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L.A. Connection's 2001: An Improv Odyssey

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $4.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
L.A. Connection puts on an outrageously funny improv show in the "Who's Line Is It Anyway" style. The show is one of the LA Times picks for New Year's Eve.  Learn More

ComedySportzKidz — Clean Fun for the Family

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Give the kids — and yourself — a good laugh at ComedySportzKidz, presented by the National Comedy Theatre.  Learn More

Fun for the Whole Family at Giggle Gaggle: Kids Perform Improv for Kids!

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $8.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Two shows, two casts—four feet tall! This improv show performed by kids is a great day out for families who love to laugh together. Take a ride into the minds and world of the children of the Valley as the kids of Joy Theatre perform comedy, standup, improv and sketches at the Raven Playhouse.  Learn More

Aspect Beauty: Spa Facials and Massage Therapy

Aspect Beauty (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $90.00 - $275.00   Our Price: $45.00 - $175.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Aspect Beauty is an oasis free of the stress and strain of everyday life, the perfect place to escape from the day's hectic pace. The spa's mineral facial is a gem of treatment - literally. It uses a unique elixir of malachite, rhodolite and zincite, which leaves skin pearly smooth without the usual post-extraction redness.  Learn More

Improv Comedy for Kids at LA Connection

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 5:30pm
Full Price: $7.00   Our Price: $3.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
LA Connection presents Improv Comedy for Kids, performed by some of the area's most talented young people. The performances are family-friendly and filled with laugh-out-loud-funny sketch comedy and improv.  Learn More

Enter the Mad Mind of the Teenager with Detention Span's Teen Improv

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $8.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Being a teenager is tough, but the kids of Joy Theatre's Detention Span take teen angst and transform it into comedy gold. It's a madcap, fun-filled hour of sketch, improv, impressions, singing, and more at the Raven Playhouse. Relive the funniest moments of growing up—without actually having to, er, relive them.  Learn More

Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 9:30pm (Carmen Lundy)
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
All week long the Jazz Bakery offers the best in hot new jazz! LA Weekly called the Jazz Bakery the "most prestigious jazz space in Los Angeles," and it lives up to that by focusing on fantastic new acts as well as classics of the genre. A don't-miss, not only for jazz fans, but for lovers of all sorts of music!  Learn More

Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy Club Presents All-Star Comedians

Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy Club (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 9:00pm (Gilson Lubin)
Full Price: $8.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy features some of the hottest names in comedy, performing at a fabulous new venue inside the Hotel Alexandria. Comedians from "Saturday Night Live," "Last Comic Standing," "The Tonight Show" and much more are on the bill. Check the listing below for details on who's appearing.  Learn More

Racism, Deceit and Intrigue in Thriller The Girls of Summer

Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Layon Gray's The Girls of Summer won the 2006 NAACP Award for Best Play. In 1945 Chicago, the coach of an all-black female baseball team is found dead. Who did it? Racism, sexism, deceit, and betrayal are brought to light as this powerful drama unveils the hidden story beneath the surface.  Learn More

Compelling Comedy—Right In the Heart of the 3rd Street Promenade!

Promenade Playhouse (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
In the heart of the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in beautiful, balmy Santa Monica is a great night of comedy, every Friday and Saturday! With comedians seen on Letterman, Leno, Comedy Central and HBO, the Promenade Playhouse delivers serious laughs from great comics!  Learn More

Pasadena Jazz: Live Music from Jazz Greats and Hot Newcomers

Pasadena Jazz Institute (Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (Carol Welsman)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Spend the evening at the venue that is fast becoming Pasadena's hottest spot for live jazz: the Pasadena Jazz Institute's new home at the Paseo Colorado. Audiences will enjoy ongoing sets of music, performed by some of the most talented newcomers and veterans from the world of jazz.  Learn More

Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:00pm (Joshua Redman)
Full Price: $18.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $9.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
This supper club hosts great live jazz in a setting with Old World charm. Catalina has lived up to its slogan "Nothing But the Best in Jazz" by presenting a veritable Who's Who of jazz legends such as Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Ray Brown, Joe Williams, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Benny Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and many more.  Learn More

Salsa Boot Camp for Beginners and Advanced Beginners

The SalsaBox Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 11:00am (Saturday Boot Camp)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 11:00am and Sunday 3/2 at 11am (2-Day Boot Camp)
Full Price: $60.00   Our Price: $40.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
The four-hour Salsa Boot Camp at Salsabox Studios is an immersion class, perfect for busy people who have always wanted to learn some moves for the salsa clubs. Classes are divided into Novice Beginners and Advanced Beginners; both will teach the basics of salsa, plus some fun routines. Class ends with a Latin lunch buffet.  Learn More

Cinderella - The World Premiere Musical for the Entire Family

Theatre West (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 1:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Storybook Theatre presents its new musical version of the classic story Cinderella. With a funny fairy godmother leading the way, there is plenty of opportunity for audience participation, and girls in the audience can even dance with the handsome prince at the ball.  Learn More

The Last Schwartz, A Bittersweet Family Comedy at the Zephyr Theatre

Zephyr Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $35.00   Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
In this poignant comedy, the Schwartz siblings have gathered in their childhood family home for the one-year anniversary of their father's death. Over the weekend, fireworks, riotous humor and serious drama unfold as the parties interact and a long-held family secret is revealed.  Learn More

America's Next Top Bottom - A Theatrical Reality Series

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
This theatrical late night reality series directed by Efrain Schunior gives ten aspiring guys an opportunity to prove that they can make it in the high-stress, high-stakes world of bottoming. ANTB! exposes the transformation of men into potentially fierce Bottoms, as they face weekly tests and challenges that determine who can make the cut. Hosted by the ferocious Ms. Trina Sugg.  Learn More

Slapstick Comedy Paging Dr. Chutzpah at Sidewalk Studio Theatre

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
What happens when you get a world-renowned Park Avenue psychiatrist, his nephew, a neurotic secretary and a cat in the same room? Find out when Paging Dr. Chutzpah, a new slapstick comedy by the award-winning playwright Mark Troy, comes to the Sidewalk Studio Theatre. It's now in its forth month.  Learn More

The $4 Million Giveaway from Lonny Chapman Group Rep

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Jesse Morgan returns to New York 18 years after absconding with cash from his employer. Now very rich, he calls together several "friends" from his past, including his ex-wife, his ex-best friend, his former employer and a street person. He offers $2 million to two of them, but there's a catch. The friends have to select which two of them receive the money. And most of them hate each other.  Learn More

The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity: Witty Comedy at Pico Playhouse

Pico Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $17.50 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity, written by and starring Annie Hendy, has been extended by popular demand! It's the story of Lizzie, a Midwestern girl living in the big city, who decides to lose her virginity before her 25th birthday, and sets out to find a suitable man. Cyrus Alexander plays the multitude of zany characters Lizzie encounters on her quest in this hilarious and invigorating tale.  Learn More

Heartfelt Family Drama The End of the Tour from Road Theatre

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 2.2 stars
A frantic phone call from Jan forces her brother Andrew to return home to small-town Dixon, Illinois—the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan—to deal with their ailing mother Mae, an irate "temporary" resident of a nursing home. Balancing humor and pain, the story deals with people attempting to pull themselves up and out of the disappointment in their lives.  Learn More

Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce from Son of Semele Ensemble

Son of Semele Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
This light farce, a clever exploration of both grief and love, is ridiculous, wicked, and mostly laugh-out-loud hilarious. Thanks to medical advances such as Prozac, Americans can finally fulfill their constitutional destiny to not only pursue happiness, but embrace it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But is that a good thing?  Learn More

Chilling New Musical Drama Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

Hudson Backstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $38.00   Our Price: FREE - $19.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Relationships can be murder. This new musical tells the chilling tale of the original "thrill killers," Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit "the perfect crime." Thrill Me is a spellbinding musical cat-and-mouse game between two young men addicted to getting exactly what they want from each other, no matter the consequences.  Learn More

Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) at the Geffen Playhouse

Geffen Playhouse - Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 3:30pm
Full Price: $69.00 - $74.00   Our Price: $34.50 - $37.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
The Geffen Playhouse presents the west coast premiere of Some Girl(s), written and directed by Neil LaBute, who wrote and directed the films "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors," "Possession," and "The Wicker Man." Some Girl(s) is the story of Guy, who is about to get married and decides to make amends to some girls from his past—in a painfully funny way.  Learn More

Love Struck, A Romantic Comedy at Macha Theatre

Macha Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $50.00   Our Price: $15.00 - $25.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Two passionate Latinas—one American and one Cuban—find themselves in a hurricane of love, lust and other devastations. Back by popular demand for its 10-year anniversary, this romantic comedy is a landmark lesbian play.  Learn More

Post Mortem, A Sly New Comedy from the Author of Love Letters

Lyric Hyperion Theatre (Silver Lake, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
A secretly liberal lecturer and her adoring grad student at a "faith-based" college in the future dig up a lost play that could bring down the oppressive conservative regime. Its author? A long-forgotten scribbler named A.R. Gurney. This comedy is a lively, pointed send-up of censorship, cell phones, Dick Cheney, and famed playwright Gurney's own life in the theatre.  Learn More

Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation: New Comedy at the Autry

Autry National Center-Wells Fargo Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 0.5 stars
The Aurty presents Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation, a new comedy by Larissa FastHorse. When Kenny and Martin draw bizarre topics for a school project, they decide to combine them into "Teaching Disco Square Dancing." The delicate balance of their friendship is tested when they enlist the aid of Kenny's Grandma and Amanda, a shy outcast, whose presentation topic is on cultural history.  Learn More

1776: Actors Co-Op Presents Declaration of Independence Musical

Crossley Theatres (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $34.00   Our Price: $17.00*
Rated: 3.9 stars
1776 recounts the events that led up to the creation and adoption of the Declaration of Independence, telling the stories of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin and the women who loved them. Patriotic, witty and ultimately heartwarming, this All-American musical was nominated for five Tony Awards when it debuted in 1969.  Learn More

The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot - A Dark Courtroom Comedy

Theatre 68 (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot is set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between Heaven and Hell, where agnostic lawyer Fabiana Aziza Cunningham has brought before the court The New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner - Judas Iscariot. Fabiana and her opposing prosecutor, Yusef El-Fayoumy, call on a cavalcade of witnesses from Sigmund Freud to Satan in this dark courtroom comedy.  Learn More

Hilarious "Backstage" Farce Noises Off at Whittier Community Theatre

The Center Theatre (Whittier) (Whittier, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
This frantic backstage comedy is cleverly staged to allow you three versions of the same show: Act I is the final rehearsal, Act II the opening performance from backstage, Act III, a performance weeks later from out front. Every act presents its own set of crazy problems for the actors and hapless director to overcome so that the show can "go on."  Learn More

The Merry Wives of Windsor from Los Angeles Shakespeare Company

Globe Theater in Topanga (Topanga, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Come ready to laugh at Shakespeare's hilarious comedy set in Victorian rural America, with Falstaff as an aging hip-hop artist getting his comeuppance as he tries to seduce two of the town's leading ladies. Los Angeles Shakespeare Company is a professional Shakespeare company, presenting Shakespeare year-round.  Learn More

The Rabbi and the Shiksa, An Unorthodox Love Story at Secret Rose Theatre

Secret Rose Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Rabbi Persky, a widower, has been at Temple Judea for many years and is perhaps a little too comfortable in his post. When the Rabbi meets the appealing Theresa, who wants to sell carpet to the temple, he is immediately attracted. There's only one problem: Theresa isn't Jewish!  Learn More

Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield - a One-Woman Musical

Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
The legendary British singer Dusty Springfield possessed one of the most powerful and influential voices in the history of popular music. Now the dynamic singer-actress Kirsten Holly Smith brings the great Dusty Springfield vibrantly back to life through song and monologue in Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield, a moving and uplifting one-woman musical.  Learn More

Love Bites - An Evening of Not-So Romantic Short Comedies

Elephant Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm (Volume 6 and 7)
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The Elephant Theatre Company presents Love Bites. These not-so-romantic shorts and dysfunctional comedies, which are written, performed and directed by members of The Elephant Theatre Company, deal with the awkward, darker and he odd aspects of love when it doesn't quite work out...the Anti-Valentine.  Learn More

Twelve Bar Blues, an Original Comedy from Vagabond Players

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Twelve Bar Blues is a fast-paced, two-act collection of 12 comedy sketches, all taking place in a fictional bar called the Jungle Room. The main characters are a bartender and two cocktail waitresses who encounter an evening of truly crazy barflies. Jay Huling is a nationally produced, award winning playwright and ad agency creative director residing in Florida.  Learn More

Romantic Drama Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune takes place one beautiful, intense, and often hilarious night when one man and one woman—not young, not old, neither of them a great beauty—struggle to get past the million things that get in the way of two people falling in love.  Learn More

Regretrosexual - The Love Story: Hit Show About Love and Dating

Hudson Guild Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Regretrosexual - The Love Story, the long-running hit starring former Bay Area stand-up comedy favorite Dan Rothenberg, moves to the Hudson Guild Theatre. The show is a hilarious exploration of the fluidity of amorous behaviour and how it affects those caught somewhere in the middle.  Learn More

Bachelorette: World Premiere of Drama About Bachelorette Party Gone Wrong

Working Stage Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
IAMA Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Bachelorette by Leslye Headland. The second in Headland's Seven Deadly Plays series, it concerns three beautiful girls who organize a drug-fueled bachelorette party to celebrate the marriage of their less popular friend to an attractive and wealthy fiance.  Learn More

Stupid Kids: LA Premiere of Off-Broadway Hit

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $13.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Celebration Theatre presents the LA premiere of John C. Russell's Off-Broadway hit Stupid Kids. It's a provocative and lyrical drama about the struggles, fears, and longings of four high school students. The play uses iconic, music-video-like scenes to explore and challenge stereotypes associated with youth.  Learn More

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Route 66 Bus Tour

The Esotouric Bus (At Philippes The Original) (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $55.00 - $58.00   Our Price: $27.50 - $29.00*
Join Esotouric, the bus adventure company honored for "Best Downtown Tours" by the editors of the Downtown News, for a five hour architecture and history tour exploring the historic Mother Road, Route 66. Esotouric's Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles tour series is dedicated to revealing greater L.A.'s infrastructure, history, the built and natural environment, transportation corridors, drive-ins, attractions and oddities.  Learn More

James Joyce's The Dead, Tony-Winning Musical Based on the Short Story

Open Fist Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
This beautiful and touching Tony Award-winning musical is based on the famous short story written by James Joyce in his book Dubliners. The Dead refers to people in his memories—specifically the night of the annual party held by his aunts. The evening is filled with laughter, singing, dancing and good cheer.  Learn More

Parson's Nose Family Theater Festival: Moliere's Farce School for Wives

Under the Tent (South Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Parson's Nose professional theater company continues its seventh season with an original one-hour adaptation of Moliere's mischievous farce School for Wives. An old coot and his silly servants are no match for a clever young lady and her beau. Come laugh at the silliness of old obsession and the craziness of young love. Smart enough for adults, funny enough for kids!  Learn More

Hotbed of Drama in The Common Air at Theatre Asylum

Theatre Asylum (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
The Common Air links six distinct characters during an airport delay. The reason is unknown, but the buzz is insinuating a terrorist conspiracy. Rumors fly as each character speaks to the next. Coming full circle, the last character addresses the first, illuminating the perpetually changing narratives we arrive at, and depart from, in trying to make sense of life's ever-evolving present tense.  Learn More

Almost, Maine: Quirky Romantic Comedy at the Colony Theatre

The Colony Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $37.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $18.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
On a Friday night in deepest winter, the residents of the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine (so far north it's almost in Canada) are falling in and out of love in unexpected, unusual, and often hilarious ways. As the northern lights hover magically overhead, knees are getting bruised, and hearts are getting broken. But the bruises heal and hearts mend — almost — in this delightful romantic comedy where 4 actors play 19 different characters.  Learn More

Cartoon, A Dark Comedy About Cartoon and Real Violence

Art|Works Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Steve Yockey's Cartoon is a fast and furious fable about violence — both the cartoon and real-life kinds. It's terror in Toontown, as the sledgehammer belonging to the bratty dictatorial little girl, Esther, is stolen by the anarchist imp Trouble (think Bugs Bunny meets Che Guevara). This dark comedy veers from slapstick madness to knowing satire.  Learn More

NBA Basketball: Detroit Pistons at Los Angeles Clippers

STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $100.00   Our Price: $50.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
The Los Angeles Clippers host the Detroit Pistons in Saturday night NBA action. Winners of the 2004 NBA title, the Pistons are still one of the league's top teams; with players like Chauncey Billups, Richard "Rip" Hamilton, and Rasheed Wallace, they're often praised for their balance, solid fundamentals, and team chemistry.  Learn More

John Gabriel in Magic Redefined - Magic's Hottest New Star

La Habra Depot Theatre (La Habra, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
For over a decade, magician John Gabriel has been thrilling audiences with his unique style of magic. Mixed with humor and suspense, flawlessly executing illusions with romantic choreography all delivered carefully to a selected backdrop of music. NBC and critics alike have hailed John Gabriel as "Magic's Hottest New Star." He has played to packed houses at Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace and Stardust Hotel.  Learn More

The Constant Wife: Long Beach Playhouse Presents Maugham's Classic Comedy of Manners

Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $13.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
The Long Beach Playhouse presents W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife. This sophisticated comedy tells the story of a woman who discovers her husband's infidelity, and sets out to manufacture her independence from him. Written over eighty years ago, Maugham's play seems strikingly ahead of its time today; a recent Broadway production was a 2006 Tony nominee for Best Revival of a Play.  Learn More

Parenthood Comedy Little Footsteps at Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $13.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Ben and Joanie, in their mid-thirties and married eight years, are an upwardly mobile "yuppie" couple about to become parents for the first time. Little Footsteps is a funny and cautionary examination of the promises—and perils—of impending parenthood.  Learn More

The Diary of Anne Frank, a New Adaptation, from Cypress Civic Theatre

Cypress Civic Theatre (Cypress, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
This powerful new adaptation is taken from newly discovered writings of the diary of Anne Frank, as well as survivor accounts, interwoven to create a contemporary impassioned story of the lives of people persecuted under Nazi rule. When eight people are forced to hide from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, we experience the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence - their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief.  Learn More

Poor Beast in the Rain: Tony-Nominated Director Presents Irish Play

The Matrix Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Salem K Theatre Co. presents Billy Roche's Poor Beast in the Rain, directed by Tony nominee Wilson Milam. It's the story of Danger Doyle, whose return to the town of Wexford during the weekend of the All ireland Hurling Finals reopens old wounds among his old friends and enemies. The cast includes veteran film actress Joanne Whalley and Deadwood's Kevin Kearns.  Learn More

Quick Culture's Tour of Costume Exhibit Featuring 125 Costumes from 2007's Oscar-Nominated Films

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, FIDM, Museum & Galleries (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:30pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
See the 16th annual Art of the Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibit on a tour by Quick Culture art guides. The tour features 125 costumes from 25 movies of 2007, including the Oscar-nominated films Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Hairspray, Enchanted, Harry Potter and Marie Antoinette. The tour will also share fun facts about the movies, the stars, the designers and their costumes.  Learn More

The Eulogy: World Premiere of One-Woman Show By Actress Brynn Thayer

Beverly Hills Playhouse (Beverly Hills, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Beverly Hills Playhouse's Research Theatre hosts the world premiere of The Eulogy, a one-woman show written by and starring Brynn Thayer, a veteran actress whose credits include the role of Matlock's daughter on Matlock. The show, which expresses the laughter and tears of an extraordinary father-daughter relationship, was directed by Michael Learned (The Waltons).  Learn More

iTom_shuffle - A Musical Comedy Cabaret for Consenting Adults Only

Theatre Asylum (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
With dozens of dirty little ditties in his risque repertoire, Tom Orr has built a new show, iTom_shuffle, made up of his best, raunchiest and bawdiest Broadway bawdlerizations, with provocative parody lyrics set to famous Broadway shows. With biting wit and sharp social commentary on everything from gay marriage to the crystal meth epidemic, iTom_shuffle will amuse and arouse audiences at Theatre Asylum.  Learn More

All Shook Up, the Hit Broadway Musical Featuring the Music of Elvis

Carpenter Performing Arts Center, CSULB (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $42.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $21.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Musical Theatre West presents All Shook Up at the Carpenter Center. In the regional premiere of this 2005 Broadway hit, it's Shakespeare meets James Dean, set to the music of Elvis Presley. A mysterious motorcycling stranger comes to a small Midwestern town and changes it forever. The songs ("Hound Dog," "Can't Help Falling In Love," "Heartbreak Hotel") are immortal; the dancing is incredible.  Learn More

Gangbusters Presents Tracers at the Little Victory Theatre

Little Victory Theatre (at the Victory Theatre Center) (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Tracers, created in 1980 by a group of Vietnam veterans, portrays the reality, grittiness and horror of on-the-ground combat, avoiding Hollywood glorification of the fighting experience. It's the story of six soldiers, their medic, and their drill instructor—members of the same fighting unit, who share all the bickering, petty infighting, camaraderie, affection and devotion of a marriage.  Learn More

Crime and Punishment, Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Classic from Actors Co-op

Crossley Theatres (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
This criminal tale journeys into the mind of a murderer, breaking the fourth wall of theatre as it brings the audience in as a character of the unfolding drama. Two players, assuming various identities, propel a killer to examine his motives during this exploration of the nature of evil, which ultimately becomes a spiritual journey in his search for redemption.  Learn More

Twice Upon a Time: World Premiere of Musical By Legendary British Comic Playwright Ray Cooney

Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (Redondo Beach, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $27.50*
Rated: 2.7 stars
The Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities is honored to present the world premiere of Ray Cooney's musical Twice Upon a Time, debuting here before scheduled runs in London and on Broadway. Cooney, one of Britain's most successful playwrights, has been touted as "The Master of Farce"; his Run For Your Wife ran for nine years in London's West End. The new play concerns a modern-day lawyer and his past life as a Prohibition-era Chicago gangster.  Learn More

Sci-Fi Dark Comedy Robots Vs. Fake Robots at Powerhouse Theatre

Powerhouse Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
It's the year 6000. Robots rule the world and humans are despised second-class citizens. A young man named Joe abandons his human world in a quest to transform himself into a robot. This dark comedy asks the question: What does it mean to be human, and what are you willing to sacrifice to fulfill your deepest desire?  Learn More

Mr. Marmalade: Dark Comedy About A Girl's Imaginary Friend

Gardner Stages (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
3KO Broadway Theatre Company presents Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle, a dark comedy about a four-year-old girl living alone with her usually-absent mother. Lucy seeks attention from the only source available: an imaginary friend named Mr. Marmalade. Unfortunately, Mr. Marmalade rarely has much time for Lucy either, being mostly concerned with abusing both drugs and his personal assistant. Lucy is forced to choose between fantasy and reality when she meets a non-fictional boy.  Learn More

New Yorkers Are Sarcastic...Nahhh: One-Act Comedies from Famous Playwrights

Hollywood Fight Club Theater (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Hollywood Fight Club presents New Yorkers Are Sarcastic...Nahhh, a bill of three one-act comedies from three of New York's funniest playwrights. Elaine May's Hotline, Woody Allen's Central Park West and Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna's The Brooklyn Italian Family are cleverly nasty, brutishly smart and totally hilarious.  Learn More

Forever Tango — Broadway's Long-Running Dance Spectacular at the Wilshire Theatre

Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $32.50 - $47.50   Our Price: $17.50 - $25.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Direct from a powerful Broadway revival, Luis Bravo's acclaimed dance spectacular features an all-Argentine cast of 14 dancers and 11 on-stage musicians. This passionate show is breaking box office records nationwide; the New York Times calls it "a must see."  Learn More

Artists Struggle with Life and Love in The Credeaux Canvas

The Stages Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 2.3 stars
In the comic drama The Credeaux Canvas, three struggling artists in New York City's East Village swindle an art collector, exploring a complex labyrinth of love, friendship and true intimacy.  Learn More

Invertigo Dance Theatre's Leap Year Waltzes - Intense, Physical Dance

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $10.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Highways Performance Space presents Invertigo Dance Theatre's Leap Year Waltzes, an evening of three new works by choreographer Laura Karlin filled with twisted narratives, playful imagery, and intense physicality. Invertigo recognizes that we live in the dizzy spaces, the tipping points, the moment where indecision decides, the places where balance turns upside-down.  Learn More

Concert Performance of Handel's Opera Radamisto at Zipper Hall

Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School of Performing Arts (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00 - $49.00   Our Price: $19.50 - $24.50*
Rated: 3.9 stars
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra presents Handel's rarely performed Radamisto, the composer's first major operatic success at the elegant Zipper Concert Hall. A feast for voices, Radamisto stars countertenor Jordi Domènech (Radamisto), mezzo-soprano Marina Rodriguez-Cusi (Zenobia), baritone Florian Boesch (Tirdate), soprano Isabel Monar (Polissena), baritone Peter Stewart (Farasmane), soprano Elissa Johnston (Tigrane), and soprano Céline Ricci (Fraarte).  Learn More

A Good Smoke: Production Company's World Premiere of Dark Comedy About Dysfunctional Family

The Chandler Studio Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $11.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
The Production Company is proud to present the world premiere of Don Cummings' A Good Smoke. It mixes comedy and drama to tell the story of a troubled woman's decision to give up her medications on the day her daughter gives birth. The resulting chaos sees the mother in the hospital's psych ward, her daughter in the maternity ward, and the rest of the family struggling to cope.  Learn More

The London Cuckolds: Hilariously Bawdy British Farce From 1681

Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
The Ark Theatre Company presents Edward Ravenscroft's The London Cuckolds. Originally produced over 300 years ago, this outrageous farce is as wickedly hilarious as ever. As three oblivious husbands stumble about 17th-century London trying to keep their wives faithful, two conniving gallants have other ideas. The bored and lusty wives prove willing accomplices.  Learn More

Sexy Laundry Starring Frances Fisher and Paul Ben-Victor at The Hayworth Theatre

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $0.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Sexy Laundry is a saucy, hilarious and extremely touching look at making love in middle age. At that time in life when hard bodies have given way to spare tires, and romance has taken a back seat to more practical pursuits, Alice (Frances Fisher) gets a copy of Sex for Dummies and brings her husband, Henry (Paul Ben-Victor), to a fancy hotel to rekindle their passion.  Learn More

A Faery Hunt: "Best of LA" (Los Angeles Magazine) Children's Outdoor Adventure

O'Melveny Park (Granada Hills, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:30am
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
Combining live theatre, interactive play and an appreciation of nature, A Faery Hunt is one of the longest running children's shows in Los Angeles. Set in beautiful O'Melveny Park, the children help the faery experts find their way into Faeryland—only to discover that Faery Queen Ainé's enchanted necklace is missing! Embarking on an exciting quest, the children actually become part of the story and participate in the action.  Learn More

VS. Theatre Company Presents On An Average Day, a Darkly Funny Drama

Elephant Lab Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 1.0 stars
On An Average Day is a tragic, twisted, moving portrait of two brothers haunted by their upbringing. Alternately sad and darkly funny, it is a riveting fable about the nature of abandonment and the redemptive power of family. This play was originally produc