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The annual Festival of New American Musicals (FNAM) kicks off its 5th season on May 1, 2012 with two MAJOR NEW INITIATIVES FEATURED.

Please join Dolores Huerta on April 29, 2012 to celebrate her 82nd birthday at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles for an afternoon of performances, networking, food, live music, and dancing.

OUT THERE ON FRIED MEAT RIDGE ROAD - Mitchell, a man down on his luck, wanders out on a dark country road to answer an ad for a roommate.

On Monday, artists and staff from Watts Village Theater Company (WVTC) gathered at East LA Rep's performance space to conduct an orientation with Theatre Companies and Performers participating in this year's third annual Meet Me @Metro production.

Falcon Theatre and The Mineral Theater Company will present the world premiere of No Way Around But Through written by Scott Caan and directed by Val Lauren.

As we come to the end of April, I trust you will want to include taking in at least a couple of shows at one or more of the live performance and theatre venues that make their home here on the ever lovely Central Coast of California!

Emmy Award winning actress Jane Lynch will host this year's Backstage at the Geffen fundraiser, which recognizes leadership in the theater community while raising support for the theater's artistic and outreach initiatives, honoring Hollywood legend Carol Burnett and Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed E

Debby Boone earned instant fame in 1977 when "You Light Up My Life" became an overnight hit.

Tony and Golden Globe winner, Julie Newmar, will be present to officially open the Pacific Rose Society's annual rose show with the traditional ribbon cutting.

Once Upon a Mattress/book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller & Marshall Barer/music by Mary Rodgers; lyrics by Marshall Barer/directed by Richard Israel

On April 20 and 21 Peter Mac repeated one of his most challenging shows honoring Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall.

On Sunday April 22 composer Michele Brourman (left), joined by gifted singer Pat Whiteman (right), presented a quite extraordinary evening of mostly original musical material at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal.

The concept of one single principle being utilized so differently by so many different fields was the inspiration for this play about five couples, and the universal complications in their sexual relationships despite the differences in scenario and detail.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic welcomes to the Don Giovanni production team hairstylist Odile Gilbert, make-up artist James Kaliardos for NARS Cosmetics and Lighting Designer Adam Silverman.

Music by Mozart, including some works he composed as early as age five, interspersed with lively enactments of the youthful composer's letters to his father create a vivid picture of this remarkable musical wunderkind at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's (LACO) final Family Concert of the season,

Disney announced today that Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre will present "Marvel's The Avengers" from May 4 through June 21, 2012, featuring special "around the clock" screenings on Thursday, May 3.

The International City Theatre will host a staged reading of INNOCENCE, a new musical by British team Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton.

Lori Donato, internationally-known singer/pianist/entertainer and recording artist returns to the Cavern Club Theater with a brand-new version of her hit show LORI AND THE BOYS, starring Tod Macofsky, Sal Sabella, and Jay Winger.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, played host, on Sunday, April 22nd, to an evening of theatre, music and celebrity readings, that raised thousands in emergency funds to be sent to remaining Holocaust Survivors.

Now traveling the country playing real-life legend Johnny Cash ('The Man in Black') for the first national tour of the Tony Award-winning MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET--finally landing in Southern California at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa from April 24 through May 6--actor Derek Keelin

This May, California's Pacific Symphony features 'Cirque de la Symphonie,' a fusion of Cirque acts and classical and pops favorites and its upcoming concert, Schubert's Ninth.

22Q Entertainment LLC and GoAlleyCat Productions presents the West Coast Premiere of the New York hit, IT IS DONE, a thrilling new play in an environmental setting, written by award-winning playwright Alex Goldberg and directed by Ovation award-winner Michael Michetti (The Twentieth Century Way, Car

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) concludes its enlightening "Baroque Conversations" series with a program led by celebrated organist and early music artist Martin Haselbock, marking his LACO debut, on Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7 pm, at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

The Hollywood Bowl has added Glen Campbell, Fitz and the Tantrums, and more to its upcoming season.

Conductor Christoph König makes his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut as he leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in three performances, Thursday, April 26, at 8 pm, Friday, April 27, at 11 am, and Sunday, April 29, at 2 pm.