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A mesmerizing second half more than compensates for a curious first in Sam Shepard's FOOL FOR LOVE, the Los Angeles LGBT Center's entry into the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

In Sarah Kelly's new play, WAR STORIES, we meet four of them: Chelsea (Sarah Schreiber), an actress constantly attracted to catastrophe; Sam (Clayton McInerney), a writer whose motto is 'never fall in love with an actress'; Jen (Sarah Kelly) a therapist, and sucker for a good love story; and Jake (B

Last year at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, I discovered CAC Studios and their own unique brand of musical theatre entertainment, musically directed by Dan Sugi who also acts and sings up a storm.

Audiences attending the show entitled 'Sandra Piller Sings More Hit Parade Music of Ruth Roberts' will hear songs from the Hit Parade that were chart-toppers for such artists as Dean Martin, the McGuire Sisters, Buddy Holly, Patti Page, Jimmy Dean, Lawrence Welk, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, an

Playwright Carla Neuss lays it all out there in this autobiographical two-hander, starring Katelyn Schiller as The Virgin and Joshua Bross as a variety of past boyfriends.

HOW WE MET has its World Premiere, Saturday, June 11th, 2016 at 5 p.

Thousands of young women went to war on the Eastern Front of WWII.

Written and performed by Emmy award winning producer, Teresa L.

A brand new original dark comedy musical will be premiering in Los Angeles this June as part of the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Based on conversations with real women shoplifters, 'Sticky Fingers' is a one-hour, monologue-driven, ensemble dramedy about women who steal.

The Pasadena Playhouse presents South Coast Repertory's production of Sandra Tsing Loh's The Madwoman In The Volvo starring Sandra Tsing Loh, Caroline Aaron, and Shannon Holt.

 Pacific Resident Theatre (Marilyn Fox, Artistic Director) celebrates their 30th season by announcing the opening of THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE by Tennessee Williams.

THE HAIRY APE at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble through July 17 tells the story of Robert 'Yank' Smith, a brutish ship laborer who searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the wealthy elite who he believes only see him as a dirty and hairy ape rather than a real human being.

Ayad Akhtar's 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Disgraced," opens Sunday, June 19, at 7 p.

Julio Martinez-hosted Arts in Review, celebrating the best in theater and cabaret in the greater Los Angeles area-airs Fridays (2-2:30pm) on KPFK (90.

Write Act Repertory extends the well-received world premiere of JOE & MARILYN: A Love Story written by Willard Manus, directed by T.

Broadway and Hollywood veteran Kristen Chenoweth has teamed up with the experiential marketplace IfOnly to offer a once in a lifetime experience to musical lovers to benefit the ACLU of Southern California.

It's fairly common that people will compare their own circumstances with other people's lives and come up feeling short, especially in the romance or financial departments in their own relationship.

The Establishment will present the world premiere (sort of) of the action-packed comedy 'All The Best Killers Are Librarians'.

Created by and performed by first time Fringer and emerging playwright-actor Lauren Sarah Young, College Classified: Sutton Summers' Literally Real College Application Vlog tells the story of 18 year-old Sutton Summers, whose privileged and self obsessed world is shaken up when her indulgent parents

Catherine Butterfield, author of the plays JOINED AT THE HEAD, THE SLEEPER, LIFE IN THE TREES and BROWNSTONE, among others, premieres her latest comedy, LIFE EXPECTANCY, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, beginning today, June 10.

      The Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center has announced a one night only appearance of The Kinsey Sicks with their hit show Electile Dysfunction at the Renberg Theatre on Sunday, July 17 at 7pm.

The Latino Theater Company has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W.

This summer, L.

Tennessee Williams aficionados will have the chance to view one of his lesser-known works in a rare Los Angeles production this summer.