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It's 1977, and 15 year-old Horace Poore is trying to make sense of the tumultuous events surrounding him -- and the tumultuous events within him. Horace's sexual awakening is hastened by images of Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz and former pageant queen/orange juice promoter/anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant in this unconventional look at a young man's coming-of-age. 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...

Marybeth Paxton is convicted of abusing her daughter and sent to prison for her crimes. After her release, her daughter, Katie, now grown, finds a secret box of letters her mother had written her. Part medical mystery, part family drama, Munched investigates Munchausen by Proxy with compassion, warmth and humor. Learn more...

West Coast Ensemble's theatrical production of The Graduate is based on the landmark 1967 film comedy about Benjamin Braddock, an aimless college graduate who has an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, while simultaneously dating her daughter. Terry Johnson's well-received stage adaptation of The Graduate has been a hit on Broadway and in London. Learn more...

Annie Korzen (Seinfeld's Doris Klompus) thinks the world would be a better place if everyone would just do what she says. Much to her amazement, the world doesn't seem to agree. This is an sometimes serious, sometimes naughty evening of comedy, music and constructive criticism from the creator of the world-wide hit, Yenta Unplugged. 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...

West Coast Ensemble presents Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's bold, surreal and darkly humorous musical Assassins. This controversial, Tony Award-winning show is a musical exploration of nine individuals who assassinated or attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald. Learn more...

A classic of American theatre, Frank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Subject Was Roses is an unblinking exploration of domestic warfare. After serving on active duty in the Army, Timmy Cleary returns home to find his parents are strangers to him and to each other. Long-hidden resentments surface as the tenuous ties that hold the family together unravel. Learn more...

West Coast Ensemble presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman (The Glory Of Living, Spinning Into Butter). This play takes aim at contemporary America's love/hate relationship with success. The Sweetest Swing in Baseball is a clever, sometimes painful look at the fragility and disposable nature of celebrity. Learn more...

Set in contemporary London, this award-winning play explores relationships through the entanglement of four people. In a series of chance encounters, the characters set off a string of emotions and passions that painfully reveal the underscoring of s*x in each of their lives. Learn more...

If you like "Curb Your Enthusiasm," you'll love Heat & Hostility, a comedy in 14 parts. The battle of the sexes is being fought with 21st-century sophistication. Weapons of mass seduction. Full frontal assaults. Complex piece negotiations. Each gender has an agenda. And the carnage is carnal. Because where there's smoke, there's fire, and where there's heat...there's hostility. Learn more...

Set in an Equity Waiver theatre in Los Angeles, 1 to 10? is not really so much a play about theatre, as it is a play about people who love theatre. Three individuals who come together based on that mutual premise. For old school Artistic Director Sydney McCormack, theatre is a sort of personal religion; and the fear of its demise is matched only by her personal demons. With that in mind, her best friend and right-hand production manager, Ross, attempts to find a "parishioner" who might take up the mantle: a young protégé assistant and recent Yale grad, Ericka Hunter. Learn more...

The New Theatre presents the world premiere of The Fat of the Land, a dramedy about six very different people with six unique problems, all living side-by-side in two houses in upstate New York. The neighbors don't think very much of each other, but they might have the solutions to each other's problems, if only they can learn to get along. Learn more...

Theatre District presents Boom, a drama that explores a microcosm of society and mirrors what is quickly becoming a reality for "Baby-Boomers" everywhere. More and more "War Babies" are finding themselves in shock as the bombs of their maturing parents explode around them, and the fallout of aging hits their "Peter Pan" generation. Three women, one family, and one room, take us inside that journey. Learn more...

When a young dancer becomes agoraphobic, she finds that her fears threaten to destroy not just her career, but all that she loves in life. When fear challenges love, a little feminine "magic" may be the only answer. Learn more...

A bitingly funny postmodern comedy of manners, which follows the fortunes of a group of urban male "yuppies" as they attempt to come to terms with life: Boys' Life at the Theatre District at The Cast. Learn more...

Playing greyhounds who lobby the audience for support as they race for their lives, the actors are eliminated one by one through secret ballot during this interactive play. Cynics, by Patrick Day and Ted Williams, is comical, bizarre and oddly moving. Learn more...

Playing greyhounds who lobby the audience for support as they race for their lives, the actors are eliminated one by one through secret ballot during this interactive play. Cynics, by Patrick Day and Ted Williams, is comical, bizarre and oddly moving. Learn more...