White, Palminteri appearing soon

Granted, they've got little or nothing -- OK, absolutely nothing -- to do with each other beyond the fact that they're both coming to L.A. in separate productions.

Oh, and the fact that they're both pretty terrific actors.

Julie White won a Tony award for playing a maniac of an agent trying to keep her pretty boy client in the closet in Douglas Carter Beane's "The Little Dog Laughed." White, who has played L.A. area stages before ("Expecting Isabel," "Dinner With Friends") will reprise her "Little Dog" role at the Kirk Douglas Theatre Nov. 23-Dec. 21.

And who says acclaimed performances don't transfer anymore? White was kinda the toast of New York for a while there, so kudos to Michael Ritchie to get her to re-up for Culver City.

Right now, all you can get are season tickets (213) 972-4444. for the Douglas 08-09 season, but that will change.

Chazz Palminteri, meanwhile, brings his "A Bronx Tale," which he both writes and performs, to the Wadsworth Theatre Sept. 9-21. It's a coming of age tale set in the Bronx during the 1960s. The movie starred Palminteri and Robert De Niro, who directed it.

Palminteri has been in a bunch of movies ("The Usual Suspects," "Mulholland Falls" among them. Writers everywhere worship at the man's shrine for his work in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway." The performance was Oscar nominated, and Palminteri was dead on as the mob hit man turned playwright who "fixes" hapless John Cusack's play and rubs out Jennifer Tilly's mob moll with the line "Olive, I think you should know this: you're a horrible actress."

As Billy Crudup would say, "Priceless."

Tix for "A Bronx Tale" are available through Ticketmaster, 213-365-3500.