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Laguna Playhouse will present the second show of its 2025/2026 season with the rolling world premiere comedy, BESIDE MYSELF by Paul Slade Smith.

Direct from a sold out, critically acclaimed run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Laurie Magers' solo comedy Do You Accept These Charges? will have an industry presentation in Los Angeles at the UCB Theater.

ArtsUP! LA has announced LATE NITE AT THE PUPPET ASYLUM, a special one-night puppetry slam presented by Nite at the Puppet Asylum and Strings & Things Puppet Theatre at the Blue Door Theater in Culver City.

Here's my conversation with playwright Ankita Raturi about the genesis for the play and how she developed it as a comedy rather than a drama about a mother and son cross-country college tour.

HUEVOS DRAGCHEROS Drag Brunch is back at The Charleston in Downtown Fullerton on Sunday, November 2, 2025.

Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and Brand Library & Art Center will present Crossings, a new group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Munzón and Mister Toledo in collaboration with Munzón Gallery.

Pasadena Playhouse is launching a new Pay What You Can ticket initiative for the comedy ha ha ha ha ha ha ha by internationally acclaimed performer Julia Masli.

The Colony Theatre has announced a new production of Catch Me If You Can, the musical, in 2026.

Clowning meets catharsis: Julia Masli’s hit HA HA HA HA HA HA HA turns audience problems into performance art at the Pasadena Playhouse.

The Fine Arts Theatre Beverly Hills and Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World will present a Stanley Kramer double feature on November 23, 2025.

The Palisades Symphony will perform Voices and Symphonies on October 26 at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Santa Monica.

The Menopause Monologues will have a special engagement at the Atwater Village Theatre.

Neil Simon’s classic comedy Plaza Suite runs November 1–29, 2025, at the Long Beach Playhouse.

Angel City Chorale returns to UCLA’s Royce Hall on December 6–7, 2025, with Blockbuster Holiday, a cinematic concert celebrating music from beloved holiday films.

Internationally-acclaimed organist Roger Sayer brings the unforgettable music of Interstellar home to Los Angeles for one night only.

Joe’s Pub will celebrate Deathless: Original Studio Cast Recording with a special release concert in November.

Geffen Playhouse raised vital funds for the theater’s education, community engagement and artistic initiatives at its signature Backstage at the Geffen annual fundraiser.

THE YEAR WE DISAPPEARED or Mary Shelley's (More) Modern Prometheus or An Improbable Comedy About Climate Collapse Through the Findings of James Hansen's Science During the Reagan-Bush Years is coming to 905 Cole Theater.

No form of artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the experience of sitting through Lauren Gunderson’s ANTHROPOLOGY, and specifically what Rogue Machine Theatre’s John Perrin Flynn has accomplished with it for the play’s North American premiere at the Matrix Theatre.

The current fragile state of, arguably, one of our country's most important founding documents—and whether or not some of our current leaders are legally following it—seems to be top of mind these days, which bodes well for the timely arrival of Chance Theater's latest production, playwright Hei

After nearly a year on tour,  SoCal native Megan Colton reflects on her evolving relationship with Eurydice, her Los Angeles-area roots, and the advice she’d give to her 10-year-old self (and every other kid out there dreaming of Broadway).

The Foundation for New American Musicals will present a one-night-only concert of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Woman of the Year by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Peter Stone.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will launch its first Family Fest of the season with a Día de los Muertos celebration on Saturday, November 1, 2025, at 11:00 a.

The nominees have been announced for the 15th annual World Choreography Awards, recognizing achievement in dance across film, television, music videos, and digital media.

Pacific Jazz Orchestra’s 17-piece big band, led by composer, arranger, and conductor Chris Walden, will make its Blue Note LA debut on Wednesday, October 29, and Thursday, October 30, 2025, with two shows each night at 7:00 p.