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Heroes, adapted by the award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard from Gerard Sibleyras' French original, is the hilarious and poignant story of three old soldiers in a French military hospital. It's a heartwarming tale of camaraderie and a moving portrait of the frustrations inherent in growing older. Learn more...

Painting Churches is a theatrical portrait of the complex relationship between aging parents and their artist daughter. A promising artist comes home to Boston to help her aging parents move from their Beacon Hill home to their Cape Cod cottage. But she is ill-prepared for what she finds. Learn more...

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents a pair of poignant, funny plays about the Jewish-American experience by the Oscar-nominated co-writer of the classic film Tootsie. 74 Georgia Avenue follows a successful businessman who revisits the Brooklyn neighborhood of his youth when his marriage falters. The Pushcart Peddlers is a farce about two immigrants who sell bananas. Learn more...

This sweet, heartwarming family comedy concerns the efforts of a young man to break away from his New Jersey roots, even as his grandparents, Italian on both sides, attempt to get him settled down with "a nice girl" from the neighborhood. As he struggles to set out on his own, the young man learns a thing or two about his grandparents, himself and what family is really about. Learn more...

It's summer time and the Bunyan County Fair is approaching. This year the fair means one thing to Gunner and Clara Johnson, owners of a little bar called The Bunyan: the Miss Walleye Queen Competition. Bernice, the pretty waitress, sees this as her big chance to win Miss Walleye Queen, to be discovered and, more importantly, to have her face carved in butter at the Minnesota State Fair. Learn more...

In this town things aren't always what they seem. Playwright Art Shulman transports us to a fictitious city (or is it?) where we meet everyday folks who have misconceptions about people they know. They could be just like your neighbors, or who you think your neighbors are. Learn more...

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents Inspecting Carol, a fractured version of A Christmas Carol. Daniel Sulivan's comical farce tells the tale of a theater company rehearsing a problem-plagued production of the Dickens story. Learn more...

Two Grandmas From Brooklyn is an award-winning musical revue celebrating family and grandmotherdom starring Irene Chapman and Barbara Haber. The show journeys down memory lane from the grandmas' early days in Brooklyn through romantic ups and downs, marriage and career. The production is filled with songs ranging from Broadway to hit radio to standards. 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 Petersen and Bobbi Stamm. Learn more...

A children's book writer who hates children pushes his trophy wife into the arms of another man, and the lovers plan his perfect murder. But what if things go horribly wrong? And what do the man's secretary and the police inspector investigating the crime really know? The Sound of Murder keeps everybody guessing until the last moment. Learn more...

Four courageous women in wet and dreary 1922 England change their lives in the sunshine and wisteria of Italy. The vision of these women creates changes that reflect the yearnings of a whole nation recovering from the wounds of war. Enchanted April is based on Elizabeth von Arnim's 1921 best-selling novel about the rediscovery of life's enchantments. Learn more...

Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential is a futuristic comedy about an innocent young man who falls in love with a "not-so-real" girl -- it's also about the machinations behind the scenes that occur in the making of a local television drama. Learn more...

Terrence McNally's Prelude & Liebestod peels away the public facade of a world famous Leonard Bernstein-esque conductor to reveal his homo-erotic desires and painful quest for spiritual and artistic satisfaction. The haunting Wagner opera underscores the drama of a man overcome by his inability to integrate his physical passions with a meaningful life. Learn more...

Jesse Morgan returns to New York 18 years after absconding with cash from his employer. Now very rich, he calls together several "friends" from his past, including his ex-wife, his ex-best friend, his former employer and a street person. He offers $2 million to two of them, but there's a catch. The friends have to select which two of them receive the money. And most of them hate each other. Learn more...

Set in the mid-1950s, this comedy was the basis for a film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The story centers on a highly efficient staff of researchers nestled comfortably in a major broadcasting company--that is, until another department installs a computer system. Anxiety multiplies when an efficiency expert is sent in to determine if there's a need for a similar computer in their department. Learn more...

You're From Philly, Charlie Brown is an autobiographical story about an underdog boy from an underdog town. Set against the backdrop of the sixth game of the 1980 World Series, Chris Loprete's one-man show offers a roller-coaster ride of relationships, laughs, tears, failures, and finally, triumph. Whether or not you're a sports fan, this is a story about finding your place in life. Learn more...

When two bungling burglars attempt to break into a house in Canoga Park early one evening and discover that a Neighborhood Crime Watch meeting is about to take place, panic and chaos ensue. Suddenly pretending to be meeting attendees, the thieves find themselves in a tangle of mistaken identities, bold lies and complicated love relationships--all with door-slamming physical comedy. Learn more...

Arsenic and Old Lace is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and the local police in Brooklyn as he debates whether or not to marry the woman he loves. Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theater presents King of the City: An Evening With Al Capone, a one-man show in which actor Robert Gallo plays the legendary "Scarface", one of the most feared crime bosses of the Prohibition era. Learn more...

This one-man show about Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, is like having a personal window into the Oval Office. Give 'Em Hell, Harry! shows how Truman addressed pressing issues in politics and life directly, with no mincing of words. "You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." --Harry S. Truman Learn more...

It's the 4th of July and the first family gathering at the Lundeen household since Dad died. At the gathering, Dad comes back as a ghost with a mission: to tell his wife of 35 years that he loved her, something he neglected to tell her while he was alive. The problem is, she can't hear or see him! Learn more...

Marvin Chernoff's The Howie Monologues (Growing Up in America) makes its world premiere at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre. The Howie Monologues is a heartwarming semi-autobiographical tale that follows the first generation son of Russian immigrants as he reaches middle age and revisits the family, friends and lovers who shaped so much of his past, present and future. Learn more...

In this comedy for the whole family, Peter and George come up with a flawless (almost) scheme to get a lot of money, fast: they plan to rob the Tooth Fairy! Pulling one of their teeth out for bait and setting a perfect trap, Peter and George may end up with more than they bargained for. Learn more...

Karen Knotts' one-woman show, Tied Up In Knotts, premieres at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre. Karen shares life, love, a nervous breakdown and growing up with a famous father (Don Knotts), all in the name of comedy. In this one-woman show, Karen talks about herself so candidly that you can't tell if she is the most vulnerable woman in the world or the most psychotically well defended. Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents Jeffrey Sweet's Bluff, a play written improvisationally, in a style reminiscent of Chicago's Second City. Bluff concerns the relationship of a young couple, from their first meeting to their possible parting. Neal falls for Emily and moves in with her. He comes with just his clothes. She, on the other hand, is burdened down with endless baggage: a hidden past, an alcoholic mother, an annoying step-father and the need to control. Learn more...

It's "Fargo" meets "A Christmas Carol" (without the wood chipper or the Cratchits). The sequel to the smash hit musical comedy, Don't Hug Me. On Christmas Eve in Bunyan Bay, Minnesota, the cantankerous bar owner Gunner Johnson gets in an argument with his wife, Clara, tells her he's skipping Christmas, and storms out to go snowmobiling across the lake. He falls through the ice on his skidoo and goes into a coma. He then comes back to the bar in his dream, where he's visited by the famous folk legend, Sven Yorgensen, who plays the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future. Sven takes Gunner on a journey similar to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"--only very different. Learn more...

A retired mailman in Brooklyn is an American "Tevye" who tells his life story to a disenchanted young woman he finds sitting in a park one day. His colorful memories change both their lives in this wonderfully funny and heartfelt comedy. Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents Second Thoughts, the musical revue written and directed by Broadway veteran Tony Tanner. The show features songs and skits that deal with life and love for those who are no longer 21. Backstage West calls it, "a musical revue with a big heart and a lot of style and class." Learn more...

Chester Nurdiger lives in the back of his pet shop with his mother and his bored wife. One day a drifter comes along and they hire him to work in the shop. Sparks are ignited between the bored wife Roxanne and the slick Zachary Slade. They plot to murder Chester. This is the 20th anniversary production of Charles Ludlam's wild spoof of film noir classics The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. It's also the Los Angeles Premiere of The Artificial Jungle, the funniest murder mystery you'll see this year. Learn more...

From Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives, comes this edge-of-your-seat thriller. A college co-ed is lured into a mansion by a charming older couple who work for the people who live there. The couple convinces the co-ed to impersonate a long-dead daughter to bring solace to a family member nearing death - but once dressed as the daughter, the co-ed does not expect what happens next. And neither will you! Learn more...

In off-Broadway comedy Greetings!, a young man brings his Jewish atheist fiancee home to meet his very Catholic parents on Christmas Eve. With the inevitable family explosion comes an out-of-left field miracle that propels the family into a wild exploration of love, religion and personal truth. Learn more...

"Seeking Redeption in Two One Acts" features Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer, the story of a frustrated athlete who now works for his domineering father and finds satisfaction in coaching a little league baseball team. Also featured is NightHawks, the story of two jewel thieves who meet regularly in a cafe, swapping stories about their rooftop adventures. Learn more...

"Closets," an original drama about a fictitious school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, makes its world premiere. It is the story of love affairs, betrayal and school politics played out in the hotbed of an imaginary inner-city high school. Learn more...

See the world premiere of the new romantic musical comedy, Is This Any Way to Start a Marriage? This wonderful combination of music and comedy will keep you laughing and tapping your feet as you watch the unraveling of two competitive mothers, a frugal father paying for the wedding, and a colorful bellman constantly handing out sage advice to the young couple. It's as if Neil Simon and Cole Porter collaborated on a fast paced and melodically inviting comedy! Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents the World Premiere of Killing Russell Crowe, a satirical comedy of a broken-down greeting card writer whose booze-inspired dreams of social revolution spring to life. Learn more...

Neil Simon's hit Broadway comedy about the efforts to reunite a pair of aged vaudevillians for a TV special that is both funny and poignant. Christopher Weeks and Elliott Goldwag play the former comedy team of Willie Clark and Al Lewis, who split up years ago over disagreements about how the act should be performed and, more importantly, over their conflicting views about the importance of show business versus that of life. Learn more...

The acclaimed Lonny Chapman Group Rep presents the musical farce Milagro, about a woman and her housekeeper trying to run a boarding house in rural Texas at the turn of the century. Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Rep presents the zany, touching and exuberant comedy Sylvia, from acclaimed playwright A.R. Gurney (Love Letters). Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Rep presents the world premier of the poignant comedy, The Rabbi & The Gravedigger, an unusual story about friendship, surprises, and funny stuff. Learn more...

Two femme fatales (who happen to be senior citizens) present an evening of entertainment with music and comedy that appeals to audiences of every age. Two Grandmas From Brooklyn covers a range of musical genres, including Broadway, hit radio and standards performed with talent and zest! Learn more...

An overwhelmed man must deal with the problems of being burglarized, becoming unemployed, mentally surviving the urban environment, and a marital dilemma. All at the same time! With a wacky family, to boot. Only Neil Simon can approach this story with such full rich humor. Learn more...

Insightful, funny, tearful, outrageous, irreverent, hopeful stories about the judgements we all make, 4 in 1 is 4 short plays staged by the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre. Learn more...

This world premiere is an entertaining trip seen through the imaginative eyes of three unique writers. 3 For The Road will make you laugh and make you wonder. But mostly, it will make you wish the trip didn't have to end. Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents this stunning production of Nuts, a compelling courtroom drama about a woman battling for her freedom and her sanity. Learn more...

The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents A Baker's Dozen (or Two Funerals And A Wedding), a romantic comedy about what happens to a widower who marries a younger woman, only to fall in love with someone else. Learn more...

Learn the myth behind the life of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, when the LCGRT presents a special production of Bill Harris' award-winning play, Robert Johnson: Trick The Devil. Learn more...

Sam Adamo's award-winning play Spaghetti and Apple Pie is a heartwarming story of an Italian-American family in the 1930s, at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre. Learn more...