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Sept. 19-Oct. 24: “Visiting Mr. Green,” Pasadena Playhouse.
Sept. 20-Nov. 8: “Bipolar by Thursday,” Theatre Neo at Hudson Avenue Theatre.
Sept. 21-26: “A Chorus Line,” Theater League, Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Sept. 22-Oct. 3: “The Boys From Syracuse,” Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert, UCLA, Freud Playhouse.
Sept. 22-Oct. 17: “Wonderland,” La Jolla Playhouse.
Sept. 22-Oct. 17: “Leilani’s Hibiscus,” East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater, Union Center for the Arts.
Sept. 23-Oct. 14: “The 3rd Floor: Los Angeles,” Aaah!Capella Theatre.
Sept. 23-Oct. 30: “Hardware . . . A Miracle Play,” Stella Adler Theatre.
Sept. 23-Oct. 31: “Durang Durang,” Hollywood Court Theatre.
Sept. 23-Oct. 31: “The Vampire Reflects,” Ventura Court Theatre.
Sept. 23-Nov. 7: “Dralion,” Cirque du Soleil, Santa Monica Pier. Also Dec. 2 for an open-ended run at Irvine Spectrum Center.
Sept. 23-Jan. 2: “If You Ever Leave Me,” with Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, Canon Theatre.
Sept. 24: “It’s a Grand Night for Singing,” James Armstrong Theatre.
Sept. 24-26: “Ralph Fiennes Is . . . Ralph Fiennes” with Matt Price, Tamarind Theatre.
Sept. 24-Oct. 9: “The Groundlings 25th Anniversary Celebration,” Groundling Theatre.
Sept. 24-Oct. 17: “The King and I,” Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera.
Sept. 24-Oct. 17: “Bandido!,” San Diego Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Theatre.
Sept. 24-Oct. 24: “True West,” South Coast Repertory.
Sept. 24-Oct. 31: “Blood Wedding,” Bilingual Foundation of the Arts at Los Angeles Theatre Center.
Sept. 24-Nov. 14: “The Angels of Lemnos,” Road Theatre Company at Lankershim Arts Center.
Sept. 24-Indefinitely: “Father’s Day,” Group Repertory Theatre.
Sept. 25-26: “City for Sale,” San Francisco Mime Troupe at Adams Avenue Street Fair in San Diego. Also Sept. 30, New Performing Arts Center, Cal State Northridge.
Sept. 25-Oct. 10: “South Pacific,” Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.
Sept. 25-Oct. 31: “Edgar Allan Poe: Out of His Mind,” Glorious Repertory Company at 24th Street Theatre.
Sept. 25-Oct. 31: “The Hostage,” Old Globe Theatre.
Sept. 25-Oct. 31: “Down the Road,” Fremont Centre Theatre.
Sept. 26, Oct. 3: “Too Jewish? A Mensch and His Musical,” Performing Arts Center, Cal State Northridge.
Sept. 27: “Passion,” Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert, UCLA, Freud Playhouse.
Sept. 29-Nov. 4: “Stolen Time,” Cast Theatre.
Sept. 30-Nov. 7: “Spoon River,” Zephyr Theatre.
Sept. 30-Nov. 19: “Break of Day,” Lillian Theatre.
Sept. 30-Indefinitely: “Montana Avenue,” Arcadia restaurant.
Oct. 1-2: “Clarence Darrow, with Leslie Nielsen,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.
Oct. 1-2: “Hot and Sticky Performance Extravaganza,” Highways.
Oct. 1-3: “Kamehameha,” Halau O Kekuhi at Japan America Theatre. Also at UC Santa Barbara, Oct. 7-8.
Oct. 1-23: “Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time,” St. Genesius Theatre.
Oct. 1-23: “California Suite,” NoHo Actors Studio.
Oct. 1-Nov. 7: “Jake’s Women,” Actors Alley at the El Portal Center, Studio Theatre.
Oct. 1-Nov. 12: “Under Milkwood,” A Noise Within at Luckman Fine Arts Complex.
Oct. 1-Nov. 19: “Break of Day,” Lillian Theatre.
Oct. 1-31: “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” Ensemble Theatre Company, Alhecama Theatre.
Oct. 2: “Parlor Performances Marathon,” Beverly Hills Public Library.
Oct. 2-31: “Big River,” Grove Theatre.
Oct. 2-Nov. 7: “The Duchess of Malfi,” Knightsbridge Theatre.
Oct. 2-Nov. 9: “Whispers of the Soul,” Two Roads Theatre.
Oct. 3: “The World and His Wife” with Richard Crenna, California Artists’ Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Oct. 3-31: “Heidi Joyce’s Stand-Up Against Domestic Violence,” Bitter Truth Theatre.
Oct. 5-10: “Sunset Boulevard” with Petula Clark, Pantages Theatre.
Oct. 6-10: “Hay Fever,” L.A. Theatre Works, Skirball Cultural Center.
Oct. 6-30: “A Fairy Tale,” Actors’ Gang Theater.
Oct. 7-Nov. 13: “Polaroid Art,” Jewel Box Theatre Centre.
Oct. 7-Nov. 14: “Space,” Mark Taper Forum.
Oct. 8-9: “The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged),” Reduced Shakespeare Company at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium.
Oct. 8-31: “Uncle Vanya,” Geffen Playhouse.
Oct. 8-31: “Wonderful Town,” Music Theatre of Southern California, San Gabriel Civic Auditorium (Oct. 8-24) and Alex Theatre (Oct. 29-31).
Oct. 8-31: “A Raisin in the Sun,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.
Oct. 8-Nov. 14: “Goblin Market,” International City Theatre, Long Beach City College.
Oct. 8-Nov. 21: “Bitter Women,” Cast Theatre.
Oct. 8-Nov. 21: “Journey,” Stella Adler Theatre.
Oct. 9-TBA: “The Memorandum,” Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
Oct. 9-30: “Face to Face: Stories From the Street and Back,” Cornerstone Theater Company at One Colorado, courtyard.
Oct. 9-Nov. 14: “Manege Moliere,” Interact Theatre.
Oct. 10-Nov. 28: “Amadeus,” Ahmanson Theatre.
Oct. 12-13: “The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged),” Reduced Shakespeare Company, UC Santa Barbara, Campbell Hall.
Oct. 12-24: “Defending the Caveman,” (Pantages Theatre).
Oct. 14-Nov. 7: “Tallulah and Tennessee” with Jim Bailey, Theatre West.
Oct. 15: “The Emperor Jones,” A Mixed Company at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium.
Oct. 15-16: “Michael Feinstein’s New York Cabaret with Andrea Marcovicci,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.
Oct. 15-31: “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,” Attic Theatre.
Oct. 15-31: “Damn Yankees,” Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium.
Oct. 15-Nov. 20: “Trashers,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.
Oct. 15-Nov. 21: “Old Sins, Long Shadows,” Write Act Repertory Company, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
Oct. 15-TBA: “Friendly Acquaintances” with Michael Learned, Skylight Theatre.
Oct. 15-Dec. 5: “Marry Me a Little,” Celebration Theatre.
Oct. 17-Nov. 14: “Sweet Bird of Youth,” La Jolla Playhouse.
Oct. 17-Dec. 23: “Have You Seen Patsy Wayne?,” Cast Theatre.
Oct. 18: “Louisiana Purchase,” Musical Guild’s Broadway in Concert at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Oct. 20-23: “Songs and Stories From Moby-Dick With Laurie Anderson,” UCLA, Royce Hall.
Oct. 20-Nov. 28: “Crimes of the Heart,” Falcon Theatre.
Oct. 22-31: “Forever Plaid,” South Bay Playhouse at Hermosa Civic Theatre.
Oct. 22-Nov. 12: “The Blob,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.
Oct. 22-Nov. 14: “The Taming of the Shrew,” A Noise Within at Luckman Fine Arts Complex.
Oct. 22-Nov. 21: “The Passion of Dracula,” Knightsbridge Theatre.
Oct. 22-Nov. 21: “The Piano Lesson,” South Coast Repertory.
Oct. 22-Nov. 21: “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Pasadena Shakespeare Company at Plaza Pasadena Mall.
Oct. 22-Nov. 27: “The Balcony,” Theatre of NOTE.
Oct. 22-Nov. 27: “Love! Valour! Compassion!,” Attic Theatre Center.
Oct. 22-Dec. 4: “Old Sins, Long Shadows,” Write Act Repertory Company at Theatre at St. Stephen’s Church.
Oct. 22-Dec. 5: “The Fantasticks,” Actors Co-Op at the Crossley Theatre.
Oct. 23: “Together Again” with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.
Oct. 23-30: “Be-witchin’-ya!,” Masquers Cabaret.
Oct. 23-31: “A.S.K. Theater Projects’ New Play Weekends,” (Inside) the Ford.
Oct. 26: “Memory Tricks” with Marga Gomez, UC Santa Barbara, Campbell Hall.
Oct. 26-31: “Jolson,” Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
Oct. 27-31: “Agnes of God,” L.A. Theatre Works, Skirball Cultural Center.
Oct. 27-Dec. 19: “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,” Theatre 40.
Oct. 28-Indefinitely: “Crashing Heaven,” Court Theatre.
Oct. 29: “The Taming of the Shrew,” A Noise Within, El Camino College Center for the Arts.
Oct. 29: “It’s Magic!,” Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University.
Oct. 29: “The Diaries of Adam and Eve,” with David Birney, James Armstrong Theatre, Torrance Cultural Arts Center.
Oct. 29-Nov. 7: “Cinderella,” Cabrillo Music Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Oct. 29-Nov. 20: “Three in the Back, Two in the Head,” California Repertory Company at Cal State Long Beach.
Oct. 29-Dec. 19: “The Shroud,” West Coast Ensemble.
Oct. 30: “Halloween Crime Scene,” Sacred Fools Theatre.
Oct. 30: Christine Ebersole and Jason Graae, UCLA Schoenberg Hall.
Oct. 30: “It’s Magic!,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach.
Oct. 31-Nov. 28: “Phenomenal Acceleration,” Sledgehammer Theatre, Theater at St. Cecilia’s.
Oct. 31-Jan. 31: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Henry Fonda Theatre.
Nov. 2: “Penn & Teller,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.
Nov. 4-28: “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” Laguna Playhouse at the Moulton Theatre.
Nov. 5-Dec. 5: “The 1940s Radio Hour,” International City Theatre, Center Theater.
Nov. 5-TK: “The Gin Game,” La Mirada.
Nov. 5-TK: “The Illusion,” San Diego Rep.
Nov. 5-Dec. 5: “The Summer Moon,” South Coast Repertory.
Nov. 5-Dec. 11: “Escape From Happiness,” Open Fist Theatre.
Nov. 6: David Sedaris and Bailey White in Spoken Word Performance, UCLA, Royce Hall.
Nov. 6: “Ethel Merman’s Broadway” with Rita McKenzie, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts.
Nov. 6-Dec. 11: “Hush,” Actors’ Gang El Centro.
Nov. 6-Jan. 16: “The Miracle Worker,” Knightsbridge Theatre.
Nov. 7-14: “Edge of the World Theater Festival,” Los Angeles venues TBA.
Nov. 8-Dec. 14: “Refugees,” Theatre 40.
Nov. 9-Dec. 28: “The Memorandum,” Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
Nov. 9-Indefinitely: “Somewhere in Between,” West Coast Ensemble.
Nov. 10-21: “Fiorello!,” Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse.
Nov. 10-14: “The Playboy of the Western World,” L.A. Theatre Works.
Nov. 12-13: “Fast and Loose,” Sacred Fools Theatre.
Nov. 12-TBA: “Chapter Two,” South Bay Playhouse at Hermosa Civic Theatre.
Nov. 12-Dec. 12: “The Path of Love,” Fountain Theatre.
Nov. 12-Dec. 19: “Innocent Thoughts,” Unity Players Ensemble at Inglewood Playhouse.
Nov. 12-Dec. 19: “The White Wedding/Marriage Blanc,” City Garage.
Nov. 13-Jan. 9: “Othello,” Knightsbridge Theatre.
Nov. 13-Indefinitely: “The Acme Witch Project,” Acme Comedy Theatre.
Nov. 14: “Four Last Songs,” California Artists’ Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Nov. 14: “Light Up the Sky,” Pasadena Playhouse.
Nov. 16: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” with Patrick Cassidy and Debbie Gibson, Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
Nov. 16-21: “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” Theater League, Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.
Nov. 19-20: “Virtual Motion,” Sacred Fools Theatre.
Nov. 19-Dec. 12: “Broken Hearts,” Cornerstone Theatre, downtown Los Angeles venue TBA.
Nov. 19-Dec. 12: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera.
Nov. 19-Dec. 17: “L.A. Connection’s Longformation,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.
Nov. 21-Dec. 19: “It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues,” Geffen Playhouse.
Nov. 23-TK: “Fame--The Musical,” Pantages Theatre. Also at McCallum Theatre, Dec. 7-12; Orange County Performing Arts Center, Dec. 21-26.
Nov. 24-Jan. 9: “A Christmas Carol” with Steve Allen, Theatre West.
Nov. 26-Dec. 26: “A Christmas Carol,” Knightsbridge Theatre.
Dec. 1-26: “A Christmas Carol,” South Coast Repertory.
Dec. 2-18: “Naked Holiday,” Sacred Fools Theatre.
Dec. 2-Jan. 16: “The Dinner Party,” Mark Taper Forum.
Dec. 3-4: “Lily Tomlin Live,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Dec. 3-10: “L.A. Connection’s Dramatic Improv,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.
Dec. 3-12: “A Christmas Carol,” A Noise Within at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State Los Angeles.
Dec. 3-19: “An O. Henry Christmas,” California Repertory Company at Cal State Long Beach.
Dec. 3-Jan. 2: “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” Ensemble Theatre Company, Alhecama Theatre.
Dec. 4-19: “Singin’ in the Rain,” Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.
Dec. 8-12: “The Rose Tattoo,” L.A. Theatre Works, Skirball Cultural Center.
Dec. 9-Indefinitely: “Looking Into the Stands/Mirando al Tendido,” Stages Theatre Center.
Dec. 10-Dec. 19: “A Christmas Carol,” A Noise Within at Luckman Fine Arts Complex.
Dec. 11: “Fran Lebowitz With Harry Shearer in Spoken Word Performance,” UCLA, Royce Hall.
Dec. 12: “Winnie the Pooh: Pooh and Me,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
Dec. 12-Feb. 12: “Les Miserables,” Ahmanson Theatre.
Dec. 31: “L.A. Connection’s New Year’s Celebration 2000,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.
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