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NoHo Arts Center presents a world premiere solo comedy about a self-help guru who self destructs on stage. Actor and co-writer Tony Matthews portrays life coach Robbie Jensen, who leads the audience in one of his high-energy workshops. But as the play progresses through a year in his life -- from Christmas to Christmas -- it's Jensen who needs help. Learn more...

In Oklahomo!, a gay theatre company in Hollywood attempts to mount an unauthorized adaptation of Oklahoma! facing off LA marathon traffic, a power hungry director, an ovation-winning diva-actress, attorneys from the Rogers & Hammerstein estate and a string of disasters on their way to opening night. Learn more...

Bob's Holiday Office Party originated as an improv sketch thirteen years ago and has since developed into a seasonal tradition with a loyal cult following. In a small-town Iowa office, insurance agent Bob Finhead's whacked out friends and clients stop by for the annual holiday bash. But Bob has dreams of a bigger life and wants to escape his small town. Once the party -- and the bickering and fighting -- starts, will Bob finally realize his dream? 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...

The Grove Theatre presents a whimsical holiday play for the whole family based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In The Elves and the Shoemaker, a kind shoemaker gives his last pair of shoes to a beggar. When he goes to make a replacement pair on Christmas Eve, he receives unexpected assistance from five magical elves. Learn more...

The Grove Theatre presents Jim Curry and the holiday favorite, A John Denver Christmas. Come celebrate the season with your family and friends, and enjoy Christmas songs written or recorded by America's beloved singer/songwriter John Denver. Featuring songs "Aspenglow," "Christmas for Cowboys," "The Peace Carol," "Oh Holy Night," "Country Roads" and "Rocky Mountain High." 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...

Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities presents the Tony-nominated family musical based on the books by Dr. Seuss. In Seussical, the mischievous Cat in the Hat joins Horton the Elephant, the Whos of Whoville and a cast of beloved characters as they bring more than 20 of the author's classic tales to life, accompanied by an original score. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this haunting and sometimes hilarious play, we meet three women facing and embracing life's travails and disappointments. With his trademark wit and lack of sentimentality, Albee creates an unblinking portrait of contemporary women -- how they live, how they love, what they settle for and how they die. Three Tall Women is an electrifying examination on loss and our ability to go on. Learn more...

LACC Theatre Academy presents Pride and Prejudice by Helen Jerome, dramatized from Jane Austen's novel. It's an 18th century catastrophe in the making as Mrs. Bennett has five daughters to marry off. Elaborate balls, hunting parties, and courtship ensue, as each daughter makes her choice and the duel between Mr. Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice ends with a delightful compromise. 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...

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...

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...

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...

Climb aboard the Queen Mary for a holiday dinner and show at TIBBIES Cabaret and Dinner Theater. Holiday Follies 2009 features dazzling holiday production numbers like "White Christmas" and the Rockettes' Holiday Spectacular as well as the greatest holiday arrangements of today. Join the thousands of people who have made visiting TIBBIES for the holidays part of their yearly tradition. 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...

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...

Set in 1930's London and inspired by the sensational Alma Rattenbury Trial, Molly is the story of a love quadrangle gone awry. Molly was written by renowned writer Simon Gray, whose plays are notable for their wit and emotional incisiveness. Learn more...

There are large obstacles in Debra Ehrhardt's way out of Jamaica: an alcoholic father, a bible-spouting mother, the price of an air ticket, U.S. government suspicions. But she uses her wits, beauty and courage to convince a CIA agent to help her reach Miami. Every part is impersonated by Ehrhardt, an actress capable of amazing mimicry. This one-woman caper's got generous dollops of humor, laughter and light. 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...

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...

A Noise Within presents Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning comedy Noises Off. The unbelievably fast-paced story of confused identities and zany misunderstandings, set during a chaotic theatre production, has been called "the funniest farce ever written" by the New York Post. 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...

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...

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940's Ohio. With rich language and bold vision, this powerful adaptation of an American classic explores the crippling toll that a legacy of racism has taken on a community, a family and an innocent girl. Learn more...

Top-rated local children's theater Storybook Theatre presents the interactive musical The Princess and the Frog, the classic tale of a spoiled princess who reluctantly befriends a frog who magically transforms into a handsome prince. The audience is invited to join in dance numbers and attend a banquet at the castle with the Princess, King and magical fairy. 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...

Katrina Lenk, the acclaimed star of the rock opera Lovelace, visits Highways Performance as her alter-ego moxy phinx in The Wanting. Blending music, dance and theater, The Wanting showcases phinx's original songs and intense vocal performance, which has been described as a blend of Bjork, Marlene Dietrich and Prince. The show also features puppets, six dancers, and film projections. 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...

Schoolmaster Crocker-Harris is stuck in a loveless marriage with a wife who openly cheats on him. The enthusiasm he once showed for his career and his pupils has long since vanished and he has become a figure of disdain among the students whose life he has made a misery. With ill-health forcing him to resign his long-standing post, a simple act of kindness from one of his students has a profound impact on the seemingly heartless headmaster. Learn more...

East West Players presents Po Boy Tango, a drama that celebrates the artistry of food while exploring issues of racism, family and death. After the death of his mother, Richie Po reunites with Gloria, an up-and-coming soul food chef. The pair bond over a shared love of cooking to discover a deeper understanding of food, culture and friendship. Learn more...

After playing to unanimous critical acclaim at Sacred Fools in the Spring, Land of the Tigers, written by Burglars of Hamm (a four-person writing and performing collective), consists of two interconnected acts. Act I is The Crucible meets Planet of the Apes (but with tigers). Act II travels back in time to the first day of rehearsal for the play in Act I, in a dark satire of the creative process. Learn more...

After playing to sold out audiences this spring, singer, songwriter and actress Lesley Wolman, performs her one woman cabaret show in Gindi Auditorium. Lesley has appeared on Broadway, television, film and radio. Her latest show, Jewish Women in Song, pays tribute to fourteen female Jewish singers, lyricists and composers. Learn more...

Los Angeles past and present is the inspiration for this new tragicomedy from Company of Angels. The Ghost Building, by Ovation Award-winning playwright Damon Chua, centers on a murder investigation that links the stories of a 1920s-era movie starlet and a present-day writer. The characters' dark secrets provide numerous twists and turns. Learn more...

A recovering empty-nester and her younger, but more worldly, sister have had very different life experiences. Now at mid-life, they have enthusiastically joined forces to become the "Tony Robbins(es)" of mature sexuality. Moist is a lyrical, comical, musical, sometimes philosophical -- and at one point, even hysterical -- telling of a woman's cravings, wants and needs. Learn more...

Jack Hawley is in love. He also has synesthesia; he tastes his feelings, smells what he touches and sees letters in color. When Jack decides to revisit his past, dealing with memories of death, a surprise about his mother, and his feelings for a girl he never stopped loving, Jack must take life head-on, no matter what color it is or how disturbing it tastes or smells. 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...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's towering masterpiece comes to the stage in a new adaptation that packs all of the action into 90 breathless minutes, performed by just three actors. In a desperate quest to be redeemed for the perpetration of an unspeakable crime, brilliant Raskolnikov embodies humankind's eternal struggle between enlightened genius and the temptation of evil. 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...

La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin is a simple story of an Indian peasant's vision of the Virgin Mary that has become a theatrical cornerstone at Our Lady of Angels Cathedral for years. This profoundly moving show taps into out universal foundation of faith, love and perseverance. Join the tens of thousands who have become transfixed by the story of Juan Diego, a simple peasant from Tepeyac. Learn more...

About Productions presents Bleeding Through, a stage adaptation of Norman Klein's acclaimed novella. L.A.'s Angelino Heights and Downtown areas have been the site of more cinematic "murders" than any other location. This noir-influenced show, which incorporates live music and videos, evokes the city's narrative ghosts and explores the shaping of Los Angeles' culture by stories told on film. Learn more...

Attic Theatre Ensemble presents a radio-style performance of Frank Capra's holiday movie masterpiece live on stage. Complete with live sound effects, microphones and a dozen actors playing 78 different roles, It's A Wonderful Life recreates a radio broadcast of this heartwarming tale of troubled George Bailey's Christmas Eve journey through his life history. 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...