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Events on May 16th For Los Angeles, CA 90013

The Groundlings Present The Completely Different Late Show

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

Spanish Cuisine & Dramatic Flamenco at El Cid

El Cid (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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

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

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

Tom Wilson, Biff from Back to the Future, at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $17.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Join Tom Wilson, best known as Biff in the Back to the Future series, at the Hollywood Improv for an evening of stand-up comedy. Tom has appeared on all the major talk shows, including The Tonight Show, Letterman, Regis, The Today Show and more. He also performs many voices in Nickelodeon's SpongeBob Squarepants series.  Learn More

Short-Form Comedy and Musical Improv with Stranger than Fiction

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 2008 @ 9:30pm (Francisco Aguabella Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Septet)
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. 16 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

Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 10:00pm (Dian Schuur)
Full Price: $10.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
This supper club hosts great live jazz in a setting with Old World charm. Catalina has lived up to its slogan "Nothing But the Best in Jazz" by presenting a veritable Who's Who of jazz legends such as Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Ray Brown, Joe Williams, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Benny Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and many more.  Learn More

All-Pro Comedy at The Ice House Comedy Club

The Ice House (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:30pm (Michael Loftus and Loni Love )
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 10:30pm (Michael Loftus and Loni Love )
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

Last Year's Hit Trying Returns to the Colony Theatre Company

The Colony Theatre Company (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $50.00   Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The boss is an aging legend, cantankerous but charismatic. The new assistant is young and vulnerable, but full of grit. And then the fun begins. Based on the playwright's own real-life experience, the play is a hopeful and humorous tale of friendship amidst life's most inevitable adventure: growing old. By the author of The Colony's smash hit To Grandmother's House We Go.  Learn More

Salsa Class: Ladies' Styling Mini Camp at The SalsaBox Studios

The SalsaBox Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Have your salsa basics down and want to take it to the next level? In this two-hour ladies' styling camp, you'll learn sexy solo footwork, styling for partnering and get a great workout in the process! After the workshop, the gentlemen will be invited in to dance so the ladies can try out their new styling techniques.  Learn More

Wordplay: True Stories with a Live Soundtrack at the Fake Gallery

Fake Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:30pm (Stirling Gardner, Lauren Dombrowski)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
Wordplay is a new spin on storytelling. Some of the best writers and storytellers in L.A. read their hilarious true tales while a DJ spins a real-time soundtrack. It's part "This American Life," part stand-up comedy and like nothing you've seen.  Learn More

The High: Improvised Teen Soap Opera at ComedySportz Los Angeles

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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

Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I from A Noise Within

A Noise Within at the Historic Masonic Temple (Glendale, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $14.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
England's Prince Hal, supremely aided and abetted by that most famous of fat men, Sir John Falstaff, rides on a vaporous cloud of high spirits and rollicking good times. But the rumblings of rebellion and civil war shatter childish games and in the process transform the boy prince into King Henry V, defender of the realm in William Shakespeare's sweeping historical saga.  Learn More

Dark Comedy Cell Phone Funeral at Actor's Playpen

Actor's Playpen (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 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

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

Eclectic Company Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

Chicken Scratch: Comic Essay Show at iO West

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Hosted by veteran TV writer and WGA leader Ed Lee (The Drew Carey Show), Chicken Scratch is an evening in which members of the comedy community read hilarious essays based on true stories from their lives.  Learn More

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

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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

Disney's Family Film The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 7:55pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 11:15pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $11.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The characters of C.S. Lewis' timeless fantasy come to life in this newest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series, in which the Pevensie siblings are magically transported back from England to the world of Narnia, where a thrilling, perilous new adventure awaits them. Audience members will be able to view an exclusive collection of set pieces and props direct from the movie, only at the El Capitan.  Learn More

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

The Coast Playhouse (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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

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

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
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."  Learn More

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

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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

Drama Lady from the Road Theatre Company

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

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

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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

Someone's Somebody, a One-Woman Play, from Sidewalk Studio Theatre

University of Philosophical Research (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Imagine 11-year-old Regina Louise in Austin, Texas, circa 1970, leading a life more dangerous than that of the outcast orphans Dickens depicts roving London streets a century earlier. This glimpse of Regina Louise "making good on her pact" with God is a gripping true tale of struggle, overcoming unbelievably adverse circumstances and triumph. Accompanied by original music, this stirring tale resonates with hope and resilience.  Learn More

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

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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

Award-Winning Broadway Actress Kathleen Chalfant in Red Dog Howls

El Portal Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $39.00 - $65.00   Our Price: FREE - $32.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Kathleen Chalfant, one of the theater's most celebrated actors from Wit and Angels in America, stars in the world premiere of Alexander Dinelaris's searing new play Red Dog Howls. The story concerns a young man who thinks he is Greek until he discovers a letter that his late father wrote to his grandmother, who hid their Armenian origins.  Learn More

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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

Tooth and Nail, A Dysfunctional Family Comedy at the Lillian Theater

Lillian Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Tooth and Nail shines a bright light on the dysfunctional Laney family: their loves, foibles and caustic triumphs. Their modern New Jersey lives are comedically put to the test when the family patriarch suddenly begins living as Peter O'Toole's King Henry II from the classic film "The Lion in Winter" and tests everyone's mettle over a Sunday dinner.  Learn More

Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

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

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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

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

Elephant Lab Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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. 16 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. 16 2008 @ 7:15pm
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

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

Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

The Legendary Times of Bulgakov: A Portrait of the Russian Satirist Bulgakov

Art|Works Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 2.7 stars
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov captures the soul of Russian satirist Mikhail Bulgakov (best known in the West for his novel The Master and Margarita) and the essence of his time (Russia, 1917-1940). Movement, image, voice, satire, surrealism and song combine to present a quilt-like unfolding of Bulgakov's story, inviting the audience to enter a mutual search for revelation.  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. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm (Erik Griffin)
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

The Perilous Streets of South Pasadena Family Theater Festival - Comic Melodrama

Under the Tent (South Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Classic melodrama takes center stage when old Captain Mariola Molina of South Pasadena suddenly collapses in the office of evil Fair Oaks banker Aloysius Vogner who steals his fortune, putting the Molina family out on the streets. Will the Molinas be avenged? Will the wicked but beautiful heiress Alida Vogner be foiled from marrying handsome Mark Vandercook? And what about that scurrilous Mr. Tetshaw?  Learn More

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 6:30pm (Wine tasting), 8:00pm (Show)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm (Show only)
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)
Friday, May. 16 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

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

Geffen Playhouse - Main Stage (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Los Angeles Premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Rogue Machine

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

Spring 2008 Bead Show at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ Noon - 6:00pm
Full Price: $6.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 3.1 stars
The Bead Show features thousands of top-quality beads and beading supplies at affordable prices from exhibitors around the world. In addition, there will be free beading workshops with Wendy Simpson Conner all weekend long!  Learn More

Word(4) - The Many Dimensions of Performance Poetry

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Highways Performance Space presents its 4th Annual Poetry/Performance Festival with Word(4), curated by LeVan D. Hawkins. This is a three-day, four-show examination of the many ways performance poets present their work, using theatrics, vocal skills, music, film, and costumes to enhance the written word. Check the listing for more details.  Learn More

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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

Miss Saigon: Tony Award-Winning Musical in Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (Redondo Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

Flora the Red Menace: Kander and Ebb's First Musical at UCLA's Freud Playhouse

UCLA Freud Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 7:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $60.00 - $75.00   Our Price: $30.00 - $37.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Before Chicago, before Cabaret, there was Flora the Red Menace — the first collaboration between the legendary team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Starring Broadway's Eden Espinosa (Brooklyn, Wicked) and Tony nominees Manoel Felciano and Megan Lawrence, the show tells the story of a headstrong young woman in Depression-era New York, whose world is thrown into disarray when she falls in love with a member of the Communist Party.  Learn More

Tense Drama Dream Man at the Skylight Theatre

Skylight Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.4 stars
James Carroll Pickett's Dream Man returns to the Skylight Theatre twenty-two years after it premiered there. With Michael Kearns directing and starring Jimmy Shaw in a limited engagement, Dream Man depicts a harrowing night in the life of a phone sex hustler named Christopher.  Learn More

George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at The MET Theatre

The MET Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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

"Witch Hunt" Drama Boise, USA at the Matrix Theatre

The Matrix Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm (Opening Night)
Full Price: $22.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Inspired by actual events, Boise, USA begins on Halloween night, 1955, in the quiet, respectable city of Boise, Idaho, when the shocking arrests of three men for "lewd and lascivious conduct" with three teenage boys set off a notorious "witch hunt" to purge the city of all suspected homosexuals. Family loyalties are soon divided, pitting brother against brother, father against son.  Learn More

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

Long Beach Performing Arts Center (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 16 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. 16 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

Much Ado About Nothing: The Porters of Hellsgate Present Shakespeare's Comedy

Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
The Porters of Hellsgate are proud to present William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Set in 1946, as the boys return from war, watch with wonder as war thoughts left vacant are turned to love. Lead by the famously sharp wit of Benedick and Beatrice, plots arise, vows are broken, but love, of course, wins the day.  Learn More