Paging Austin Powers! The 60s live on, and it seems especially so in musical theater. A couple of seasons ago we had The Marvelous Wonderettes.

This week, in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, our collective consciousness has been turned back to 9/11 yet again — if it ever even left. So the arrival of Brian Sloan’s new play WTC View may hit a very timely chord.

One man’s cherries are another man’s apples. For playwright/director John Strasberg, Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard serves as the inspiration for his new play Adams’ Apples.

In Roy Arias’s new play Sex on the Beach, three characters of different genders and circumstances in the Spanish Caribbean find the best way to a new life is through the world’s oldest profession.

By now, it seems obvious that the LAByrinth Theater Company is committed to doing some pretty exciting and incendiary theater: Its latest success, for example, is the just-opened and well-received The Motherf**ker With The Hat, written by LAB co-artistic director Stephen Adly Gurgis.

It’s one of the most performed plays of all time, and hardly a month goes by that someone isn’t mounting a production of it. Then again, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is also one of the greatest comedies in the language.

Leave it to the always-something-fun-up-his-sleeve playwright David Ives to re-imagine something as old as Moliere’s The Misanthrope for modern times, which is what he has done with his new play The School for Lies.

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Okay, so you’re sitting around with some theatrical pals one evening, and you’re all lamenting the state of affairs of employment in our business,