| The Adventures of Little Red (Riding Hood, of course) |
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Santa Monica Playhouse |
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| An enchanting journey through the Bavarian Black Forest replete with romance, lots of laughs, and musical and lyrical ideas brazenly borrowed from Gilbert & Sullivan...filled with ever-surprising delights that will lift up your spirits." (This Week in Show Business). A joyous family-friendly musical comedy, this hilarious reworking of the classic fairy tale is filled with music and dance, fun special effects, laughter and romance, and a host of delightful characters including a sweetly independent Little Red, not one but three Grandmamas, a highly discombobulated Huntsman, and the oh-so-charming, not the least bit scary, Baron Wolfgang von Wolfgang, as the only "wolf" in sight. Anything but a Grimm fairy tale, LITTLE RED offers excitement and musical fun for audiences of all ages. Birthday and Tea Parties, hosted by a favorite fairy tale character from the show, are available in conjunction with every performance."The talented team of Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo have done it again with this magical fantasy." (KPFK) Audiences of all ages will love the playful and authentically designed costumes, lilting musical numbers, and heartfelt romances that develop along the path to Grandmama's house.
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| Aladdin, the Princess, and the Magic Lamp |
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Theatre West |
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| Storybook Theatre’s “Aladdin, the Princess, and the Magic Lamp” presents the classic story with lots of fun as the genie comes out of the magic lamp to grant wishes to Aladdin. A beautiful princess joins Aladdin, and they meet a funny evil magician. This show for all ages features plenty of singing and dancing and loads of audience participation. |
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| Annie |
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Glendale Centre Theatre |
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| When Annie first opened on Broadway, it created a sensation that has never stopped. The lovable redhead ragamuffin Annie left the dour overcrowded orphanage of Miss Hannigan to live in the sparkling world of Daddy Warbucks. Hear showstoppers like “Tomorrow”, “Easy Street” and many more. Bring the family! |
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| Aphrodite 2 |
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MET Theatre |
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| Waldemar Hummer, an expert in robotics, creates an android female companion for his friend, Emanuel Gipfel, a nuclear physicist whose past three wives have died under questionable circumstances. The humanoid’s designation, Aphrodite 2, suggests her erotic capabilities. But, in addition to physical beauty, she has a wise and lively intellect, with a vast array of knowledge on a variety of subjects. Hummer may have created her too perfectly. While her responses to her environment may be somewhat limited by her programming, she’s advanced enough to possess a personality of her own. Created in a laboratory, can she be a complete woman? It turns out she has some desires of her own, and is not entirely under the control of either of the two men. Where will this lead?
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| Arnold Schulman's Sleeping Ugly |
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Santa Monica Playhouse |
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| Arnold Schulman's Sleeping Ugly, two-time Oscar nominated show business legend Arnold Schulman's delightfully humorous, intensely romantic adult fairytale about love and lust, longing and belonging, sex and sensibility, parents and pediatrics, and the passion and pain of living with a werewolf. |
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| Beautified: Four-Decade Friendship Between Client and Hairdresser |
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Skylight Theatre |
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| The Kastelas Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Beautified by award-winning actor/playwright and director Tony Abatemarco. Set in a Massachusetts hair salon, the play opens in 1969 when Candy, a beautiful but dour young Republican, stumbles in looking for anything but a change of style. But stylist Mike takes over and, over the next four decades, a unique and powerful friendship develops. Acclaimed director Jenny Sullivan directs this new comedy featuring Karen Austin, Rob Brownstein and Joanna Strapp. |
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| Bedfellows |
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New American Theatre/Circus Theatricals at
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| The New American Theatre (formerly Circus Theatricals) presents the World premiere play BEDFELLOWS by Chuck Rose. Future California governor Sanford Mitchell is the golden boy, a former star quarterback, a rising political star. But on the eve of his sure-fire election, an old, damaging secret is uncovered which could destroy his career and dash the hopes of millions of people who believed in him. Bedfellows was written by Chuck Rose, who also wrote the hit play SAFE, which The New American Theatre (as Circus Theatricals) produced! |
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| The Best of The Second City-Premium Sketch |
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Second City |
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| The Best Of Second City is a meaty pie of political and social satire comprised of ingredients from Second City resident stages baked to perfection and served up on our newly renovated stage in Hollywood. Armed with a battery of the most hilarious sketch comedy and improvisation on any continent, we’ll load up your plates with laughter! The Second City is the world's premiere comedy theatre and largest school of improvisation and sketch comedy. Cast: Josh Callahan, Rachel Crane, Diona Reasonover, Jamison Scala, Carl Tart, Kiff Vandenheuvel. Musical Direction by Michael Pollock. Directed by Marc Warzecha.
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| The Bewildered Herd |
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Greenway Court Theatre |
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| The Bewildered Herd tells the serio-comic tale of Charlie ‘Bingo’ Bingham, a man who has made a living spinning products and political candidates. When his father dies, his dementia-suffering mother moves in. Bingo’s daughter has dropped out of college to be with a conspiracy theorist, and his wife has lost all faith in him. Using his polished arsenal of nostalgia, fear, and desire, Bingo tries to manufacture happiness and truth.
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| BitchSlap! |
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Macha Theatre |
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| From Bette Davis' first Oscar win in 1935 to Joan Crawford's death in 1977, these two Hollywood divas waged a bitter personal feud competing for acting roles, top billing, Academy Awards and men. BitchSlap! is a comedic take on the long-running dispute with a memorable behind-the-scenes look at the star's double billing on the 1962 classic Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?. Egging the celluloid luminaries on is reigning gossip queen Hedda Hopper, publishing and profiting from her notes on Davis' notorious one-liners and Crawford's sly maneuvering. Catch this West Coast premiere for an insider examination of the Divine Feud.
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| The Bungler |
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A Noise Within |
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| The Bungler is comic genius. Moliere's first romp written in verse, and one of the greatest hits of his lifetime. This rarely produced gem is a non-stop cavalcade of wily servants, dim-witted young lovers and avaricious old men on a bumbling, tumbling, tackling, wild and woolly ride. Adjust your seats to the upright and forward position, strap yourselves in, and get ready to laugh! |
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| Cafe Vida |
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center |
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| Chabela and Luz are rival homegirls ready to leave the gang life and begin anew at Café Vida—the only place in the city that gives young women and their shady pasts a genuine second chance to start a new life free of violence. It’s here that these former enemies choose la vida over la muerte as they learn to compost, tend a garden, julienne an onion, and rock your lunch order with a smile and a heaping side of transformation. |
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| Camp Logan |
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center |
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| Infantry are bivouacked nearby, and after constant conflict and confrontation with the white civilians and Houston police, the 24th marches on the town. What happens next is history |
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| Charity: Part III of A Mexican Trilogy |
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center |
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| Set before the backdrop of the death of Pope John Paul II and the Papal conclave in 2005, Charity is the humorous and poignant story of three generations of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the United States. War, religion, loss and ancient traditions collide as the matriarch great grandmother, born before the Mexican Revolution, refuses to die. |
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| Chicago The Musical |
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Pantages Theatre |
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| After her critically-acclaimed debut as Roxie Hart on Broadway and in London’s West End, Christie Brinkley, one of the world’s most successful supermodels, will make her highly-anticipated Broadway tour debut this spring as she reprises her killer role in the six-time Tony Award-winning musical smash hit CHICAGO. Catch her red-handed in one of Broadway’s most popular and thrilling musicals of all time! This tale of greed, murder, corruption and show biz is filled with hit songs such as “All That Jazz,” "Cell Block Tango” and “Razzle Dazzle.” CHICAGO features some of the most electrifying dancing seen on Broadway — and with a gorgeous ensemble, performing sizzling numbers choreographed in the style of Bob Fosse, it’s no wonder The New York Times calls it “the best musical in town!” Recommended for Ages 13 and Up; no one under 5 admitted to the theatre
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| A Child Left Behind |
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Beverly Hills Playhouse |
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| a solo performance written and performed by Alan Aymie, directed by Paul Stein, produced by Gary Grossman and Les Williams. He fought hard to teach his students... He fought harder to teach his son....Why Alan wrote A Child Left Behind: Alan talked to us ..."I wrote this show because I wanted to support teachers - I wanted to be heard as a teacher and I thought the Theater was a better forum than the picket lines. I still remember my great teachers - they taught me to play chess, read books in scary voices and showed me pictures of their summer trips to Spain and I never once knew I was learning. This show - hopefully - acknowledges them, the challenges facing teachers today and sheds some light on Asperger's Syndrome and the unique difficulties and gifts Aspies children possess. A supporter of my show recently contacted me to say, "Thanks" - her child has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and she said that she felt completely alone and could tell no one. Learning about my show has helped her realize she is not - if my show can do this for other people, I have succeeded.
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| The Children |
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Boston Court Performing Arts Center |
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| The Children, directed by The Theatre @ Boston Court’s Co-Artistic Director, Jessica Kubzansky. What if a character from “Medea” wrested the children away from their mother’s murderous intent, accidentally transporting them to present-day Maine in the middle of a hurricane? The Children is a layered, Rubik’s Cube of a story, rich with comedy, passion and pain. Is that the modern-day sheriff or Jason, Medea’s husband? Will these children grow up to overcome their horrific childhoods? Wild theatricality, myth, and puppetry combine to tell an eerily moving story of survival and healing. |
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| Cirque du Soleil - Iris Shop |
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Kodak Theatre |
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| Cirque du Soleil - Iris hits the Kodak Theaterin Los Angeles, CA, showing until 2 Sep 2012.
This new production from Cirque du Soleil is a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art.
The show takes a unique look at the history of cinema and combining that with Cirque du Soleil's traditional artistic works of dance, acrobatics, and modern circus traditions. The name of the show, Iris, is taken directly from both camera diaphragms as well as the colored iris of the human eye.
Featuring 72 performers, 200 costumes, 8,300 square feet of floor surface, 174 loudspeakers, 603 lighting features, 20 video projectors, and 166,000 watts of sound, IRIS joins the other Cirque du Soleil resident productions in scale, scope and size.
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| The Closeness Of The Horizon |
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CoffeeHouse Productions at
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| It was the Summer of '69 and on the same day that Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, three teenaged friends from LA's west side set-out on a six-week tour to see the USA and to find high school and college gyms where they could drum-up pick-up games of basketball. The shoes were strictly Converse or Adidas then...and the music on the VW bus’ AM radio was strictly Top 40. But the world would never be more open to possibilities. Except now it’s the mid 90’s and the world is different. Events have transpired that have left one of the three overcome with a burning need to know why a relationship with his former best friend inexplicably disintegrated over the years. So begins a new and different sort of journey for Paul Lewin - incited by the words and music from his past - as he is forced to confront the fragile nature of friendship...and to reconcile the person he once was with the man he has now become.
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| The Collaborators in HD |
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UCLA Campus |
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| A blistering new play from John Hodge, writer of Trainspotting. Moscow in 1938 is a dangerous place to have a sense of humor – even more so a sense of freedom. Novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he's offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama. |
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| The Color Purple: A Musical |
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Celebration Theatre |
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| The Color Purple is soul-stirring musical based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the moving film by Steven Spielberg. It is the unforgettable and inspiring story of a woman named Celie, who finds her unique voice in the world. Nominated for eleven Tony Awards®, THE COLOR PURPLE is a landmark theatrical event, a celebration of love, and a Broadway phenomenon. With a joyous GRAMMY®-nominated score featuring jazz, gospel and blues, THE COLOR PURPLE is capturing the hearts of young and old, and uniting audiences in a community of joy.
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| The Columbine Project: The True Story of The Columbine High School Tragedy |
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Avery Schreiber Theater |
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| North Hollywood's Avery Schreiber Theatre hosts the off-Broadway hit The Columbine Project. More than a decade after the horrific massacre by two students at Columbine High School that left 13 people dead, this play explores the tragic event from various perspectives. |
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| Concealing Judy Holliday |
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Pacific Resident Theatre |
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| CONCEALING JUDY HOLLIDAY, a World Premiere by Wendy Johnson. A funny and poignant journey through the memories, dreams and hallucinations of the 1950s Academy Award winning actress.
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| Confessions Of A Mormon Boy (The Mormon Boy Trilogy) |
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Hudson Theatre |
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| Confessions Of A Mormon Boy: The Original True Story -- After excommunication, divorce, prostitution and drugs, a sixth-generation Utah Mormon reclaims his kids and ‘Donny Osmond’ smile. Told with humor, song, and The Book of Mormon. |
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| The Convert |
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Kirk Douglas Theatre |
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| It’s 1895 when the convert, a teenager named Jekesai, is thrust into strange new circumstances that pit Ancient African traditions against Western culture and Christianity. When conflict erupts, she must follow her heart and make the ultimate sacrifice. With an urgent voice, both heartrending and humorous, Obie Award-winner Danai Gurira (In the Continuum and Eclipsed) brings yet another faraway world to the Douglas to enlighten, enrage and ultimately edify audiences.
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| Copy |
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| COPY is a darkly absurd office comedy (with music!) that explores memory, loss, obsession, daguerreotypes, deceitful lemurs and the undissectable sound of love. When mild-mannered Theo loses his beloved cat, he wanders in to an office where the employees have forgotten what exactly their company does. Theo begins a laughing club in the office bathroom as therapy. Soon a rival crying club is formed in the opposite bathroom, and a deadly power struggle ensues as everyone in the office tries to find their way in life and love while dealing with loss.
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| Cyrano de Bergerac |
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Fountain Theatre |
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| The world premiere of a modern day re-imagined signed/spoken version of the classic “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Cyrano is a brilliant deaf poet hopelessly in love with Roxy, a beautiful hearing woman. But she doesn't understand sign language and instead loves Chris, his hearing brother. Can Cyrano express his love to Roxy with his hands? Or must he teach Chris to woo her, to “speak his words” for him? ASL (American Sign Language) becomes the language of love in this new spin on a classic love story.
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| Down In The Face Of God |
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A-Z Productions at
Studio Stage |
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| Welcome in-demand playwright Tim J. Lord’s exciting new play to Los Angeles! Life for the kids of Thebes, Illinois, is a predetermined sort of thing: short with a bloody end. So when a new kid shows up in town with no regard for curses and gods, he threatens to turn the old order on its head. But just what brought him to town and the destruction that follows him could overthrow a lot more. |
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| Dutchman |
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Art|Works Theatre |
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| Lula, a young white woman, encounters Clay, a Black man, on the subway. His “buttoned-up” attire would indicate that he is not from the streets, but solidly from the middle class. She attempts right there on the train to sexually provoke him. Each has pre-conceptions about The Other. Both are in for a big surprise.
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| Early and Often |
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Open Fist Theatre |
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| Sure, it's Chicago, 1960, and, sure, the election of JFK hangs in the balance, but there's a lot more at stake for Democratic Precinct Captain Art Ruck. He has a cushy job with the Park District and plenty of girlfriends, but when Ward Boss John Flannery announces a vacancy in the State Assembly, Art will stop at nothing to get the seat, including betraying the Democratic Party that fostered his career. It is a time when there is a code of honor in politics, meaning there are good guys and bad guys, though the good guys do bad things to prevent the bad guys from having their share of the goods...or something like that. In the end. Art Ruck is reminded that power corrupts, but absolute power is good for the neighborhood.
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| Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe |
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Bootleg Theater |
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| The songbook of Grammy Award winners David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez of Los Lobos drives Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, a multimedia play with music that takes its title from the group’s 1985 rocker “Evangeline.” Evangeline...a devoted daughter by day, a Hollywood go-go dancer by night. A journey of self discovery by a young Chicana, whose neighborhood roots and make-believe world collide when she experiences the West Side art scene and the music of the Sunset Strip, is set against the 1968 student walkouts in East L.A. and the fight for equal education and civil rights.
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| Finding the Burnett Heart |
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Lillian Theatre |
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| For sixteen-year old Tyler Burnett, it’s hard enough just being a teenager, without being suddenly forced to share your room with your eighty-year old grandfather, a man who has based his entire life on making others miserable. They are a cross-generational odd couple whose dysfunction is heightened by the fact they are family, which makes for riveting drama and hilarious comedy.
Trapped together in a room barely big enough for one boy’s dream, these adversaries discover and, with great difficulty, eventually embrace the meaning of “tolerance”…that differences are a good thing…and that each generation can learn from the other. April 20 (Saturday) 8:00PM: Gala Opening night tickets are $50 which includes admission to the gala. Spirits and hors d'oeuvres will be provided.
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| The Fix |
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Long Beach Performing Arts Center |
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| The West Coast premiere of a hard-boiled, darkly comic rock musical about the American political machine. A popular presidential candidate is dead, and his widow thrusts their son into the political spotlight. Her maniacal scheming is matched by that of her crippled brother-in-law, who will stop at nothing to see the boy elected. Together, the three of them make up one of the most dysfunctional almost-first families this side of real life Washington politics. Nominated for London’s 1998 Olivier Award for Best New Musical. |
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| Follies |
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Ahmanson Theatre |
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| Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies," a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars. It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were showgirls in the Follies. Both couples are deeply unhappy with their marriages. Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was years ago; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, sometimes accompanied by the ghosts of their former selves. Recommended for children age 10+
Slight off-color language, some sexual innuendo. Children 6 and under who may cry or fidget are never admitted.
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| The Fool and the Red Queen |
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Padue Playwrights Productions at
Lounge Theatre |
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| In his newest play, legendary poet-playwright Murray Mednick experiments with archetypes to explore human nature and the processes of theater. Gary, a down-on-his-luck actor, finds himself at a nightmarish audition where we, the audience, discover the magical ability of theater to create new realities. |
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| Four Clowns: Lunatics & Actors |
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Lyric Hyperion Theatre |
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| LUNATICS AND ACTORS features a demonstration of Duchenne de Boulogne’s experiments on three of his patients from a lunatic asylum in Paris. Driven by his ambition to prove the mastery in his methods of generating authentic emotion, Duchenne decides to compare the results of his experiments on the lunatics with the “emotional authenticity” of an actor, whom he will select from the audience. And that’s when things get really strange. |
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| fREAK mACHINE |
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Circle X Theatre Company at
Atwater Village Theatre |
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| On the last Monday of every month fREAK mACHINE gives five minutes of uncensored stage time to anyone who signs up. Do we mean anyone? Yes, we do. Sign up begins one hour before the show. Acts are presented in the order in which they sign up. Five minutes means five minutes.
Preachers, poets, politicians - anyone who needs an audience.
Songwriters, comedians, performance artists - anyone who wants to experiment. Only twelve slots available. First come, first served. There aren't many rules and here they are:
You cannot do harm to yourself, anyone else or the space.
You cannot use fire or explosives. You cannot break the law. You cannot incite a riot. Them's the rules. Come to watch. Come to experiment. Just be there.
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| Gem of the Ocean |
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Rubicon Theatre |
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| Rubicon's first play by August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean is a powerful, mystical play set in 1904 in Pennsylvania's Hill District. Against a turbulent backdrop of riots and strikes, a young man arrives at the home of Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old healer who is the keeper of tradition for her people. She sends him on a spiritual journey aboard the slave ship Gem of the Ocean - where he must learn about his ancestors and then face the truth about himself. |
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| Ghosts |
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| Mrs. Helen Alving’s struggle with the ghosts of her past is about to come to an end. Tomorrow, commemorating the tenth anniversary of her husband’s death, a new orphanage will be dedicated in his name. For twenty-nine years, since her mother and two aunts arranged for her to marry the wealthy, charming Captain Alving, Helen has kept a dark secret – the reality of her late husband’s deviant excesses and his disease. Now, with her son Osvald finally home to stay after many years abroad, a triumphant new life begins. The past will be buried forever. But her spiritual liberation is about to meet a catastrophic fate in one of the great plays of the world stage by one of its greatest dramatists, Henrik Ibsen. This English language adaptation of “Ghosts” will prove as haunting for modern audiences as its title.
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| The Great American Trailer Park Musical |
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Repertory East Playhouse |
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| This irreverent Southern-fried musical comedy covers all the double-wide bases -- agoraphobia, adultery, bad perms, spray cheese and road kill -- to tell the story of Pippi, a stripper on the run, who comes between Jeannie, a Dr. Phil-loving housewife, and her toll-collector husband, Norbert. Their Florida trailer park neighbors -- three-part harmonizers Betty, Linoleum and Pickles -- rally around Jeannie to help save her marriage. This raucous Off-Broadway smash by Betty Keslo features a country, rock, R&B and disco score. |
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| The Heiress |
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Pasadena Playhouse |
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| Catherine Sloper, who stands to inherit a fortune from her ailing physician father, is a plain-looking young woman living under his malevolent scrutiny, as well as his well-meaning but cold-hearted demeanor. Dr. Sloper disapproves of Catherine's passionate suitor Morris Townsend, certain that the penniless young man has proposed marriage to win Catherine's inheritance. Catherine's too much in love to consider this potential betrayal, and when circumstances lead her to misinterpret Morris's intentions, THE HEIRESS reaches an unforgettable conclusion that brilliantly supports the richly psychological nuance brought to the preceding |
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| Holding On-Letting Go |
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Fremont Centre Theatre |
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| Bobby and Lee are a long-married couple. Lee is a hard-driving women’s basketball coach. Bobby was a basketball coach and, later, an insurance salesman. But now, Bobby is in failing health, even though he is only 51.
As his physical condition declines further, Bobby finds himself confronted by choices: whether to fight for every breath and explore every conceivable avenue in the hope that things will improve; or whether to make preparations for a graceful exit. There are still things left unsaid and undone between Lee and Bobby. These things are suddenly brought into sharp focus, as time may be running out. If we are fortunate enough to live long enough, we may all have to contemplate the decisions being faced by Bobby and Lee, in the World Premiere play “Holding On~ Letting Go.”
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| How I Became a Pirate |
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Morgan-Wixson Theatre |
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| AARRRRGH! But these aren’t your average pirates! There’s the meanest pirate on the seven seas -- actually a sensitive guy who likes ballet and is a member of Mensa -- and the pirate who thinks the stuffed plush parrot on his shoulder is actually real. And the pirate who serves French cuisine. And the pirate who has a cleanliness obsession. And the pirate who barks like a dog. And yes, even the pirate who is an intellectual and is constantly referring to his iPad. Based upon the book "How I Became a Pirate" Written by Melinda Long and Illustrations by David Shannon
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| The Illusion |
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A Noise Within |
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| Tony Kushner (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels In America) triumphantly exhumes this fascinating, theatrical fairy-tale first told by French classical dramatist Pierre Corneille in 1639. A father, on a mission to reunite with his estranged son, enlists the services of a powerful sorcerer who conjures up provocative images from the young man's life. Witty and profound, timely and transcendent, comic and moving, The Illusion is the essence of living theatre. |
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| The Immigrant |
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West Coast Jewish Theatre at
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| This is the story of a Jewish Immigrant who settles down in Hamilton, Texas in 1909 and is befriended by the town banker and his devout Christian wife. They live their lives together only to discover discover how much in common they have with each other. |
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| Intimate Illusions: The Magic of Ivan Amodei |
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Beverly Wilshire |
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| Intimate Illusions is multi award-winning magician Ivan Amodei’s ninety minute presentation of mystery, comedy and magic held in the intimacy of his private, luxury European salon (only 65 guests) at the famed Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, CA.
Skillfully accompanied by a concert cellist, you’ll hear the music of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Henry Mancini, Mission Impossible and other composers played live.
Watch Ivan reveal and demonstrate Houdini’s biggest kept secret, unleash the power of the mind of a mega-savant, recreate the famous story of William Tell, and much more. Ages 12 and up.
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Odyssey Theatre and Evidence Room co-production at
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| Award-winning director Bart DeLorenzo returns to the Odyssey to direct an exuberant and burlesque-spirited version of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, the story of a once idealistic man turned apathetic from a life going terribly, terribly wrong. DeLorenzo plans a fresh approach to this little-known classic -- no birch trees, samovars, or wicker furniture – in a riotous production that promises to be ridiculous, soulful, and sexy. |
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| Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera |
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The Hayworth |
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| Now starring TONY WINNER Daisy Eagan as Snooki, Co-creator Daniel Franzese (Mean Girls, Sh"t Italian Mothers Say) as Ronnie and Drag star Willam Belli (RuPaul's Drag Race) as J-WoWW.
"The raucous audience response suggests fans of the TV series will risk STD's to smoosh with this homage!" NY TIMES "We Dare say you WON"T be dissapointed!" PEREZ HILTON "Critic's pick! Razor Edged cartoon!" Backstage "It's Frickin' FUNNY!" ABC's NIGHTLINE. Daniel Franzese and Hanna LoPatin's Smash parody musical JERSEY SHOREsical: A Frickin' Rock Opera! is back in LA after winning BEST ENSEMBLE at the NY FRINGE FESTIVAL as well rave reviews.
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| Jitney |
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South Coast Repertory |
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| Cheering audiences rose to their feet and critics throughout the Southland spun superlatives as the curtain fell on Fences, but that was only the beginning for SCR and August Wilson. Now it’s the 1970s, and urban renewal threatens a storefront station, where the drivers of gypsy cabs (known as jitneys) share their funny stories about the day’s fares and meddle in each other’s lives. Cronies drop in, fights break out, a son faces his father after 20 years in prison, lovers make up, and just as we get to know them, Wilson asks us to look again.
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| L.A. Views V: April 29, 1992 |
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Alexandria Hotel |
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| L.A Views V: April 29, 1992 features 8 short plays set in the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest that followed the exoneration of four LAPD officers involved in the Rodney King beating. The unrest sparked widespread looting, assault, and arson. In all, 53 people died, thousands more were injured, and property damage topped 1 billion dollars. Twenty years later, these plays dig through our City’s ashes and offer accounts of a time whose impact on Angelenos is still being assessed. From business owners to looters, newscasters to people trapped in the darkness of it all, a diversity of perspectives shed light on the legacy of 4/29/92.
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| Last Train to Nibroc |
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Eclectic Company Theatre |
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| A man and a woman meet on a train, but face a bumpy track on the way to romance in this funny and touching romance by award-winning playwright Arlene Hutton, who loosely based the story on her parents. Set in 1940, an aspiring writer and a devout young woman sit next to each other on an eastbound trip and discover they're from neighboring towns in Kentucky. Over the course of the war, the two continue to cross paths, their attraction growing, even as they uncover obstacles on their way to being together. Frank Krueger and Rebecca Lane star in this Eclectic Company Theatre production, directed by Kerr Seth Lordygan. |
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| The Laughing Cow |
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Wide Stance Productions at
Meta Theatre |
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| If a Scream Happens Inside The Cubicle of a Hollywood Studio, Does anyone hear it? This is just one of the questions answered in Jessica Abrams new work. The starlet with a secret, angling for a comeback. The downtrodden assistants, vying for a break. Welcome to Hollywood, where everyone has a story. Some get to tell it, some don't. But when the general counsel of a family entertainment company expresses his political opinions and gets flagged by the FBI, decisions must be made and lives must change Jessica Abrams’ television writing credits include The Profiler for NBC and Watch Over Me for Fox/MyNetworkTV. Her play The First To Know was read in the MaD Play Reading Series last April, and her solo piece If I Look This Good, Why Do I Feel Like Sh*t? was read at the ExAngeles Writers Collective’s A Month of Sundays Reading Series this past October. She was a guest artist at the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2010 |
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| The Learned Ladies |
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Actors Co-op Theatre |
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| The rollicking comedy about love, knowledge and the pursuit of both against hilarious odds. |
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| Linthead |
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The Artery Playwrights Project at
Santa Monica Playhouse |
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| In a world of fire-and-brimstone sermons, front porch sing-alongs, hoochie-coochie girls, and lungs full of cotton dust, LINTHEAD is the story of Cotton-Eye, a 1930s South Carolina mill worker who threatens everyone he loves when he decides to stand up for his rights. With the town Reverend now delivering sermons on the evils of union membership and his family coming apart at the seams, Cotton-Eye reaches his limit. LINTHEAD deals strongly with the mythology of the era and the family stories that we all have and fiercely protect. |
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| The Little Dog Laughed |
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Long Beach Playhouse |
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| Long Beach Playhouse presents The Little Dog Laughed, an examination of the scandalous world of Hollywood celebrities. This fast-paced farce centers on rising movie star who is pulled in all directions by his spin-doctor agent, the sexy "rent-boy" who has caught his eye (and more) and the rent-boy's naïve and needy girlfriend -- not to mention the photographers who track their every move. In its off-Broadway run, the play was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theatre. When it transferred to Broadway it earned a Tony nomination for Best Play. |
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| A Little Night Music |
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East West Players at
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| The award-winning musical A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, is based on the1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, and explores the complexities of love and heartache as the summer night “smiles on the young, the fools, and the old.” Since its Broadway debut in 1973, it has enjoyed numerous accolades and revivals, and features Sondheim’s most well-known song, “Send in the Clowns.”
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| Love Struck |
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Beverly Hills Playhouse |
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| Love lost, Love found, unrequited Love, redemptive Love... and just plain silly Love! In seven one act plays that run the gamut from broad comedy to gut-wrenching drama, LOVE STRUCK examines a fascinating range of love that spans the generations. Starring stage, screen, and three time Emmy Award-winner Barbara Bain; star of Broadway, LA Theatre, and screen Peter Van Norden; star of Broadway, LA Theatre, and screen Nick Ullett; and also featuring Robert Miano, along with a cast of some of the best actors in L.A! All shine in roles ranging from the hilarious to the heartbreaking
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| Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament |
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Medieval Times- Buena Park Castle |
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| Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain. |
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| The Miracle Worker |
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Kentwood Players at
Westchester Playhouse |
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| Set in Alabama in the 1880s, this classic drama tells the true inspiring story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, and almost sub-human, and is treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence.
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| Missionary Position (The Mormon Boy Trilogy) |
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Hudson Theatre |
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| Missionary Position: A Coming-of-Age Tale -- This comedic prequel is based on Elder Fales' journals from his mission to Portugal. A fantastical, crowd-pleasing solo ride that takes audiences further behind the Mormon machine than ever before, including the secret Mormon temple ceremony. Contains full-frontal nudity and Mormon swearing. |
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| Modigliani |
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Open Fist Theatre |
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| In 1916, a gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision. Modigliani, madly in love with his mistress, becomes distraught and needs money to rescue and raise their child. Modigliani tackles his art work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same. |
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| Moon Over Buffalo |
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The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman at
Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre |
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| A struggling theatrical family tries to keep their company alive by performing “hack versions of popular theater classics”, when the actors find themselves in Buffalo and unable to meet payroll. Then the announcement that the great film director Frank Capra is coming to check out the company changes everything – and all hell breaks loose!
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| No Time To Weep |
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The Matrix |
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| Lucy Deutsch – a child Holocaust survivor – brings to life her experience in Auschwitz through her art of writing and poetry, with songs that that will forever live in the hearts and minds of those who hear them. Set in Hungry in 1944, Lucy Deutsch, at the age of 14, is removed with her family from their home and placed in a ghetto, from where they are sent to Auschwitz. She is the only member of her family to survive. Enduring her ordeal through determination, strength, bull-headedness, and a child’s fearless innocence, she comes of age when, coming home after Auschwitz, she realizes she is no longer a child and cannot play with her friends any more. The words of her songs tell the story, while the music has all the compassion of a young spirit. Her gift to perform her art and bring it to the stage is testimony to what was lost in the Holocaust. Having survived the worst of inhumanities, this musical illuminates the courage we gain to reaffirm the art of living and create a better world.
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| The Oldest Living Graduate |
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Malibu Stage Company |
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| Malibu Stage Company presents The Oldest Living Graduate, about World War I vet Colonel J.C. Kincaid. The Colonel is getting on in years and is now confined to a wheelchair. The family ranch has been passed on to his son Floyd, and his daughter-in-law and a ranch hand take care of the Colonel, who spends his days reminiscing about his service under Black Jack Pershing. When Floyd decides to throw a celebration for the Colonel, and on top of that, makes some questionable business decisions, trouble starts to brew. |
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| OPUS |
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LA Theatre Works at
UCLA Campus |
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| Sex, drugs and chamber music! As the world’s premiere string quartet prepares for a White House performance, the lead violinist goes missing. Hiring a gifted young woman as a replacement, however, unleashes a maze of backstage maneuvering that tests loyalty, morality and the group’s very passion for music itself. Featuring: Adam Arkin, Jonathan Adams, Jere Burns, Steven Culp and Liza Weil |
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| Our Lady of 121st Street |
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Theatre 68 |
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| New York, New York, it's a helluva town. Sister Rose was a mean drunk of an Irish nun schoolteacher in Harlem when she fell in the gutter and died. But she'd done so much selfless service in her life that all the kids she ever taught remember her fondly and show up at the funeral home to pay their respects. Only thing is, someone has stolen the body |
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| Out There On Fried Meat Ridge Rd. |
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Pacific Resident Theatre |
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| Mitchell, a man down on his luck, wanders out a dark country road to answer an ad for a roommate. He meets JD, an affable hillbilly of mysterious origins. When Marlene, an artist and her boyfriend Tommy, a hot-headed transplant from Teaneck, and Flip, a curmudgeonly landlord interject themselves, Mitchell finds himself in a hopeless situation. Hopeless…but for the power of dance? |
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| Panache |
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Little Fish Theatre |
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| This unpredictable, charmingly comic story seems to start out simply: Kathleen wants a license plate with the word "Panache" on it - but Harry has it. Nothing is as simple as it seems, however, and what begins as a ridiculous squabble over the seemingly unimportant turns into a desperate quest to salvage two lives. |
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| Pedestrian |
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Lounge Theatre |
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| Pedestrian is the tale of Sherry and Dennis, a young couple flirting with upwardly mobile status, whose world is suddenly thrown out of balance due to a strange incident on a subway platform. Dealing with circumstances that unsettle what Sherry and Dennis thought was a perfect life, they begin to question when to strive for structure and safety, and when to settle for less. Meanwhile, a collection of very odd and unique plant life makes an unexpected appearance.
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| The Pianist of Willesden Lane |
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Geffen Playhouse |
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| Set in Vienna in 1938 and London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the story of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish pianist who is dreaming about her concert debut at the storied Musikverein concert hall. But with the issuing of new ordinances under Nazi regime, everything for Lisa changes, except for her love of music and the pursuit of her dream. Featuring some of the world's most beloved piano music played live, The Pianist of Willesden Lane is performer Mona Golabek's true family story, chronicling hope, survival and how through our darkest times, music has the power to help us survive. The Geffen Playhouse production marks the world premiere of this play. |
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| Playwrights Arena New Pages Lab |
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center |
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| a monthly reading series dedicated to the development of work in its nascent stages. Featured playwrights: Boni Alvarez, Donald Jolly, Janine Salinas, Vicki Grise, Joey Damiano, Jeong-Chan (John) Lee, Velina Hasu Houston, Matt Pelfrey, Alice Tuan, Michael Premsrirat, and Erik Patterson. |
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Flight Theatre at the Complex |
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| Among a group of artists, one of their number has hit it big, attaining wealth and a measure of fame. The successful woman throws a party for her old gang at her luxurious new home. During the course of the evening, she suffers a horrific accident. What follows is a long, slow road to recovery. Her friends and colleagues then contemplate making her recovery itself their next big art project. pool (no water) examines the culture of the art world, the nature of friendship, envy, opportunism, the division of art into aesthetics and commerce, the mass commodification of art, and takes a probing look at human relationships. Contains nudity, adult situations.
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| Prodical Dad (The Mormon Boy Trilogy) |
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Hudson Theatre |
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| PRODIGAL DAD: A Manic Memoir-Meditation – This dramatic world premiere follows Fales as he fights for his life and rights as a father in Utah. As he seeks answers from his Greco-Mormon heritage, he comes face to face with his own demons and his greatest nemesis, shattering family myths and secrets in an underworld where bipolar ghosts and mortals collide. |
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| The Projects |
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center |
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| Urban Theatre Movement's new works development series and writer's lab featuring readings of plays in various stages of development. |
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| Psycho Beach Party |
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Morgan-Wixson Theatre |
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| Gidget Goes Berserk! Charles Busch’s cult-classic takes an already silly genre - early 1960's surf and beach blanket movies - and sends it to camp heaven by giving it a shotgun marriage with the Hitchcock psychological suspense thriller to create a fun, farcical send-up of many Hollywood genre flicks. Young teen Chicklet wants to be a surfer, but in late 50’s Malibu that’s a male-only recreation. Her ingenuous battle to gain acceptance with the surfer dudes is complicated by her tendency toward multiple personalities, and even more complications arise when a movie starlet flees the set of her latest movie to hide among the surfers. Catch the wave of laughter.
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| Pure Improv |
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Asylum Lab |
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| Pure Improv, as the name suggests, will let the audience put the cast through their improvisational paces with little to no structure. Each performance of Pure Improv will have a special guest. Current guests include Drew Droege, Tom Lenk , and Christine Laikin.
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| Re-Animator The Musical |
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The Hayworth |
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| “Re-Animator The Musical” tells the story of Herbert West, a brilliant young medical student who has created a glowing green serum that can bring the dead back to life. What should be a medical breakthrough results in hideous monstrosities and ghastly consequences. “I guess he just wasn’t fresh enough,” is West’s constant refrain as his quest for fresh subjects results in the murders of half the medical school’s faculty.
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| The Really Awesome Improv Show-Family Improv Show |
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Second City |
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| Fun (and appropriate) for all ages 2yrs-200, this show, directed by Frank Caeti, features improv games that rely on audience suggestions and participation. Great for the whole family! We are the Bugs Bunny of improv; come be a part of the show!
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| Reborning |
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Chance Theater |
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| This psychological thriller takes an unsettling look at work, latex, and the power of creation. Art and life become disturbingly interchangeable when a young artist who sculpts baby dolls begins to suspect that a demanding client may (or may not) be the mother who abandoned her. As she tries to unravel the mystery, she discovers a haunting path to herself and her own “Reborning”. NOTE: This show contains some adult language and themes.
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| Red Bastard |
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Art|Works Theatre |
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| An international fringe festival favorite in the bold performance style called Bouffon, Red Bastard is a subversively hilarious R-rated melding of performance art, interactive improv, stand-up comedy and physical clowning under the guise of a master class in acting. The bulbous and rude ruby-hued comic character is the creation of Eric Davis, a former Cirque du Soleil clown and winner of the 2009 Golden Nose for New York's Clown of the Year. Red Bastard is not a clown. He is not here to please you. He has come to make you surrender. Lines will be crossed and laughs will be had in this interactive feast of biting wit, mischievous improvisation, and physical prowess that's definitely for adults only. |
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| Romeo and Juliet |
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Coeurage Theatre Company at
Actors Circle Theatre |
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| Coeurage Theatre Company is presenting a spirited production of Romeo and Juliet that breathes new life into the notion of “traditional” Shakespeare. 18 actors and a live lutenist perform the classic tragedy in authentic Italian Renaissance dress. The script they use preserves the most famous lines of the first quarto, but borrows some cuts from the second quarto to honor the suggested “two hours traffic of our stage.”
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| Second City This Week-Premium Sketch |
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Second City |
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| This Second City Hollywood PREMIUM show is SNL meets the Daily Show with a different celebrity guest and show each week! Inspired by the week’s news headlines, they start writing the show on Monday, have a script by Friday, rehearse on Saturday starting at 8am and perform for you at 8pm. Past celebrity guests: Kurtwood Smith(That 70’s Show), Mindy Sterling(Austin Powers Trilogy), Jim Staahl(Curb Your Enthusiasm), Kristen Vangsness(Criminal Minds), Jerry Minor(SNL), Patrick Cavanaugh(Mad Men) and Bill Smitrovich(Without A Trace) to name a few. It’s news in REVUE; come join the insanity!
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| She's History! |
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Lounge Theatre |
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| It's the sad state of affairs that kids these days know more about Lindsay Lohan then they do about Abigail Adams. When Amy Simon's daughter announced she would do her history project on Cher, it prompted her to create this fascinating and funny solo performance. Told through the eyes of a modern single mother, the show employs multimedia, audience interaction and storytelling to bring to life the amazing women of our country's history. |
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| Sideways the Play |
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Ruskin Group Theatre |
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| Sideways the Play, adapted by Rex Pickett from his own novel, is the story of two friends - Miles and Jack – and their journey across the Santa Ynez wine country. On one last blowout trip before Jack gets married, Miles and Jack must face their uncertain futures, just as soon as they figure out how to survive their chaotic present.
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| Sleeping Ugly |
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Santa Monica Playhouse |
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| Two-time Oscar nominated show business legend Arnold Schulman’s delightfully humorous, intensely romantic world premiere adult fairytale about love and lust, longing and belonging, sex and sensibility, parents and pediatrics, and the passion and pain of living with a werewolf - a marvelously funny, touchingly ironic joyous adult cartoon come to larger-than-life that takes audiences on a wild ride, combining the Playhouse’s signature Commedia-Circus style with physical theatrix, multi-media design and live underscore.
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| Songs For A New World |
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The DOMA Theatre Company at
MET Theatre |
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| Soaring melodies and irresistible rhythms mark this collection of story-songs by composer Jason Robert Brown (13, Parade). Sixteen driving, exquisitely crafted songs tell sixteen unique stories peopled by characters of today – “Songs For A New World.” |
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| Sophia |
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Write Act Repertory Theatre |
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| A comedic musical playing to the changing times of the 60’s, featuring our hero Sophia, a beautiful, articulate, sophisticated, bright, educated woman, whose blind spot is relationships. Her pattern is sequential frequent encounters with boyfriends. Enlisting the help of her best friend Heather, with renowned expert Jake Kelly she is diagnosed with Beautiful Woman Syndrome. She develops the ability to handle her encounters with a non-descript forgettable man named George, who truly is the true man of her dreams. Starring: Melissa Bergman, Breanna Carter, Derek Houck, John H. King, Gavin Peretti, Jacqueline Rosenthal, Dwayne Stevenson, Kathy Walters, and David Michael Trevino. |
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| SP!T |
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center |
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| SP!T - Urban Theatre Movement's Spoken Word Poetry Slam. Created to give local artists an opportunity to voice themselves, SP!T showcases independent artists ranging from poets, dancers, musicians and MCs creating a powerful and thought provoking ensemble poetry show. |
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| The Square Root of Wonderful |
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Raven Playhouse |
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| In “The Square Root of Wonderful,” Mollie, a woman twice-divorced from the same man raises her teenage son on an apple farm not far from New York City. An architect, John, to whom she rents a barn has fallen for her immediately. She does not find his attraction to her unwelcome. But her abusive ex-husband Phillip, released from a sanitorium following a suicide attempt, attempts to move back in. She still harbors an erotic attraction to him, which can only drive a wedge between her and John. So Mollie faces a romantic dilemma: Will she choose the longstanding if inconsistent connection to Phillip? It’s what she knows. Or, will she welcome the possibility of new passion with John, a man she has known only for days, but who promises a love of real affection and who professes to want her always? What will she do?
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| Stage Door |
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West Valley Playhouse |
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| The play concerns a group of young girls in the 1930's who have come to New York to study acting and find Jobs. The scene is Miss Orcutt’s boarding house., where the hopes and ambitions of sixteen young women are revealed in scenes of entertaining comedy. The central plot has to do with courageous Terry Randall , who fights against discouragement in the theatre where we are sure she will conquer. This is a wonderful story, that will pull you in right from the start. |
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| Sukie & Sue: Their Story |
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2nd Stage Theatre |
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| Based on actual events, Sukie & Sue: Their Story tells the creepy yet funny tale of two young nurses who have everything to live for ... great boyfriends, jobs that actually help people, and as much weed as they can smoke. That is until their Raggedy Ann doll becomes possessed and destroys their lives. Packed with laughter, this play is likely to send audiences home checking under their beds for demons with hair made of red yarn.
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Theatre Palisades |
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| Ellen, the wife of a successful author, has herself just written a sizzling tell-all autobiography and assembles four of her closest East Coast friends to her Malibu beach house to read it. Imagine their surprise as they read their own secrets exposed...then step back and watch the sparks fly! A sharply funny play that pokes fun at both the Malibu Colony and New York sensibilities. The Supporting Cast runs the gamut from slapstick to satire-a hilarious play not to be missed!
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| Synesthesia |
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Athena Theatre In Association with Bootleg Theater at
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| The first artist was asked to select a fortune cookie. They have two weeks to create a piece inspired by the fortune. The next artist will then see that creation and will have two weeks to design his own piece inspired by the artist before him (never having seen the fortune). The next artist in the series will interpret that piece and then has two weeks to create a piece of his own. The next artist will interpret THAT piece and in two weeks will create his work from there. Then another artist interprets the preceding piece and the process will continue for 4 months involving a total of 8 performing artists. This game of "creative telephone" will culminate in an evening of their work performed live, in-sequence. The transitions will consist of a video montage of moments in response to the artist who just performed and glimpses into the initial impulses that sparked the inspiration of the next piece to come.
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| Tennessee in the Summer |
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Sidewalk Studio Theatre |
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| Daytime Emmy Award-winner Tamara Braun (Taylor and Ava on Days of Our Lives; Reese on All My Children; Carly on General Hospital) jumps from the small screen to the stage of Sidewalk Studio Theatre as "Woman" in Joe Besecker's Tennessee in the Summer. Dramalogue and Ovation Award-winner Jack Heller plays Tennessee Williams in this examination into the mind and life of one of America's greatest playwrights. Braun's character is one of the many voices inside Williams' head -- the inner critic, the troublemaker, the contrarian. It's the story of the conflict between the male and female aspects of Williams' mind, and was called "intensely moving" by the Chicago Tribune. Sal Romeo directs.
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| Tickled Pink |
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Laguana Playhouse |
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| Tickled Pink tracks the journey of a youthfully spirited and Broadway bound Mindy Solomon who moves from Florida to New York dreaming of a dancing career. Unexpected events force her to rethink her grand plan. Spending way too much time in the comedy club where her future ex-boyfriend works, Mindy nervously goes up on stage one night. People laugh. Not in the places where Mindy thought they’d laugh, but hey, it’s a start. |
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| The Turn of the Screw |
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The Visceral Company at
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| The Visceral Company is thrilled to present THE TURN OF THE SCREW, the acclaimed one-act play by Jeffrey Hatcher based on the classic tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality by Henry James. In THE TURN OF THE SCREW, a young woman is sent to a desolate English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. As the new governess settles in, she learns of the illicit affair between her predecessor and the estate’s valet – and their tragic deaths. Ghostly visitations by their specters begin to haunt her and the children, and she must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But are the ghosts real, or just figments of her own fevered imagination? |
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Missing Piece Theatre |
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| Townsend has five years left on a 25-year prison sentence. The only things important to him are staying alive and the visits from his wife. But, a fire puts two inmates in his cell: Jasper, a pious man, with no remorse for the true crime he hides and Train, a sociopath scheming to use one and get rid of the other. An explosion is brewing and the only question is who will be left standing? |
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| Urban Death |
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Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre |
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| Urban Death is a series of vignettes in Grand Guignol style illustrating macabre images of horror meant to disturb, discomfit, thrill, shock and sometimes make you laugh at the absurdity. This show is not for the faint-of-heart, but is fantastic entertainment for daring adventurers ready to delve into an avant-garde world of theatrically twisted nightmares, insanity and deviation. |
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| Weird On Top |
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Eclectic Company Theatre |
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| Weird On Top, a favorite with local audiences, returns to The Eclectic Company Theatre by popular demand with more premium-grade improvisational comedy. The players include Danielle Cintron, Tiffany Cole, Mason Hallberg, Kerr Seth Lordygan, Sarah McCann and Alex Sanborn. Be prepared for the bizarre, the unexpected, and the very, very funny. |
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| West Fest 2012 |
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Theatre West |
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| West Fest 2012 may be the most ambitious of the series yet, with five full weekends of shows, a totally different presentation each week, to entice the loyal audiences who have returned for West Fest every year, as well as to introduce new audiences to the richly varied work of the city’s longest-running, continuously operating professional company. |
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| Wholly Bibble |
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Asylum Lab |
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| Wholly Bibble is Improvatorium’s take on completely made up Old Testament styled stories. Costumed, but fully improvised, the cast will turn audience suggestions into cautionary tales, history that didn’t happen, and maybe a forgotten prophecy or two. |
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