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The Young & The Restless stars Judith Chapman and Christian LeBlanc, The Bold & The Beautiful's Alley Mills, and Orson Bean (Desperate Housewives) head the cast for a staged reading of Tennessee Williams' classic drama The Night of the Iguana. The play tells the story of tormented souls finding moments of intimacy and relief in an exotic setting in Mexico. Learn more...

When Sara, a young teacher from the Midwest, leaves her boyfriend and family to take an inner city teaching assignment in the Bronx, she's befriended by traffic reporter Callie. After the two women unexpectedly fall in love, their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate. Learn more...

Rogue Machine Theatre takes a group of vocal L.A. writers, gives them a topic and a time limit, and then watches what they create. It's an evening of cathartic thinking by some of the most dangerous minds in the city. Stand back and listen. Learn more...

Rogue Machine Theatre presents a late-night treat: a collection of four world premiere one-act plays accompanied by gourmet, handcrafted desserts served before and after the performance and during intermission. The four short plays were selected from almost 90 submissions, and include the Tucker Smallwood-directed Free and John Pollono's I Hate L.A. Learn more...

Rogue Machine Theatre presents the world premiere of Treefall, a drama set in a post-apocalyptic future. In Henry Murray's play, three teenagers form a makeshift family in a Pacific Northwest cabin after an environmental disaster. Treefall examines how our culture sees and instills gender, identity, and family, even in a world where these structures have eroded. Learn more...

Award-winning playwright Lisa Dillman's timely comedy examines American family values during today's lean economic times. In Half of Plenty, a young woman must balance her work-at-home job with caring for her aging father-in-law, while her husband becomes increasingly caught up in a neighborhood watch group. Learn more...

In a shabby New England motel, three members of a New York theatre group have arrived with a scheme. As the evening darkens and unravels, so do their ambitions and secrets. This dark comedy -- from Pulitzer-nominee Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, Nocturne) -- is a visceral, provocative, oddball piece about a group of artists desperately trying to force a place for themselves. Learn more...

Beggars in the House of Plenty is set in the Bronx in the '50s and late-'60s, and deals with an Irish-American family's struggle with their inner demons. Part memory, part hallucination and part truth, the family's instinctual need for the love of one another barely holds their violence in check. Learn more...

Twenty years ago, Deano Goretti left a life of crime to start over in a quiet Maine town with a new wife and a new son. But when his buried past comes knocking on his door, the two worlds collide with a vengeance. Filled with razor-sharp dialogue and tough characters, John Pollono's Razorback is dark, nasty and very funny. Learn more...

American Dead is an elegiac rendering of the death of another American small town. The story is deceptively simple, often humorous. As a man grieves for his murdered sister his town continues wasting away, having been blighted by the closing of industry, the death of the family farm and the prevalence of methamphetamine. Learn more...

When women were men...on the stages of England, Edward Kynaston reigned as the most celebrated leading lady. His exquisite portrayals of Shakespeare's famous females brought him celebrity and love at the start of the Restoration. Then, a real woman named Margaret Hughes stepped on stage to steal his glory. Learn more...

In this Americanized version adapted from the 1997 British film of the same name, six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers, low on both cash and prospects, decide to present a strip act at a local club after seeing their wives' enthusiasm for a touring company of professionals. In the process they find renewed self-esteem, the importance of friendship and the ability to have fun. Learn more...

A Song for Vanya is an original musical based on the classic play Uncle Vanya by Antonin Chekhov. With stirring emotion and sweeping, epic music, Chekhov's melancholic story journeys into the hearts of a colorful but dysfunctional family. Learn more...

Based on the graphic novel by internationally acclaimed artists Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (creators of the Sandman comics and Henson Pictures' MirrorMask) and adapted for the stage by Hyper-theater mavericks Rogue Artists Ensemble, Mr. Punch is a twisted tale of murder featuring a dizzying array of puppets, masks and sounds. Learn more...

For centuries, the voices of the American slaves were silent. In the 1930s, President Roosevelt asked the Federal Writer's Project to go out and interview the last generation of Americans born in slavery, who were then in their eighties, nineties or even older. Now, the words and songs of the slaves themselves come together to tell their tales. Sometimes humorous, sometimes painful, these men and women will awaken your sympathy, command your admiration and break your heart. These are the true tales of slavery. Learn more...

Chromolume Theatre Company presents their Holiday Fundraiser, a dazzling holiday performance that is sure to appeal to audiences young and old. This show captivates theatergoers with its charming story as the cast sings and dances to light up the stage. It's a wonderful way to celebrate the holidays while helping out a good cause. Learn more...

Circle X Theatre Company presents the west coast premiere of The Bigger Man. In this offbeat and provocative dark comedy, a recovering drug addict (Len) arrives at his ex-girlfriend Lily's wedding to find she has joined a enigmatic "motivational" organization called "The Foundation." With his ne'er-do-well buddy in tow, Len hopes to rescue his ex and possibly even win her back. But will Lily end up "saving" him instead? Learn more...

Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh follows Moll, a child prodigy who invents a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save sound as we know it. The show combines live sound effects, slide projections, and unruly onomatopoeia into an exhilarating and fanciful comedy. Learn more...

The World Premiere of Under El Gran Mesquite, a play about the joys and challenges of a migrant child bridging the Latino roots he respects to the American pop culture he craves, at Theatre/Theater. Learn more...

Meadows Basement begins its exciting 2005 season with the critically acclaimed West Coast Premiere of Melanie Marnich's emotionally rich comedy Blur, directed by company member Ira Steck. Boldly emotional yet oddly playful - Blur is the powerful story of an open-hearted young girl, named Dot, whose sudden descent into blindness proves to be a passage from darkness to light. Learn more...

Rogue Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of Cheyenne, a new play that explores what happens when the macho cowboy culture of the American West collides with modern, liberal values. Learn more...

Written in 1994 during the administration of the first President Bush, A. R. Gurney's The Fourth Wall pokes fun not only at politics, but at American theater as well. Witty, sophisticated dialogue punctuated by Cole Porter songs create an evening that is "debonair, thought-provoking and funny" New Yorker. Learn more...