From Blues to ‘Broadway,’ a Lively Season in the Arts : Theater: Local troupes take the stage, offering drama, comedy and : dance in revivals and premieres.

There’s a fine winter season on the horizon, offering comedy, drama, dance, mystery, nostalgia, satire--something for everyone. What follows is a theater-by-theater guide to what’s on now, and what’s coming up.

At Sherman Oaks’ Actors Alley, two pre-holiday entries are back on the boards: George Abbott’s “Broadway” (1929), a comic saga done entirely in black and white about Prohibition, gangsters and chorus girls, playing through Feb. 24. Also returned is Anita Merzell’s detective spoof, “The Case of the Purloined Sterling,” running Monday through Wednesday.

At Alliance Repertory Theatre in Burbank, Larry Blamire’s “Jump Camp”--a darkly comedic look at pop culture--plays Feb. 1 to March 11. Dean Coleman directs this darkly comedic look at the current pop culture--through the eyes ofa group of mental patients.

After two months, Woodland Hills’ Richard Basehart Theatre is still holding steady with Neil Simon’s comedy “The Sunshine Boys,” scheduled to run through March. Cliff Norton and Bernie West star as the battling ex-vaudeville septuagenarians.

Burbank’s Golden Theatre already has its season mapped out, beginning with Gregory Scott Young’s revival of “West Side Story” (through Feb. 25), followed by “Little Shop of Horrors” in March, “Dames at Sea” in May, “Fiddler on the Roof” in June, “Jesus Christ Superstar” in November and an as-yet-unscheduled staging of “Stage to Screen.”

The Gnu Theatre in Toluca Lake is back with another world premiere: Daniel Faraldo’s “How Does It Feel?,” about a 17-year-old girl, just released from an institution, facing the demons in her own family. Jeff Seymour directs the three-character drama, playing Jan. 18 through March 23.

At North Hollywood’s Group Repertory Theatre, Paul Lyday’s “One-Man Show and Tell” runs Jan. 25 to Feb. 10 and Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” Feb. 28 to April 7.

Burbank’s Third Stage Theatre will present a pair of one-acts: Lee Blessing’s “Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music” and Lanford Wilson’s “This Is the Rill Speaking,” running Jan. 26 to March 3.

Studio City’s Ventura Court Theatre is presenting John Susman’s “Tiger Takes Tinseltown,” a satirical look at Hollywood through the eyes of screen-writing hopeful Tiger Treadwell. L.A. Theatre Unit’s Steve Itkin directs the premiere, running Jan. 25 to March 3. Scheduled to have opened Sunday, Pavel Cerny’s six-hour, 30-actor staging of Tankred Dorst’s “Merlin, or the Barren Land” has been postponed until after the run of “Tiger.”

At the Venture Theatre in Burbank is “An Oasis in Manhattan,” S.K. Hershewe’s comedy about a Lebanese-American immigrant (played by Vic Tayback) who is loath to give up his Old World ways and prejudices. It plays to March 24.

Burbank’s Victory Theatre offers “Hollywood Follies,” a musical revue making its world premiere Feb. 15.

And at Van Nuys’ West End Playhouse, Michael L. Kavanagh celebrates the life and times of noted Irish writer and carouser Brendan Behan in a one-man show “Bein’ With Behan,” to Feb. 4. For youngsters: Gideon Potter’s “Wonder Faire” offers storytelling, masks and mime--indefinitely.