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Events on May 9th For Los Angeles, CA 90013

The Groundlings Present The Completely Different Late Show

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
You never know what will happen or who'll be playing tonight when the Groundlings break all the rules!  Learn More

Last Comic Standing's Todd Glass at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $7.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Todd Glass, star of NBC's Last Comic Standing, performs at the Hollywood Improv. Todd is well-known for his roles on such shows as Friends, Home Improvement and Married with Children.  Learn More

ComedySportz — Fast and Funny Comedy for Everyone

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

Spanish Cuisine & Dramatic Flamenco at El Cid

El Cid (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 7:00pm (Dinner), 8pm (Show)
Full Price: $34.95   Our Price: $21.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Enjoy an evening of Spanish cuisine and flamenco dancing on the beautiful wooden stage at El Cid, in hip Silverlake. Historic El Cid is a beautiful indoor-outdoor Spanish villa-style complex, and a night of flamenco could happen in no better venue. An inspiring, exotic evening! Price includes dinner and the show (but not beverages or tip).  Learn More

Mentalist Max Maven's Thinking in Person at the Steve Allen Theatre

Steve Allen Theater, at the Center For Inquiry West (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Mentalist Max Maven, called by Orson Welles "the most original mind in magic," presents his full-length show. It's not exactly a one-man show, because it involves dozens of minds...including yours!  Learn More

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

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

Richard Villa's Refried Fridays at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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.  Learn More

Aspect Beauty: Spa Facials and Massage Therapy

Aspect Beauty (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

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

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Short-Form Comedy and Musical Improv with Stranger than Fiction

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $4.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
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.  Learn More

Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 9:30pm (Curtis Fuller Quintet)
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)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 9:00pm
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)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:30pm-11:30pm (Scott Oakley - Cuban Jazz)
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm (John Densmore)
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.4 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

Blues Buffet Dinner Cruise: Music, Dinner & Dancing Outdoor Events

Hornblower Cruises and Events (Marina del Rey, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $68.00 - $72.00   Our Price: $34.00 - $45.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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!  Learn More

All-Pro Comedy at The Ice House Comedy Club

The Ice House (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:30pm (Kyle Cease and Steve Bluestein)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:30pm (Kyle Cease and Steve Bluestein)
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

The High: Improvised Teen Soap Opera at ComedySportz Los Angeles

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
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.  Learn More

Futuristic Farce Comic Potential at Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

Dark Comedy Cell Phone Funeral at Actor's Playpen

Actor's Playpen (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 9 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

An Evening of Astounding Magic when The Spencers Present Theatre of Illusion

Carpenter Performing Arts Center, CSULB (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Cross the threshold of disbelief and be drawn into a world where artistry and theatre converge, and where impossibility and inspiration collide. Award-winning illusionists Kevin and Cindy Spencer present a high-tech stage show replete with dazzling special effects, puzzling feats of agility and cutting-edge illusions that are sure to keep your family on the edge of their seats.  Learn More

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

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

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

Pico Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $35.00   Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
Rated: 2.4 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Eclectic Company Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.99   Our Price: $10.00 - $15.00*
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

Friday Forty - A Comedy Game Show

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 1.2 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana from A Noise Within

A Noise Within at the Historic Masonic Temple (Glendale, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $14.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Defrocked minister T. Lawrence Shannon, addicted to alcohol and under-aged young women, seeks sanctuary in the familiar (if fetid) surroundings of the tropical Hotel Costa Verde in southern Mexico. Riddled with self-loathing but buoyed by the unlikeliest of guardian angels, he is forced to conquer his personal demons or die trying.  Learn More

Drama Lady from the Road Theatre Company

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

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

Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 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

Funny & Poignant Play The Curious Savage from Cypress Civic Theatre

Cypress Civic Theatre (Cypress, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
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)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 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

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

NoHo Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

Comic Thriller Gift of Murder at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $12.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
A famous actress, accompanied by her niece, is recuperating from a hectic season and a bit too much high living when a few surprise guests arrive and quickly turn things upside down. Combining humor and suspense, this thriller brings together a cast of charming and witty "theatre people" and plunges them into a plot of murder, mayhem and disguised identity.  Learn More

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Great Expectations: A New Musical Based on Dickens' Classic Novel

Hudson Backstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The Hudson Theatre hosts the premiere of a new musical version of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The rich score brings to life the story of young Pip and his journey of obsession, disillusionment, and redemption. The show was a Los Angeles Times "Critic's Choice" and a LA Weekly "Theatre Pick of the Week".  Learn More

Highways' 19th Birthday Benefit Show: Dance, Music, Performance & Spoken Word

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:30pm (Dance)
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Highways Performance Space celebrates 19 years of developing and presenting brave and uncensored new work with two nights of dance, music, performance and spoken word. Each show features a different program of nationally renowned performers and Highways veterans, including blue13 dance company, DanceGood.Damnit!!!, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Naked with Shoes, ARTEL, Nao Bustamante, LeVan D. Hawkins, Mira Kingsley and Dorian Wood. See full event description for lineup.  Learn More

Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

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

Powerhouse Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

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

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

The Green Room, a World Premiere Drama, from Hollywood Fight Club

Hollywood Fight Club Theater (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
A group of theater students return to college for the fall term. Will the relationships from last year endure, grow stronger or be ripped asunder? They're all competing for parts in the season's productions. Each character faces the upcoming auditions with expectation and fear — what happens will affect them for the rest of their lives.  Learn More

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

The Advent Theatre (Studio City, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

All the Help You Need: The Adventures of a Hollywood Handyman at Theatre 40

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 2.2 stars
Theatre 40 presents Tim Ryan Meinelschmidt's All the Help You Need: The Adventures of a Hollywood Handyman. This one-man tour de force, which won the 2004 New York Fringe Festival, chronicles Meinelschmidt's unexpected experiences as an aspiring actor and handyman in Los Angeles. Alternately hilarious and frightening, this remarkable story makes for riveting viewing.  Learn More

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

Elephant Lab Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 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)
Friday, May. 9 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

Shakespeare's Sly Comedy The Merchant of Venice

Camino Theatre at LACC (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
In this witty comedy set in Venice in the late 1500s, a merchant, Antonio, wishes to help his friend Bassanio win the hand of the rich young Portia—so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock. If Antonio can't repay the loan, Shylock gets to take a pound of his flesh! Will Bassanio get the girl? Will Antonio save his skin? And what secret does Portia have hidden up her sleeve?  Learn More

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

Deaf West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy Club at the Wilshire Grand Hotel Presents All-Star Comedians

Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy Club (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm (Grand Re-Opening)
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy Club features some of the hottest names in comedy, performing at their new home in the Wilshire Grand Hotel. 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

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

Open Fist Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 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

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, a Hauntingly Funny Play

El Centro Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

Los Angeles Premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Rogue Machine

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Crossley Theatres (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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.  Learn More

Latin Reggae/Funk Night: Quinto Sol, Pachamama, Saw Red

Quiet Cannon (Montebello, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Latin Reggae/Funk Night at the Quiet Cannon features three bands in concert. Headliner Quinto Sol is roots-reggae at its core, woven seamlessly with Latin rhythms like cumbia, rumba and son; Pachamama blends reggae, Afro-beat and ska music; and Saw Red pays tribute to the bands Sublime and No Doubt.  Learn More

Miss Saigon: Tony Award-Winning Musical in Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (Redondo Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $27.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
In Miss Saigon, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (creators of Les Misérables), along with Richard Maltby, Jr., bring Puccini's Madame Butterfly to the modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years compose one of the most compelling stories of modern theatre.  Learn More

George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at The MET Theatre

The MET Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan is a tempestuous retelling of the mighty tale of Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the armies of King Charles of France against the British occupiers and their collaborators in the great wars of the 1400s in France.  Learn More

Slick Rick: Rap Legend with Live Band Accompaniment at the Rhythm Lounge

Rhythm Lounge (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
The Rhythm Lounge hosts a concert by legendary rapper Slick Rick. Rick is known for songs like "La Di Da Di" and "Children's Story", and his The Great Adventures of Slick Rick is widely considered one of the greatest rap albums of the '80s. A major influence on artists ranging from Snoop Dogg to the Notorious BIG, Rick will be backed up for this performance by a full live band.  Learn More

Park Your Car in Harvard Yard at Long Beach Performing Arts Center

Long Beach Performing Arts Center (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $37.00 - $42.00   Our Price: $18.50 - $21.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
This funny and deeply moving tale is about the toughest, meanest teacher to ever set foot in Gloucester High. Now he is dying, and he hires a mousy, middle-aged woman to look after him during his final year. What he has forgotten is that he flunked her...and her mother and her father...and her recently deceased husband.  Learn More

High School Reunion Comedy the nothing boys at The Complex

East Theatre @ The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
On the ten-year anniversary of his adulthood, Gregory James goes back to school. And on this Long Island evening in June, he and the other "nothing boys" will finally graduate. This new stage comedy was inspired by a real event.  Learn More

Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of The People from Ark Theatre Company

Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Written in 1882 as an indictment of contemporary society, Ibsen's insights remain as relevant and timely more than a century later. Modern conflicts between government and the governed, the individual and the majority, science and commercialism are starkly mirrored in Ibsen's scathing, unsettling polemic.  Learn More

Wicked, Broadway's Hit Musical at the Pantages Theatre

Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $98.00   Our Price: $59.80*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Wicked, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, is "a phenomenon that keeps growing" (L.A. Times). Long before Dorothy drops in, two girls meet in the land of Oz and form an unlikely friendship, going on to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. Wicked has won 20 major awards, including a Grammy Award and three Tony Awards.  Learn More

The Colburn Orchestra in Concert with Pinchas Zukerman

The Alex Theatre (Glendale, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
The Colburn Orchestra will feature Pinchas Zukerman, guest conductor and soloist, for their upcoming performance at the historic Alex Theatre. The orchestra will also be joined by Amanda Forsyth, guest cellist.  Learn More

Hedda Gabler: Ibsen's Classic Drama at the Odyssey Theatre

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
Henrik Ibsen's classic tragedy Hedda Gabler is explored in a modern translation by Kenneth McLeish. The title character is struggling in a world devoid of excitement and discontent in her marriage, and is driven by lust and compassion to a former admirer, leading to disastrous results. Danish actress Dina Rosenmeier plays Hedda; Charles Otte and Rick Pagano direct.  Learn More