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The Mechanicals Theatre Group, a professional acting company in Los Angeles begins rehearsals for a pared down, bare bones, actor-centered telling of one of Shakespeare's most intriguing and enigmatic comedies.

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the second Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with playwright Bill Cain's (Equivocation, Nine Circles) Stand-Up Tragedy.

The all-new, live show 'MythBusters: Behind the Myths,' starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters,' makes its debutat Nokia Theatre L.

For it's second-season closer, and a total of over 70 different shows, Life Is A Cabaret's Summer Series presented by Les Michaels brings in Dennis McNeil on Sunday, November 20th to reprise his hit show, 'Me and My Big Mouth.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announces the addition of Britt Daniel (Spoon) to the line-up of See A Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould on Monday, November 21, 2011 at 8 PM at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Barbra Streisand and Robert Barth was honored by the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors at their annual Gala on Tuesday, November 8th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The West Coast Premiere of Brett Neveu's dark dramedy 4 MURDERS offers an examination of urban isolation and the convenient yet tragic cure for such loneliness.

Due to ongoing popular demand, the Elephant Theatre Company's smash hit world premiere production of Love Sick by Kristina Poe, directed by David Fofi, will re-open at Elephant Stages/Theatre Asylum for 12 performances only, beginning Friday, November 18 at 8pm.

Calle 13, Franco De Vita with Alejandra Guzmán, Maná with Prince Royce, Shakira, Sie7e, and Marco Antonio Solís are the first performers announced for the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards (www.

The Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division presents its fall musical, Xanadu, at 7:30 p.

Hungarian organist László Fassang returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm to launch the 2011/12 Organ Recital Series with a program featuring works by Bach, Schumann, Reger and Liszt.

The Katselas Theatre Company will extend the performance schedule of this critically acclaimed world premiere production, spawned from their INKubator series.

Parenting magazine presents a Lythgoe Family Production of the holiday Panto 'A Snow White Christmas,' running November 30-December 18 at the El Portal Theatre, with opening night gala benefiting LA's BEST.

The Coterie executive producers Amber Cassell and Julie Garnye are proud to present musical theatre songwriting team Jordan Beck and Johnathan May (Beck & May) in a pre-album release concert for their upcoming album Cousins.

Sacred Fools present Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan and directed by Jeremy Aluma.

Almost ten years after its triumphant debut on Broadway, the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical HAIRSPRAY is making quite a resurgence lately, thanks to the plethora of regional theaters across the country that now have licenses to mount their own versions.

The Colony Theatre is thrilled to present the fourth production of its 37th season of shows - the Los Angeles Premiere of TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT, written by Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal, and directed by David Dean Bottrell.

Creative Mind Entertainment & OBC DreamTheatre in association with Randolph Sturrup and Mike Muse present a by-invitation-only reading of the new play UNSPEAKABLE: a dramatic fantasia, which explores the 'tragic genius of comedian Richard Pryor' in Los Angeles on November 9th.

'Bring It On: The Musical' opens this Friday, November 11, at 8 p.

Musical Theatre West is proud to announce the cast for WINTER WONDERETTES, The New '60s Christmas Musical created by Roger Bean.

Bound to create a plethora of discussion and lots of positive and negative opinions, Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall, now onstage at the Geffen Playhouse, despite its heavy handed religious themes, boasts a marvelous cast.

With the title Vigil what should one expect? And its graphic with Olympia Dukakis framed by the parameters of a coffin? Death, most assuredly.

Peace in Our Time by Noel Coward new adaptation by Barry Creyton directed by Casey Stangl through December 11 @ Antaeus Company

One of the entertainment highlights of the Holiday Season returns to Palm Springs on Wednesday, December 7th, at 7:00PM as Producers Scott Nevins and Mark Jones present SPARKLE: An All-Star Holiday Concert (www.

CHRIS ISAACSON has announced the performers for UPRIGHT CABARET's AMERICAN ICON SERIES' first show of their 3rd Season, beginning with, HEART AND SOUL, starring Broadway sensation SHOSHANA BEAN, vocal powerhouse SYLVIA MACCALLA and American Idol Finalist SYESHA MERCADO, celebrating the music of Dian