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Laguna Playhouse presents the second show of their 2012-2013 season, the Olivier and Tony Award-winning hilarious, action-packed comedy, THE 39 STEPS, adapted by Patrick Barlow (based on the Alfred Hitchcock film) and directed by Kevin Bigger.

The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre and Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival will present an evening celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the award-winning film "Real Women Have Curves" with special guest, Josefina Lopez, on Thursday, September 6, 2012.

On Saturday, August 25th, Watts Village Theater Company (WVTC), in partnership with more than 100 artists from groups including Rhythm Child, East LA Rep, Moving Arts, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Opera del Espacio, Ampersand, Ollin Band, Obie Award-winning Composer Rick Burkhardt of the Nonsense Company

INTERNment is the first play to take an in-depth examination of the chaotic, hilarious, and riveting world of primetime television casting, while asking the question: how much are you willing to sacrifice to pursue your dream? The office of DRW Casting is seen through the eyes of up-and-coming casti

Lisa Bonet, Cloris Leachman, Amy Madigan, Wendie Malick and Jean Smart starred in a staged reading, narrated by Joe Mantegna, of Recipe, a hilarious new play 'Recipe' by award-winning playwright Michael Gene Sullivan.

OUTFEST, the world's leading organization dedicated to showcasing, protecting and nurturing LGBT film imagery and artistry, announced today that producers Bruce Cohen (Milk) and Nina Jacobson (The Hunger Games), and director Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, X-Men) will co-chair the 8th annual Legacy Aw

Classical music superstar Lang Lang returns to Pacific Symphony for a one-night-only special event, led by Music Director Carl St.

Bend in the Road, a new family musical based on Anne of Green Gables, has been set for a limited engagement at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre (upstairs at The Pasadena Playhouse) in Pasadena.

Is he or isn't he? That is the question of utmost importance in Michael Hollinger's GHOST-WRITER, especially since the "he" to whom the question refers is acclaimed novelist Franklin Woolsey (Leland Crooke) who happens to be dead.

Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal presents television and Broadway star Ilene Graff in First You Dream tonight, August 26.

Lisa Bonet, Cloris Leachman, Amy Madigan, Wendie Malick and Jean Smart star in a staged reading, narrated by Joe Mantegna, of Recipe, a hilarious new play by award-winning playwright Michael Gene Sullivan.

The Sundays In Summer Cabaret Concert Series at the Arthur Newman Theater continues today, August 26th with singer/songwriter and winner of the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Award, Michele Brourman.

ICT artistic director caryn desai directs Leland Crooke, Cheryl David and Paige Lindsey White in the West Coast premiere of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award-winning Ghost-Writer, an intimate spine-tingler from playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus).

After making its world premiere at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in February 2012, Rogue Artists Ensemble's production of Zen Shorts, based on Zen Shorts and Zen Ghosts by Jon J.

Continuing its 12-year relationship with Athol Fugard, The Fountain Theatre celebrates the master playwright's 80th birthday with the U.

Artistic Directors August Viverito and T L Kolman announce the special limited Los Angeles engagement of Andrew Edlin's CHURCHILL, starring stage and screen veteran Edmund L.

On the heels of winning this year's national TCG Peter Zeisler Award for risk taking and innovation in the American theater, 24th STreet Theatre launches its 15th Anniversary Season with a U.

Adventure.

The award-winning Musical Theatre Guild, a company of professional performers who present concert-staged readings of seldom seen musicals, will open its 17th season with TITANIC.

"Tick Tock Boom Clap", a feature-length romantic dramedy starring Melissa Fahn (Wicked/Vox Lumiere) and Sam Zeller (Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan), made its world premiere screening at the Laemmle Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills on August 20th.

LOFT ensemble, based out of the Little Tokyo Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles, brings its hit show from the 2011 season to FringeNYC, written and directed by LOFT co-founder Larissa Wise.

Due to a last-minute revocation of performance rights, Ira Levin's classic comedy-thriller Deathtrap will be unable to return to the Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the L.

With the recent passing of Rodney King and in the 20th anniversary year of the Los Angeles riots, Great Performances brings Smith's remarkable dramatic work back to public television viewers across America when it presents an encore presentation of Marc Levin's film adaptation of Twilight: Los Angel

The Royal Wedding.

On Wednesday August 22, Group rep presented a special performance of their critically acclaimed production of Jon Robin Baitz' Paris Letter to an SRO audience.