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The play examines the nature of honesty, and its use of a play within a play is one of many levels on which the author teases the audience with the difference between semblance and reality, both in love and on the stage.

Truly one of the most elegant, though underrated musicals of the new century, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA---now on stage in a lovely new production at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through February 23---follows the uneasy journey that a loving, though over-protective mother must embark on when her

With so many theatrical offerings and special events in the desert during "high season" it is easy for a smaller production, without the benefit of a hefty marketing budget, to get a little overlooked.

The Hamilton Music Academy is blessed with one of the few remaining full auditoriums within Los Angeles City Schools, complete with wings that allow large set pieces to be moved on and off the stage.

Love and pharmaceuticals make for a strange cocktail in Kate Fodor's piercing new comedy Rx.

A different kind of love story opens The Echo Theater Company's 2014 season in its new home at Atwater Village Theatre.

IAMA Theatre Company has announced the Los Angeles premiere of The Recommendation, written by Jonathan Caren and directed by Laura Savia, at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood.

A three-week workshop, 'How to Write The Ten Minute Play - And Get It Produced!' will run for three Saturdays, Feb.

Parson's Nose Theater (PNT), the acclaimed 'classical comedy' theater company led by Artistic Director, Lance Davis, continues their 2013-14 Season with a full production of 'The Algonquin Round Table'.

This Saturday, 2/8, The Dr.

Due to the success of its special presentation of Things to Ruin in January, Color and Light Theatre Ensemble will be adding an additional performance on February 8.

Following their groundbreaking first season of innovative and entertaining theatre, Ophelia's Jump Productions is proud to announce their first production of the 2014 Season - David Mamet's celebrated comedy of errors, BOSTON MARRIAGE.

OCPA Studios presents The Bishop's 18 Wives, a new play by John Byrd on SATURDAY, March 1 - 2:30pm at Theatre Out.

MS EGO Endeavors Presents 'Both Sides Now' a one woman show with recording artist Pepper MaShay who is best known for her 'Queer is Folk' dance music and her Blues singer alter ego, Sista Jean.

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Cabrillo Music Theatre announces the 2014-2015 season of shows: 'Musical Adventures Around the World.

The Actors Fund is holding a Special 'Producer's Picks' Fundraising Evening at the Tuesday, February 11th performance of Christopher Durang's award-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Brian Justin Crum and Ruby Lewis, stars of Queen's We Will Rock You, currently touring North America, will debut their concert PopRock at Rockwell Table & Stage on February 25th.

The Wallis has announced that Tony nominee Judy Kuhn (She Loves Me, Chess and Les Miserables) and Tony winner and five-time Emmy nominee John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!, 'Smallville') will star in Love, Noel: The Letters and Songs of Noel Coward, devised and written by Coward authority Barry

Theatre Unleashed has announced its first Main Stage show of 2014 will be the Moliere classic Tartuffe, running March 15-April 19 at The Belfry Stage in North Hollywood.

If life really is about not taking anything too seriously, as Mel Brooks would have us believe, then do yourself a favor and see 3DT's production of The Producers.

This February, the Academy of Music at Hamilton High School, winner of the Los Angeles Music Center's Bravo Award, will stage Anything Goes, the classic musical comedy filled with well-loved songs by Cole Porter, blazing tap dance numbers and madcap antics taking place aboard an ocean liner travelin

Musical Theatre Guild, the winner of the Los Angles Drama Critic's Circle Margaret Harford Award for sustained excellence in the theatre, will present the West Coast premiere of DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, the second performance of their 2013-2014 season at the Moss Theatre at New Roads School in Santa M

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Politics get personal in the go-getting 1980s of Margaret Thatcher's England when Marlene, who has just been made managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency, discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.