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Doug Motel presents his one-man show StarDUST (Adventures in Consciousness). A winner of the Ovation and LA Weekly Awards, Doug is also a veteran of stand-up comedy, film, and television. He juxtaposes personal stories with tales of historic events from the LA riots to the 9/11 attacks. Learn more...

Imagine yourself at a feast hosted by a royal wizard. Saucy serving wenches bring you hearty food, tempting beverages, and their unique sense of humor. Meanwhile, Merlin the Magician provides an evening of entertainment, magic and comedy. Dinner is included in the ticket price. Learn more...

When a woman decides that her life is no longer worth living, her mother tries to determine how to approach the delicate situation. Sheldon Robert Morley makes his directorial debut at Hunger Artists with this emotional drama. Learn more...

High-spirited Maria is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval captain. Her generosity of spirit gradually captures the heart of the stern captain, and they marry. Soon after, Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, who demand the captain's immediate service. Features the songs "My Favorite Things," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" and "Do-Re-Mi". Learn more...

Musical Theatre West presents Mel Brooks' hit musical The Producers. Two con men/theater producers scheme to get rich cheating investors by producing a Broadway flop, but the trouble starts when their show, Springtime for Hitler, is a runaway success. Michael Kostroff (HBO's The Wire) stars as Max Bialystock alongside Larry Raben as Leo Bloom. Features the songs " If You've Got It, Flaunt It," "That Face" and "Keep it Gay." Learn more...

The Tony Award-winning authors of Broadway's Titanic and Grand Hotel, Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, have transformed Gaston Leroux's story The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation. Phantom is the tragic and heart-wrenching tale of one man's search for love and beauty in the opulent Paris Opera House and the vast catacombs that lie beneath it. Learn more...

A man sends his wife off to visit her mother and plans a romantic weekend with his Parisian mistress in a French farmhouse. He invites his best friend to provide an alibi and hires a gourmet chef. What could go wrong? Just about everything, as mistaken identities and mixed-up couples ensure an evening of hilarious confusion. Learn more...

Little Women, one of the most widely read novels in the English language, comes to life in a new production at Long Beach Playhouse's Studio Theatre. Louisa May Alcott's cherished story about family life and love traces the adventures of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy who grow up in trying times during the Civil War. Learn more...

Angels in America is regarded as the most important play of the 1990s, and among the most influential of the 20th century. In the mid-1980s a hitherto unknown disease was killing men across the country, striking not only in the New York gay community, but the highest offices of law and government in the nation. With attention not being paid, how did those stricken with the strange disease cope? Learn more...

Rude Guerrilla Theater Company presents the Southern California premiere of John Kolvenbach's Love Song. This quirky romantic comedy was a hit in Chicago and on London's West End. It's the tale of an eccentric man and his sister, who tries to unravel the story behind his mysterious new love. Learn more...

In the declining years of the Roman Empire, a put-upon playwright, Scribonius, is called on by Emperor Nero to write a play that will turn public opinion in his favor. Scribonius sees this as his opportunity to change the tyrannical leader's ways, but he has his work cut out for him -- Nero has a reputation for torturing or killing anyone who displeases him. Learn more...

In N. Richard Nash's play, a charismatic con-man comes into a drought-ridden rural town in Depression-era America and promises to bring rain for $100, changing the lives of a spinster, her father, and two brothers in the process. Blending comedy and drama, The Rainmaker has been a Broadway hit and was also adapted as a movie starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. Learn more...

Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz is a giddy comedy based on the adventures of a brother and sister, one of whom has a fatal disease that sends the two of them spinning off to Europe to find romance and a cure. Learn more...

Amid the chaotic hustle and bustle of New York, Mel Edison finds himself increasingly disillusioned with the uncertain status of his job, the continual annoyances of an apartment with faulty amenities and a society decaying in stability and values. What follows is an entertaining narrative about one man's struggle to keep his head above water in an ever changing world. Learn more...