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Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp taking place in New York City in 1922, telling the story of young Millie Dillmount who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself.

'A Parallelogram,' the riveting new play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Bruce Norris, is directed by Tony Award-winner Anna D.

Kentwood Players welcomes Joshua Eli Kranz as Musical Director for its production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS opening this September.

The inaugural Steve Nash Foundation Showdown LA, a competitive pick-up-style charity soccer match will 'kick-off' this Sunday, July 14 at the Salvation Army Red Shield Community Center (located 5 minutes from STAPLES Center).

The 4th annual fundraising event TWENTYWONDER, A Carnival of the Mind, presented by Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles (DSALA), returns to the Doll Factory (1910 West Temple Street) on Saturday, July 13, 2013.

Playhouse Technical Director, Sean F.

Composer/Lyricist Scott Evan Davis will present a staged revue of his music in August at Catalina Jazz Club in downtown Hollywood, CA.

Winning upwards of 50 awards (including Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Ovation, and Garland Awards) in just the past five years (BEST PRODUCTION two years in a row), Rogue Machine's first offering (which opened on May 18th) for the 2013 season has sold out the original run.

In opera and operetta, the storytelling is completely through music; there are few or no spoken words.

Producers Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment announce that SISTER ACT, the musical comedy smash direct from Broadway, will play the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for a 3 week engagement.

On Sunday July 7, Kritzerland presented its 35th show The British Invasion, music from UK musicals of the 60s and 70s, at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), under the artistic direction of Ben Donenberg, returns to The Japanese Garden on the grounds of the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center campus with a rollicking summer production of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' wit

Offering a private visit with history's most haunted first lady, the brand new one-person play, 'The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln,' written by Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright Tom Dugan, will run workshop performances in Beverly Hills at Theatre 40, 241 South Moreno Drive, July 31, Aug.

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS is centered in a small town beauty shop in Louisiana where social veneers are set aside and women see one another once a week, building relationship and community with extraordinary mettle that suits the metaphor in the play's title.

Written and directed by Steve Altman, JUST IMAGINE intertwines John Lennon's songs with the stories behind them to create a unique and electrifying multimedia concert experience.

Julio Martinez-produced and hosted Arts in Review, celebrates the best in LA-area theater and cabaret, Fridays (2 to 2:30PM) on KPFK Radio (90.

Kevin McNamara has joined the cast of CHICO'S ANGELS as Buck Nekid, the Angel's newest hot hunk in 'Pretty Chicas All in the Row' which opens July 18 and runs through Aug 8th, 2013.

Kritzerland at Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal presents The British Invasion, featuring songs from the UK musicals of the '60s and '70s today, July 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM.

It's difficult to know where to start with my praise for this outrageously spectacular production.

Sisters Supporting Sisters (S3), a 501 (c) (3), and Meme Kelly present Voices of the Un-Heard, a play with powerful monologues, entertaining dance, and inspiring music that celebrates the human spirit's ability to get up after being knocked down! Voices will be offered at the Barnsdall Gallery Theat

Sixteen-year-old Brenna may have lost her sight, but living in darkness doesn't stop the aspiring artist from dreaming in color.

The Classical Theatre Lab and the City of West Hollywood present TROUBLE IN CHIOZZA by Carlo Goldoni with translation by Robert Hoyem, directed by Louis Fantasia.

On Tuesday, July 2, Bryan Batt appeared at Rockwell on Vermont in Hollywood in Batt on a Hot Tin Roof.

Summer programs have just begun at RTC, celebrating all ranges of theater for youth.