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Now celebrating its 32nd anniversary year, The Blank Theatre’s Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) has chosen 12 plays by playwrights aged 15–19 from nine different states.

Open-Door Playhouse presents the short play TED debuting online June 12, 2024. Directed by Matt Ritchey, the story features Matthew Scott Montgomery and Kevin Phan with a surprising conclusion.

Celebrate the 35th anniversary of TEEN WITCH with an unauthorized staged reading musical parody. Step into a whimsical world where the 80s are alive, glitter meets magic, and enjoy this tongue-in-cheek celebration of the cult classic film.

Open-Door Playhouse presents 'How Nice of You to Ask,' a podcast play debuting on March 20, 2024. Join a young sex researcher as he conducts interviews with older individuals, uncovering surprising and unnerving answers.

Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. The Playhouse is spotlighting seven of the most popular holiday-themed comedies and dramas in its archives from December 18 through December 31, 2023 online.

Live at The Lee!, an exciting new variety show, will showcase some of LA's most exciting established and emerging artists across the entertainment spectrum featuring music, comedy, dance, cabaret, magic, drag, burlesque, and more.

Spook Night returns for another year of sexy, silly, and scary theater in Los Angeles. Don't miss this bone-chilling, all-new all-star cast performance. Limited shows on October 13 and 14 at Lee Strasberg Theatre.

Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play OvEn will debut on October 25, 2023.

Casting has been announced for week three of The Blank Theatre’s 31st Annual Young Playwrights Festival. The next three of 12 winning plays by young playwrights aged 15–19 will be presented, for the first time since 2019, live on stage July 20–23.

Now celebrating its 31st anniversary year, The Blank Theatre's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) has chosen 12 plays by playwrights aged 15–19 from five different states.

After 2 months of sold out performances at Tramp Stamp Granny's, Hollywoods premiere Piano Bar, Cherry Poppins CLUELESQUE will continue performances thru May 31st.

In the short play Dress Blues, two young men, Christopher and Nicholas are partners in The Peak of Chic Boutique, a high-end clothing store on a fashionable street in Boston. A wealthy customer, Mrs. Simmons, wants to make a purchase, but her emotional distress makes things difficult. The middle-aged woman wants something that will make her look her absolute best, so that her husband won't be distracted by the pretty young things in his office.

Open-Door Playhouse presents short plays online, in podcast form. Now that the holiday season is upon us, the company has selected five of its plays for your listening pleasure.

Cherry Poppins presents their one-nighter XOXO Euphoria Girl – A Burlesque Musical Parody September 26, 2022, at The Bourbon Room. The team of Alli Miller-Fisher, Chadd McMillan and Sarah Haworth-Hodges direct this Burlesque musical parody mashup set to chart-topping music with the cast of: Ty Deran, Kristyn Evelyn, Everjohn Feliciano, Bianca Gisselle, Emma Hunton,  Carly Jibson, Janaya Mahealani Jones, Meredith Lim, Alli Miller-Fisher, Matthew Scott Montgomery, Shelly Regner, Sarah Wines, Lauren Avon and Brin Hamblin. Emma managed to carve out some time to answer a few of my queries.

Open-Door Playhouse will present the audio play of Midnight at the Pancake Shack, written by Jane M. Lee and directed by Bernadette Armstrong. The production will premiere on Wednesday, September 22 on the Open-Door Playhouse Podcast.

The Del Shores Foundation will present a one-night-only celebration of the 20th anniversary of Del Shores' GLAAD Award-winning play SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES for a #SissiesLivestream. The reunion will be live streamed as a benefit fundraiser on YouTube and Facebook on Sunday, August 22 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern.

Open-Door Playhouse will present the audio play of The Christensen Brothers, written by Michael J. Moore of the Washington State Department of Corrections, directed by Joanne McGee-Lamb, and presented as part of Open-Door Playhouse's Prison Plays series.

Hands Across the Pond Theatre, a collaboration between the LA-based Open-Door Playhouse and the UK-based Our Kid and Me Productions, will present an audio play production of The Canterville Ghost, adapted for the theatre by Gareth Thomas from the short story by Oscar Wilde.

New York City-based actor and cabaret star Stephen S. Miller, the host of the internet TV show 'The Mama Rose Show,' for his birthday will be returning to perform on London-based Harold Sanditen's Open Mic Party on Thursday, December 3rd. Watch the livestream that day at 2:10pm New York City time/7:10 p.m. London time on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/user/HaroldSanditen/live and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/haroldsanditen.

Bayonne, NJ-based filmmaker Jayleen S. Perez is this week's special guest on Forest Hills, Queens, NYC-based actor and cabaret star Stephen S. Miller's 'The Mama Rose Show.' The new episode aired yesterday and can be viewed by clicking here.