Theater

SEPTEMBER

17: “Frank Gorshin: A Lasting Impression,” Victor Valley College Performing Arts Center.

17: “The Quarrel,” Alpert Jewish Community Center.

17-Oct. 8: “Eleanor: Her Secret Journey,” Canon Theatre.

17-Oct. 8: “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe,” San Diego Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Space.

17-Oct. 15: “Going to St. Ives,” La Jolla Playhouse, Weiss Forum, Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts, UC San Diego.

17-Oct. 22: “Ikebana (Living Flowers),” Pasadena Playhouse.

18: “Sunday in the Park With George,” Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert at UCLA, Freud Playhouse.

18-21: “Kiki & Herb: Where Are We Now?,” LunaPark.

18-25: “The Show Business Show,” Acme Comedy Theatre.

18-Oct. 9: “The Force” and “The Glory Blazer,” Zephyr Theater.

18-Oct. 29: “Detachments,” Loretta Theatre at the Tiffany Theatre.

19-Nov. 14: “Works in Progress: 16 World Premiere One-Act Plays,” Egyptian Arena Theatre.

20-Nov. 5: “Death of a Salesman,” Ahmanson Theatre.

21-22: “Culture Clash: Coast to Coast,” California Plaza.

21-Oct. 15: “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Deaf West Theatre.

21-Oct. 27: “Surrenda ta Brenda the Red Hot Contenda--My Personal Hamlet,” Actors Art Theatre.

21-Nov. 4: “Southern Baptist Sissies,” Zephyr Theatre.

21-Nov. 26: “The American Way,” Ventura Court Theatre.

22: “Women in the Streets,” Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium.

22-23: “Yarmy’s Army,” Theatre West.

22-24: “Vanities,” Curtis Theatre, Brea Civic & Cultural Center. Also at Beckman Auditorium, Caltech (Nov. 3).

22-Oct. 1: “Isadora!,” Center Stage Theatre, Paseo Nuevo Complex.

22-Oct. 1: “Road to Los Angeles,” Experimental Theater, San Diego State University.

22-Oct. 8: “Jesus Christ Superstar,” Performance Riverside.

22-Oct. 8: “Eleemosynary,” Bitter Truth Theatre.

22-Oct. 14: “Ithaka,” California Repertory Company at Edison Theatre.

22-Oct. 15: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Stella Adler Theatre.

22-Oct. 15: “The Deep Blue Sea,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.

22-Oct. 22: “Entertaining Mr. Sloane,” South Coast Repertory.

22-Oct. 22: “It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues,” San Diego Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Stage.

22-Oct. 29: “Don Quijote: The Last Adventure,” Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, Los Angeles Theatre Center.

22-Oct. 29: “What’s Wrong With Angry?,” Celebration Theatre.

22-Oct. 29: “Souls in Flight,” Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex.

22-Nov. 4: “Pathe X,” Zoo District Theatre at Lillian Theater.

22-Indefinitely: “Groundlings to Meet You, I’m Robert,” Groundling Theatre.

22-Indefinitely: “Z-Z-Zat’s Improv,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.

23: “The Mission,” Chusma at Cal State Northridge, Performing Arts Center.

23-30: “Lillias White, From Brooklyn to Broadway,” Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

23-Oct. 8: “Damn Yankees,” Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.

23-Oct. 28: “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Old Globe Theatre.

23-Oct. 29: “Precious Sons,” Blank Theatre Company at 2nd Stage.

23-Nov. 11: “Moral Kombat With L.A. TheatreSports,” Bitter Truth Theatre.

23-Indefinitely: “Acme ‘The Body’ Ventura,” Acme Comedy Theatre.

25: “Rags,” Musical Theatre Guild, Pasadena Playhouse.

25-26: “The Legend of Tamar,” Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also, Pasadena Civic Auditorium (Sept. 29-Oct. 1), San Diego Civic Theatre (Oct. 5-7).

25, Oct. 30: “Ten Tops,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

25-Nov. 6: “Lyfe,” Theater/Theatre.

26: “Cindy Pop’s Polka Dot Poodle Lounge,” Highways Performance Space.

26-Oct. 1: “A Slice of Rice, Frijoles and Greens,” Great Leap, David Henry Hwang Theater, Union Center for the Arts.

26-Dec. 9: “Eastern Standard,” Colony Theatre Company, Burbank Center Stage.

27-Oct. 15: “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Granada Theatre.

28-Oct. 20: “Stand Up, Sit Down & Sing!,” L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza.

28-Nov. 19: “Wuthering Heights” and “The Rivals,” Knightsbridge Theatre LA.

29: “Dona Rosita’s Jalapeno Kitchen,” El Teatro de la Esperanza at El Camino College Cener for the Arts.

29-Oct. 7: “What!,” First Stage Theatre at Hollywood United Methodist Church.

29-Nov. 19: “The Sunshine Boys,” Granada Theatre.

30: “A Dickens Halloween,” Knightsbridge Theatre Pasadena.

30: “Rita Moreno in Concert,” Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University.

30-Oct. 22: “My Fair Lady,” Palm Canyon Theater.

30-Nov. 19: “Delia’s Song,” Eclectic Company Theatre.

30-Indefinitely: “The African Company Presents Richard III,” North Coast Repertory Theatre.

OCTOBER

1-29: “Heidi Joyce’s Stand Up Against Domestic Violence,” Bitter Truth Theatre.

2: “City for Sale,” San Francisco Mime Troupe at Bergamot Art Station. Also Oct. 5, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara.

2: “Yes! Yes! Nanette!,” Musical Theatre Guild, Pasadena Playhouse.

3-8: “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

3-Nov. 8: “The Dominant 7th,” Zoo District at Lillian Theatre.

4: “Pump Boys & Dinettes,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

4: “Alan Bergman and Karen Morrow,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal Stage Long Beach. Also at UCLA, Schoenberg Hall (Oct. 7).

4-8: “Antigone,” Actors’ Gang El Centro.

4-29: “Dinner With Friends,” Geffen Playhouse.

5-7: “The Seventh Annual Hot & Sticky Performance Extravaganza,” Highways Performance Space.

5-15: “Uncle Ovid’s Storytime & Stand-Up Metamorphoses,” S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre, Coldwater Canyon Park.

5-28: “Antioch,” Los Angeles Theatre Center.

6: “Uneasy Lies the Head,” Lobero Theatre.

6: “Nanette Fabray in Concert,” Robert B. Moore Theatre, Orange Coast College.

6-8: “Evita,” Music Theatre of Southern California at Alex Theatre.

6-22: “Over the Tavern,” La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

6-Nov. 5: “The Aspern Papers,” Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara, Alhecama Theatre.

6-Nov. 6: “Annie Warbucks,” Grove Theatre.

6-Nov. 11: “The Mirror,” Two Roads Theatre.

6-Nov. 18: “The Last Laugh,” Write Act Theatre.

6-Dec. 3: “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” Pacific Resident Theatre.

7: “Los Angeles County Arts Open House,” various countywide venues.

7: “It’s Magic!,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal Stage Long Beach. Also Oct. 13 at Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University; Oct. 25-29 at Alex Theatre.

7: “Nijinsky Speaks,” Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University.

7-Nov. 26: “Saved,” Evidence Room.

7-29: “Signature,” Naked Angels at Actors’ Gang Theater.

7-Nov. 11: “Maximum Capacity Sketch Comedy,” Masquer’s Cabaret.

7-Nov. 12: “Muckrakers,” Fremont Centre Theatre.

7-Indefinitely: “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” Odyssey Theatre.

11-15: “Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

12-13: “Uttar-Priyadarshi (The Final Beatitude),” Ratan Thiyam’s Chorus Repertory Theatre, UCLA, Royce Hall.

12-Nov. 19: “Friendly Acquaintances,” Met Theatre.

13-29: “On the Town,” Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Plummer Auditorium.

13-31: “Madame Guignol’s Cabaret of Death,” Hunger Artists Theatre Company.

13-Nov. 5: “All Under Heaven,” with Valerie Harper, Ivar Theatre.

13-Nov. 11: “Dubya 2000: A Political Horror-Tragedy in Three Acts,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

13-Nov. 12: “On the Open Road,” Stella Adler Theatre.

13-Nov. 25: “Fighting Over Beverley,” Studio Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse.

13-Dec. 17: “Kitty Hawk, the Musical,” Court Theatre.

13-Indefinitely: “Vagina Monologues,” Canon Theatre.

13-Indefinitely: “Loonacy,” Lee Strasberg Theatre.

14: “Besame Mucho,” L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza.

14: “Undertaking Harry,” Joe Goode Performance Group, Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal Stage Long Beach.

14-19: “Dylan’s Ghost,” Coast Playhouse.

14-Nov. 5: “The Rainmaker,” Rubicon Theatre Company, Laurel Theatre.

14-Nov. 11: “East West Players’ Readers’ Theatre,” George Montgomery Gallery, Autry Museum of Western Heritage.

14-Nov. 19: “The Changeling,” Knightsbridge Theatre Pasadena.

14-Indefinitely: “Bare,” Hudson Mainstage Theatre.

15-Nov. 5: “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Fremont Centre Theatre.

15-Nov. 12: “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” La Jolla Playhouse, Weiss Theatre, Mandell Weiss Center for the Performing Arts, UC San Diego.

16: “15 Snapshots of 15 Years,” Cornerstone Theater at El Portal Center for the Arts.

16-Nov. 6: “Gundogs and Juice” and “Coffee at the Intersection,” Zephyr Theatre.

16-Nov. 26: “Ancestral Voices,” Falcon Theatre.

17-25: “Evita,” Theater League at Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Also, Terrace Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center (Also Oct. 27-29).

17-Dec. 18: “Twelve Angry Women,” Circle Theatre, El Portal Center.

18-22: “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” Ruth B. Shannon Center, Whittier College.

18-28: “The Odyssey,” Will & Co., Los Angeles Theatre Center.

18-Nov. 15: “Confidentally, Cole,” Tiffany Theater.

19: “Dona Rosita’s Day of the Dead,” Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara.

19-Nov. 25: “Oleanna,” 3rd Street Theatre.

19-June 30: “The Lion King,” Pantages Theatre.

20: “Khac Chi and the Magical Moonshine Puppet Theatre,” Church of Religious Science.

20-Nov. 26: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Knightsbridge Theatre Pasadena.

20-29: “Blood Porch,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.

20-Nov. 19: “Art,” South Coast Repertory.

20-Nov. 19: “Ciao Bella,” Stella Adler Theatre.

20-Dec. 17: “David and Goliath in America,” Road Theatre Company.

21: “Tour de Femme!,” L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza.

21: “An Evening With Audra McDonald,” UCLA, Royce Hall.

21-Indefinitely: “L.A. Connection’s 2001--An Improv Odyssey,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.

22-Indefinitely: “The Sunday Show,” Acme Comedy Theatre.

25-29: “Waiting for Godot,” Gate Theatre of Dublin, UCLA, Freud Playhouse.

26: “Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story,” Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University.

26-28: “5th Annual One-Page Play Festival,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.

26-28: “Far Side of the Moon,” Irvine Barclay Theatre.

26-Indefinitely: “Fool for Love,” Flight Theatre.

27-29: “Marga Gomez: Live and Undead,” L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza.

27-Nov. 18: “Victory Dance,” L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza.

27-Nov. 18: “The Colonel Bird,” California Repertory Company at Edison Theatre.

27-Nov. 19: “American Monsters,” Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, East L.A. College.

27-Nov. 19: “The Mummified Deer,” San Diego Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Space.

27-Dec. 17: “Night of the Iguana,” Fountain Theatre.

28: “Las Noches de Poetas,” Circle Theatre, El Portal Center.

28-Dec. 3: “The Rivals,” Interact Theatre.

30: “Ten Tops: Be Real Scary Night,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

30: “11th Annual Ovation Awards,” Ahmanson Theatre.

31: “David Copperfield’s Dreams and Nightmares,” Probst Center, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Also Pasadena Civic Auditorium (Also Nov. 4-5).

NOVEMBER

2-Dec. 10: “Resident Alien,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.

3-12: “Anything Goes,” Cabrillo Music Theatre at Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

3-19: “She Loves Me,” Performance Riverside.

3-Dec. 3: “The Countess,” South Coast Repertory.

3-Dec. 31: “Broadway Sings Out!,” Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.

4: “Rennie Harris: Rome & Jewels,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach.

4-26: “Hey, That’s Amelia Earhart Down There,” Palm Canyon Theater.

4-Dec. 3: “Enter the Guardsman,” Laguna Playhouse, Moulton Theatre.

5: “Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years, a Tribute to Charles M. Schulz,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

5: “The Gizmo Guys,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach.

8-19: “Mack & Mabel,” Reprise! Broadway’s Best in Concert at UCLA, Freud Playhouse.

8-24: “Love Is a Four-Letter Word,” Palm Canyon Theater.

8-Dec. 3: “The Theory of Everything,” East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater, Union Center for the Arts.

9-10: “Fear of a Brown Planet 2000,” Chicano Secret Service, Japan America Theatre.

9-19: “Edge of the World Theater Festival 2000” (30 L.A.-area venues).

9-Dec. 10: “Closer,” Mark Taper Forum.

9-Dec. 16: “XXX Love Act,” Actors’ Gang El Centro.

9-Indefinitely: “Somewhere in Between,” West Coast Ensemble.

10-Nov. 19: “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” Hermosa Beach Playhouse.

10-Dec. 10: “Beguiled Again,” International City Theatre at Center Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

10-Dec. 16 : “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade,” Theatre of NOTE.

11-26: “Adam Again,” Palm Canyon Theater.

12-Dec. 14: “The Skin of Our Teeth,” A Noise Within.

12-Dec. 17: “Blithe Spirit,” Pasadena Playhouse.

14-19: “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

15-19: “The Member of the Wedding,” L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

16-19: “Mango Productions’ Comedy Night,” Studio Theatre, Stella Adler Theatre.

17: “Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats,” McKinney Theatre, Saddleback College. Also Oct. 18, Beckman Auditorium, Caltech.

18-Dec. 17: “Sleepwalk,” Playwrights’ Arena at [Inside] the Ford, John Anson Ford Theatre Center.

18-Dec. 17: “Henry IV, Part One,” Pasadena Shakespeare Company at Fremont Centre Theatre.

18-Dec. 24: “A Christmas Carol,” Knightsbridge Theatre Pasadena.

19-31: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” Old Globe Theatre.

21-26: “Annie Get Your Gun,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

21-Dec. 10: “Oliver!,” Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Broadway by the Beach.

21-Dec. 17: “Gumboots,” Wilshire Theatre.

23-Jan. 14: “Rudigore,” Knightsbridge Theatre LA.

23-Jan. 14: “The Lion in Winter,” Knightsbridge Theatre LA.

24-Dec. 10: “Everything’s Ducky,” La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

24-Dec. 17: “Marilyn’s Murder,” Stella Adler Theatre.

25-Jan. 7: “All’s Well That Ends Well,” Knightsbridge Theatre Pasadena.

27-Dec. 3: “Moving Arts Premiere One-Act Festival,” Moving Arts at Los Angeles Theatre Center.

27-Dec. 17: “The Diary of Anne Frank,” West Coast Ensemble.

28-Dec. 3: “Annie,” Theater League at Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

29-Dec. 3: “The Rainmaker,” L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

29-Dec. 3: “Largo Desolato,” Ruth B. Shannon Center, Whittier College.

29-Dec. 24: “A Christmas Carol,” South Coast Repertory.

29-Jan. 14: “Swing!,” Ahmanson Theatre.

30-Dec. 2: “David Copperfield’s Unknown Dimension Tour,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

30-Dec. 3: “Kwaidan,” UCLA, Freud Playhouse.

30-Jan. 7: “Ennio: Starring Ennio Marchetto,” Geffen Playhouse.

30-Indefinitely: “Darkfall,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

DECEMBER

1-16: “Hound of the Baskervilles,” Studio Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse.

1-17: “Viva Palm Springs,” Palm Canyon Theater.

1-23: “An O. Henry Christmas,” California Repertory Company at Edison Theatre.

1-23: “A Christmas Carol,” Santa Susana Repertory Company, Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

1-24: “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,” San Diego Repertory Theatre, Lyceum Stage.

1-31: “Art,” Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara, Alhecama Theatre.

1-Jan. 7: “She Stoops to Conquer,” Knightsbridge Theatre, Pasadena.

2: “Bother!,” Every Picture Tells a Story.

2-23: “The World Goes Round,” Rubicon, Laurel Theatre.

2-17: “Peter Pan,” Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.

3-10: “A Soulful Holiday,” Bitter Truth Theatre.

4: “Two by Two,” Musical Theatre Guild, Pasadena Playhouse.

6-10: “Chicago,” Theater League at the Terrace Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

7-23: “A Christmas Carol,” A Noise Within.

8-Indefinitely: “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding,” Henry Fonda Theatre.

9: “Round Ball,” Wells Fargo Radio Theatre, Wells Fargo Theater, Autry Museum of Western Heritage.

10-24: “La Posada Magica,” South Coast Repertory.

15-24: “For Here or To Go?,” Cornerstone Theater Company at Mark Taper Forum.

16: “A Christmas Carol,” Performance Riverside.

20: “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Montana Repertory Theatre, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

26-31: “Rent,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.