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The long awaited revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's gripping Tony Award-winning murder mystery musical PARADE as presented in 2013 at Fullerton's Plummer Auditorium by 3-D Theatricals (3DT) of Los Angeles and Orange County, will once again take a bow at two Southern California main stag

California Repertory Company, part of the CSULB Theatre Arts Department, continues its spring season with End Days, by Deborah Zoe Laufer.

Brooding, compelling, funny and startling.

One thing for sure about Joshua Harmon's Significant Other is that all of the characters like to talk, nonstop, and while talking about the mundane, like dating, possible mates and themselves, they manage to be funny and serious simultaneously.

It's funny-or-die-in-the-graveyard time when Jeremy Kehoe's dark, absurdist, existential comedy, 'Movin' On Up', makes its West Coast premiere at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival at The Complex Hollywood.

Co-Artistic Directors Matthew Leavitt and Liza Seneca of THE 6TH ACT Theatre Companyare pleased to announce their first full production with AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL.

How do you "fix" the misogyny of Shakespeare's now antiquated THE TAMING OF THE SHREW? For playwright Amy Freed, it means injecting it with a noticeable dose of equality empowerment, and then shifting its characters' traits and motivations as if written from a female's perspective.

This adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy has been reconceptualized to connect with the modern day #MeToo movement by offering an alternative explanation for one of its leading character's actions.

Souvenir.

Theatre Raymond Kabbaz (TRK) presents La perle de la Canebiere (The Pearl of Marseille).

Momentum Place - This Mother's Day, the 20th annual Momentum Place creates a fantastical world of aerial and circus performers, dancers and musicians in Theatricum Botanicum's rustic outdoor amphitheater.

When jazz vocalist Sandra Booker first burst onto the Los Angeles music scene in the '90s, the comparisons to the legendary Sarah Vaughan came fast and furious.

Fiona Goodwin's solo play about saving one's own life A VERY BRITISH LESBIAN directed by Wendy Hammers opens at the Zephyr Theatre (7456 Melrose Ave, LA 90046) for six Sundays beginning May 27th.

South Pacific plays The Soraya (formerly VPAC) at CSUN this weekendApril 13-15 and then moves to La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts April 20.

Led by co-producing artistic directors Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott, A Noise Within (ANW) is excited to announce its 2018-2019 season, themed "Let Me In.

Long Beach Opera (LBO) presents the West Coast Premiere of The Love Potion (Le Vin Herbe), with music by Frank Martin.

Pam Levin returns to The Whitefire Theatre (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks 91423) with her funny and endearing tale about the reluctance and rewards of motherhood for a special Mother's Day Week Performance on Wednesday, May 9th at 8 PM.

3000 Miles Off Broadway Productions in association with Actors' Repertory Theatre of Simi proudly present WEST SIDE STORY, written by Arthur Laurents, with music composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

After a successful Off-Broadway and Broadway run, Joshua Harmon brings his affecting and hilarious play about finding and lacking love to The Geffen Playhouse.

The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) continues its intimate "Jazz Club" performances with jazz trumpeter Amir ElSaffar and his Two Rivers Ensemble on Thursday, April 26 at 8:00pm.

Theatre 68 and producer Ronnie Marmo announce the World Premiere of "DEATH BEFORE COCKTAILS.

The Art of Acting Studio will hold its 2018 fundraiser for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, dubbed the Shakespeare Benefit, on April 21st and 22nd, 2018 at 8pm.

Herb Alpert's premiere jazz venue, VIBRATO GRILL JAZZ, presents the return of BMG recording artist and songwriter Carly Robyn Green on April 18, 2018.

HOLA Mexico Film Festival presented by DishLATINO, the largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, today unveiled the official 10th anniversary film lineup which includes 23 Mexican films.

Anyone who has ever been involved in a volunteer theatrical production will certainly understand the craziness associated with amateurs attempting to put on a play due to both their lack of acting experience, taking direction, or the maddening interference from its meddling playwright who drops in a