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Known the world over, Fiddler on the Roof, tells the story of Tevye, a poor dairyman in a small Russian village, trying to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his Jewish faith. Features the beloved songs "Sunrise, Sunset," "If I Were A Rich Man" and "Matchmaker." Learn more...

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods is a whimsical look at our most beloved fairy tales and what happens after "happily ever after." What begins as a lively and irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children. Learn more...

The Coast Playhouse hosts the world premiere of Baby It's You, a new musical about legendary girl group the Shirelles. Featuring the group's classic hits, the show tells the story of the group, New Jersey housewife-turned-record company executive Florence Greenberg, and how they rose to stardom in the early 1960s. Learn more...

Playwright Douglas Carter Beane's fast-paced script and Julie White's hilarious Tony Award-winning performance as the brash, profane agent won raves during the play's original Broadway run. Now this biting farce arrives at the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a special engagement starring White. With twists and turns that will keep audiences guessing, The Little Dog Laughed cleverly reflects our celebrity-obsessed society. Learn more...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the "American" Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice is one of the most popular and relevant musical dramas of our time. Learn more...

Inspired by the true story of the original Vegas lounge act, Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara is the musical tale of the 1950s' legendary King of the Swingers, and his relationship with his most famed duet partner -- and fourth wife. The show includes favorites such as "Just a Gigolo," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Autumn Leaves" and more. Learn more...

Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity. Corinne Dekker, Jamey Hood and Jayme Lake star as The Housewives, three young homemakers who form a band for their PTA talent show, then go on to become bigger than Brillo with their hilarious brand of "domestic" rock 'n roll. The 19 hilarious songs include "In Sink and at Your Disposal," "Ironing Bored" and more. Learn more...

In the style of Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar, Lovelace, a rock opera, tells the story of legendary porn star Linda Lovelace. From pregnant teenager in Yonkers, New York, to counter-culture star of Deep Throat, to activist and suburban mother, Lovelace's journey is both a triumphant and cautionary tale. Learn more...

Journey back to the Seventies in one of legendary composer Cy Coleman's (City of Angels, Sweet Charity) sexiest, funniest and rarely revived offerings, I Love My Wife. Reprise Theatre Company offers this blush and laugh-inducing (Tony nominated) musical at the intimate Brentwood Theatre. The production stars Jason Alexander, Patrick Cassidy, Vicki Lewis and Lea Thompson. Learn more...

East West Players presents the stage adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel, The Joy Luck Club. Family bonds transcend history as four young Chinese American women and their Chinese-born mothers struggle to understand each other. When the children's present lives begin to mirror their parent's past accomplishments and failures, a seemingly uncrossable divide grows into a bridge as generation unite to form the Joy Luck Club. Learn more...

Jane Austen only wrote six novels, but they are some of the most beloved tales of love and misunderstanding, wit and wisdom, and passion and betrayal ever written. Now Impro Theatre will deliver a new Jane Austen story every night. Passionate, willful women flirt and verbally joust with handsome, brooding young noblemen. Hearts are broken, secrets are revealed and true love wins out in the end. Or does it? Learn more...

Center Theatre Group presents Peter Whelan's tense drama The School of Night. Set in 1593, the play presents the murder of the playwright Christopher Marlowe -- an event surrounded by scandal, political espionage, and secret societies. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company Learn more...

This simple story of an Indian peasant's vision of the Virgin Mary has become a theatrical cornerstone at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral for years. This moving show taps into our universal foundations of faith, love and perseverance. Audience members will be transfixed by the story of Juan Diego, a simple peasant from Tepeyac. Learn more...

The Sequence follows the real life race between scientists Craig Venter and Francis Collins to sequence the human genome. Will the grand prize be the public good or private profit? And in the midst of the frenzied race to determine what makes a human being, how will three people -- each in hot pursuit of scientific discovery and enduring fame -- discover their own humanity? Learn more...

Fountain Theatre presents Gem of the Ocean, one of August Wilson's most celebrated works. Set in Pittsburgh in 1904, it tells the story of Citizen Barlow, who seeks the aid of the legendary healer Aunt Ester to cleanse him of his guilt. Learn more...

Blood Brothers is the story of the Johnstone twins, separated at birth. They grow up in two different social classes, oblivious to each other's existence; if either one finds out he has a twin, both will immediately die. This dramatic musical's record-breaking run in London has stretched for over 25 years. Learn more...

Lacey left his family years ago to travel the roads of Ireland. Now he's come home on a special day, hoping to find reconciliation and forgiveness from the family he left behind. Starring Barry Lynch, an Ovation Award winner for his performance in Theatre Banshee's Of Mice and Men. Learn more...

Jim Gamble Puppet Company presents a great puppet show based on the classical musical tale by Peter Tchaikovsky with music recorded by The Berlin Symphony Orchestra. This wonderful puppet performance will charm children aged 4 and up. Learn more...

Shock Therapy creates a picture of the therapized world we all live in. A celebrity psychiatrist, his painter wife, their runaway daughter, a pill-pushing TV shrink and the world's first black female psychoanalyst gather for a Labor Day party on Cape Cod -- little suspecting they're about to be taken hostage by an ex-con with a score to settle. Learn more...

The Hollywood Fight Club comes back after nine sold-out runs with its original production of Wiseguys. The show features classic scenes recaptured on stage from the movies that defined infamous: "Casino," "Carlito's Way," "A Bronx Tale," "Scarface," "Goodfellas," "Raging Bull" and, of course, "The Godfather." Learn more...

Biloxi Blues is the second play by Neil Simon in his Brighton Beach Trilogy. The play is set in 1943, in the middle of WWII. A group of guys heads for Army boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi. Who and what they encounter will keep you laughing for a very long time. Directed by three time Emmy-winning choreographer Walter Painter. Learn more...

In this original holiday musical, it's up to a little seven-year-old elf named Eve to save Christmas. What will become of the holiday when Santa Claus and the citizens of the North Pole are kidnapped by a bunch of directionally challenged pirates? Learn more...

The El Portal Forum Theatre hosts the world premiere of Susan Johnston's How Cissy Grew. In West Virginia, a baby girl is abducted, but swiftly returned to her parents. This intimate drama follows the twenty-year aftermath of the incident. Starring James Denton of TV's Desperate Housewives. Learn more...

Pasadena Playhouse presents The Lady With All the Answers. Written by playwright and TV writer David Rambo (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), this hilarious and touching drama follows popular advice columnist Ann Landers as she grapples with problems of her own. Mimi Kennedy portrays Landers. Learn more...

Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara is the musical tale of the 1950s' legendary King of the Swingers, and his relationship with his most famed duet partner -- and fourth wife. The show includes favorites such as "Just a Gigolo," "I've Got You Under My Skin," and more. The Ovation Award-winning musical appears at the El Rey Theatre, in a benefit performance for the Society of Singers Emergency Relief Fund. Learn more...

From the same twisted mind that created the LA Weekly Theater Award-winning play Mommie Queerest comes The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode. When budget cuts force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland, Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Jo will do anything to raise the money so she can stay. Anything. (OK, they become hookers. And they sing and dance about it.) Learn more...

Jaxx Theatricals presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Life, a musical from Cy Coleman (The Will Rogers Follies, City of Angels) and Ira Gasman. The Life depicts the pulsating life of Times Square in the 1980s, where everything had a price, especially sex -- the garish topless bars, the transvestite joints and the prostitutes who worked the sidewalks. Learn more...

Company of Angels presents the world premiere of Bernardo Solano's lost at the historic Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. A dark and desolate L.A. highway sets the stage for a bizarre encounter between a man in his car and a mysterious woman in distress. Sometimes loneliness can take you too far. Learn more...

e-Love, a musical.com/edy, is a cyber love story where romance is only a mouse click away. A man and woman each search for that special someone online, proving that the course of true love never did run smooth on the internet. The production stars Lloyd Pedersen and Bobbi Stamm. Learn more...

The Corbetts have everything a regular family could want until the day their world is turned upside down. Teeming with heartbreak, compassion, wit and honesty, Rabbit Hole is about family relationships, loss and hope. Learn more...

Theater Unleashed presents the world premiere of Andrew Moore's Pin-Up Girls. This comedy-drama tells the story of performers at a burlesque show in 1940s San Francisco. In a nation disrupted by war, these women find freedom and camaraderie backstage at the burlesque theatre. 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 an intelligent comedy about marriage, honesty, lust and trust. Learn more...

The Steve Allen Theater at the Center for Inquiry West presents The Rudy Casoni Variety Hour, a comedy variety show featuring Sinatra's singing bastard son, with other special guests. The show stars the talented and funny Toby Huss, plus Reno 911's Tom Lennon, The State's Ben Garant, and more. Learn more...

Frank Capra's classic holiday tale comes to life in this sparkling musical version created by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Sheldon Harnick and Grammy and Emmy Award-winner Joe Raposo. George Bailey, Bedford Falls and the bumbling Clarence the angel will help kick off the holiday season in style. Learn more...

Good Bobby recounts the formative adult years of Robert F. Kennedy, one of history's great "what ifs." From his battles with Jimmy Hoffa to his stint as Attorney General to the assassination of John Kennedy, RFK struggles to find his own voice and step out of the enormous shadows created by his family. Learn more...

A Noise Within presents Oliver Twist. The play is based on Charles Dickens' classic novel about a young boy who falls in with criminals in 19th-century London. Neil Bartlett's vibrant, heartfelt adaptation is informed by the Victorian music hall tradition. Learn more...

Six individuals, each with a hidden past, gather together to a Mansion on a special night with an old acquaintance. Little do they know that they are in fact in the middle of a blackmail scheme threatening each of their careers and social standing. A night of murder and mayhem ensues reminding each of them that in fact "Only the truth shall set you free." Learn more...

Syzygy Theatre Group celebrates the centennial of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright William Saroyan's birth with a production of Love's Old Sweet Song. This light-hearted 1940 comedy is something of a lost classic; it hasn't been performed professionally for almost seventy years. Learn more...

This theatrical late night reality series directed by Efrain Schunior gives ten aspiring guys an opportunity to prove that they can make it in the high-stress, high-stakes world of bottoming. ANTB! exposes the transformation of men into potentially fierce Bottoms, as they face weekly tests and challenges that determine who can make the cut. Hosted by the ferocious Ms. Trina Sugg. Learn more...

Noel Coward's affectionate tribute to theater is set in a retirement home for actresses, all former stars. Jealousies abound, especially between Lotta and May who once both loved the same man. A tragedy brings them to their senses and a new solarium brings out everyone's good nature. The production stars Betty Garrett, best known to audiences from her long-running roles on All in the Family and Laverne and Shirley. Learn more...

Storybook Theatre's award-winning Sleeping Beauty is a rollicking version of the famous story. There are plenty of songs and lots of audience participation to delight the whole family. The members of the audience try to hide Sleeping Beauty from the wacky fairy as the prince bravely goes on his adventure to find her. Learn more...

West Coast Ensemble presents the West Coast premiere of Christopher Durang's charmingly off-center Miss Witherspoon. When a piece of an orbiting space station falls on Veronica, she embarks on a hilarious odyssey through the great beyond, aided by her spirit guide Maryamma. Learn more...

Edgemar Center for the Arts hosts Sex, Lies, + Corsets, a pair of one-act plays. In August Strindberg's The Stronger, set in a cafe in the 1890s, two women fight over a friendship gone wrong. A hundred years later, in Edward Allan Baker's Rosemary with Ginger, two sisters fight to save their marriages and children. Learn more...

Kentwood Players presents Neil Simon's comedy The Odd Couple at the Westchester Playhouse. Originally a hit Broadway play, and later the inspiration for a film and TV series, The Odd Couple tells the story of two mismatched roommates, Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat freak news writer, who is thrown out by his wife and moves in with Oscar Madison, a slovenly sportswriter. Learn more...

Forever Fosse is sinful and sexy tribute to choreographer Bob Fosse. Celebrating a time when women were women and men were men, and Broadway shows like Chicago, Sweet Charity, Pippin, Cabaret and All That Jazz. Learn more...

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this theatrical adaptation, written by the legendary author himself. A paternalistic government suspends basic individual liberties in the name of preserving the security of the homeland. That could never happen here...could it? Learn more...

Theatre Neo presents Theresa Rebeck's The Family of Mann. This satirical comedy goes behind the scenes of a sitcom in development, telling a story of power and artistic integrity. Rebeck is an expert on the field, having written for TV shows ranging from NYPD Blue to Family Ties. Learn more...

On the water-starved western plains, Lizzie Curry has resigned herself to a life without love as she and the men of the family struggle to keep the farm from collapsing under the weight of devastating drought. Out of this arid ether, a shadow larger than life fills the horizon, offering intriguing possibilities. Learn more...

Theatre of NOTE and Sacred Fools present the sixth annual production of Bill Robens' award-winning holiday extravaganza, A Mulholland Christmas Carol. The musical comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol -- retold with L.A.'s DWP water baron, William Mulholland, as Scrooge -- fuses Charles Dickens' classic tale of redemption with a hilarious tongue-in-cheek critique on political corruption in Los Angeles. Learn more...