West Coast premiere of El Nogalar at The Fountain

Director Laurie Woolery and dramaturg Luis Alfaro team up on an explosive tale of humor and heartache in a changing Mexico. The West Coast premiere of El Nogalar ("The Pecan Orchard") by Tanya Saracho opens at The Fountain Theatre on January 28, with low-priced previews beginning January 21.

When the Galvan family returns home to Mexico after years.... Read More

International City Theatre presents God Of Carnage

Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Artistic director caryn desai [sic] jump starts International City Theatre's 27th season at the helm of Yasmina Reza's scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning God of Carnage. The limited, four-week engagement runs January 27-February 19, with low-priced previews on January 24, 25 and 26. Here's a chance to see this hilarious.... Read More

Kathleen Turner arrives Red Hot to the Geffen Playhouse

Two-time Tony and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner sizzles in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins as the brassy Texan reporter whose liberal journalism skyrocketed her to the national stage. From writing Elvis Presley's New York Times obituary to becoming the most widely-read selfproclaimed "pain in the ass to whatever powers come to be," Ivins.... Read More

Theatre In LA's 2011 Holiday Show Round-Up

What better way to make your cold, dreary holiday season warm and...hang on...stupid Yahoo! Weather....click...click...updating...ah, wonderful. What better way to make your warm, sunny holiday season even warmer and brighter than live theatre? Luckily, TheatreInLA is there for you again, presenting the 2011 edition of our annual Holiday Show Round-up. From large-scale productions of popular Christmas classics to.... Read More

Hershey Felder Returns to Pasadena Playhouse

The Pasadena Playhouse announced that, by popular demand, Hershey Felder will return to The Pasadena Playhouse with a special presentation of the world premiere of LINCOLN - AN AMERICAN STORY for Actor and Symphony Orchestra which will be performed in front of a 45-piece orchestra, preceded by his tour-de-force works, MONSIEUR CHOPIN - the love story of.... Read More

The Theatre @ Boston Court Announces PLAY/ground the New Play Festival

The Theatre @ Boston Court announces PLAY/ground, the annual New Play Festival December 10-11, 2011 at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. Literary Managers Aaron Henne and Emilie Beck, in concert with Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, have selected five plays to be presented as staged readings in the Marjorie Branson Performance Space.

The Theatre.... Read More

Geffen Playhouse set for Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie,

The world premiere of acclaimed actor/writer Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, a bioplay about the passions and conflicts of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, will feature Anna Gunn as the title character. Gunn has previously appeared at the Geffen Playhouse in the world premiere of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still.... Read More

Three-Time Champion: The Elaborate Entrance of David Woolley

After twenty-one years of touring the Renaissance Faire circuit as half of the funny-fencing act Dirk and Guido: The Swordsmen and twenty-five teaching students how to do a Hamlet without sustaining injuries, David Woolley is extending his career, this time as the most sought-after ringside coach since Angelo Dundee.

It started in 2009 with a play by Kristoffer Diaz.... Read More

I Love Lucy Live on Stage comes to Greenway Court Theatre

Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel: America's favorite foursome... live on stage and in color for the very first time! The world premiere of I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a musical comedy tribute to one of the most popular television shows, opens at the Greenway Court Theatre on October 1.

Travel back to the 1950s and the.... Read More

The Pasadena Playhouse Announces Blues For An Alabama Sky

The Pasadena Playhouse announced that Blues For An Alabama Sky, by Pearl Cleage, is set as the second production of the 2011 - 2012 season. Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps is also confirmed to direct the production. Blues For An Alabama Sky will replace the engagement of Pastoral which was to have starred Angela Bassett this.... Read More

A Noise Within Announces Milestone 2011-12 Season

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company led by Founders/Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, launches its milestone 2011-12 Season and 20th Anniversary in its permanent new home, a 33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art venue in Pasadena, on Saturday, October 29, 2011. Programming for the highly anticipated inaugural year in this spectacular theatre embodies ANW's.... Read More

Les Miserables comes to the Ahmanson

Les Miserables, perhaps France's third best-loved export after champagne and Brigitte Bardot (or fourth, after champagne, Bardot, and the two paired together), opens in LA at the Ahmanson starting June 14th and runs through July 31st in a new 25th Anniversary touring production that the London press has been calling "a five-star hit" (London Times), "overwhelmingly moving".... Read More

South Coast Repertory Sets 2011-2012 Season

South Coast Repertory's 48th season will offer audiences an exciting blend of new plays and modern-day classics. The season begins with an adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice and will include works from some of theatre's master craftsmen: Horton Foote's touching The Trip to Bountiful, August Wilson's powerful Jitney, Donald Margulies' stimulating Sight Unseen and.... Read More

Cabrillo Music Theatre Announces its 2011-2012 Season

Cabrillo Music Theatre announced its 2011-2012 season, produced exclusively in the Kavli Theatre, at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Cabrillo subscribers and audiences will enjoy three Kavli Theatre premieres, plus a returning favorite with a returning favorite star. Theatregoers will follow a young orphan girl's adventures to.... Read More

Antaeus Company opens second season with The Malcontent

The true Duke of Genoa has lost his throne to the usurper Pietro, but returns to his corrupt court disguised as Malevole, a surly cynic seeking revenge with the only weapon he needs - his savage wit. Antaeus, L.A.'s classical theater company and winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding Season for 2010, opens.... Read More

Jason Alexander and Gina Hecht star in The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Producer Tom Brocato's Butterfield Road Productions has announced a special three-week engagement of the comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, starring Jason Alexander and Gina Hecht. Directed by Glenn Casale, the production will begin performances at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood on April 21 for three weeks only. Opening.... Read More

American Idiot to play LA's Ahmanson Theatre

The explosive Broadway hit "American Idiot" will be presented in Los Angeles next spring as part of Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre's 2011-2012 season at the Los Angeles Music Center. The 2010 Tony Award-nominated Best Musical, called "thrillingly raucous" and "emotionally charged" by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, will be presented March 14 through April 22,.... Read More

The LA premiere of The Mercy Seat

What if you were suddenly faced with the now-or-never chance to leave your spouse for your lover, no messy strings attached? Would you take it? Michelle Clunie (Queer as Folk) and Vs. Theatre Company artistic director Johnny Clark star in the Los Angeles premiere of The Mercy Seat, Neil LaBute's caustically funny examination of opportunism in the.... Read More

U.S premiere of Trio comes to Los Angeles

Music, passion, madness, and one woman's fight for her right to a career. The intense relationships between Robert Schumann, his wife Clara Schumann and the young Johannes Brahms come to theatrical life in a new romantic drama by playwright and renowned concert pianist, Israela Margalit. The U.S. premiere of Trio, directed by Rick Sparks and featuring Peter.... Read More

Fountain Theatre presents West Coast premiere of A House Not Meant to Stand

The Ovation award-winning Fountain Theatre celebrates the centennial of Tennessee Williams' birth (March 26, 1911) with the West Coast premiere of his final play, by special permission of the Williams Estate. Simon Levy, just announced as the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's 2010 Milton Katselas Award for special achievement in directing, directs A House.... Read More