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Loosely based on Leonid Andreyev's 1915 classic He Who Gets Slapped, Circus Welt makes its world premiere at the Whitefire Theatre. Set in 1933, the drama revolves around a German traveling circus made of up of Jews, blacks, gays and a communist, who hope that the growing Nazi storm will blow over. Then, a mysterious stranger arrives, asking to be a clown. Learn more...

The world premiere of Billie & Bogie is an exciting night of back-to-back solo shows about American legends Billie Holiday and Humphrey Bogart. The journey of jazz/blues singer Billie Holiday includes love, the blues, racism and the story behind her hit songs. Humphrey Bogart's story is a soul-searching account of his personal life. Learn more...

Whitefire Theatre presents six one-act plays by the brilliant playwright Helena Weltman that range from romantic comedy to horror, and from theater of the absurd to psychological drama. The one acts are: Saturday Night Date, Sitting in a Tree, Leaving Him and Her, Beauty-Fiction, Number 11, Acting it Out. Learn more...

Whitefire Theatre called on two producers, seven writers, seven directors, and 22 actors to share their talents to create this collection of original 10-minute plays. Friday Night Quickies is a cohesive night of theater featuring everything from drama to comedy in eight amazing shows. Learn more...

The Whitefire Theatre is proud to present The Monster Under My Bed Drank My Vodka. Lisa David Dean's hilarious solo show about addiction, neuroses, and 12 step dating has been a hit across the country, earning praise from The New York Times and Backstage. Learn more...

Raleigh R. Pinskey performs her comedic one-woman show at Whitefire Theatre. Evolution of Soul 685 follows a heavenly resident living on a mediocre, boring white cloud who has been given a choice to move up to a better cloud. In the process, Soul 685 must learn about earthly concerns like sex, food, rock 'n' roll, and bad hair days. Learn more...

By George Productions presents the Los Angeles premiere of Cole Porter's 1936 hit musical comedy, Red, Hot and Blue! This Depression era screwball comedy deals with a National Lottery offering a first prize to anyone who finds a long-lost love with a rare identification mark. The eccentric characters include ex-cons, DC senators and Manhattan's most perennial debutantes. Learn more...

A lawyer, obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the specter of a Woman in Black, hires a skeptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. The borders between make believe and reality begin to blur and the flesh begins to creep. Learn more...

The Last Hippie: A Western Novel is a collection of monologues written and performed by Vincent Mann. Based on an unfinished novel, the comedic show explores the power of art, change and loss, and the search for meaning in the meaningless 1970s. 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...

A group of five G.I.s is lost in the middle of the jungle in Vietnam. Are they surrounded by the Viet Cong? Is it all in their imagination? Are they losing their minds? Pavel Cerny's A Lovely Place for a Picnic, a Drama Logue Prize-winner for Best Play and Best Production of the Year, is an adaptation of a Czech anti-war play by Ladislav Smocek. Learn more...

Rachel Bailit's acclaimed Sugar Happens: A One-Girl Show is the hilarious story of a nice East Coast Jewish girl's hopes for love and success in Hollywood, plus a sneak peek at her happy(?) life in twenty years. Learn more...

This annual holiday event includes stories, poems and songs from holiday writing throughout the ages and new original work as well. With a Christmas tree, a real fire burning brightly in a fireplace and talented performers to keep you entertained, this show is a warm and cozy way to spend a winter evening with family and friends. 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...

Jack Freiberger's They Call Me Mister Fry, a one-man show, is the funny yet poignant true story of a fifth grade teacher's first year in a South Central classroom... where the teacher becomes the student. Learn more...

Goddess A Go Go presents Night Of The Living Dance, a high-energy Halloween-themed dance show. It's been praised by the Los Angeles Times, which writes, "This show needs to be seen." Learn more...

After six years of working as a waiter, Scott Jones serves up something fresh: a show about waiting tables. Through the main course of character monologues, Jones shows both sides of the table, revealing a world that's hilarious and all too human. Putting both customers and servers in the spotlight, Served (Gratuity Not Included) revels in society's obsession with being waited on. Learn more...

Straight from sold-out shows in NYC, Down the Rabbit Hole comes to L.A. This one-woman musical is based on the classic fairy tale characters but with an adult twist, starring pop star EJ. It will dazzle your senses, tickle your funny bone and touch your heart. Learn more...

In her critically acclaimed solo show directed by Steven Anderson, former Air Force Intelligence Analyst April Fitzsimmons takes us from a Montana jail to the United States Air Force and through the halls of the National Security Agency. Learn more...

The Whitefire Theatre presents My British-American Dream, singer-actress Toni Morrell's autobiographical one-woman show. Morrell takes the audience on a journey from northern England through New York to Hollywood. Morrell, who has performed throughout the US and Europe, sings and tells stories, accompanied by musician David Dial. Learn more...

Don Knotts's daughter Karen Knotts is back in her hit show Tied Up In Knotts. Karen shares life, love, a nervous breakdown and growing up with a famous father. 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...

Emmy Award winner Mariette Hartley stars in a world-premiere comedy that's drenched in heart. In this play-within-a-play, a dysfunctional group of actors, a problematic set and a stage manager at his wits' end add to the tension between a writer and his producer-wife in rehearsal for a play about their own struggle with infertility. Learn more...

Imperfect Seed is a powerful new play about life, loss and hope. It's the true story of the difficult relationship between a bipolar young man, his fractured family and the disease that is tearing them apart. Learn more...

Winter Tales returns to the Whitefire Theatre for its third year. The evening celebrates holiday spoken word, based on the short stories of ee cummings, Robert Frost, E. B. White and many others. Learn more...

Mustang Sally, a new drama by Los Angeles-based playwright Linda Felton Steinbaum, tackles the timely and sensitive topic of female teachers who become intimate with their underage students. As the play begins, the affair between a middle school student and his teacher has already been discovered. This involving and insightful drama provides food for thought about a serious subject. Learn more...

Love Like Blue is a dark romantic comedy about breaking up and getting it together. Three distinct couples face the agonizing end of their relationships and then face the agonizing beginning of new relationships with different people a year later. With humor and tenderness, Love Like Blue explores the circularity of life and love, as well as our ultimate interconnectedness. Learn more...

Rachel Bailit's acclaimed Sugar Happens: A One-Girl Show is the hilarious story of a nice East Coast Jewish girl's hopes for love and success in Hollywood, plus a sneak peek at her happy(?) life in twenty years. Learn more...

Through celebrated Broadway classics by Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter, Kern, Coward, and Berlin, a woman looks back on a life full of joy, sorrow, adventure, family, and her never-ending quest for the man of her dreams. Acclaimed soprano Robin Farnsley stars in this charming, poignant, and uplifting musical revue, with accompaniment by noted Los Angeles pianist Victoria Kirsch. Learn more...

Based on Robert Fulghum's best-selling books, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. It's an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format, with monologues, dialogues, and multiple voice narration. These stories celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age. Learn more...

Tennessee Webb breathes new life into American literary hero Mark Twain. Addressing religion, politics and other current affairs, Webb takes the audience on a cosmic riverboat journey from his own time on Earth straight into the 21st century. Be ready: This ain't your mama's Mark Twain! Learn more...

Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosie the Riveter: two women from American history whose life stories made our nation what it is today. Inspiring, amazing and funloving, this production portrays them from their childhoods to the world-changing women they became--a great show about true heroes, for kids and adults! Learn more...

Is This Any Way To Start a Marriage? is the hilarious story of Michael and Megan, hapless young newlyweds in New York, who spend their wedding night trapped in their Bridal Suite...along with both sets of their overbearing, argumentative, and slightly unhinged parents, and Giorgio, the hotel's overly helpful gay Columbian bellhop. This show is filled with laughter, love, and wonderful songs. Learn more...

The Whitefire Theatre presents Harold Pinter's one-act play The Dumb Waiter. Echoes of Waiting for Godot reverberate through the play as two professional killers pass time waiting for their next macabre assignment. The conversation seems nonsensical at first, but the tension between the two men soon begins to build. Learn more...

Canada's "Queen of Comedy" Carla Collins is back and ready to assume The Visionary Position. "Sex and the City" meets "A Beautiful Mind" in this critically acclaimed one-chick comedy about imaginary friends, pretend marriages and dating in La-La land. The show stars Carla Collins, as herself--plus some of her imaginary friends. Learn more...

Johanna Marshall was pursuing her ambitions with fiery determination when overnight, she found herself in the hospital Burn Unit. But a new life was around the corner. This one-woman show chronicles Marshall's journey via story, song and dance, giving a whole new meaning to the term "hot under the collar." Learn more...

From HBO's Comedy Minutes comes Brooklyn's favorite stand-up comic and psychologist Stephanie Blum in her new solo performance, When I Cough I Wet Myself. Stephanie is a wife and mom caught up in excruciating life circumstances beyond her control. Both hilarious and moving, When I Cough I Wet Myself is stand-up comedy with a twist. Learn more...

Filled with laughter and tears, the musical Mamaleh! tells of the lifelong friendship between women of different generations. Winner of the prestigious "Shows Your Mother Would Love" competition, Mamaleh!'s songs and scenes are hilarious and heartfelt. Learn more...

Comedian-actress-writer Judy Tenuta stars in her new one-woman show (with two other people), Mountain Girl, The Musical. It's the sassy but touching story of Edna Jane, a sweet, trailer-trash singing waitress from West Virginia who wants nothing more than to find her long-lost brother, sing at the Grand Ol' Opry and share true love with her Death Row fiance. Learn more...

Adria Tennor finds herself heartbroken and at her wit's end with her Midwestern parents' morals, men (drunk ones in particular) and her hypochondriac, bored boss. Disillusioned, she follows the advice of her former math teacher and takes a break from dating, therapy and Pilates to give strip dancing classes a go--and manages to find love in the process. Learn more...

Bash, three one act plays by Neil LaBute, the renowned writer/director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, forms a trio of unforgettable accounts: Medea Redux, Iphigenia in Orem and A Gaggle of Saints. All three are unblinking portraits of evil in everyday life, exhibiting LaBute's signature raw lyrical intensity. Learn more...

The Damsel Dialogues is a new musical revue by Dick De Benedictis in which five women (and one guy) bare their souls in song and dance. Comic and poignant, Damsels is made up of 23 original songs and five monologues that cover such diverse topics as love, motherhood, divorce, work, therapy, plastic surgery, and relationships. Learn more...

Moxie Theatre Works presents an evening of two classic one-act plays: Ludlow Fair by Lanford Wilson and Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. Ludlow Fair is a touching bedtime story about two roommates: dramatic, fast-living Rachel and quirky, matter-of-fact Agnes. The Dumb Waiter is the tale of a longtime team of hit men waiting for their next assignment via a mysterious serving hatch. Learn more...

George and Ira Gershwin's 1925 musical comedy hit Tip-Toes is receiving its first full staging since its restoration by the Gershwin Trust in 1998. The show includes such great Gershwin standards as "Sweet and Low-Down," "That Certain Feeling" and "Looking for a Boy." This charming and delightful show tells the story of three vaudevillians in Palm Beach, Florida at the height of the real estate craze who try to find a millionaire husband for Tip-Toes. This neglected gem has been newly repolished and awaits your discovery! Learn more...

Jersey Girl Productions presents The Hungry & Horny Show, a sinfully funny evening of comedy at the Whitefire Theatre. Stars Lori Alan (Will and Grace), Marianne Curan (The Tonight Show) and Wendy Kamenoff (Curb Your Enthusiasm) perform hilarious stories on all the subjects women talk about and men can't believe they do! Learn more...

Dvorak in America takes place in 1893. It's about Antonin Dvorak, the well know Czech composer, and what happens when he is invited to teach at the New York Conservatory. Along with his family he spends one summer in Spillville, Iowa, hoping to find inspiration to write a new composition. The idyllic summer is interrupted when his sister-in-law, Josephine, a beautiful actress arrives, steals his heart, captures his libido, and causes chaos in his home. Learn more...

Innerpath Productions in association with the Whitefire Theatre presents the world premiere of Season of Change, a unique new musical-theatrical experience that addresses issues of global awareness and social change. Season of Change is one-of-a-kind entertainment that is equal parts theatre, concert and town hall meeting. Learn more...

Angry Amish Productions presents a unique variety show experience featuring a delightful blend of music, humor, and nostalgia with award winning piano recording artist and impressionist, Wayland Pickard, as "Mr. Showmanship," Liberace. Learn more...

An NFL cheerleader has a spiritual epiphany while signing autographs at Pep Boys in East L.A. From hot pants, pom poms and boots, she begins a journey that leads her to Judaism and a timely meeting with a special Rabbi. A clean, funny show for everyone! Learn more...

This offbeat comedy tells the story of the unlikely relationship that develops between a middle-aged, rather stuffy bachelor and the eccentric bag lady he hires as a housekeeper. Learn more...

"Tight Quarters," a hilarious family musical comedy, tells the story of Natalie Benson, ace plastic surgeon, left at the altar by the man of her dreams and sent on their honeymoon cruise down the Amazon alone, where she encounters a butterfly collector and his kids, a trio of international jewel thieves, an aging hippie captain and a kleptomaniac. Learn more...