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Embarking on what promises to be another unprecedented and groundbreaking year, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, is proud to announce its second all-virtual season of artistic exploration and experimentation.

Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade!

There are some unlikely new upcoming stars of the musical theatre internet: a cartoon cat on her ninth life, a doomed Arctic explorer in 1912, a clown who injures himself and can no longer fold himself into a tiny clown car, etc.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues its all-digital 2020-21 Season, CLOSE QUARTERS, with an entire episode spotlighting the exceptional artistry of LACO Artistic Advisor Derrick Spiva Jr.

The Braid (formerly Jewish Women’s Theatre), the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Chamber Players (LAJSCP), and Temple Isaiah will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the world premiere of Stories From the Violins of Hope.

For 36 years, Storybook Theatre, founded by Lloyd J.

Dogs Are Better Than People, written and performed by Sarah Hunter and developed & directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson.

Opening night of YOU I LIKE: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF JERRY HERMAN will livestream at www.

The digital premiere of Modulation opens at 5pm PST on Friday, January 8.

Positivity pros Nicole Kaplan and Heidi Webster have a zest for life as they laugh their way through juicy subjects like relationships, work, wellness, and navigating those times when citrus got real .

Los Angeles Opera’s Modulation, presented in collaboration with the Prototype Festival, adapts opera and theater to a new interactive format.

Santa Monica Playhouse and Stogie Kenyatta present Kenyatta's acclaimed solo show about African-American artist/activist Paul Robeson, a powerful and poignant, entertaining and educational, heartfelt and humorous evening of theatre streaming live on January 9 and a playback will be available through

What is love? Where does it come from? Is it limited or infinite? Can you define it? Is it tangible, quantifiable? What does it look like?

The Latino Theater Company has entered into a contract with the City of Los Angeles to extend the terms of its agreement to manage the City-owned Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown L.

The Echo Theater Company will present LABFest 2021, a virtual reading festival of three new plays by Brian Otaño, Roger Q.

Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy, upcoming Freeform drama Cruel Summer), Seamus Dever (Castle), Joanne Whalley (Daredevil on Netflix, The White Princess on Starz, Showtime’s The Borgias) and Darren Richardson (Ryan Murphy's Hollywood, over 40 radio plays for the BBC) star in the L.

Los Angeles-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) presents The Best of The Quest Digital Book Signing, a virtual event highlighting HDD’s first ever interactive digital book celebrating the company’s 35th year anniversary.

Masters of the open-air cinema experience, Rooftop Cinema Club (RCC) is kicking off 2021 in style! As the pandemic continues to reshape LA's entertainment scene, RCC is keeping us entertained in the new year, as they announce their January lineup at The Drive-In at Santa Monica Airport.

Hero Theatre and Hero Multimedia have launched Nuestro Planeta, a ten-year multimedia new works initiative that focuses on educating Latinx film and theater audiences about environmental justice within the Americas.

Wonkybot Studios, the production company and podcast network focused on original scripted audio series for kids and family, has given the first 2021 pilot greenlight to creator/writer/director Stewart St John's new YA time-traveling scripted podcast and cast Hannah Monson (currently seen in Netflix'

'Not everyone can cook, but a great cook (or Musical) can come from anywhere.

Santa Monica and Virtually Everywhere (January 4, 2021) Expanding its unique responses to the pandemic, The Braid (formerly Jewish Women’s Theatre) will be showing off its first-ever Zoom Art Talk, during an in-depth interview with renowned Los Angeles artist and USC art professor Ruth Weisberg.

Co-Hosts Gabrielle Ruiz and Pallavi Sastry invite podcast listeners to join in on a hilarious and heartfelt show with Kate Flannery! During the Live Shows, Ruiz, Sastry and guests interact with the 'chat room audience,' opening the door to make a new friend connection.

What does it mean to be Deaf? With “What the Deaf?!” a new podcast that offers an unfiltered look into the daily lives of two young Deaf women, co-hosts Sarah Tubert and Carly Weyers want to start that conversation.

Don’t touch the merchandise! IAMA Theatre Company has extended the virtual premiere of Making Friends, a “gaytastic” comic solo play written and performed by quick-witted and self-confessed rage-aholic Tom DeTrinis and filmed live at L.