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Carlo Ponti and the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra return at the Theatre Raymond Kabbaz with an emotional opening performance tugging at the heartstrings, featuring orchestral masterpieces by Gabriel Faure, Antonin Dvorak and the anticipated Los Angeles premiere of Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Co

Local non-profit campaign, That's What She Didn't Say announced its first big event today- 'The Outdoor Voices Festival,' a two-weekend theatre festival featuring productions that tackle issues typically deemed challenging, taboo, or 'off-limits.

The Jose Iturbi Foundation is once again, a proud sponsor of the LA Philharmonic, featuring this year's concert at the Hollywood Bowl conducted by Gustavo Dudamel with piano soloist Yuja Wang, in what was a "historic performance," as noted in Mark Sved's LA Times review.

Today, Friday, Aug 5, Arts on Review welcomes actress Ginna Carter (Alma) and director Dana Jackson from the Pacific Resident Theatre production of Tennessee Williams' Eccentricities of a Nightingale, extended until September 25.

Rehearsals have begun for August Wilson's blazing masterpiece 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' which begins previews September 1, opens September 11 and continues through October 16, 2016, at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum.

Coming off the recent success of The Devil's Bride and the acclaimed A Feast of Snacks at Hollywood Fringe, Theatre Unleashed is excited to bring back its original series Passages, running August 5-20 at The Belfry Stage in North Hollywood.

HOPPING ON DOWN THE BUNNY TRAIL tackles the journey of a family in crisis.

Rubicon Theatre Company presents the summer youth production of the inspiring and exhilarating 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor-composer-lyricist of Broadway's sensational Hamilton.

The 6th Annual Brew at the L.

Prospect House Entertainment, in association with Glendale Arts Productions, previewed the original musical MARILYN! On July 29 at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, Calif.

Director Ken Sawyer cemented his show's success when he cast Valerie Perri as the wily matchmaker and backed her up with a host of exceptional players.

The Stockton Arena is excited to host the Holiday Movie Skating Spectacular: Where Did They Film That? The Holiday Music Journey on Wednesday, November 9 at 7:30 p.

Cornerstone Theater Company is pleased to present the premiere of GHOST TOWN, a love story between a woman and her home, set in the colorful neighborhood of Venice, CA.

The Open Fist Theatre Company presents an 'Early Look' at the third installment of Murray Mednick's eight-play 'Gary Plays' cycle, directed by Padua Playwrights Artistic Director Guy Zimmerman and playwright Murray Mednick.

The Skirball Cultural Center continues its twentieth anniversary season of Sunset Concerts with the L.

Hillbarn Theatre kicks off its 2016-2017 season with Harvard's most beloved blonde, Elle Woods, who will take the stage by pink storm in Legally Blonde The Musical.

The cast is set for the Young Vic Production of Arthur Miller's 'A View From the Bridge' produced by Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre.

The Blank Theatre has announced the world premiere production of The Tragedy of JFK (as told by Wm.

As a former high school teacher who started an alternative program for students who had dropped out, I participated in counselling troubled teens in learning how to deal with challenging circumstances in their lives, be it with parents, siblings, friends, or the desire to find love and respect from

From Beau Willimon, the creator of HBO's House of Cards, comes a political drama just in time for the 2016 Presidential election.

On Sunday July 31 Michael Sterling celebrated 10 years of his cabaret supper club now called Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal with a mega-delightful show headlining the music of his mentor Rosemary Clooney called Everything's Coming Up Rosie.

In 1817, 'poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the phrase 'willing suspension of disbelief' and suggested that if a writer could infuse a 'human interest and a semblance of truth' into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgement concerning the implausibility of the

Replete with booming cannons, dazzling fireworks and extraordinary music, "Tchaikovsky Spectacular" ensures this remarkable era in the Symphony's history ends with a triumphant finale.