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The world premiere of two-time Oscar nominated show business legend Arnold Schulman's humorous and romantic SLEEPING UGLY - an adult fairytale about love and lust, longing and belonging, sex and sensibility, parents and pediatrics, and the passion and pain of living with a werewolf opens Sunday, April 15 and plays weekends at Santa Monica Playhouse through June 17, 2012.

The world premiere of two-time Oscar nominated show business legend Arnold Schulman's humorous and romantic SLEEPING UGLY - an adult fairytale about love and lust, longing and belonging, sex and sensibility, parents and pediatrics, and the passion and pain of living with a werewolf opens Sunday, April 15 and plays weekends at Santa Monica Playhouse through June 17, 2012.

Santa Monica Playhouse, currently celebrating its 50th year of innovative, ground-breaking theatre, pushes the edge of the envelope yet again with Locked and Loaded, arguably an entirely new genre of theatre that The New York Time calls 'a play that doesn't look or sound like anything you've ever seen before.'

Santa Monica Playhouse, currently celebrating its 50th year of innovative, ground-breaking theatre, pushes the edge of the envelope yet again with Locked and Loaded, arguably an entirely new genre of theatre that The New York Time calls 'a play that doesn't look or sound like anything you've ever seen before.'

In Ross's historically accurate romantic comedy, ELIZABETH SHAKESPEARE and the ASTUTE DETECTIVE, The Astute Detective of the title, Tad Maxwell, an Oxfordian, believes that Edward de Vere, The Earl of Oxford was the true author of Shakespeare's works. Via his computer he conjures up The Bard and The Earl from their four centuries' demise. His sleuthing brings him into conflict with Elizabeth Shakespeare, sexy Stratfordian, who is positive that William Shakespeare was the true author of the plays and sonnets. As Maxwell tries to coax her to his point of view, she fights her physical (and mental) attraction to this romantic iconoclast. It gets down to a duel of wits about wills and Wills (with a little romance along the way). With much at stake, the eventual outcome will surprise, and delight, Oxfordians, Stratfordians, and even those who don't know their 'Othello' from their 'Pericles.'

In Ross's historically accurate romantic comedy, ELIZABETH SHAKESPEARE and the ASTUTE DETECTIVE, The Astute Detective of the title, Tad Maxwell, an Oxfordian, believes that Edward de Vere, The Earl of Oxford was the true author of Shakespeare's works. Via his computer he conjures up The Bard and The Earl from their four centuries' demise. His sleuthing brings him into conflict with Elizabeth Shakespeare, sexy Stratfordian, who is positive that William Shakespeare was the true author of the plays and sonnets. As Maxwell tries to coax her to his point of view, she fights her physical (and mental) attraction to this romantic iconoclast. It gets down to a duel of wits about wills and Wills (with a little romance along the way). With much at stake, the eventual outcome will surprise, and delight, Oxfordians, Stratfordians, and even those who don't know their 'Othello' from their 'Pericles.'

In Ross's historically accurate romantic comedy, ELIZABETH SHAKESPEARE and the ASTUTE DETECTIVE, The Astute Detective of the title, Tad Maxwell, an Oxfordian, believes that Edward de Vere, The Earl of Oxford was the true author of Shakespeare's works. Via his computer he conjures up The Bard and The Earl from their four centuries' demise. His sleuthing brings him into conflict with Elizabeth Shakespeare, sexy Stratfordian, who is positive that William Shakespeare was the true author of the plays and sonnets. As Maxwell tries to coax her to his point of view, she fights her physical (and mental) attraction to this romantic iconoclast. It gets down to a duel of wits about wills and Wills (with a little romance along the way). With much at stake, the eventual outcome will surprise, and delight, Oxfordians, Stratfordians, and even those who don't know their 'Othello' from their 'Pericles.'

Santa Monica Playhouse presents Actor's Repertory Theatre (ART) in the return engagement of the 'dazzling' (Daily Bruin) original Jewish musical, BACKSTREET, a passionate and whimsical portrait of life, love, and loyalty played out by a family of Backstreet Ladies in a house of Jewish 'working girls' in the New York ghetto, circa 1905. This gem from the Playhouse Jewish Heritage Program by the creators of the immensely popular Sholom Aleichem quartet of plays - Author! Author!, Because of You, The Clown Prince and The Great Fair - and part of the ongoing Santa Monica Playhouse (SMP) 50th Anniversary Celebration of Theatre, opens May 15, 2010.

Santa Monica Playhouse presents Actor's Repertory Theatre (ART) in the return engagement of the 'dazzling' (Daily Bruin) original Jewish musical, BACKSTREET, a passionate and whimsical portrait of life, love, and loyalty played out by a family of Backstreet Ladies in a house of Jewish 'working girls' in the New York ghetto, circa 1905. This gem from the Playhouse Jewish Heritage Program by the creators of the immensely popular Sholom Aleichem quartet of plays - Author! Author!, Because of You, The Clown Prince and The Great Fair - and part of the ongoing Santa Monica Playhouse (SMP) 50th Anniversary Celebration of Theatre, opens May 15, 2010.

Extended Through May 30, 2009 MADE ME NUCLEAR the Operetta A guest production at Santa Monica Playhouse presented by the Sarcoma Alliance, Now in its seventh hit month The critically acclaimed Made Me Nuclear, is adding an additional nine weeks. Charlie Lustman's long-running original pop music operetta about surviving cancer is 'simply irresistible' says the LA Times. This 'feel good cancer musical' (LAT) is an 'inspiring' tale that will 'grab you in a bear hug right away and not let go. 'Touching...life-affirming...his songs are pitched in an intimate, jazzy, bluesy style,' says the LA Weekly.

Charlie Lustman's original pop music operetta about surviving cancer as he says 'one song at a time', Made Me Nuclear: the Operetta, a guest production at the Santa Monica Playhouse, is extended by popular demand. This show, which is presented by the Sarcoma Alliance will now be performed through January 31, 2009.

The critically acclaimed Made Me Nuclear, now in its fifth month, is extending for an additional eight weeks. Charlie Lustman's original pop music operetta about surviving cancer is 'simply irresistible' says the LA Times. This 'feel good cancer musical' (LAT) is an 'inspiring' tale that will 'grab you in a bear hug right away and not let go. 'Touching...life-affirming...his songs are pitched in an intimate, jazzy, bluesy style,' says the LA Weekly. WHO: Written and Performed by Singer/Songwriter Charlie Lustman. Lustman grew up in LA and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music; he spent ten years touring the world performing and released two studio albums in Denmark: The Golden Road, vol.1 and SHAYA. He also wrote and performed live the theme song to the ABC TV program 'The Mike and Maty show.' He is perhaps best known to Los Angeles audiences for his role in rescuing and reopening The Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, the last remaining silent cinema in the world, which he turned into a one-of-a-kind successful working revival theatre lauded by film buffs globally. In 2006, after being diagnosed with a rare cancer in his upper jaw he sold the theatre and returned to his first passion -music. Writing and composing throughout his treatment and recovery he produced his third studio album, Made Me Nuclear, arguably the first pop music album about surviving cancer. Released in July 2008 'a-dollar-a-disc' will be donated to The Sarcoma Alliance, the only national organization dedicated to helping those afflicted with this rare disease. Made Me Nuclear, the Operetta, now in its fifth month, is the theatrical adaptation of the album arguably the first pop operetta about surviving cancer. Directed by Chris DeCarlo. DeCarlo has been directing, writing and acting in Los Angeles for over 40 years and is acknowledged for his critically acclaimed crafting of world and American premiere productions by such renowned playwrights as Michel Garneau, Stephen King, Brenda Krantz, Robert B. Parker, Sheila Rae, Annie Reiner, Sammy Shore, Robert Waldman, David Williamson, and Lois Wyse, including five of Playwright Jerry Mayer's plays. He has directed more than 200 plays on three continents, from the Henry Street Settlement Theatre in New York to the Dream Factory in Warwickshire and the gargantuan Hitomi Memorial Hall in Tokyo. As a performer, DeCarlo has created more than 300 roles, with over 10,000 on-stage performances. Over a quarter of a million people have been touched by his award-winning characterization of Yiddish humorist Sholom Aleichem.

Charlie Lustman's original pop music operetta about surviving cancer as he says 'one song at a time', Made Me Nuclear: the Operetta, a guest production at the Santa Monica Playhouse, is extended by popular demand. This show, which is presented by the Sarcoma Alliance will now be performed through January 31, 2009.

Described by the L.A. Times Critics' Choice as, '... perfectly simple -- and simply irresistible,' Charlie Lustman's original pop music operetta about surviving cancer one song at a time has been extended a second time. The new closing date is Saturday, November 29, 2008