Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 Season with the Central Coast Premiere of a timely drama about a fascinating and enigmatic figure in American history. Trying, which opens March 13 and runs through April 4th, is a poignant, poetic and powerful story about a relationship between Francis Biddle, Attorney General under Roosevelt and Chief Judge at the.... Read More
Performance Spotlight
On a secluded Greek island, an American ex-pat pursues his passions: winemaking and his breathtaking young wife. Then, on the eve of his first tasting, an old lover reappears bringing with her a wild and violent past. Circle X Theatre Co. presents the Debut Production of Lascivious Something by Sheila Callaghan. Paul Willis directs Alana Dietze, Olivia.... Read More
Broadway/L.A. has announced the lineup for its 2010-2011 Season, a 7-Show package that will include West Side Story, Hair, Rock Of Ages, Burn The Floor and Shrek The Musical - all of which are recent Broadway hits making Southern California premieres at the Pantages Theatre. A sixth musical to be announced will play.... Read More
L.A. Theatre Works presents a major new docudrama about Robert Kennedy's personal and political journey during the civil rights movement. The world premiere production of RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin, a commission for L.A. Theatre Works led by the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and co-commissioned by.... Read More
Despite the closing of Pasadena Playhouse, Furious Theatre Company has made arrangements to remain upstairs in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre for now and open the West Coast Premiere of Men Of Tortuga by Jason Wells one week later than originally planned. Men Of Tortuga will now preview on Wednesday, February 24; Thursday, .... Read More
The Soady family is back again at Little Fish Theatre in Escanaba in Love after rocking the house in 2009's Escanaba in da Moonlight. Yooper country (Michigan's upper peninsula) is the scene of rollicking romance when Big Betty Balou sets her sights on Albert Soady, Jr. These two hilarious family comedies will run concurrently on the LFT.... Read More
International City Theatre opens its 25th, Silver Jubilee Season with the Los Angeles premiere of a new musical about Silver Screen legend Ginger Rogers. Backwards in High Heels, conceived and developed by Lynnette Barkley and Christopher McGovern, tap dances its way onto ICT's stage at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, directed .... Read More
Actors Co-op Theatre Company begins the second-half of their 18th season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Wit by Margaret Edson. The play is directed by Marianne Savell, former Producing Director of Actors Co-op and director of last season's The Crucible. Wit is produced by Actors Co-op member, David Scales and features actress Nan McNamara as Vivian Bearing,.... Read More
Founded in 2000, Casa 0101 Theater has been bringing the arts to Angelenos who ordinarily might not have access to them. Located in the predominantly Latino community of Boyle Heights, Casa 0101 is dedicated to providing vital arts, cultural, and educational programs in theater, filmmaking, art, and dance to the future storytellers of Los Angeles.
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Through countless interviews over the past decade with Emmett Till's family, teachers, classmates and eye-witnesses to the boy's brutal 1955 murder, emerging Chicago playwright Ifa Bayeza has penned a dramatic work, part history and part mystery: The Ballad of Emmett Till. Till was developed in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre's 2006 New Stages Series, where it enjoyed.... Read More
The Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will be flying into the area with performances starting on Friday, February 5 and continuing through Sunday, February 21 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Boulevard in La Mirada. The show became a Broadway success and has music and lyrics by.... Read More