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The Actors Company :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 13 until Sun., February 19, 8:00pm
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Part dance, part theater and refreshingly light-hearted, casebolt and smith's O(h) is a welcome alternative to the dark-hued worlds of melancholia, depression and manipulative violence in which so many modern dance companies and their choreographers languish. As casebolt and smith, the...
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West Hollywood
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Theater - Small, Theater, Dance |
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Theatre 40 at the Reuben Cordova Theater :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 26 until Sun., February 26, 8:00pm
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Dangerous is the play that marries a supernatural bent with a nonlinear narrative: With story lines leaping back and forth in time, adding a spectral element blurs the line of reality even further, and risks confusing an audience whose brains are already working overtime. Although that seemed...
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Beverly Hills
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Matrix Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 20 until Sat., February 11, 8:00pm
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J. Michael Feldman defines a whole new type of "triple threat" by writing, puppeteering and acting in Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over, this 90-minute barrel of monkey-filled laughs. But it's not just monkeys who populate this world; it's polar bears, squirrels, spiders, bees and other such...
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West Hollywood
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Atwater Crossing :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 10 until Sun., February 19, 5:00pm
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Over the 10 years of its existence, the Independent Shakespeare Company has developed a reliable house style: brisk, athletic, no-nonsense productions, with a contemporary sensibility, a Brechtian objectivity and a talent for unlocking the plays' comic potential. All of these virtues are...
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Northeast L.A.
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Ruskin Group Theater :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 27 until Sun., March 4, 8:00pm
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Martin McDonagh's comedy is set in a village in western Ireland, which seems to be a hot-bed of murder, suicide and rampaging Irish eccentricity. It centers on two brothers, Valene (Jonathan Bray) and Coleman (Jason Paul Field), who are locked in implacable hostility. Coleman has shot their...
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Santa Monica
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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American Jewish University :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday from Tue., February 7 until Sat., February 25, 8:00pm
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Recipe for theatrical success: Take a hit Broadway play, tweak the plot, add some Hebraic schtick and you've got A Jew Grows in Brooklyn. But don't be fooled. This theatrical production is much more than a well-told tale about days gone by. Like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, it's a beautifully...
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West L.A.
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Greenway Court Theater :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 15 until Sun., February 26, 7:00pm
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If you're an I Love Lucy fan, this is your moment. The show, based on the TV series that still runs in syndication 60 years after its debut, takes audience members back to Desilu studio during the 1950s, where the audience sits in on a "live" television taping of two episodes, hosted by the...
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Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Los Angeles Theatre Center :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 2 until Sun., March 11, 8:00pm
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As Dostoevsky keenly observed, "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." By that measure alone, playwright Miguel Pinero's Short Eyes, an unflinchingly brutal and surprisingly poignant scapegoating drama, remains just as relevant and unflattering to...
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Downtown
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Crown City Theatre :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., October 21 until Fri., December 23, 8:00pm
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John Patrick Shanley's two-hander about a pair of lonely, self-loathing bar rats who bond by way of confessions, cursing and beer guzzling gets an inspired staging in the hands of director John McNaughton. Danny (Matthew J. Williamson) meets Roberta (Juliet Landau) after a fistfight in which he...
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San Fernando Valley
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Open Fist Theatre :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 22 until Sat., March 10, 2:00pm
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Ken Ludwig's zany farce centers on an acting couple on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory of Cyrano de Bergerac and Noël Coward's Private Lives. It's one of those dizzying, door-slamming affairs (James Spencer and Zachary Guiler's handsome set features five of them) with countless...
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Hollywood
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Lex Theatre :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 13 until Sat., February 18, 8:00pm
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Playing a 40-year-old virgin whose spinsterhood is made certain by her energy-draining mother's omnipresence, Ferrell Marshall boils with a brilliant bitterness portending serious danger in Martin McDonagh's ode to the miseries of parental caretaking. Maureen (Marshall) has been holed up in the...
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Hollywood
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre :
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 13 until Sat., February 11, 8:30pm
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In 1940s Hollywood, aspiring starlet Minnie Walters (Carolyn Hayver) seems to have it all — a devoted fiancé, Frank (Kelby Cross); a supportive BFF, Mabel (Melissa Gentry); and a major, star-making feature film in the can. When Frank is found standing over her bloody corpse holding...
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San Fernando Valley
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Lounge Theatre :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 15 until Sun., February 19, 2:00pm
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J.P. Miller's 1958 teleplay (later a play and then a feature film) was groundbreaking in its dramatization of the problems of alcoholism. It was the first time many got to see what goes on inside those mysterious Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since it hasn't been staged locally for about 20...
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Northeast L.A.
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Zephyr Theater :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 15 until Sun., February 19, 7:00pm
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He's in a coma, hooked to a respirator." With these simple words, Mel (Amanda Saunders) informs her husband, Ted (Paul Caramagno), via telephone, about their brain-dead son, a victim of an accidental drowning. It is one of the rare instances in Jenny Schwartz's eccentric drama where words and...
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West Hollywood
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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While you were busy swing dancing, JC Coccoli's been hosting a night of "speakeasy-esque" standup comedy. Hear her explain why Keep it Clean Comedy came to exist. "Working comics in L.A. were in dire need of a speakeasy spot to work their showcase material. Prepping for performances on Leno,...
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Los Feliz
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Theater - Small, Theater, Comedy |
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Dive into the trash behind Cartoon Dump and discover lost treasures of TV animation that frankly should have remained forgotten. Hosted by Erica Doering as Compost Brite, this children's show parody co-stars Frank Conniff as Moodsy, the clinically depressed owl, and a wacky cast of assorted...
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Los Feliz
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Theater - Small, Theater, Comedy |
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Bob Baker Marionette Theater :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:30am
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Xylophone playing, ice skating and traditional Mexican hat dancing are just a few of the talents displayed by Bob Baker's marionettes in this south-of-the-border celebration. A favorite production at Baker's theater since its premiere in 1964, the show shines brightest when the colorful puppets...
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Echo Park
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Out of Town
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Out of Town
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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West L.A.
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Celebration Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 6 until Sat., February 18
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Hollywood
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Eclectic Company Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., December 16 until Mon., February 13, 8:00pm
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San Fernando Valley
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Santa Monica
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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J.E.T. Studios :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 6 until Wed., February 29, 8:00pm
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San Fernando Valley
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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Fountain Theatre :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 29 until Sun., March 11, 2:00pm
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Out of Town
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Theater - Small, Theater |
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