LOS ANGELES THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1455

Oscar Productions presents The Last Five Years, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Peter Berube, with music direction by Lauren Fraley.

There is a terrific cast of 17 in rehearsal for LOVE STRUCK, which opens at The Beverly Hills Playhouse on May 11th and runs for only three weeks.

The Group Rep presents the Tony nominated, fast-paced farce MOON OVER BUFFALO by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor) directed by Drina Durazo, produced by Stephanie Colet.

Andrew Potter is a video producer, musician, performer and multimedia storyteller.

The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Charles Dillingham, Interim Executive Director) announced today that it will commence its national search for a new Executive Director.

Melissa Chalsma is one busy woman.

A soccer ball autographed by LA Galaxy soccer star David Beckham will be among the Silent Auction Items at i-ACT's Fundraiser and Exhibit, "One Strong Kick," to be held in a private home in Manhattan Beach on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 6:30 - 1:0:00 p.

CHICAGO, the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, will return to Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre for a strictly limited two-week engagement May 15 - 27, 2012.

Kerlik Productions presents Willy Wonka The Musical from May 12 - June 3 on Saturdays & Sundays @ 2 PM.

Piers Morgan was honored at the BritWeek 'An Evening with Piers Morgan' on May 4th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, benefiting Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Judy Garland (Peter Mac) is spending Mother's Day evening with some of her her favorite gal pals with a VERY Special guest, Bea Arthur (D.

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, announces its 47th Anniversary Season, along with the return of THREE YEAR SWIM CLUB.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, has added two performances of its production of MOLIÈRE's THE BUNGLER, translated by RICHARD WILBUR, including an evening date on Friday, May 25, 8 pm, and a matinee on Saturday, May 26, 2 pm.

RUBICON THEATRE continues the company's 14th season May 24 with August Wilson's GEM OF THE OCEAN (first preview May 16).

Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, star of Broadway's Wicked and the original stage production of Rent, will ring in the new year at Walt Disney Concert Hall with two performances of her brand new live show, on December 31, 2012, at 7 p.

The Veteran Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening exploring the soldiers experience through the timeless words of William Shakespeare - CRY HAVOC conceived by Stefan Wolfert and directed by Eric Tucker & Bruce Cervi.

Nancy Berry makes her exhibition debut with her 'For the Dance of the Light,' photography show featuring self-portraits and landscapes.

Upon seeing The Heiress, based on Henry James' novel Washington Square, one is transported to a distant world.

Receiving its long overdue west coast premiere is The Fix, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 1997 and then made its way finally to the US playing in Virginia, but never landing on Broadway.

On Sunday May 6 Kritzerland presented its monthly show, May's entitled Broadway Bound: Unsung Songwriters at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal.

The Scottsboro Boys book by David Thompson music & lyrics by John Kander & Fred Ebb directed & choreographed by Susan Stroman Old Globe, San Diego through June 10

RUBICON THEATRE continues the company's 14th season May 24 with August Wilson's powerful and poignant drama GEM OF THE OCEAN (first preview May 16).

Jeffrey Milarsky leads the LA Phil New Music Group in the season's final Green Umbrella concert, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, tonight, May 8, at 8 pm.

Playwrights' Arena with Artistic Director Jon Lawrence Rivera, the only theatre dedicated to discovering, nurturing and producing original works written exclusively by Los Angeles playwrights, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with their annual fund-raiser presenting HOT NIGHT IN THE CITY: an even

Conservatives, Liberals, Punkers, Rocker Girls, Fairies, maintenance workers, Uptown, Downtown and the Central Park of Athens slam together in The Art of Acting Studio and the Harold Clurman Lab Theater's presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.