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Events on May 3rd For Los Angeles, CA 90013

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

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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, May. 3 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $9.00   Our Price: $4.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Give the kids — and yourself — a good laugh at ComedySportzKidz, presented by the National Comedy Theatre.  Learn More

ComedySportz — Fast and Funny Comedy for Everyone

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $9.00 - $17.00   Our Price: FREE - $8.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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

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

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $100.00 - $310.00   Our Price: $50.00 - $155.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

Aspect Beauty: Spa Facials and Massage Therapy

Aspect Beauty (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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, May. 3 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

The Groundlings' Main Sketch Show: Groundlings, Your Body and You

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $21.50   Our Price: $10.75*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Legendary comedy troupe The Groundlings present their main sketch show Groundlings, Your Body and You. This is the company's latest collection of improvisational and scripted sketches, from L.A.'s masters of Saturday Night Live-style comedy.  Learn More

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

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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, May. 3 2008 @ 9:30pm (Lee Konitz)
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

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

Promenade Playhouse (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 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, Saturday, and Sunday! 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, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (Nick Mancini Collective)
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

Jewish Guilt Meets Racial Tension in Jerry Mayer's Black and Bluestein

The Other Space at Santa Monica Playhouse (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
The year is 1963, the city is St. Louis, and Daniel Black, a black biochemist, is going to buy the house he wants in an upscale white neighborhood, even if it ruffles feathers. The house is owned by builder Jeff Bluestein, a Jewish liberal who discovers that breaking the color barrier could break his bank account and his marriage. The conflict results in tense drama and laugh-out-loud comedy. This is a guest production at the Santa Monica Playhouse.  Learn More

All-Pro Comedy at The Ice House Comedy Club

The Ice House (Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 7:00pm (Mark Sweet)
Full Price: $12.50 - $17.50   Our Price: $5.00 - $8.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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.  Learn More

Intimate, Passionate, Exotic: The Art of Flamenco & Spanish Cuisine at Cafe Sevilla

Cafe Sevilla Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 6:30pm
Full Price: $47.50   Our Price: $29.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
The beautiful Cafe Sevilla invites guests to come and enjoy a magical evening of Spanish and Gypsy flamenco dance, a delicious three-course meal, and an atmosphere of European elegance and Mediterranean spirit. This complete flamenco performance includes dancers, singers, percussionists and guitarists.  Learn More

Salsa Boot Camp for Beginners and Advanced Beginners

The SalsaBox Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 11:00am (Saturday 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

Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles Bus Tour

The Esotouric Bus (W Avenue 26) (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 1:00pm
Full Price: $55.00   Our Price: $27.50*
Esotouric presents an adventure bus tour through Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, as revealed through his classic novels, screenplays and correspondence. Esotouric will journey down the mean streets that shaped Chandler's fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four-hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding environs: Musso & Frank's, Union Station, the Hotel Van Nuys, Paramount Studio's gates and much, much more.  Learn More

Cinderella - The World Premiere Musical for the Entire Family

Theatre West (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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

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

Hudson Guild Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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

Futuristic Farce Comic Potential at Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

Picasso at The Lapin Agile, Written by Steve Martin

Hollywood Fight Club Theater (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Hollywood Fight Club presents Picasso at The Lapin Agile. From the witty mind of Steve Martin comes this richly clever, mind-teasing meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso. Before the 20th century realizes who these geniuses are, they must discover each other first.  Learn More

Dark Comedy Cell Phone Funeral at Actor's Playpen

Actor's Playpen (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $22.00   Our Price: FREE - $11.00*
Rated: 2.4 stars
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.  Learn More

Woody Allen's Romantic Comedy Play It Again Sam

Hollywood Fight Club Theater (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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?  Learn More

Quick Culture's One-Hour Museum Tour for Kids

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 11:30am
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 1:30pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Sometimes an art museum visit can seem boring to a child, but not with Quick Culture. They transform the overwhelming museum experience into an entertaining artistic journey. They engage children in interactive conversations about how to look at and what to look for directly from a variety of artworks. This one-hour museum tour is designed for kids ages 6-12.  Learn More

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

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 7:45pm
Full Price: $13.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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!  Learn More

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

Eclectic Company Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $0.00 - $18.00   Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 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?  Learn More

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

The Coast Playhouse (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: SOLD OUT*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.1 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm (Opening Night & After-Party with Cast)
Full Price: $25.00 - $50.00   Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

Drama Lady from the Road Theatre Company

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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?  Learn More

Running from the Paparazzi - A Running Tour of Beverly Hills Outdoor Events

Off 'N Running Tours, Beverly Gardens meeting spot (Beverly Hills, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 1:00pm
Full Price: $60.00   Our Price: FREE - $30.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 2.7 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Pan Andreas Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 1.5 stars
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.  Learn More

Funny & Poignant Play The Curious Savage from Cypress Civic Theatre

Cypress Civic Theatre (Cypress, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

IAMA Theatre Company Presents Assistance, a New Play

Working Stage Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.50   Our Price: $8.25*
Rated: 3.0 stars
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.  Learn More

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

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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.  Learn More

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

[Inside] The Ford (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

NoHo Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $35.00   Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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.  Learn More

Musical Theatre West Presents The Andrews Brothers at the Carpenter Center

Carpenter Performing Arts Center, CSULB (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $35.00 - $42.00   Our Price: $17.50 - $21.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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).  Learn More

Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $12.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $12.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.50 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
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.  Learn More

Hilarious New Comedy Office Sonata from Range View Productions

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 1.8 stars
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.  Learn More

Offbeat Comedy KLÜB from The Actor's Gang

Ivy Substation (Culver City, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

The Stillspeaking Theatre (San Marino, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
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.  Learn More

AVP Beach Volleyball: Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open

South Side of Huntington Beach Pier (Huntington Beach, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00am-5:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Powerhouse Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

Arthur Miller's All My Sons from Glendale Community College

Glendale Community College, Auditorium Building (Glendale, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $3.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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.  Learn More

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

The Advent Theatre (Studio City, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Skylight Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
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.  Learn More

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

Elephant Lab Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
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.  Learn More

Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Morgan-Wixson Theatre

Morgan-Wixson Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

Science-Fiction Comedy Trapezoid at GTC Burbank

GTC Burbank (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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.  Learn More

Improv at the IO West: God Squad and DITKA

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Two of the top improv groups at Hollywood's famous IO West Theatre, God Squad and Ditka, perform longform improv. Both groups have been working together for years, and members have appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies, including MadTV and Reno 911!  Learn More

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at Knightsbridge Theatre

Knightsbridge Theatre, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
This classic British comedy set in Victorian England is one of the greatest comedies by one of the most clever minds of the 20th century, Oscar Wilde. As Jack and Algernon one-up each other in their antics to win the hearts of their beloved ladies, The Importance of Being Earnest asks the question "What's in a name?"—and answers it with perfectly honed wit and a perfectly madcap plot.  Learn More

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

Deaf West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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"?  Learn More

Broadway at the Playhouse: A Musical Revue Starring Danny Michaels

San Gabriel Mission Playhouse (San Gabriel, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Billed as "a musical revue," this long-awaited benefit show will star some of musical theatre's greatest talents. Headlining the event will be the incomparable Danny Michaels. As Will Rogers, the role he was born to play, Danny will guide the audience through a showcase of Broadway's greatest music, including songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kander and Ebb, Jerry Herman and many others.  Learn More

John Malkovich Stars in Seduction and Despair with Musica Angelica

The Barnum Hall Theater (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00   Our Price: $19.50*
Rated: 2.4 stars
Actor John Malkovich and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra present Seduction and Despair, an original multi-media concert presentation directed by and starring the celebrated Academy Award-nominee. Christoph Willibald von Gluck's Don Juan and works by other composers, performed by Musica Angelica, serve as the emotional background of the true story, which is based on the life of Jack Unterweger (portrayed by Malkovich).  Learn More

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $32.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $16.00 - $30.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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.  Learn More

Dark Comedy Blue Night in the Heart of the West from Open Fist Theatre

Open Fist Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 2.4 stars
Andrew Lewis MacAlpine, the last of his clan, leaves Scotland for the "Land of Liberty." A fresh start in a new country with little history and a bright future is what he's looking for, but his dream is not to be. Blue Night in the Heart of the West is a stunningly dark and comic spectacle.  Learn More

Oscar De La Hoya v. Steve Forbes: Homecoming

Home Depot Center (Carson, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 4:00pm
Full Price: $52.25 - $308.35   Our Price: $47.25 - $278.35*
Rated: 2.8 stars
The legendary "Golden Boy", boxer Oscar De La Hoya, fights in his hometown Los Angeles for the first time since 2000. He'll be facing Steve "Two Pounds" Forbes, a rugged former IBF titleholder and start of TV's The Contender who has never been knocked down. Watch as the pair collide in the Home Depot Center's first ever boxing event.  Learn More

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

Geffen Playhouse - Main Stage (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 4:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $74.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $37.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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.  Learn More

Terrence McNally's Prelude & Liebestod from Lonny Chapman Group Rep

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 2.1 stars
Terrence McNally's Prelude & Liebestod peels away the public facade of a world famous Leonard Bernstein-esque conductor to reveal his homo-erotic desires and painful quest for spiritual and artistic satisfaction. The haunting Wagner opera underscores the drama of a man overcome by his inability to integrate his physical passions with a meaningful life.