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ComedySportz — Fast and Funny Comedy for Everyone

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $9.00 - $17.00 Our Price: FREE - $8.00*
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Improvised, competitive comedy for the whole family! You won't have to worry about covering their ears if you bring them to this kid-friendly show. It was created especially for younger fans and their families! See live comedy created right before your eyes, with audience participation and suggestions incorporated into the act.

Massages and More: Spa Treatment Packages at Cote d'Azur

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $100.00 - $310.00 Our Price: $50.00 - $155.00*
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As a wonderful gift or an indulgent treat for yourself, you can't do much better than a full body massage package or a facial package at the serene Cote d'Azur Spa, located in Old Town Pasadena. It's sure to be an unforgettable experience.

Richard Villa's Refried Fridays at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $17.00 Our Price: $4.00 - $8.00*
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The world-famous Improv serves you Refried Fridays, the hottest Latino Night to hit Hollywood in years. Hosted by Richard Villa, the show is a rotating line-up of the funniest Latino comics mixed in with some very special guests. Come see what everyone is talking about.

Aspect Beauty: Spa Facials and Massage Therapy

Aspect Beauty (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $90.00 - $275.00 Our Price: $45.00 - $175.00*
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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.

Short-Form Comedy and Musical Improv with Stranger than Fiction

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $4.00*
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Stranger than Fiction features a cast of players from a variety of comedy and theatre backgrounds. STF's shows are a lively, entertaining mix of short-form comedy and musical improv based on suggestions from audience members. Audiences will be impressed and entertained by the cast's creativity and skill, and be treated to a completely different show every week.

Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 9:30pm (Lee Konitz)
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
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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!

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

Promenade Playhouse (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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In the heart of the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in beautiful, balmy Santa Monica is a great night of comedy, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! With comedians seen on Letterman, Leno, Comedy Central and HBO, the Promenade Playhouse delivers serious laughs from great comics!

Pasadena Jazz: Live Music from Jazz Greats and Hot Newcomers

Pasadena Jazz Institute (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (Jessica Vautor)
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE*
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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.

Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:00pm (Marcus Miller)
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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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.

Blues Buffet Dinner Cruise: Music, Dinner & Dancing

Hornblower Cruises and Events, Marina del Rey (Marina del Rey, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $72.00 Our Price: $45.00*
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Change up your boring Friday night with Hornblower's new Blues Dinner Cruise! Enjoy a boarding glass of champagne, a delicious dinner buffet and the soothing sounds of the Phil Gates Blues Band. Dance all night or take a stroll on the outer decks and check out the amazing views!

All-Pro Comedy at The Ice House Comedy Club

The Ice House (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:30pm (Dennis Blair)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:30pm (Dennis Blair)
Full Price: $12.50 - $17.50 Our Price: $5.00 - $8.00*
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The Ice House Comedy Club, Pasadena's famed comedy club, presents some of the best stand-up comics in the business. You've seen them on "The Tonight Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and Comedy Central. Now you can see them in person, live on stage. Check the complete listing for more details.

Comedian Tom Segura at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 - $20.00 Our Price: $9.00 - $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet

The Hollywood Improv welcomes comedian Tom Segura, who has performed with some of the top comedians in the country, including Jay Mohr, Pablo Francisco, Dave Attell, Sarah Silverman, Bob Saget, and Kathleen Madigan. Tom recently appeared on the second season of Comedy Central's Live at Gotham.

Harlem's Night: A Cabaret Story, Featuring the Brown Betties

The Mint (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
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Harlem's Night Cabaret, starring the Brown Betties and Joe, and featuring the Brown Sugar band, is back for yet another night of sassy, sultry, sophisticated enticement. Harlem's Night is a bedtime story about a lonely woman looking for love in all the wrong places. Told through the perspectives of Love (Christy Gamble), Hate (Keena Ferguson), Want (Danielle Lewis) and Need (Peppur Chambers), Harlem's Night will sizzle your senses with singing, dancing and acting.

Magnum Opus Theatre: Hilariously Awful Film Scripts, Live on Stage

Sacred Fools Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Sacred Fools presents Magnum Opus Theatre — the return of a long-running show with an ardent cult following. The premise is simple: a cast of talented performers produces staged versions of terrible film scripts sent to Hollywood studios by aspiring screenwriters, with hilarious results.

The High: Improvised Teen Soap Opera at ComedySportz Los Angeles

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Welcome to The High, where the students are beautiful, the teachers are bold and the secrets are scandalous. It's an addictive, edge-of-your-seat teen soap and a hilarious, seat-of-your-pants comedy show, improvised live before your very eyes based on an audience suggestion.

Futuristic Farce Comic Potential at Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential is a futuristic comedy about an innocent young man who falls in love with a "not-so-real" girl — it's also about the machinations behind the scenes that occur in the making of a local television drama.

The Violet Hour: Surreal and Hysterical Play by Tony Award-Winning Playwright

Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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In this new play by the Tony Award-winning author of Take Me Out, a fledgling WWI-era publisher is trying to decide which work to publish first: his lover's memoir or his best friend's novel. His decision is further complicated by the arrival of a mysterious machine that predicts the future of the play's protagonists, affecting their lives in haunting and unexpected ways.

Dark Comedy Cell Phone Funeral at Actor's Playpen

Actor's Playpen (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $22.00 Our Price: FREE - $11.00*
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Cell Phone Funeral is a comical yet poignant look at what a gay man's funeral might look like when his long-distance family must plan his funeral and has only his cell phone to determine the list of invitees.

Woody Allen's Romantic Comedy Play It Again Sam

Hollywood Fight Club Theater (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 Our Price: $8.00*
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Play It Again Sam follows the love life (or lack there of) of Allan Felix, a disheveled, socially awkward, film enthusiast whose shrink is on vacation. What will he do in these times of loneliness? Will his friends Dick and Linda set him up with the right girl, or is the right girl in front of him all along?

Disney's The Little Mermaid Sing-A-Long at the El Capitan Theatre

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 7:45pm
Full Price: $13.00 Our Price: $9.00*
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Sing-a-long with one of Disney's most beloved modern classics, The Little Mermaid, exclusively at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. This Oscar-winning film features such unforgettable songs as "Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea." There will also be a special appearance by Ariel the Mermaid!

Albert Einstein Musical The Smartest Man in the World — A World Premiere

Pico Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $35.00 Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
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The Smartest Man in the World examines the human side of one of the 20th century's greatest minds, Albert Einstein. It tells his life story, exploring his complex relationships with the women in his life while the world was celebrating his outstanding achievements.

William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at the Eclectic Company Theatre

Eclectic Company Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $0.00 - $18.00 Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
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The Eclectic Company Theatre and Kerr Bahr Productions present William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. One of the Bard's greatest hits, Measure for Measure features a stellar cast, gorgeous costumes and a bold interpretation, all combining to make Shakespeare's most shocking comedy come to life.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 — Sci-Fi Masterpiece Adapted for the Stage

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this theatrical adaptation, written by the legendary author himself. A paternalistic government suspends basic individual liberties in the name of preserving the security of the homeland. That could never happen here...could it?

Pitch It! — A Movie-Themed Improv Show from Spontaneous Productions

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Spontaneous Productions presents the world premiere of Pitch It!, a new comedy improv show at The Lyric Theatre. Each hour-long show features sketches, short-form improv games and a signature movie-themed long-form that lets the audience pitch its very own movie.

The Lost Plays of Tennessee Williams: Three Recently Discovered One-Acts

The Coast Playhouse (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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The three plays being presented—Mister Paradise, The Palooka and And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens...—are from a collection of one-acts that were written over the course of Tennessee Williams's career, but published posthumously. He had a distinct talent for writing short plays, and these new discoveries include some of his most poignant and hilarious characters.

Theatre Neo's Sketch Comedy Show Deep Tissue Comedy Release II

Secret Rose Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Deep Tissue Comedy Release II: The Quickening is an hour-long blend of original sketches and anything-can-happen comedy satirizing pop culture, Queen Elizabeth, talk shows, the prison system and speed dating, just to name a few.

Friday Forty - A Comedy Game Show

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE*
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The game show world is obsessed with useless trivia. But who's there to make sure you're paying attention to what's going on in the world-right now? Friday Forty is the weekly game show that rewards your knowledge of what's going on in the world the last seven days. Contestants sit back, sip a 40-ounce, and face a fearsome 40 questions.

Hal Linden and Allan Miller in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
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Hal Linden ("Barney Miller") and Allan Miller play two aging vaudeville stars who can't stand each other in Neil Simon's 1973 Tony Award winner for Best Play. The New York Post raved: "It's ham on wry.... Simon's surefooted craftsmanship and his one-liners are as exquisitely apt as ever."

Milk and Cookies: World Premiere of Dark Comedy at Sidewalk Studio Theatre

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Sidewalk Studio Theatre presents Milk and Cookies, the world premiere of a dark comedy by Jonathan Dorf. It's the tale of Margaret Nancy Reagan Ballmoth, a housewife forced to flee to Montana after her children allegedly kill a bank teller with poisoned cookies. She meets a milk-obsessed conspiracy theorist who helps her unravel the mystery of what really happened.

Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama Proof at the Odyssey Theatre

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $25.00 - $50.00 Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
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This contemporary play explores the relationships between parents and children, what they share and what they fear they might share. A formerly brilliant mathematician whose mind has failed dies, leaving his youngest daughter a legacy. She may be brilliant, she may be crazy—or she may be something all her own.

Drama Lady from the Road Theatre Company

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Deep in the woods of downstate Illinois, three boyhood friends come together on a hunting trip. Now middle aged and on separate paths they find that the common thread of memory is being stretched to the breaking point. Can the war in Iraq reach even these secluded woods and destroy their friendship forever?

Running from the Paparazzi - A Running Tour of Beverly Hills

Off 'N Running Tours, Beverly Gardens meeting spot (Beverly Hills, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 1:00pm
Full Price: $60.00 Our Price: FREE - $30.00*
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Running from the Paparazzi is an exciting 4-mile run from Wilshire Boulevard to glamorous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, through Hollywood and past eclectic shops on Robertson Boulevard. Grace the streets of Beverly Hills in record time, doing some quick window-shopping and celeb watching, while avoiding the forever-flashing paparazzi.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rueful Comedy Dinner with Friends at Theatre 40

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
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In the Pulitzer Prize-winning wry and keenly observed Dinner with Friends, a husband and wife reevaluate their relationship when their closest friends split after 12 years of marriage. This deceptively straightforward suburban dramatic comedy looks at marital infidelity, the perils of breaking up and the terror of staying together.

Mariette Hartley in New Comedy In The Wings at the Whitefire Theatre

Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Emmy Award winner Mariette Hartley stars in a world-premiere comedy that's drenched in heart. In this play-within-a-play, a dysfunctional group of actors, a problematic set and a stage manager at his wits' end add to the tension between a writer and his producer-wife in rehearsal for a play about their own struggle with infertility.

Oscar Winner John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money? — A Dark Comedy About Marriage

Pan Andreas Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
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Academy Award-winning writer John Patrick Shanley ("Moonstruck") examines what marriage really is in this darkly funny and surreal play. Where's My Money? looks at two couples' conquest for love—and how they destroy each other in the process.

Brief Buddies: Short Solo Pieces on the Uniquely Gay Relationship of Buddies

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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In Brief Buddies, gay men perform short solo pieces, in their briefs, celebrating the unique relationship of The Buddy. From baths to bars to chat rooms to the theatre, these fierce performers search for pleasure, meaning and ultimately their own gay souls. The show is curated by GLAAD Award-nominated performance artist Ian MacKinnon.

Funny & Poignant Play The Curious Savage from Cypress Civic Theatre

Cypress Civic Theatre (Cypress, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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Mrs. Savage has been left ten million dollars by her husband, and wants to make the best of it, despite the efforts of her grown-up stepchildren who commit her to a sanatorium. While there, she meets various social misfits who just can't adjust to the harsh realities of life. Believing in Mrs. Savage, her new-found friends help conspire against her self-serving stepchildren.

IAMA Theatre Company Presents Assistance, a New Play

Working Stage Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.50 Our Price: $8.25*
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Assistance, the third installment of Leslye Headland's Seven Deadly Plays series, examines how the sin of greed eventually corrupts an office full of youthful ambition. Several twenty-somethings take on the daunting job of assisting a successful but impossibly demanding boss. Unable to please him as their environment deteriorates, they resort to rivalry, jealousy, fear and abuse.

A Piece of Tin, a World Premiere Musical, at Lyric Theatre

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: $15.00*
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Many authors have chronicled the life of Queen Victoria. While some have written more broadly than others, the collective authors usually examine the same events and character, lending their own flourishes for refreshment. In this new musical, a rather recent and curious discovery about the sovereign is explored, revealing an explosive, bitter issue within the late-19th century royal family, wrought posthumously by none other than the Queen herself.

Hart Pulse Dance Company's Spring Fling at [Inside] The Ford

[Inside] The Ford (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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With spring bringing life, bright colors and newfound excitement, Hart Pulse Dance Company unfolds its fresh new dance show. Spring Fling expresses the little moments we all experience during the changing of the season. Come and enjoy this vibrant evening of contemporary dance and live music.

Pest Control... The Musical: Rock Musical Based on Best-Selling Novel, Starring Tony Winner

NoHo Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $35.00 Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
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Open At the Top Productions presents the world premiere of Pest Control... The Musical. Based on Bill Fitzhugh's best-selling novel, it's the story of an exterminator who's mistaken for a notorious professional assassin and hired to kill the world's most dangerous man. Set to a rock musical score inspired by the styles of late 70's and early 80's rock with a dash of early hip-hop, the show stars Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks.

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot: A Surrealistic, Romantic Drama

Art|Works Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is Jose Rivera's surrealistic, lyrical celebration of romance. Love, lust and longing mix it up with otherworldly fantasy and gritty realism that infatuates a young housewife awaiting the return of her soldier-husband from overseas.

Musical Theatre West Presents The Andrews Brothers at the Carpenter Center

Carpenter Performing Arts Center, CSULB (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $35.00 - $42.00 Our Price: $17.50 - $21.00*
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Musical Theatre West presents the West Coast premiere of The Andrews Brothers, a new musical by Roger Bean (creator of the long-running L.A. hit The Marvelous Wonderettes) at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. Mistaken identities, madcap comedy and the greatest music of the 1940s fill this sweet and hilarious show (imagine Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in a Road movie version of Some Like it Hot).

Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 Our Price: $12.00*
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When Bunbury learns he's only a fictitious character who never appears in The Importance of Being Earnest, he uses his anonymity to infiltrate and alter classic literature, starting by giving Romeo and Juliet a happy ending. The resulting transformation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting for Godot and other works spawns a new sub-discipline in literary criticism—and may even change the world.

Picnic, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 Our Price: $12.00*
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It's 1953 in a small Kansas town and options are few for Madge and her independent younger sister, Millie, who yearn for more than the life of staid domesticity awaiting them. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, playwright William Inge depicts the pleasure—and the pain—of risking everything to choose your own path.

Coffee Will Make You Black, A 1960s Coming-of-Age Story at Celebration Theatre

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.50 - $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Coffee Will Make You Black, adapted from the award-winning novel by April Sinclair, traces the coming-of-age story of Jean "Stevie" Stevenson, a black teenager on the brink of s*xual awakening during the turbulent and politically charged late 1960s. A story of strength, discovery and acceptance, Coffee will have you craving a second cup.

Hilarious New Comedy Office Sonata from Range View Productions

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Office Sonata is a madcap satire of corporate America that follows the bizarre and often hilarious day-to-day workings of Empire Advertising. The story centers on a cadre of overworked and underappreciated executive assistants, who try as they might to endure the company's harebrained regimens to boost productivity and profit margin.

Offbeat Comedy KLÜB from The Actor's Gang

Ivy Substation (Culver City, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Welcome to KLÜB, L.A.'s hottest nightspot, where the elite meet and performers compete. Behind the velvet rope, a hilarious heart-breaking spectacle awaits: ten desperate souls audition with their lives. But only one will get out of KLÜB tonight. It's A Chorus Line meets No Exit.

Priest on Trial for Murder in The Runner Stumbles at The Stillspeaking Theatre

The Stillspeaking Theatre (San Marino, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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A young nun has died under mysterious circumstances in a remote parish in northern Michigan, and her superior, Father Rivard, has been charged with her murder. What led to the murder? Was anything "improper" going on in this small up-country parish? The true nature of God and love are at the heart of this searing drama.

Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Blue Surge is a dark, caustic, humorous look at five characters pushing their way through life on both sides of the law in small-city America. Each of them faces or denies, fights or embraces the dreams, social classes, pasts, futures and the fleeting of the present that make up who they are.

AVP Beach Volleyball: Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open

South Side of Huntington Beach Pier (Huntington Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00am-6:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $40.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $20.00*
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America's best pro beach volleyball players come to Huntington Beach for the Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open. The AVP Tour's third event of this season, the Open will feature three full days of action, with both men's and women's volleyball stars, some of whom are scheduled to represent the US at the upcoming Olympics in Beijing.

LearnAboutWine Presents TASTE: California's Small Family Wineries

Paperfish (Beverly Hills, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $65.00 Our Price: $32.50*
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LearnAboutWine presents the latest in their popular TASTE series. The topic this month is small family wineries—artisan wines and new brands to watch. Sample from more than 40 different wines and enjoy appetizers under the stars at Paperfish, a new multi-million dollar Patina restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Testosterone: How Prostate Cancer Made a Man of Me at the Powerhouse Theatre

Powerhouse Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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What does it mean to be a man when the very thing that defines masculinity is taken away? Hal Ackerman takes a frank look at the meaning of masculinity and mortality in his poignant and humorous play.

Arthur Miller's All My Sons from Glendale Community College

Glendale Community College, Auditorium Building (Glendale, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $3.00*
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When is it wrong to make money? The pursuit of the American Dream for Joe Keller and his family turns nightmarish in a single weekend in the seemingly idyllic setting of the Kellers' backyard. Classic American playwright Arthur Miller explores life after World War II, family secrets and one man's conflict to make the most for his family or to do the right thing.

Rodgers and Hart's Musical I'd Rather Be Right

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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Anything can happen when Rodgers and Hart meet Kaufman and Hart in this midsummer night's romp in Central Park. I'd Rather Be Right mixes love, political satire and Yankee Doodle high jinks into an intoxicating fantasy, where Supreme Court justices cavort with leggy chorines and FDR desperately tries to balance the budget with a buck and wing and a prayer.

Beloved Classic Novel Little Women Live On Stage at The Advent Theatre

The Advent Theatre (Studio City, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Little Women is one of the most widely read books in the English language. Louisa May Alcott's cherished story about family life and love traces the adventures of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy growing up in trying times during the Civil War.

Camelot Artists' New Voices '07/'08 - A Showcase of One-Act Plays

Skylight Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Camelot Artists presents New Voices '07/'08: Program B, a showcase of original one-act plays, written, directed and performed by students of the Beverly Hills Playhouse. The plays include Adam Donshik's Waiting For You, Dean Kreyling's Forgiveness, Elizabeth Gorcey's A Certain Something, and Carlyle King's Road Conversion.

Time's Scream and Hurry: Three Provocative Stories at the Elephant Lab

Elephant Lab Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Time's Scream and Hurry, a collection of three provocative, powerful monologues by Paul Hoan Zeidler, was named a "Best Bet" by the Los Angeles Times. "So-So's Sister" concerns an East L.A. teen who has grudgingly cared for her mentally disabled sister since childhood; "Match Girl" features a depressed young woman who struggles with a tendency to burn herself with matches; in "The Good Boyfriend," a Chicago man with an angry streak begins dating a mysterious girl.

Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Morgan-Wixson Theatre

Morgan-Wixson Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
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In 1905 Manhattan, a 35-year-old "spinster" African-American seamstress creates custom lingerie for women of the boudoir and the brothel. She longs to break free and be herself in a society where she cannot quite fit into the set patterns that are stitched for African-American women. Intimate Apparel is the winner of five national awards for Best Play.

Science-Fiction Comedy Trapezoid at GTC Burbank

GTC Burbank (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 Our Price: $8.00*
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Exploring the relationship between art and technology, Trapezoid tells the story of a Korean American poet who is hired by a technology think tank to put the "art" in artificial intelligence. When the robot creation falls in love with its human creator, it's man-made versus mankind—with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes tragic.

And Her Hair Went with Her, a Hilarious Celebration of Sisterhood

Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
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A comedy tour-de-force for two actors portraying a variety of eccentric characters in a beauty shop, highlighting the many intricacies of black women and the importance placed on their hair. Starring Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam, Caroline or Change) and Tracie Thoms (Rent, Cold Case), And Her Hair Went with Her is a celebration of the sisterhood of the salon.

Trout Stanley: A Metaphysical Dark Comedy About the Aberrations of Love

Deaf West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Trout Stanley is a lightly metaphysical, darkly comic glimpse into the aberrations of love. Trout Stanley inveigles his way into the backwoods home of the notorious Ducharme twins, Sugar and Grace, and violates their strange marriage. Is he the lost soul he claims to be? Or is he the embodiment of "the Beast within"?

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $32.00 - $60.00 Our Price: $16.00 - $30.00*
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Pasadena Playhouse presents a groundbreaking revisionist production of Steinbeck's classic tale about two men searching for the American dream. In this provocative make-over, Of Mice and Men is set in 1942 California, where thousands of Hispanic migrant workers cross the border to pursue dreams of a better life for their families. This setting for Of Mice and Men amplifies Steinbeck's themes of loneliness and longing.

Emergency: Daniel Beaty's One-Man Show About the Black Experience

Geffen Playhouse - Main Stage (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $74.00 Our Price: $20.00 - $37.00*
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Award-winning artist Daniel Beaty portrays a cast of 40 characters who all respond to a stunning phenomenon: a slave ship rises out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty. Beaty melds slam poetry, multi-character transformation and song to present a stirring, critically acclaimed commentary on modern black life.

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, a Hauntingly Funny Play

El Centro Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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West Coast Ensemble presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman (The Glory Of Living, Spinning Into Butter). This play takes aim at contemporary America's love/hate relationship with success. The Sweetest Swing in Baseball is a clever, sometimes painful look at the fragility and disposable nature of celebrity.

Los Angeles Premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Rogue Machine

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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When women were men...on the stages of England, Edward Kynaston reigned as the most celebrated leading lady. His exquisite portrayals of Shakespeare's famous females brought him celebrity and love at the start of the Restoration. Then, a real woman named Margaret Hughes stepped on stage to steal his glory.

1001: A New Spin on The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights

Boston Court Performing Arts Center-Mainstage (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $17.00 - $32.00 Our Price: $8.50 - $16.00*
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This funny and heartbreaking retelling of The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights spins stories of love, sex, religion and war. The story follows urbanite Alan, who wanders through a deserted New York City subway tunnel in a hallucinogenic daze—and emerges from the dark to encounter a one-eyed Middle-Eastern merchant in ancient Baghdad.

Your 15 Minutes: Celebration Theatre's Fame or Shame Game

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Make a date to join Celebration Theatre as SoCal's best of the best (and worst of the worst) will compete in a gong show of wacky, tacky and jaw-dropping proportions. Singers, dancers, comedians, poets, actors, magicians (and other "unique" "talents") will be on hand, doing what they do best (or not-so best) and vying for your votes.

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie from Actors' Co-op

Crossley Theatres (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: $15.00*
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Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical masterpiece The Glass Menagerie is considered by many to be his best work. The play provides an unflinching glimpse into the lives of the Wingfields, a family struggling to find happiness in their run-down apartment in Missouri.

Grand Illusions: Magic in San Pedro - An Enchanting Evening of Magic

Warner Grand Theatre (San Pedro, CA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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The Port of Los Angeles High School proudly presents their second annual Spring Fundraiser: Grand Illusions: Magic in San Pedro at the historic Warner Grand Theater. This magical evening is produced in collaboration with last year's magician and MC, Jeff Parmer, and the show will include specialty acts by Dana Daniels and his Psychic Parrot Luigi, Long Beach residents Les Arnold and Dazzle, and Craig Davis' Circus of Illusion.