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While watching the super-charged, though slightly frustrating Tony-nominated alt-rock musical AMERICAN IDIOT--whose national touring company recently spent a brief week at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, CA--one can't help but feel genuinely entertained by the spectacle of it al

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Rydell High visits San Luis Obispo as Kelrik Productions presents the 1950's musical, Grease.

Marin Theatre Company announced today that Producing Director Ryan Rilette will depart the company at the end of the month to become the Producing Artistic Director of Round House Theatre in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland.

Four Clowns will bring back their award-winning 2010 Hollywood Fringe show to the 2012 Hollywood Fringe for one night only on Thursday, June 14 @ 10pm at Open Fist Theater (Fringe Theater), 6209 Santa Monica Blvd.

2011 Hollywood Fringe Top of the Fringe-Winners Four Clowns will present That Beautiful Laugh, conceived by Orlando Pabotoy and directed by Turner Munch at the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival at Fringe Central - Open Fist Theater, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd.

NoHo Arts Center will present 'A TRULY EXCERPTIONAL EVENING!: Excerpts from two musicals - one brand new, one ever-new' on Tuesday, June 12 and Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 7:30 pm.

Artspace and The Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation (AFHDC) today announced the formation of a partnership, bringing together two of the nation's leaders in the area of artist housing to create the Broadway Arts Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Sunday, June 3rd, tribute artists Peter Mac as Judy Garland and John Schaefer as Bea Arthur attended the Mayor's Gay Pride GArden Party to kick off Los Angeles Gay Pride week.

Ten Chimneys Foundation has announced the ten actors who will participate in the 2012 Lunt- Fontanne Fellowship Program, a widely acclaimed national program to serve the future of American theatre.

East West Players (EWP), the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theatre of color in the country presents A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Accomplished actress, singer and former Las Vegas headliner Lynda Carter will perform standards, country hits and pop songs at the Suncoast Showroom July 14 and 15.

Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan.

The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the California premiere of a new comedy about guys with "one tiny problem.

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Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, a musical satire of 1960s corporate life, from the Tony-winning composer of Guys and Dolls.

Scott Caan's No Way Around But Through, described as a dark romantic comedy, is indeed quirky.

50s musicals were known for their levity and hit tunes, not for substance, so when a musical such as The Pajama Game had something to say to working class America about standing up and fighting for what they're due, it highly appealed to a middle-class audience.

Wasatch Theatrical Ventures has announced the West Coast premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Our House, helmed by award-winning director Kiff Scholl, for a limited engagement at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood.

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THE WALTONS 40th Anniversary Reunion: Celebrating Family & Education is set for Saturday, September 29, 2012.

The Theatre @ Boston Court announces the extension of 'The Children' a World Premiere by Michael Elyanow, directed by Jessica Kubzansky, through June 17, 2012.

Aurora Theatre Company opens its 21st season with Kristoffer Diaz's smart, hilarious powerslam of a play, THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY.

The one-man historical play 'Robert E.

The world premier of Queerdo - Setting the Record Straight is set for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, this June.