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Pasadena Playhouse hosts Baby It's You! This musical tells the story of legendary girl group The Shirelles, as well as the woman who discovered them. New Jersey housewife Florence Greenberg managed the group to stardom, then founded legendary label Scepter Records. The show's score is full of classic songs from the '60s. Learn more...

This Broadway hit musical, based on the beloved holiday tale, features the classic tunes "You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch" and "Welcome Christmas." The production stars John Larroquette (Night Court) as the narrator "Old Max" and Stefan Karl (Nick Jr.'s Lazy Town) as The Grinch. Magnificent sets and costumes inspired by Dr. Seuss' original illustrations help transport audiences to the whimsical world of Whoville, breathing new life into this timeless story of the true meaning of the Holiday Season. Learn more...

Husband, father, house painter, and warrior poet Johnny Williams looks forward to his son Jeff's return as a navigator for the United States Air Force. But Johnny's pride in his son's achievement takes an uncharted turn when Jeff comes home and the family discovers the results of his education. The stakes are very high, but the family is armed with love, devotion, loyalty, and the martial spirit to fight the good fight. Learn more...

A winner of virtually every major L.A. theater award, the local musical phenomenon Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara continues at the Geffen's Skirball-Kenis Theater, with Oscar-winner Taylor Hackford directing. Inspired by the true story of swinging Vegas lounge act Louis Prima and Keely Smith, the show includes classic hits like "Embraceable You" and "Just a Gigolo." Learn more...

It's Christmas Eve, 1947, and the Lutz Radio Hour is about to make its final broadcast, one day before the radio station converts to television. Complete with sound effects, radio commercials and holiday songs, this lively, comedic play at the Long Beach Playhouse evokes both the spirit of the season and nostalgia for a bygone era. Learn more...

Fans of America's beloved storyteller can see special advance preview performances of a new Ray Bradbury musical. In addition to the musical, the second segment of the evening will be a personal appearance by Bradbury, sharing the reminiscences of a legendary life and career. He will also be available to sign books for his fans. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents David Lindsay-Albaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the aftermath of a life-shattering tragedy. A thoughtful, honest and compassionate study of heartbreak and forgiveness, Rabbit Hole explores the strained relationship between a husband and wife after their young son is killed in an accident. Learn more...

Gay Apparel: A Christmas Carol is the classic story of Scrooge retold with style, where Scrooge is the world famous designer of S&M, a fashion line created with his late partner, Jake Marley. Ultimately a tale about the healing power of love and redemption, this fresh and funny adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol includes gay ghosts visiting Scrooge to teach him life is not about what you have -- it's about who you share it with. Learn more...

The Geffen Playhouse presents Equivocation. Bill Cain's witty and contemporary exploration of political power and artistic integrity was the breakout hit of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Commanded by King James I to write a play based on the Gunpowder Plot, Shakespeare discovers that the official story of the plan to blow up Parliament may conceal a darker truth. Learn more...

From the writer/director/producer of The Marvelous Wonderettes comes Life Could Be a Dream. This 1960s doo-wop musical is the story of the Crooning Crabcakes, who try to find their fame and fortune by entering a radio talent contest. Featuring such classic songs as "Stay" (Just a Little Bit Longer)," "Runaround Sue," "The Great Pretender," "Tears On My Pillow," "Unchained Melody," "Earth Angel" and more. Learn more...

In this world premiere by Julie Hébert, three generations divided by race, culture and time connect when a white Southern woman discovers old love letters leading her to an African American half-brother. Melding realism and poetry, Tree is also a play about family and memory. Learn more...

With the kids away, three married couples get together for a few laughs. But as the liquor flows, secrets are revealed, trust is tested, boundaries are broken and reality gets swapped for fantasy. It's Just Sex is a thought-provoking, convulsively funny comedy about marriage, honesty, lust and trust. Learn more...

Brian Copeland's hit show, Not a Genuine Black Man, comes to the Hayworth. The longest running solo show in San Francisco history, logging over 500 performances in five years, Not a Genuine Black Man also had a successful Off-Broadway run. It's a hilarious and poignant autobiographical story about Copeland's childhood in one of the most racist suburbs in America. Learn more...

College buddies Max and Finn have always spent their vacations in the fast lane, religiously drinking, drugging and chasing women...but this time something is different. In a hotel room in Atlantic City, the two friends face-off with their indulgent past and take a sober look at their all-too-present future. Learn more...

Paul Benjamin and the Cambridge Players present Benjamin's drama Memoirs at the Stage 52 Playhouse. Memoirs tells the story of Julian, a combat veteran who returns home only to be forced to fight another battle: his heroin addiction. To maintain his sanity while he tries to come off heroin, Julian occupies himself with an attempt to write his memoirs. Learn more...

The NoHo Arts Center hosts Just Imagine, a multi-media tribute to rock legend John Lennon. Tim Piper, who's toured the world performing the Beatles' hits, will front a live band in note-perfect renditions of Lennon's timeless songs, and share anecdotes from his life and career. Learn more...

Macha Theatre presents the hilarious revue, Naked Boys Singing, featuring eight male singers in the nude. With sixteen original songs including "Gratuitous Nudity" and "Bliss of a Bris," the original crowd-pleasing show has been a critically and audience favorite for over ten years. Learn more...

As Joshua Weinberg and Brent Logan attempt to have a civil and respectable wedding, their loving friends and family get in the way. Be a part of this wedding ceremony and join them for the reception as you become one of the family. Learn more...

Based on the MGM film starring Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis is a nostalgic look at love and family against the backdrop of the 1904 World's Fair. The classic score includes "The Boy Next Door," "The Trolley Song" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." Learn more...

Rogue Artists Ensemble presents the unique Gogol Project at Bootleg Theater. Three of Gogol's most famous short stories come to life with puppetry, music, dance, masks and digital projection in the Rogue's signature, award-winning "Hyper-theatrical" style. Learn more...

It's murder served with soup and salad. This night of edgy, interactive dinner theater at Silverlake's historic and hip El Cid restaurant begins with characters from the play mingling with guests at the bar, and continues with a production on stage that requires audience members to help solve a mystery. Guests have a choice of entrees, plus dessert. Learn more...

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre performs Love's Labour's Lost at the Broad Stage. Direct from London, the renowned company will perform the Bard's outrageously comic celebration of young love. The King of Navarre and his three friends take a vow of celibacy in order to concentrate on their studies, but their plans are thrown into disarray by the arrival of the beautiful princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting. Learn more...

An homage to Arthur Schnitzler's 1900 classic farce, La Ronde, Peter Lefcourt's skewering update captures 21st century Los Angeles' replacement for sex...lunch! Set in Tinseltown's most pretentious and expensive restaurant, the Pueblo de la Venezia, 10 agenda-driven diners are aided, abetted and terrorized by five waiters...all named Bruce. Lunch in Hollywood is not a meal; it is a power dance. Learn more...

Above the Curve Theatre presents its fourth annual festival of one-act plays. This year's festival will showcase six plays (selected from hundreds of submissions), including both comedies and dramas. The comedies feature princesses, an accident-prone woman, and an unlikely audition, while the dramas deal with relationships in all stages. Learn more...

Ruskin Group Theatre presents Italian American Reconciliation. This sparkling, gritty romantic comedy is set against the backdrop of New York's Little Italy. Playwright John Patrick Shanley has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Academy and Tony Awards; his works include Doubt and Moonstruck. Learn more...

Vagabond Players presents Marital Bliss-ters, an evening of three one-act comedies about marriage in all its stages. In Bridal Terrorism, an innocent man becomes a surprise groom at gunpoint. The bride and groom have second -- and third -- thoughts in Banter & Vows, while A Chance Meeting illustrates the perils of trying to spice up a long marriage. Learn more...

Odyssey Theatre presents Harold Pinter's haunting but comedic drama No Man's Land. Spooner and Hirst are two aging writers who meet in a pub and return to Hirst's home for a late-night session of drinking, witty banter, and sinister power games. There, Spooner foolishly gets into a situation he's unable to understand, handle or escape. Learn more...

The Steve Allen Theater presents Nevermore, a one-man show celebrating Edgar Allen Poe's bicentennial. Actor Jeffrey Combs stars as the brilliant and tragic author of "The Raven" and "The Tell-tale Heart"; Combs starred in such horror film classics as Re-Animator, as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Director Stuart Gordon and writer Dennis Paoli both worked on Re-Animator. Learn more...

Part of the Actors' Gang's WTF?! Festival, All Cake, No File is a hybrid of a live cooking show and a Johnny Cash tribute concert, hosted by blogger and "celebrity chef" Jewell Rae Jeffers. In the show, Johnny Cash tribute band With a Bible and a Gun performs as Jeffers cooks for guests of the California state prison system. Learn more...

The comedy Moonlight and Magnolias is set during the golden age of Hollywood. When producer David O. Selznick halts production of Gone with the Wind three weeks into filming, it falls to playwright Ben Hecht to rewrite the unwieldy script. The catch? Hecht is given just five days to do the job, and he's never read the book. Learn more...

Slasher is the story of a D-list Hollywood movie director, Marc Hunter, who goes to Texas to shoot Bloodbath, a low-budget slasher flick. After he loses his name actress he casts a local Hooter Girl named Sheena McKinney as "The Last Girl" to be killed. This unleashes the thwarted feminist rage of Sheena's invalid mother. The ensuing events -- comical, intense and emotional -- result in a degree of horror Marc could never have imagined. Learn more...

Theatre West hosts the world premiere of Sally Spectre: The Musical. Billed as "a children's horror story for adults," David P. Johnson's musical tells the story of a murdered Victorian-era girl who must adjust to her strange new life as a ghost. The imaginatively staged show is scary, moving, darkly funny, and surprisingly moving. Learn more...

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Circus Theatricals present Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. This touching, deeply human drama tells the story of three educated young women stranded in rural Russia after the decline of their family's fortunes. They struggle with romantic entaglements and intrigue, all the while wishing to return to Moscow, the city where they grew up. Learn more...

Award-winning John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money? takes a sardonic look at marriage, relationships and infidelity. When two women who are old friends run into each other and catch up on their lives, they learn their respective relationships aren't all they could be and the men in their lives are surprisingly connected. Learn more...

Based on Mark Twain's novel, this Tony Award-winning musical follows one of America's best-loved literary figures on his adventures along the mighty Mississippi. Big River is a hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming celebration of pure Americana, with a jubilant score of cajun, gospel, folk, country and blues by country music legend Roger Miller. Learn more...

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Better Angels is a true story of our 16th president that's never been told. During a crucial point in our nation's history, President Lincoln is visited by a gracious, courageous woman who asks him for help. It's more than a meeting of the minds -- it's a captivating connection, full of promise, that surprises them both. Learn more...

Set in 1897, this dramatic musical focuses on Bram Stoker, the business manager of London's Royal Lyceum, who is anxious to launch his own literary career with the first public reading of his new play, Dracula. Along the way, he encounters the hopes, the passions, the setbacks and the realities that set the future course of his life. Learn more...

Embracing the spirit of one of the most heralded artists in American theater, the actors and master improvisers of Impro Theatre will create full-length, completely improvised musicals in the style of Stephen Sondheim in Sondheim UnScripted. Using just their guts, improvisational wits and audience suggestions, the cast invents a brand new, never-before-seen musical for each performance. Learn more...

Combining pop, gospel, jazz, classical and other genres, Songs for a New World uses music to tell a collection of thematically-connected stories dating from 1492 to the present day. This unconventional but riveting musical by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Urban Cowboy) features a small cast playing multiple characters, each facing a crucial moment in their lives. Learn more...

Someone is trying to kill Sherlock Holmes. Now the greatest detective on earth must solve the case of his life in Charles Marowitz's spoof Sherlock's Last Case. Travel back to Arthur Conan Doyle's foggy Victorian London to witness hair-raising twists and turns as Holmes and Dr. Watson take the stage for a mystery that's part spoof, part loving tribute. Learn more...

A fictional Carl Reiner, New York delivery boy David Kolowitz loves the movies. Although discouraged by his girlfriend, parents, and boss, he joins an off-Broadway theater company. Despite a lack of talent, David triumphs over all odds, and his debut earns acceptance by family and girlfriend. Learn more...

Kentwood Players celebrates its 60th anniversary with a production of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. This witty romantic comedy tells the story of a group of husbands, wives, lovers and rivals who gather for a weekend in the country; farcical complications and beautiful music ensue. The score features the classic tune "Send in the Clowns." Learn more...

Phyllis Nagy's award-winning play is a visionary love story set in a remote, rain-swept village in the South of France. Never Land's exploration of love, loss, cultural dispossession and the abiding power of the human imagination moves from scabrous wit to heart-breaking tenderness as it charts the course of three fateful days in the lives of a singular French family that yearns to be English. Learn more...

This Halloween, sink into the world of a New Orleans-style ghost story musical, a tall tale full of highballs and oddballs, hobgoblins and hemoglobin. With musical influences that range from Tom Lehrer to Tom Waits, Kurt Weill to barbershop quartet, with lots of surprises, monsters, and smutty talk along the way, Beau Fib is like no musical you've ever heard before. Learn more...

Actors Forum Theatre presents Polyester: The Musical. It's the story of The Synchronistics, an over-the-hill ABBA wannabe group that reunites to perform at a public access TV telethon. In 1979, their hit single "Better Together" rose to #2 on the charts. Now, they have to overcome their differences and dysfunctions to return to the spotlight. Learn more...

Celebration Theatre presents a satire of 1950s B-movies that featured women in prison. Written by Tony- and Grammy-winner Tom Eyen (Dreamgirls), the black comedy Women Behind Bars tells the story of Mary Eleanor, a young woman framed for a crime she didn't commit, and her harrowing journey through the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village. Learn more...

The Ark Theatre Company brings one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies to the mountains of Eastern Tennessee in the 1940s -- Much Ado About Nuthin'. Clever scheming, cruel back-stabbing, spirited dancing and Bluegrass music infuse this adaptation with a fresh and hilarious spirit and bring new life to an enduring Shakespeare favorite. Learn more...

A theatrical family of several generations is visited for the weekend by their two daughters and one potential son-in-law -- a civilian -- in their run-down home Just 45 Minutes From Broadway. Learn more...

bare is a contemporary rock musical that focuses on the coming-of-age of five high school seniors at a Catholic high school. Set to a pulsing rock score, bare follows the secret love affair between high school dorm mates, Peter and Jason, whose struggle is complicated by the lustfully persistent and popular Ivy, who has eyes for Jason. Learn more...