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Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts ('The Wallis') presents the Long Wharf Theatre and Shakespeare & Company Production of Satchmo at the Waldorf by Terry Teachout, directed by Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and starring Obie winner John Douglas Thompson in a tour

Upcoming Non-Equity Auditions from Sunday, May 24, 2015.

A sexy cast of beautiful people inhabits Green Day's punk rock opera American Idiot, in a ferocious glory|struck production that opened last weekend at The Vortex.

Pacific Resident Theatre brings Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's Tony Award winning play, THE HOMECOMING (May 30 - July 26,2015) , to Los Angeles for the first time in over a decade.

Dick Duquesne: Tales of a Private Dick is a slapstick, film-noir that takes the format of a 1930s radio mystery, chronicling the case files of the semi-sober and world-weary detective, Dick Duquesne.

The Long Beach Playhouse proudly presents Death of a Salesman on its Mainstage Theater from May 23 to June 20, 2015.

In partnership with No Limits for Deaf Children, Geffen Playhouse will host a one-night-only Spotlight Entertainment fundraising performance of A Special Evening with Jay Leno and Friends today, May 23 at 8:00 pm in the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse.

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of the next show of its fourteenth season, the charming comedy Oh, Baby written by newspaper humor columnist and playwright Monica Lewis.

Musical director, producer, composer and performer Todd Schroeder will be a featured workshop teacher at Camp Bravo's upcoming Drama Teachers Retreat, which begins today May 22 and lasts through May 25.

East West Players (EWP), the nation's longest-running professional theatre of color in the country, celebrating its 50th Anniversary season, is pleased to announce the extension of "The Who's TOMMY" which opened on May 13.

A poignant look at justice and the human spirit as told through the eyes of a young girl, Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, continues this summer's 'Americana' season at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, opening June 13 at

On June 12, musical theater revue show BROADWAY AT THE W opens at The Loft at W Hollywood, formerly Drai's Hollywood.

Rehearsals begin May 26 for the world premiere production of "How to be a Rock Critic," based on the writing of Lester Bangs, the rock critic who reached iconic status in the 1970s with his passionate, intellectually honest writing.

 OneTrickDog* has announced a fundraising campaign during its production of Monique Witt's split/screen to benefit Saddles For Soldiers.

A who's who of film and television stars will perform Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues in an intimate theatrical setting for four benefit performances only, May 22 & 29 and June 5 & 13 at 8pm, at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles.

To celebrate the beloved Fox Theatre's 90th birthday, the doors of the theatre will be open to the public for a special two-day 1920s themed event, Speakeasy Days, this weekend, May 22 and 23.

FACT OR FICTION: The AOJ Story, is a new, original hybrid show written by James Kenneth, opening June 11th , running through June 28th, select nights at the annual Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Patty McCormack, star of stage, screen and television, joins the cast of the world premiere of the new play "Miserable with an Ocean View" written and produced by Howard Skora, directed by Jim Fall, scheduled to open Saturday, June 6th, at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, California.

Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Madigan directs the West Coast premiere of a new play by former publicist/talent manager/producer-turned-playwright Neil Koenigsberg.

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of the next show of its fourteenth season, Private Lives, felt by many to be one of the finest examples of the wit and sophistication of Noel Coward's comedies.

A Deaf West Theatre production of 'Spring Awakening' runs May 21-June 7, 2015 featuring Andy Mientus and Krysta Rodriguez.

KJazz is throwing its third annual benefit concert at the Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday, June 27th at 8pm.

A work-in-progress presentation of Lucy Alibar's 'Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up' begins a limited engagement at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre tonight, May 21, as part of CTG's DouglasPlus programming.

The award winning two-act comedy by Laguna Beach playwright Tom Swimm has been adapted into a full-length musical with 16 original songs composed by Charles Verburg and will be presented at Mysterium Theater's new location at the La Habra Depot Theatre beginning tonight, May 21st.