| Accidental Death Of An Anarchist |
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| A madman invades a police station interrogation room where an anarchist accused of bombing a bank has recently "accidentally" fallen out of a window. Donning various disguises and voices, the madman manipulates policemen into a truth-inducing hysteria. This world-renowned farce is produced in honor of one of our true inspirations and mentors, the late Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright, Dario Fo. |
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| Airport Encounters: Brace for Impact! |
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Lounge Theatre |
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| Airport Encounters: Brace for Impact! is a comedic anthology of inter-connected vignettes centered around a central hub that take a hard and hysterical look at human behaviors and the problems we face, all in real time as both weary and excited passengers pass through an airport and onto their next adventure. Featuring individual stories of the eclectic but all too familiar passengers written by a team of top writers, the stories comprise a bigger picture, a full show in itself, making for a truly unique theatrical experience from Neo Ensemble Theatre. |
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| America Adjacent |
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Skylight Theatre |
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| In pursuit of the American Dream, six pregnant Filipina women risk everything. Confined to a one-bedroom one-bath unit in East Hollywood, they do their best to overcome fears of jail and deportation so that their children can have a better life. Playwright Boni B. Alvarez examines the promise of US Citizenship asking, “How far would we go to give our children a better future?” |
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| Anna Karenina |
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Actors Co-op Theatre |
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| Helen Edmudson’s Anna Karenina is an upside-down telling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tale. A story wrapped in temptation, passion and moral conflict, this eight-person dramatic event is a fast-paced examination of love, adultery and marriage. See it at Actors Co-op Theatres in Hollywood. The show is recommended for ages 13 or older. |
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| Attorneys At Law |
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The Groundlings Theatre |
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| The legendary Groundlings Theatre troupe presents its latest and greatest main stage show. It's an evening of sketches and some improvisation, always original and always hilarious. |
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| Blues In The Night |
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Laguna Playhouse |
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| The soul of the blues wails out full and strong in BLUES IN THE NIGHT, the scorching, Tony and Olivier Award-nominated musical! The 26 hot and torchy numbers - by icons Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen and more - tell of the sweet, sexy and sorrowful experiences that three women have with the lying, cheating, snake of a man, who represents the men who do them wrong. |
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| Born To Win |
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Celebration Theatre |
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| Drew Droege and Matt Wilkas star in this Los Angeles premiere! Pinky Corningfield has always dreamed of her daughter winning the “Supreme Queen”. So when Marge, a newcomer to the child pageant circuit, shows up with her daughter and starts grabbing all the glory, Pinky will stop at nothing to get the crown. |
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| Canuck as F*CK |
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Second City |
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| Canadians aren’t nice and polite; we're passive-aggressive a-holes who manage to keep a low profile because we spend half the year in hibernation. We can't pick a fight with “Big Brother to the South” because we spend more per capita on doughnuts and toques than on our military. Enough is enough! It's time to speak our truth, and tell you what we really think a-boot the state of the world. Sorry, not sorry! This original premium sketch show was written and performed by Jason DeRosse, Ayumi Iizuka, Paul PK Kingston, Allison Price, and Leslie Seiler. Directed by Doug Morency, the Assistant Director is John David DeFour and the Musical Director is Tony Gonzalez. See Canuck as F*CK at Second City Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. |
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| The Cemetery Club |
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Little Fish Theatre |
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| Ida, Lucille, and Doris are all widows who find friendship and frivolity when they gather once a month for tea before going to the cemetery to visit graves and commiserate about their late husbands’ attributes and shortcomings. One fateful day they encounter widower Sam, and later fellow widow Mildred, who touch their lives in unexpected ways. The Cemetery Club explores enduring friendships and the power of love after life. |
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| Church Basement |
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Glendale Centre Theatre |
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| Ever wonder what goes on in a church basement kitchen and the women who work there? Come see the hilarious musical comedy, Church Basement Ladies, and watch them navigate relationships and solve all the problems of their rural Minnesota church congregation -- at Glendale Centre Theatre. |
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| Cinderella |
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Ahmanson Theatre |
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| Set in London during World War II, renowned choreographer Matthew Bourne reinterprets this classic fairy tale as a war-time romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and a dashing young pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz. A thrilling and evocative love story featuring sumptuous designs by Olivier Award-winning Lez Brotherston designs and lighting by Olivier Award-winning Neil Austin, this dazzling production of Cinderella takes you into the heart of Prokofiev's magnificent score, and the sights and sounds of war-torn London at the Ahmanson. |
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| Cinderella |
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Santa Monica Playhouse |
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| Beloved musical CINDERELLA returns in 2019! Full of fun and zany antics to keep the kids entertained, and enough edgy humor and pathos to engage the adults, this hilarious twist on the classic fairy-tale from the award-winning team of Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo has all the makings of a perfect fairytale for today's generation: a handsome prince (who yearns to be loved for himself, not his royal position), vain stepsisters (who ultimately realize looks really aren't everything), a controlling (but genuinely well-meaning) stepmother and a refreshingly independent feisty Cinderella. |
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| Dark Dark Ride Ride |
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Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre |
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| ...Bigger, Freakier, and MORE FUN Than EVER! Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group proudly presents Our All-New FINAL "Re-Mount" run of ZJU Theatre Group's Wild Smash-Hit Theatrical Journey Through Hell & Back..."DarkDark-Ride-Ride!" Please BLAST US OUT THERE Friends, and Share with everyone, everywhere...Join Us in traveling-through this fresh, exciting and spooky world of ours, seething with bizarre creatures and color-bursting tableaux! For Ages 15 and up. -Zombie Joe :) |
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| Death House |
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Lankershim Arts Center |
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| On the night a death-house chaplain must hand over the reigns to the confident young pastor set to replace him, the men encounter an enigmatic inmate who challenges their convictions and changes their lives forever. Death House is a startling new piece of theatre that explores justice, redemption, and the possibility that we’re all more connected than we may want to admit. |
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| Death of a Salesman |
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The New Vic |
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| "The story of Willy Loman and his fractured family is riveting and heartrending while illuminating contradictions in the American Dream that have divided the country from our beginnings to today,” remarked Hanreddy. "Our goal for the production at Ensemble Theater is to faithfully capture the heart, clarity and penetrating insight of Miller’s masterwork, while breathing new theatrical life into the original staging through the use of a variety of theatrical elements, including live music.” |
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| Deathtrap |
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Whittier Center Theatre |
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| Deathtrap is one of the most deviously-plotted thrillers of the last half-century, from the pen of a master. In it, writer's block can be a killer -- literally. One writer tries to "un-block" by taking on a young apprentice; but is he hoping to mentor the younger man or steal his new idea, or is it something even more sinister? The twists and turns of this cautionary tale have delighted audiences since its premiere in 1978. See it for the first time or visit it again. Either way, you will be captivated. |
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| The Diary of Anne Frank |
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The Complex |
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| Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager hidden away, while Nazi’s hunt down Jews during World War II. One director, Stan Zimmerman, is adding quite the twist to the production. Hispanic actors and actress will play all these parts as the debate over immigration is escalating in America. Stan Zimmerman is the director of this play. |
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| Foodies and Boobies |
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El Cid |
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| Do you love brunch? Do you sometimes wish you could marry two of your favorite things -- food and burlesque dancers? Cherry Poppins Productions is proud to join Lili St. Byr and Ginger Lee Belle in a fearsome squad for their newest food-themed burlesque show Foodies & Boobies! Join some of L.A.'s hottest burlesque dancers for this messy and delicious burlesque extravaganza at El Cid in Los Angeles. Brunch is available for purchase. |
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| Hir |
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Odyssey Theatre Ensemble |
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| Hir — Bart DeLorenzo directs this darkly funny, shockingly absurd and endlessly surprising vision of a world in transition by MacArthur genius Taylor Mac. Somewhere in the suburbs, Isaac has returned from Afghanistan with a dishonorable discharge, only to discover a household in revolt. The insurgent: his mom. Liberated from an oppressive marriage to Isaac’s father by his debilitating stroke, and with Max, Isaac's newly out transgender sibling, as her ally, Paige is on a crusade to dismantle the patriarchy. “Top Ten Best Theater of 2015… Perhaps no play this year inspired a greater sense of awe than Taylor Mac’s audacious dive into the dysfunctional-family playpen of American theater.” — The New York Times |
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| Hype Man |
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Fountain Theatre |
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| Winner of the 2018 Elliot Norton Award, Hype Man follows a diverse hip-hop trio on the verge of making it big on national TV. When a police shooting of a black teen shakes the band to its core, the group is forced to confront questions of race, gender, privilege and when to use artistic expression as an act of social protest. See the West Coast premiere of this play at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Crown City Theatre Company |
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| Oscar Wilde's wildly entertaining comedy sparkles with dazzling wordplay and hilariously unlikely situations. This "trivial comedy for serious people" features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life. But when Algernon discovers that Jack has been posing as a man named Ernest to escape to the city, he promptly travels to Jack's country estate to pose as the fictional figure himself! Silliness ensues with whimsical ingénues, jealous fiancées, indomitable dowagers, and the most famous handbag in theatre history. |
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| Inspecting Carol |
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Westminster Community Theatre |
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| Catch the holiday spirit with the infectious Inspecting Carol, a madcap comedy written by Tony Award-winning director Daniel J. Sullivan. Set somewhere in the Midwest, the play follows a regional theater company gearing up for their umpteenth annual production of A Christmas Carol. With their funding about to be cut, though, they've got to convince a government inspector that they're deserving of an arts endowment -- or the show won't go on. Unbeknownst to them, however, they've mistaken a would-be actor for the inspector and are pulling out all the stops to impress the wrong guy. They've done this show so many times before, what could possibly go wrong? The answer, of course, is everything ... and then some! Punctuated by hilarious sequences of physical comedy, this entertaining show will have you laughing your way into the holidays. |
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| The Joy Wheel |
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Ruskin Group Theatre |
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| Life is changing for Frank and Stella. On the night of Frank's retirement party, this once loving and simple couple find themselves pulled in different directions as the winds of change blow through Joy, Illinois. The world is not what it was. Joy is not what it was. Stella is shaken, but inspired, by her best friend becoming a liberated, sexualized, independent woman, while Frank decides to emulate his doomsday prepper friend by building an underground bunker that once was the family swimming pool. It’s as if all of them are riding the Joy Wheel, hanging on to someone else so they can stay their ground.
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| Kinky Boots |
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Pantages Theatre |
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| Price and Sons spent the last century making a range of shoes for men, and now they're spending this century making shoes for a range of men! Based on a true story, Kinky Boots is the uplifting story of unlikely friendship, finding your passion, overcoming prejudice and recognising that underneath it all, we're not so different. |
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| Last Call |
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Atwater Village Theatre |
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| In this semi-autobiographical dramedy by writer/producer Anne Kenney (Outlander, Switched at Birth, Family Law), the Vaughn family’s go-to defense mechanism of sarcasm and mordant humor falls short when the aging parents hatch a not-so-funny way to avoid the retirement home. |
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| Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star |
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Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre |
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| Three young women (neighbors and friends) gossip and share truths while helping each other do laundry and endure a very hot day. One of these women admits that she knows her husband has been unfaithful, but she is aware of the turmoil that haunts him since his return from Vietnam. Small town stamina is evident when this woman pledges to wait out this far-reaching, lingering storm cloud. In another part of town three men beat-the-heat in the backyard of a bar as the local high school hero, recently returned after a hitch in Vietnam, details his military and amorous exploits. Laughs are shared, souls are bared and the ties of family are strengthened. |
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| Lemur Mom |
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Whitefire Theatre |
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| Would you consider reviewing Megan Dolan's original new play, LEMUR MOM? Every now and then a show comes along that moves me. I saw a performance of the show in November and I really feel this is one of those special shows, beautifully directed by Wendy Hammers and Megan Dolan's performance is eloquently expressive and comically superb. |
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| Life Could Be A Drean |
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International City Theatre |
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| SH-BOOM! Meet fledgling doo-wop singing group the Crooning Crabcakes as they prepare to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest and realize their dreams of making it to the big time. The ’60s doo-wop songs in this award-winning jukebox musical say it all: “Fools Fall in Love,” “Tears on My Pillow,” “Runaround Sue,” “Earth Angel,” “Stay,” “Unchained Melody,” “Lonely Teardrops” and “The Glory of Love.” |
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| Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole |
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Geffen Playhouse |
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| In this electrifying exploration into the soul of an American icon, Tony and Olivier Award nominee Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor imagine Nat "King" Cole as he faces the final Christmastime broadcast of his groundbreaking variety show and weighs the advice of his friend Sammy Davis Jr. to "go out with a bang." Cole's hit songs, such as "Nature Boy," "It's a Good Day" and "Smile," underscore this boldly original homage to the renowned performer who struggled to break through America's color barrier in the early days of television. A feast for the eyes, ears and soul, the musical incorporates lively choreography by Broadway veteran Edgar Godineaux and dazzling tap dance steeped in politics and pizzazz created by renowned hoofer Jared Grimes. |
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| Love Is Another Country |
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VS. Theatre Company |
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| In February of 2019, Coin & Ghost hits the stage with the third and final production of our inaugural season: the World Premiere of Lisa Marie Rollins' LOVE IS ANOTHER COUNTRY. Equal parts ritual, rage, and collective ask to the audience, LIAC follows the Chapman family as they navigate living as black women in a country that claims to love them. |
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| Mamma Mia! |
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Cupcake Theater |
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| The worldwide hit that's so far spawned two movies and a Cher album, Mamma Mia! tells the story of a mother, a daughter, three possible dads and one unforgettable trip down the aisle. Young bride-to-be Sophie wants nothing more than to have her father at her wedding. But there's a small problem: She has no idea which of mom's three former boyfriends might be the guy. So Sophie invites them all to the festivities at her mother's Greek isle taverna, and mayhem ensues. The show's tale of enduring love and friendship features all the beloved hit songs by ABBA, including "Dancing Queen," "S.O.S.," "The Winner Takes It All," "Take a Chance on Me" and, of course, the title tune. Experience all the fun and excitement of Mamma Mia! at the Cupcake Theater in NoHo. |
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| Man Of God |
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David Henry Hwang Theater |
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| A quartet of Korean Christian girls on a mission trip to Thailand make a disturbing discovery in their hotel bathroom in Man of God, a world-premiere work from East-West Players at L.A.'s David Henry Hwang Theater. From dealing with personal betrayal to worrying how this might affect their college applications, these young women are out for blood, plotting their revenge amid the neon lights and go-go bars of Bangkok. Billed as a funny, feminist thriller, Man of God is written and directed by women. |
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| The Marriage Zone |
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Santa Monica Playhouse |
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| Cal and Beth are selling their home. They’re visited by Skip and Ellie, an engaged couple, very much in love who are eager to buy their first home. They’re joined by Mike and Liz, apparently a couple of lookie-loos who decided to drop by and take a peek at the house for sale. The three couples get to chatting and begin to marvel at just how much they have in common. WAY too much in common, in fact. So much in common that it begins to become surreal. One couple is young, one couple is middle-aged, and one couple is mature. Yet their destinies seem to be strangely linked.
You are traveling to another dimension: A dimension of sight and sound and imagination. You are entering….The Marriage Zone. The Marriage Zone is the fourth in a series of comedies exploring the dynamics of the relationships between men and women by playwright and director Jeff Gould. His previous works include Troubled Waters, Is There Sex After Marriage, and It’s Just Sex. The latter play has received productions across the globe. Gould won the Valley Theatre Award for best writer of an original play when The Marriage Zone had its world premiere in 2017. Gould has also been an actor and comedian and is a professional poker player. |
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| Miss America's Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson and Me |
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Greenway Court Theatre |
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| Following last summer’s sold out run at The Edye, writer/performer Barra Grant is back with her darkly hilarious mother-daughter story: the true, inside tale of Grant’s seismic relationship with her mother, Bess Myerson. A beauty queen best known as the first and only Jewish Miss America, Myerson was an accomplished pianist, television personality, New York City’s first Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, a close advisor to Mayor Ed Koch, and a national spokesperson against anti-Semitism. Then, she infamously went down in flames — with her Mafia boyfriend! — in a judge-bribing scandal known as the “Bess Mess.” If you missed Grant’s fascinating tale about being a confused ugly duckling growing up in the shadow of her spectacular mother, here’s your chance. |
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| More Guns! |
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Second City |
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| The National Rifle Association is here to save the day -- through song and dance! Praise the lord and NRA-men! Ron Barkley is the head lobbyist for the NRA, and his life is real tough -- his daughter is a liberal socialist with a penchant for protests, and for some reason, the entire country is up in arms about gun control. But when Ron prays to God for divine intervention, he receives a magical gun that turns people -- into guns. Because after all, if you've got problems, the solution is always More Guns! With songs like "Good Guy With A Gun," "Everybody Do The Lobby!" and "Liberal Love," More Guns! A New Musical Comedy About the NRA! is a satire of the NRA, the "woke" left, and all those boring moderates in between. This is a show for the whole family, and by whole family we mean adults only (16+). With book, music, and lyrics by Philip Labes and Michael O'Konis, see More Guns! at The Second City in Hollywood. |
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| The Mountaintop |
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The Garry Marshall Theatre |
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| April 3, 1968. Memphis. The Lorraine Motel. Room 306. Tomorrow, it will become the scene of one of our nation’s greatest losses. But tonight, it is just another stopover motel for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Full of vivid theatricality, poetic language and surprising twists, this drama takes us to the summit of a man’s historic life and offers a stunning new view of his dream for our nation. Dubbed “daring, rousing and provocative" by Entertainment Weekly, The Mountaintop comes to Burbank's Garry Marshall Theatre. |
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| Oliver! |
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Carpenter Performing Arts Center |
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| Davis Gaines (The Phantom of the Opera) takes on the famed role of Fagin in this Musical Theatre West production of the long-time fave Oliver! at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. Lionel Bart brought Charles Dickens' unforgettable characters to vivid new life with this lively, heel-kicking classic about an innocent orphan thrown into the dark world of double-dealing thieves and con men of 19th-century London. Overflowing with jubilant songs like "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two," "Consider Yourself," "I'd Do Anything" and "Food, Glorious Food," this Tony and Olivier Award-winning show is one of the few musicals to also win an Academy Award for Best Picture. |
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| Othello |
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| As part of their 2018-2019 theme "Let Me In," about the deeply human need to be understood for who we are, Pasadena’s A Noise Within theater company presents Othello. Arguably Shakespeare’s most intimate of family tragedies, it’s the tale of the breakdown of a man who has everything — power, position and love — only to find his world decimated through intense mind games with his malicious ensign. Prescient in its searing social commentary of prejudice, betrayal and thwarted ambition, Shakespeare’s thunderous drama examines who we trust and the price we pay when we make the wrong choice. |
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La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts |
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| The stage version of the classic young adult novel The Outsiders is seen through the eyes of Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of the tracks who is caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids, The Socs, and his tough, underprivileged family and friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and change them. SE Hinton's book comes to the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. |
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| Ragtime |
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Pasadena Playhouse |
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| Ragtime: The Musical tells the story of three families at the turn of the 20th Century in pursuit of the American dream. The award-winning score uses ragtime rhythms to paint a portrait of the people who built this country with the hopes for a brighter tomorrow. |
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| Shade: A Colorful Musical Comedy |
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Second City |
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| What if you could be someone else, just for one day? This original new musical comedy sets the stage for a doppelganger switcheroo that goes way, way beyond skin-deep differences. Come laugh at how alike — and different — we truly are in this bold new look at how we look at each other. Written and directed by Dwayne Colbert, Shade can be enjoyed at the Second City Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. |
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| Smart Love |
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Pacific Resident Theatre |
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| Smart Love is a smart new comedy with a twist about science, family and just how far human beings will go in order to salvage love. The Wachowski household is thrown upside down when their son makes a surprise visit home from MIT with an unexpected guest. Watch the fireworks that ensue and enjoy the fallout when Smart Love comes to the stage of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice. |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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Theatre West |
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| Storybook Theatre's fun-filled version of this famous story has lots of singing, dancing, audience participation, and a funny witch with a handsome prince. The children in the audience become the seven dwarfs who help rescue Snow White. Book by Scott Martin, lyrics by Rob Meurer, music composed by Richard Berent. directed by David P. Johnson, produced by Barbara Mallory. |
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| Too Heavy For Your Pocket |
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Sacred Fools Theater |
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| In rural Tennessee, 1961, protesting is a privilege with unintended consequences. In rural Tennessee at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, two young African-American couples struggle to understand justice, love, and their own responsibilities. TOO HEAVY FOR YOUR POCKET beautifully explores the sacrifices and tolls in the fight for freedom and equality that are placed, not only on the fighters, but the people they love. The play had its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta before moving to the Roundabout Theater in New York and won the 2017 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. |
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| Trump In Space |
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Second City |
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| Winner of the 2017 LA Fringe Festival Encore Award, Trump in Space is Star Trek meets Avenue Q meets Trump. This original parody musical is an epic space adventure filled with all the sci-fi tropes we love and all the politics we love to hate. 400 years in the future, the fallout of the Trump administration has left humans stranded in search of a new planet because due to crazy Trump, the earth blew up! If you're tired of American politics, don't worry -- this will make you laugh about 'em. Don't miss Trump in Space at the Second City Studio Theatre in Los Angeles. |
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| Two Trains Running |
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The Matrix |
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| The team behind last year’s acclaimed Ovation, LADCC and Stage Raw award-nominated production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II returns to the Matrix with another installment of Pulitzer Prize winning August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle,” the playwright’s decade-by-decade exploration of the black experience in 20th century America. It’s 1969 in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where the regulars of Memphis Lee's restaurant struggle to cope with the turbulence of a world that is rapidly changing around them. With compassion, humor and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events. |
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| What if they went to Moscow? |
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Redcat |
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| Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy brilliantly merges live performance and filmmaking in what she describes as a "mirror game between theater and cinema." Her wildly acclaimed take on Anton Chekov's Three Sisters imagines the siblings hosting a house party in modern day Brazil--and the piece is seen by two audiences simultaneously, with each group experiencing it twice (in two very different ways.) |
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| Whoopsie-Doopsie |
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Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre |
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| This whimsical comedy features Billy Harrington — popular, smart, good-looking captain of his Huckle Buckle team, and son of philandering professor, Gordon, and wacky mom, Molly. Billy’s world is turned upside-down when he finds out certain unwelcome information from his girlfriend, Joannie. Meanwhile, Billy’s dad is having an affair with Joannie’s mom. And who knows what Billy’s mom is doing with Joannie’s dad … Enjoy the quirky fun of Whoopsie-Doopsie at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre. |
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| Witness Uganda |
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Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts |
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| A groundbreaking documentary journey that's been turned into "a vibrant, pulsating musical" (Associated Press), Witness Uganda is inspired by the true story of a young gay man's trip to volunteer in a small village in Africa. But his sincere desire to help is tested against the backdrop of an incurable epidemic, corruption and a dangerous abduction that leaves him questioning everything he has ever known. After a successful off-Broadway run, this West Coast premiere at The Wallis in Beverly Hills is set to star 12-time Grammy nominee Ledisi, Jamar Williams (Wild Goose Dreams), Amber Iman (Hamilton) and Emma Hunton (Wicked). |
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| Wm. Shakespeare's As You Like It |
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Camarillo Skyway Playhouse |
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| In the mid-1980s, corporate takeovers become the weapon of choice for usurping brothers, and the New Wave Forest of Arden becomes a refuge for those seeking a haven from the Decade of Greed. In Arden, some find solace, some find themselves, others find love, and even villains find redemption. Grab your Ray-Bans, slip on a pair of leg-warmers, put fresh batteries in your Walkman, and get ready to experience Shakespeare… AS YOU LIKE IT. |
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