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In this comedy, written and directed by Justin Tanner, author of the hit play Voice Lessons, a conservative Orange County couple invite some fellow swingers over to their place for a night of snacks and nude twister. Learn more...

Glendale Centre Theatre presents Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical. Set on America's Western frontier, this story of the love between a cowboy and a farm girl features such classic Broadway hits as "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top," and the exuberant title song. Learn more...

Ruskin Group Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Mutiny at Port Chicago, written and directed by Paul Leaf. It tells the riveting, rarely-heard story of a 1944 explosion in San Francisco's East Bay, which left over 300 people dead and fifty soldiers imprisoned for mutiny. Leaf's historical dramas have won him two Peabody Awards. Learn more...

Originally produced on Broadway in 1956, Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain is one of the earliest plays after World War II to address substance abuse and its destructive effect on personal relationships. This striking portrayal of love and addiction broke new ground for its depiction of realism in the theater. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents Side Man. This touching, comic drama won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1999. Spanning over three decades, it's the story of Gene, a jazz trumpet player, and the turmoil his family suffers as a result of his passion for jazz music, seen through the eyes of his only son Clifford. Learn more...

When Sara, a young teacher from the Midwest, leaves her boyfriend and family to take an inner city teaching assignment in the Bronx, she's befriended by traffic reporter Callie. After the two women unexpectedly fall in love, their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate. Learn more...

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents a pair of poignant, funny plays about the Jewish-American experience by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the Dustin Hoffman comedy Tootsie. 74 Georgia Avenue follows a successful businessman who revisits the Brooklyn neighborhood of his youth when his marriage falters. The Pushcart Peddlers is a farce about two immigrants who sell bananas. Learn more...

Celebration Theatre presents Altar Boyz. This Off-Broadway hit has found popular success and critical acclaim. It's a clever and tuneful spoof tellling the tale of a pious boy band and their attempts to achieve fame, with such tunes as "Girl You Make Me Wanna Wait" and "Jesus Called Me On My Cell Phone." Learn more...

Set in the piano lounge at the Doubletree Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, God Box is a musical dramedy in one act where Ana Guigui (that's "gui" as in "gui-tar"), tells her own life story and her adventures of searching for a soul mate. This is a story of love, family, desires, independence and freedom with heart-warming characterizations and memories. Learn more...

Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Broadway's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity series) star in David Mamet's gripping drama of a power struggle between a university professor and one of his students. Stiles reprises her role, after performing to rave reviews on London's West End. Learn more...

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's outdoor summer season continues with Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The bucolic Topanga Canyon hillside is the perfect setting for this whimsical story of love, mischief, matchmaking and magic in an enchanted forest inhabited by faerie folk, woodland creatures, and a donkey. Learn more...

Enjoy a new take on Chekhov's classic comedy The Cherry Orchard at the outdoor amphitheater at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, terraced into the hillside of the rustic canyon. Re-set in 1970s Virginia during the aftermath of the civil rights movement, an old Southern family desperately clings to tradition in this newly updated version of The Cherry Orchard. Learn more...

Musical Theatre of Los Angeles and Canary Productions present Cabaret. Kander and Ebb's classic musical is set in 1930s Berlin, as the romantic intrigues of several performers at a seedy nightclub play out amid the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The Met Theater will be transformed into the "Kit Kat Klub", and actors will serve as waiters throughout the production. Learn more...

Based on the hit 1987 movie, Big: The Musical follows frustrated, 13-year-old Josh, who wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old man after wishing he were "big." As he becomes a toy company executive and falls in love, Josh realizes that there's more to being an adult than he'd bargained for. Learn more...

Broadway/L.A. presents a three-show season ticket package at the Pantages Theatre. See Fiddler on the Roof, the classic Tony Award-winning musical, starring Topol, who played Tevye in the film version; Legally Blonde The Musical, the smash hit based on the MGM film; and Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, based on the animated special. Learn more...

Say Goodbye, Toto is a fanciful re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz told from the point of view of Dorothy's dog, Toto. Amy Heidish's whimsical play, making its world premiere at Ark Theatre, finds Toto tangling with cats, witches, wizards and Munchkins and battling with the Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man for Dorothy's affections. Learn more...

The Echo Theater Company presents the absurdist comedy The Illustrious Birth of Padraic T. Duffy. Jay wants to be a writer. There's only one problem: his family is completely functional. He becomes enmeshed in a power struggle between Jerry Brown and a pro football player who believe he's the second coming of Padraic T. Duffy and will save the world -- a world where Linda Ronstadt is a maid, Richard Nixon a writing teacher and Jesus really hates cats. Learn more...

One of the most produced musicals in America, Crowns explores the lives of the "hat queens," six women in the South whose stories of love, loss, identity and sisterhood are woven into the hats that crown their heads and the songs that speak their truth. Based on an acclaimed book, Crowns captures the thrill of self-expression with a series of intimate musical portraits. Learn more...

The critically-acclaimed He Asked For It is the award-winning story about the complexities of gay relationships in the contemporary Internet-age society. Writer Erik Patterson and director Neil Weiss strike a balance between comedy and tragedy as the characters struggle to move beyond one-night stands to the difficult sacrifices of true love. 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...

A sequel to the hit revue Schoolhouse Rock Live!, this brand-new musical comedy is also based on the classic 1970s television shorts that educated children about math, grammar and other subjects through song and animation. Too features music (including a live band), dancing, and performances of favorites like "Interjections" and "Conjunction Junction," linked together by a new story. Learn more...

Musical Theatre West presents one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, Little Shop of Horrors, a musical spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies that was later turned into a movie starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin. The story follows a meek down-and-out skid row floral assistant who becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Learn more...

Set in the Nevada desert in 1847, Stranger is a new play written to resemble the "Spaghetti Western" films of Sergio Leone. It's also a musical. Filled with shocking plot twists, sardonic dialogue, numerous dance-fight scenes and piles of dead bodies, this bloody tale of a ruthless villain who terrorizes a small town promises a unique theater experience. Learn more...

Someone is out to kill Charo and the only detectives/models ready for the case are the Angels. Join Kay Sedia, Chita Parol and Frieda Laye as they set sail for mystery, intrigue and lust on the love boat. Learn more...

Captured Aural Phantasy Theater is a live retro-influenced variety show built around radio show-style readings of mid-century comic book stories. Those awkward adolescent years are the theme of Teen Angst A-Go-GO!, a show that examines hormone-raging puberty through the lens of mid-century pop culture, namely comic books. Learn more...

Crown City Theatre Company presents The Apple Tree. Written by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, the team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me, this Tony Award-winning collection of three one-act musicals explores the temptations of love. The musicals are based on Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve, Frank R. Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, and Jules Feiffer's Passionella. 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...

At the beginning of One Night Stand, the actors ask the audience for three things: a title, a location and the name of a song. With those suggestions, the seven actors and pianist concoct a hilarious musical that has never been performed before and will never be performed again. Learn more...

The Santa Monica Theatre Guild presents Thoroughly Modern Millie. This Tony award-winning musical tells the exciting story of a high-spirited young woman who sets her sights on New York during the Roaring Twenties. Learn more...

Whitefire Theatre called on two producers, seven writers, seven directors, and 22 actors to share their talents to create this collection of original 10-minute plays. Friday Night Quickies is a cohesive night of theater featuring everything from drama to comedy in eight amazing shows. Learn more...

The world premiere of Billie & Bogie is an exciting night of back-to-back solo shows about American legends Billie Holiday and Humphrey Bogart. The journey of jazz/blues singer Billie Holiday includes love, the blues, racism and the story behind her hit songs. Humphrey Bogart's story is a soul-searching account of his personal life. Learn more...

Written and directed by Daisuke Tsuji, a former Cirque du Soleil clown, Monkey Madness mashes satire, clowning, pantomime, dance, music and puppetry together into a wild and grotesque theatrical event. The show follows a simple story about Monkey Boy, whose wish is to evolve into a human being, and the tribe of monkeys and apes that try to adapt to the new human culture. Learn more...

The Whitefire Theatre is proud to present The Monster Under My Bed Drank My Vodka. Lisa David Dean's hilarious solo show about addiction, neuroses, and 12 step dating has been a hit across the country, earning praise from The New York Times and Backstage. Learn more...

The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Coming Home, written by Athol Fugard, one of the world's greatest living playwrights. Ten years after she left to pursue a singing career in Cape Town, Veronica Jonkers comes home to her beloved grandfather's farm and the village of her youth. Carrying a heart filled with disappointment, she returns determined to plant the seeds of a new life for her young son. Learn more...

After barely surviving an office rampage, Mac Winchell is thrust into a nightmare landscape populated by lost Marlboro Men, psychotic vagabonds, sinister corporate thugs and a strange cult known as "The Church of Christ, Office Shooter." Mac attempts to escape this twisted reality by undertaking a quest that ultimately leads him into the darkest corners of the American Dream. Learn more...

Shakespeare Festival/LA brings the 20th annual Bard in the Garden to the South Coast Botanic Garden with a presentation of Aquila Theatre in As You Like It, the U.S. debut of the world-class touring production. Bring a blanket and pack a picnic as you spread out on the lawn and enjoy Shakespeare under the stars. Learn more...

Hank Azaria (The Simpsons), Jane Leeves (Frasier), Alan Tudyk (Death at a Funeral, Knocked Up), Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock star in this night of sketches and songs from the creators of Tony Award-winning Spamalot. Directed in part by Eric Idle & BT McNicholl, the show celebrates the 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Tickets have been held in the orchestra section for Goldstar members. Learn more...

Jonathan Coogan regularly got high in his playpen at his parent's 60s Hollywood pot parties. His journey from a childhood of abuse, drug busts, and evictions to his current life as a sober, happily married business owner is a roller coaster ride of hilarity, tears, love, and redemption, told in I'll Give You Something To Cry About. Learn more...

Toronto playwright Hannah Moscovitch's audacious new play examines the legacy of the Holocaust. East of Berlin is about the next generation and asks what happens when you discover your father was a Nazi war criminal? What happens when two sons of SS Officers fall in love with each other? What happens when your Mother survives Auschwitz and you fall in love with a German? Learn more...

William Shakespeare's still-relevant tale of political assassination comes to the stage in the beautiful outdoor setting of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. This gripping drama depicts Julius Caesar's out-of-touch regime, and examines the justifications for his murder, asking whether the conspirators were motivated by envy and ambition, or honor and patriotism. Learn more...

Inspired by actual events in early 18th century Germany, Bach at Leipzig follows a group of rival musicians as they compete for the most sought-after musical post in Europe: organ master at Leipzig. Itamar Moses' fast-paced, hilarious comedy is filled with scheming, blackmail, bribes, double-crosses, murder and even a war. Learn more...

Hollywood Fight Club presents Clue. Based on the murderously funny cult film, which was itself based on the classic board game of the same name, Clue tells the story of six guests at a mansion, where one of them murders the man who has blackmailed them all. The only question is -- who? Learn more...

Zarek Saxton is one of Hollywood's biggest directors and he thinks he is making a movie that will change the world. Problem is, he was supposed to be making a slasher film. In steps the producer, who, thanks to an Insanity Clause in Zarek's contract, has the eccentric director confined to a psych ward for observation. Learn more...

Theatre 40 presents the Los Angeles premiere of David Mamet's streamlined adaptation of the dark 1905 drama by British playwright Harley Granville-Barker. The Voysey Inheritance is a portrait of greed, centering on a family of financial planners who have been using a Ponzi scheme to defraud their clients and lead an extravagant lifestyle for two generations. Learn more...

Writer Gryphon Tott is taking the subway one moment -- and the next he's dead, transported to a literary lounge of the afterlife. He finds himself in the presence of several famous gay writers, including Quentin Crisp, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde and Truman Capote. As best as he can recall, however, Gryphon was straight. So what's he doing here? Learn more...

David LeBarron presents Little Black Veil, a rock cabaret featuring the music of Abby Travis. Cherise, the queen-bee/drag momma of a drag performance troupe has died. Mourning her death, this family of queens harness their anger and fears into a hysterical journey of pride, purpose and love. Learn more...

Theatre Planners presents the world premiere of Scott Claus' Ecstasy, The Musical. This comic tale of two virginal college students and their exploration of a sexual wonderland satirizes American repression while affectionately paying homage to Broadway musicals of the 1970s. Director Kay Cole, a veteran of the L.A. theatre scene, was a original Broadway cast member in A Chorus Line. Learn more...

Actor, singer, writer and Los Angeles schoolteacher Aaron Braxton presents a one-man show on the subject of education -- how the educational problems of the urban community are often viewed as isolated, pocket issues, but are actually linked to the larger community. Braxton calls for neighborhoods to take responsibility for creating a better educational environment for its youth. Learn more...

Sam Shepard's most produced play tells the story of two brothers: Austin, an ambitious Hollywood screenwriter working on a potential million-dollar deal, and Lee, a vagabond thief with a compulsion for six-packs and toasters. The pair face off for control while venting demons from their dysfunctional past. Learn more...