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April Hava Shenkman, aka HAVA is a Los Angeles Performance Artist, Comedian, Actress & film maker.

With performances through June 21 in Los Angeles, the two-act story ballet LA SYLPHIDE will be paired with George Balanchine's romantic SERENADE at four of Los Angeles Ballet's home venues: UCLA's Royce Hall, The Alex Theatre in Glendale, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, and Valley Performing A

Acting 4 Camera and Into the Fire Productions are proud to announce that the internationally acclaimed festival hit '52 Pick Up' will be performed in multiple theatres at The Complex (both the Shepard Studio and the Flight Theaters) as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2014.

Adult fans of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, otherwise known as bronies, are the subject of a new musical from the award-winning creative team of last year's Fringe favorite, The Real Housekeepers of Studio City.

To some, Romeo & Juliet is a story of two teenagers blinded by lust and driven to unspeakable acts, yet at its heart, it is a love story that transcends age and time.

The fourth play in MALIBU PLAYHOUSE's 2013-2014 season will be the World Premiere of Flim-Flam: Houdini and the Hereafter by Gene Franklin Smith,, opening Friday, June 20, 2014.

East West Players (EWP), the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theater of color in the country, announces its extended 50th Anniversary Season, GOLDEN, a celebration that will take place over the next two years.

Have you written a great new musical, and are you looking for feedback and/or an opportunity for a concert reading? Don't miss the July 15 deadline for the annual Search for New Musicals at the Academy for New Musical Theatre.

Jayne Avaunt led an intimate concert last night, Friday, May 30, 2014 at the World Famous Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Calif.

A love song to his adopted city, Tom Cavanaugh's THE LAST REMNANTS OF COPS, ROBBERS & HOLYWOOD COWBOYS will have its Los Angeles premiere in the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival from June 12th through 29th.

Noted music producer/manager/journalist/educator Kenny Kerner, who was instrumental in the early career of iconic rock band KISS and whose credits include gold and platinum awards for Gladys Knight & the Pips and Stories, has died.

A group of actresses and industry members lead by Frances Fisher (ABC's RESURRECTION, TITANIC) and Marcia Cross (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) have created a Public Service Announcement titled "I WOKE UP" to support Marianne Williamson's campaign for Congress.

Coming of age in the 1960's, John Wojtowicz' libido was unrestrained even by the libertine standards of the era, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men.

MUCKRAKERS is a searing examination of modern journalism in an age when nothing seems to be worth keeping private anymore.

Here's a Fringe production with a pretty 'out there' spin on its Shakespeare source material.

Spontaneous, authentic and impassioned -- raw emotion is on tap this spring when 'Herencia Flamenca' returns with a full line-up of nine artists from the heartland of Spain for two shows only at the Alex Theatre tonight, May 31 at 7:30pm and Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 2:30pm.

Earn your blood at the tag team match of the century, with the survival of two families in the balance.

Laguna Playhouse will present the return of Rita Rudner who will be performing her award-winning solo comedy, AN EVENING WITH RITA RUDNER and her new dress, for two performances only, today, May 31 and Sunday, June 1 at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach.

Tony Award winning playwright Enda Walsh will be represented once again at Rogue Machine Theatre when PENELOPE opens on June 14th at 8pm.

Daughters of Elysium present the world premiere of The Cave: A Folk Opera at The Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Earn your blood at the tag team match of the century, with the survival of two families in the balance.

Garden Grove's leading source for Shakespeare is back this summer, starting off its 2014 season with William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, June 21-July 19 in The Festival Amphitheater.

Love, seduction, decadence and murder.

Todd & Heather, a comedic duo, reminiscent of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, the Smothers Brothers, Donny & Marie and Lucy & Ethel, host this new show, which features "songs you know.

The Academy for New Musical Theatre is offering three courses this summer for musical theatre bookwriters and lyricists as part of the annual Musical Theatre Summer Boot Camp.