The newest offering of Theatre West, which has produced plays since 1962, is a world premiere entitled Goodbye, Louie . . . Hello! by the late Allan Manings. The play is creating some bittersweet memories for John Gallogly, the company’s executive director. READ MORE

The famed bluebird of happiness traces its more modern roots to the 1697 publication of L’Oiseau Bleu by Madame d’Aulnoy, who adapted the premise from ancient legends. The Road Theatre Company in NoHo now invites its audience to get Pursued by Happiness, the title of its next production, opening March 25 at the Lankershim Arts Center.  READ MORE

Daniel Henning, founding artistic director of the Blank Theatre Company, tells how it began, “When I did a play at the age of four, that was sort of it. I was bit hard. It was Stone Soup, the folk tale about soldiers in this town where people are starving. I played the soldier who came up with the idea of boiling soup from a stone to feed these people. I’m still sort of trying to coax soup out of a stone all these years later.”  READ MORE

Sab Shimono, a veteran actor with East West Players for more than three decades, is adding a new wrinkle to his repertoire.  He stars in East/West’s premier of Wrinkles, by Paul Kikuchi, opening Feb. 16 at the David Henry Hwang Theatre.  READ MORE

Playwright Ron Hutchinson wrote Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedic retelling of how the final film script came into being. It had its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 2004 and went on to a healthy New York run at the Manhattan Theatre Club a year later. An LA premiere at the Odyssey in 2006 was followed by productions at both Laguna Playhouse and La Mirada Theatre in 2009, under the direction of Andrew Barnicle. Now the Colony Theatre hosts Barnicle’s third helming of the play in its Burbank premiere opening Feb. 5.  READ MORE

A theatrical adding machine, perhaps? Now, in his long-running role as artistic director of Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Sossi is gearing up to present the West Coast premiere of  Adding Machine: A Musical, which adds one more credit to the 81 plays he has directed and the 297 he has produced.  READ MORE

Roday, Raider and Red Dog. Kinda rolls off the tongue, huh? But who—or what—are they? A rock group? A trio of swashbucklers? Surely not a stock brokerage or a law firm. No, the first two are the founding co-artistic directors of the third—Red Dog Squadron, one of LA’s youngest production companies with only its seventh play set to open Jan. 8 at El Centro Theatre. READ MORE

The Ruskin Group Theatre is opening its production of Cyrano de Bergerac on Dec. 4 with Rae Allen doing the honors of guiding the swordplay, poesy and courtship to its unrequited conclusion. READ MORE

Seeking to build a state-of-the-art complex, A Noise Within has raised $11 million towards their goal of $13.3 million, have broken ground on their new facilities and recently attracted additional benefactors to advance their project. READ MORE

New York’s LAByrinth Theater Company and LA’s Elephant Theatre Company recently announced a bi-coastal partnership they’ve brokered to bring the best of their works-and worlds-to each other’s bailiwick. READ MORE