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Television and stage star Jane Kaczmarek and Culture Clash co-founder/actor/writer Herbert Siguenza will host the 2012 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards Ceremony tonight, November 12, at the historic Los Angeles Theatre in downtown LA.

In this special collaboration, the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble (LATE) pairs its professional directors and actors with students from Santa Monica High School's Drama Department to present Shakespearean scenes prior to select performances of the London Globe's Hamlet and Fiasco Theatre Co.

The Pasadena Playhouse presents tonight's opening night performance of INTIMATE APPAREL.

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE/LA announces a new opening date for the world premiere of DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW WHAT A PANCREAS IS?, written by Carole Real and directed by Jenny O'Hara.

Black Women State of the Union (BWSOTU) and The Mary Magdalene Project (MMP) will hold a joint fundraiser on Saturday, Nov.

A holiday treat, not for the whole family! Now at the forefront of play development, with local writers, KTC presents their 13th World Premiere in only two years.

SDI announces their fifth season opening in January, 2013.

Pacific Resident Theatre (Marilyn Fox, Artistic Director) has announced the full cast and creative team for NORA.

Award-Winning Actress Sloan Robinson accompanied by pianist Aeros Pierce bring Robinson's acclaimed one-woman cabaret, based on the fascinating life of Josephine Baker, to Santa Monica Playhouse's Main Stage for two performances only, tonight, November 10 and November 11, 2012.

Simon Russell Beale stars in a modern dress production of Shakespeare's strange fable of conspicuous consumption, debt and ruin in TIMON OF ATHENS.

A CHRISTMAS TWIST, written by Doug Armstrong, Keith Cooper and Maureen Morley (formerly of Chicago's celebrated Illegitimate Players), will be presented by SeaGlass Theatre tonight, November 10 - December 16, 2012 at the Victory Theatre Center's Big Vic Theatre in Burbank, CA.

The optimism of youth radiates from each of the enthusiastic performers who make up the cast of Godspell, Jr.

On Sunday, December 2, Rubicon Theatre Company will present a benefit performance of Love, Loss, and What I Wore with a star-studded cast of women including Emmy and Tony-winner Tyne Daly, Amy Peitz and Amanda McBroom.

There is a casting change in The Second City's "A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!" presented at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre.

The history of rock 'n' roll will come to life like never before with RAIDING THE ROCK VAULT.

The Colburn Chamber Music Society will present "one of the standout quartets of the new generation" (The New York Times), the Ebene Quartet (Pierre Colombet, violin; Gabriel le Magadure, violin; Mathieu Herzog, viola; Raphael Merlin, cello), in its second concert of the 2012-2013 season on Sunday, N

Next up for FREUD'S LAST SESSION will be this winter's Los Angeles run, starring Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh as C.

In Room 105: The Highs and Lows of Janis Joplin - Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Sophie B.

Company of Fools and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts present Happily Ever After?, a concert exploring fairy tales in the American musical theatre.

The Gardenia will present Broadway, television and film actress and singer, Neile Adams in "Wasn't It Good! Wasn't It Fine!," a musical celebration of her memories and the stages of her life.

Sesame Street meets South Park when Richard Israel teams up with musical director Chris Raymond, choreographer Angela Todaro and puppet master Libby Letlow to direct AVENUE Q for a limited run, tonight, Nov.

In Room 105: The Highs and Lows of Janis Joplin - Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Sophie B.

Worst Ever Productions presents its next set of shows as part of the Fall Season run of WORST AUDITION EVER at the Cavern Club in Silverlake - produced by Christine Lakin, Alec Ledd, Daniel A.

A Noise Within, the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, has been granted funds for six American Sign Language(ASL)- Interpreted performances and a number of scholarships for each by the Ellingsen Family Fund.

To high-kick-start its 60th anniversary season, Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA is presenting a glossy, high-energy revival of what could be the Great Grand-Daddy of all backstage musicals: 42ND STREET.