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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...

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...

Golden Performing Arts Center presents A Christmas Carol at the Madrid Theatre. Starring Anthony Cantrell as Scrooge, this warm and uplifting interpretation of Charles Dickens' holiday classic is presented with a professional cast, live orchestra, carolers and gifts for children under 13. Directed by Robert Petrarca. Learn more...

The world premiere of That Perfect Moment re-opens at The Little Victory. Set in the San Fernando Valley at Christmastime, Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper's comedy tells the tale of four aging bandmates who are unhappy with their lives, trying to recapture their late '60s prime in time for a seasonal party. 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...

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...

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...

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...

Children of Eden, a musical based on the Book of Genesis, comes to the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), the show touches on themes of family conflicts and faith as it recounts the story of Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel in the first act and Noah in the second. 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...

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...

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...

All of the elements of the original classic Dickens tale are here -- illuminated by mask, music and puppetry. This production is the ultimate 3-D experience with ghosts, carolers and old Ebenezer Scrooge coming to life right before your very eyes. A Christmas Carol is a magical musical ghost story to make you believe again. Learn more...

Kids decide the story line in Fairy Tales - Some Assembly Required, a new interactive musical filled with memorable songs and colorful costumes. In this adventure, Alex (a boy or a girl) goes in search of a lost sister in the Enchanted Forest. A professional cast of children and adults present a different and delightful musical each week depending upon the childrens' choices. Learn more...

In the aftermath of the United States' second civil war in year 2060, two brothers lay dead. The conservative theocracy of Creon decrees that one will be buried with honors, and one will be unburied, dishonored and abandoned. Their sister, Antigone, is torn between the laws of her uncle's government and her love of family and own moral imperative. Her actions will set off a chain of devastating events leading to death and an ultimate rebirth. Learn more...

Repertory East Playhouse presents M*A*S*H, the story of a dysfunctional Korean War medical unit. Based on the classic film, M*A*S*H follows the antics of "Hawkeye" Pierce, "Trapper John" McIntyre, and the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as they attempt to find distractions from the horrors of war. Learn more...

Theatre Banshee presents Tent Meeting, written by Banshee's own Rebecca Wackler. Convinced that the poor misshapen creature to which his daughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox, with his browbeaten daughter and son in tow, heads off in their mobile home toward the Promised Land--Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Their journey culminates in a blasphemous yet outrageously funny epiphany. Learn more...

Loosely based on Leonid Andreyev's 1915 classic He Who Gets Slapped, Circus Welt makes its world premiere at the Whitefire Theatre. Set in 1933, the drama revolves around a German traveling circus made of up of Jews, blacks, gays and a communist, who hope that the growing Nazi storm will blow over. Then, a mysterious stranger arrives, asking to be a clown. Learn more...

The Canyon Theatre Guild Playhouse presents a holiday play based on the classic, heartwarming movie written by Valentine Davies. In Miracle on 34th Street, a kindly old gentleman takes a job as a department store Santa. There, he convinces a cynical divorced single mother, her somber daughter, and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth. Learn more...

Mrs. Cage features robbery, mayhem and murder in a supermarket parking lot. On this fateful day, the nice lady next door, Mrs. Cage, is driven over the edge as she finds her secret life exposed and destroyed. Learn more...

Andreas, born and raised in the Bavarian Alps was obsessed with sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. In what better place could he find all that but America? Beer after beer, girl after girl, gang after gang, and prison after prison, he begins to realize what he needs -- the same thing we all need -- love. Learn more...

In this sad and funny solo dramedy by Judith E. and directed by Kaz Matamura, witness the trials and tribulations of one woman's trip through the minefield of changes caused by the onset of menopause. Along the way, get to know about her life, loves, and hopes for the future. Presented as part of J.E.T. Production West's Women Over the Edge program. Learn more...

Eight: Love is a Gamble begins with a series of one-acts by award-winning New York playwright Adam Kraar, whose plays include Storm in the Iron Box, The Lost Cities of Asher and Freedom High. His one-acts depict people whose outsized passions don't fit into their odd environments. Second on the bill are one-acts written by Michael Bassett, a Chicago-based playwright whose plays are dark comedies where the characters' lives are perched on a razor's edge. Learn more...