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The Pasadena Playhouse will stage Vanities, a new musical by Jack Heifner, with music by and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey, as its fifth production of the 2008 Season...

Quality of Life remains highly relevant leading up to next years presidential elections, and the enormously talented cast treats the work with utmost sincerity. Metcalf and Williams have the most dynamic characters to develop, as both come to terms with the others choices and their roller coaster emotional journeys drive the heart of Anderson's work...

Traveling to the West Coast following a sold out, Off Broadway run last winter, Extraordinary Deceptions - A Magical Holiday Extravaganza spices up this December's seasonal offerings in a limited holiday engagement at the Powerhouse Theatre from December 14 through 30. Ryan Dixon ('The Boomerang Kid') directs an evening of magic, mystery and illusion starring singular magician Michael Gutenplan...

Theater League presents the world premiere of Love Sweet Love, a new musical featuring 31 songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their legendary collaboration, and book by C. Ben Wolfe. Sha Newman, who staged the Ovation Award-winning production West Side Story, directs and choreographs a cast of seventeen in this new musical starting Tuesday, December 4...

BroadwayWorld's own James Sims recently caught up with Jason Alexander during rehearsals for Damn Yankees discussing the former 'Seinfeld' alum joining Reprise! as Artistic Director and his vision for the future of the Los Angeles theatre company.

Broadway/L.A. has announced that The Rat Pack - Live At The Sands will make it's Los Angeles premiere at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills for a limited two-week engagement from December 4 - 16, 2007...

A staged reading of the Broadway/West End-bound musical, Twice Upon a Time will be presented in Los Angeles on Monday, November 5, 2007...

The Brentwood Theatre will present John Fugelsang: All the Wrong Reasons for two nights only, on November 15 and 16 and 8 p.m...

L.A.'s most 'hilariously deranged' (Los Angeles Times) holiday tradition is Bob's Holiday Office Party, and it's back to add a little salt to the season at The Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, November 29 through December 22...

The Falcon Theatre is happy to announce that Sally Struthers is now starring in the insanely hilarious comedy, Sheldon & Mrs. Levine, written by Sam Bobrick and Julie Stein, directed by John Bowab. Ms. Struthers replaces Penny Marshall, who was forced to resign from the cast due to illness...

Upright Cabaret's always sold-out audience was greeted a special treat on Monday, September 24th when producers Chris Isaacson and Shane Scheel along with music director Trapper Felides welcomed Stephen Oremus and friends to Eat on Sunset...

Growing up in a coastal community, dreams of swashbuckling and great sea adventures floated around throughout my adolescence, and thanks, in part, to Disney recently giving a much needed boost to the pirate adventures series, tales of the high seas are back in vogue. Subsequently, what was once the toast of Victorian England, Louis de Rougemont's wild stories of a life out at sea, has come full circle and once again shines as bright as the North Star at South Coast Repertory...

A benefit production of Chess, raising money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, played at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles September 17, 2007 with a star-studded cast and multimedia heavy design...

After the success of their 2006 series, The Actors' Fund returns with their 2007 sequence of exclusive and intimate Musical Mondays in the foyer of the Hollywood landmark...

Stefanie Powers will step into a new starring role when she premieres her one-woman show, 'One From the Hart,' an evening of song and story, running November 8-11 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Samueli Theatre...

There has been a recent influx of Stephen Sondheim shows back in the East, with intriguing revivals of 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Company,'but for Los Angeles fans of Sondheim tuners, there is one show that stands as perhaps the most sophisticated from the composer, 'A Little Night Music,' now on stage at South Coast Rep...

BroadwayWorld's James Sims recently sat down with Jennifer Leigh Warren at Mark's Restaurant to talk about her experience working with the late Howard Ashman, struggling for roles on Broadway and singing her heart out on the cabaret stage...

Director and producer Brian Michael Purcell helms the one-night only benefit performance of 'Chess' along with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on September 17th at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles...

Chad Kimball has been making some beautiful sounds around Los Angeles thanks to his frequent appearances with Upright Cabaret, and will be featured in their One Night Stand's series September 14, 2007 at Mark's Restaurant, in his one-man show 'Obvious'...

Only a handful of performers can claim the ability to captivate an audience from the opening notes through the resounding ovation of an appearance on stage, and the always lovely Rachel York can indeed count herself among such a select few...