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A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, has added two performances of its popular production of FRANK GALATI'S adaptation of JOHN STEINBECK'S iconic THE GRAPES OF WRATH on Saturday, April 20, 2 pm, and Sunday, April 21, 7 pm.

D'Ysquiths are dropping like flies in The Old Globe's world premiere musical, A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, and each time one dies, Monty Navarro moves one step closer to becoming the ninth Earl of Highhurst.

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The March Family is coming to Laguna this April! The beloved classic, LITTLE WOMEN: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, will be presented live on-stage as part of the Laguna Playhouse Youth Theatre, beginning Friday, April 5 through Sunday April 14 at the Laguna Playhouse Moulton Theatre, 606 Laguna Canyon Drive

Veteran Las Vegas performer Steve Connolly stars as the legendary Elvis Presley in the stage production SPIRIT OF THE KING, which premiered March 6 for an open-ended engagement in the Cascade Lounge of the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs.

Barefoot Theatre Company will continue its bareNaked Reading Series on the West Coast at the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles, CA with three back-to-back days of free readings, free drinks and free music on Thursday, March 28, Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30 all readings will begin at 8:0

The Nederlander Organization and Pantages Theatre, Hollywood are proud to announce that the 2nd Annual JERRY HERMAN AWARDS, a celebration in the achievement and excellence in high school musical theatre in Los Angeles will be hosted at the Pantages Theatre on Sunday May 19, 2013 at 7pm.

After more than six months of playing to packed houses in Santa Monica and North Hollywood, Smoke and Mirrors - described as a heartfelt comedy-drama with mind-bending magic that has been named 'Critics Choice' in the Los Angeles Times - has extended its run again at The Road on Lankershim, 5108 Lan

When WEST SIDE STORY played the Pantages for five weeks in late 2010, it had Southern Californians clamoring for tickets to sold-out performances.

Sustaining Sound Theatre Company, a new professional theater company, presents LITTLE WOMEN, THE BROADWAY MUSICAL from April 4 to April 21, 2013 on Thursday-Friday-Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm at Stage52LA, located at 5299 Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016.

Kentwood Players presents RAGTIME - the quintessential American musical - through Saturday, April 20 on Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Westchester, CA 90045.

California State University Long Beach Theatre Arts Department hosts its annual TheatreFest competition Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th, in and around the Theatre Arts building on CSULB campus.

The Coterie presents the cabaret concert debut of the one and only Carla Renata on Easter Sunday, March 31.

Coyote StageWorks is wrapping up its hugely successful 2012/13 Season at the Annenberg Theater with TRU, the award-winning play about Truman Capote, by the outstanding American screenwriter, playwright, stage director, television producer and novelist, Jay Presson Allen.

David Gauke MP continues the tradition of many outstanding Speakers at BABC LA events including in 2012 Lord Coe (Chair of the 2012 London Olympics Organizing Committee), Sir Ken Robinson (voted the top speaker at two TED conferences), Gary Payton (NBA All-Star), Mark Burnett (Producer of many leadi

The Pasadena Playhouse's 2012 - 2013 HOTHOUSE at The Playhouse series continues with its next two presentations.

The Los Angeles based Festival of New American Musicals was formed specifically to cultivate new American musicals and nurture America's musical youth.

Ken LaZebnik's west coast premiere play On the Spectrum at the Fountain Theatre is a life-affirming work that explores the power of love between two autistic people, and the repercussions on those around them.

This March, The Ghost Road Company presents the world premiere of its latest ensemble-devised production, The Bargain and the Butterfly.

The recent Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle Award winning Celebration Theatre has announced the workshop production of a new play, Kissing Che, written by Brooklyn playwright Augusto Federico Amador and directed by award-winning New York-based director Victor Maog .

The Los Angeles based Festival of New American Musicals was formed specifically to cultivate new American musicals and nurture America's musical youth.

The world premiere of 'The Nether,' a new play by Jennifer Haley that explores the moral complexity of our increasingly virtual existence, opened at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre on Sunday, March 24.

THE BABY DANCE centers on two couples: Rachel and Richard Lieberman, a successful Los Angeles couple who have everything but can't have children, and Wanda and Al, a poor, pregnant Louisiana couple who already have four kids but can barely support them.

Bitch Trouble, stories about the giddy highs and co-dependent lows of female friendship, written and performed by Alice Johnson Boher and directed by Rod Menzies, will play Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.

Celebration Theatre, its Board of Directors and Company Members present 30 YEARS OF CELEBRATION, a benefit for CELEBRATION THEATRE - and will honor four-time Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence with its second annual Celebration Theatre Vibrant Voice Award which is given to an artist for being an outspoken