatre and see a warmup football practice onstage, the tone for the play is set.

In its California premiere The Fabulous Lipitones by John Markus and Mark St.

A global phenomenon that has wowed audiences for over 40 years, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a timeless work set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally-known series of events but seen, unusually, through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of quick­witted drama AND THE STONES WILL CRY OUT, an exciting original work by Little Fish company member David Graham.

"Appropriate" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Eric Ting, will make its West Coast premiere at Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum, beginning previews September 23 for an October 4 opening.

The Laguna Playhouse Executive Director Karen Wood and Artistic Director Ann E.

Actress Maureen Teefy will perform a limited engagement of her one-woman show, A Subject for a Short Story, directed by Thomas Mitchell, next month at the fanaticSalon Theater in Culver City, CA.

Bravo to Chance Theater for taking on this mainstream hit and making it actually feel like a fresh, awesome little indie.

The talented five-member cast, directed by Alan Shearman, certainly must be commended on their commitment and enthusiasm as they interact with the audience as second-rate circus artists and plow through their intentionally bad vaudeville routines.

Couerage Theatre Company mounts a fine-tuned production of Failure: A Love Story, playwright Philip Dawkins' fresh, unique take on a ill-fated family in the early 1900s.

KKMWJ Productions, in association with The Aquila Morong Studio are proud to present a dark Comedy "SIBLING RIVALRY" - A unique combination of two shorts, "Lone Star" and "Rosemary With Ginger,' opening September 5th, at The Lounge Theatre 2.

Dennis Holland, Asante Gunewardena, Steve Gunderson and John Racca star in the Colony Theatre Company production of 'THE FABULOUS LIPTON'S,' written by John Markus and Mark St.

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Written by James Reach, adapted from the 1955 teleplay by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame, PATTERNS, takes an insightful look at corporate politics, examining just how much it takes for an individual to crack in order to succeed financially.

Closed Eye Film Productions present the West Coast Premiere of "CONSCIOUS GETTING UNSTUCK HOMELESS TO HOLLYWOOD, a candid, powerful, emotional comedy, and unbelievable true story, based on the life of one child from an American Gangster.

'The Folk Festival That Changed America' will take place tonight, July 25, at 7 pm at The Found Theatre, 599 Long Beach Blvd.

Rubicon Theatre, a not-for-profit professional regional theatre company in Ventura, California, announces HAMLET, performed by the students of the Education Department's FEARLESS SHAKESPEARE INTENSIVE.

Come see Figure 8 Theatre's first production, a show that LA Weekly has called 'One of the most powerful plays written about the mysteries and shared hallucinations of the female experience', Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes' classic feminist play, Fefu and her Friends, is one of the bes

Fraser Entertainment Group's critically-acclaimed ongoing series AN EVENING OF CLASSIC BROADWAY returns to Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Feliz on Monday, August 10 at 8pm, the ninth installment of the successful concert series, produced by Dianne Fraser.

Due to overwhelming advance ticket sales, Cirque du Soleil announced today that additional performances of KURIOS - Cabinet of Curiosities, its newest touring show, in Costa Mesa and Los Angeles are available for pre-sale to Cirque Club members starting today.

The California Arts Council announced it plans to award $10,440 to Watts Village Theater Company as part of its Local Impact program.

Internationally acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine will lead a talkback with the audience and sign copies of her multiple award-winning book Citizen: An American Lyric following a performance of the Fountain Theatre's world premiere stage adaptation of the same name.