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Events on May 22nd For Los Angeles, CA 90013

Spanish Cuisine & Dramatic Flamenco at El Cid

El Cid (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 7:00pm (Dinner), 8pm (Show)
Full Price: $34.95 Our Price: $21.00*
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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).

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

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $140.00 - $310.00 Our Price: $70.00 - $155.00*
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As a wonderful gift or an indulgent treat for yourself, you can't do much better than a full body massage package or a facial package at the serene Cote d'Azur Spa, located in Old Town Pasadena. It's sure to be an unforgettable experience.

Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 9:30pm (Joey DeFrancesco Trio)
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
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All week long the Jazz Bakery offers the best in hot new jazz! LA Weekly called the Jazz Bakery the "most prestigious jazz space in Los Angeles," and it lives up to that by focusing on fantastic new acts as well as classics of the genre. A don't-miss, not only for jazz fans, but for lovers of all sorts of music!

Pasadena Jazz: Live Music from Jazz Greats and Hot Newcomers

Pasadena Jazz Institute (Pasadena, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (Leila Avila)
Full Price: $10.00 - $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Spend the evening at the venue that is fast becoming Pasadena's hottest spot for live jazz: the Pasadena Jazz Institute's new home at the Paseo Colorado. Audiences will enjoy ongoing sets of music, performed by some of the most talented newcomers and veterans from the world of jazz.

Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 10:00pm (Stanley Jordan Trio)
Full Price: $10.00 - $45.00 Our Price: FREE - $22.50*
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This supper club hosts great live jazz in a setting with Old World charm. Catalina has lived up to its slogan "Nothing But the Best in Jazz" by presenting a veritable Who's Who of jazz legends such as Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Ray Brown, Joe Williams, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Benny Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and many more.

The Groundlings' Improv Show: Cookin' With Gas

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.40 Our Price: $8.25*
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Since 1992 The Groundlings Main Company, Alumni and Sunday Companies have played together every Thursday night in the all-improv explosion that has become almost as much of an institution as the Groundlings Theatre itself! Based entirely on audience suggestions, the comic daredevils invent custom-made satire and song. Each week features a new surprise guest.

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

The Colony Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $50.00 Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
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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.

Ignorance is Bliss with Daryl Wright

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 Our Price: FREE - $3.00*
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Ignorance is not necessarily a bad thing. This show allows some of today's funniest comics to loosen their ties and give you the type of comedy that you've been dying for. When political correctness is thrown out the window and comics are allowed to run wild, you will understand why Ignorance Is Bliss.

Moliere's Comedy Don Juan, from A Noise Within

A Noise Within at the Historic Masonic Temple (Glendale, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00 Our Price: $14.00 - $20.00*
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Monsieur Don Juan, armed with a calloused and lustful heart, feeds his ravenous sexual appetite with boundless enthusiasm. Heedless of warnings both earthly and otherwise, history's most notorious romantic devil rushes headlong toward retribution, in French genius Moliere's sparkling cautionary comedy.

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

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 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?

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

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 7:55pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $11.00*
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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.

Enjoy Shopping & Freebies at Shecky's Girls Night Out

Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport (Santa Monica, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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America's favorite shopping party, Shecky's Girls Night Out, returns to L.A. Shop the latest trends in emerging fashion and accessories, sip delicious complimentary cocktails, sample fabulous products and services, and score Shecky's Deluxe Goodie Bags. It'll be your best girl's night out of the season!

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

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $50.00 Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
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This contemporary play explores the relationships between parents and children, what they share and what they fear they might share. A formerly brilliant mathematician whose mind has failed dies, leaving his youngest daughter a legacy. She may be brilliant, she may be crazy—or she may be something all her own.

Baggage Claim, Story of a Man Wrestling with His Past, at Hudson Guild Theatre

Hudson Guild Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $24.00 - $28.00 Our Price: $12.00 - $14.00*
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Filled with humor and drama, Baggage Claim is the journey of one man's struggle to overcome the anger and bitterness of his past to hopefully find a place of peace and forgiveness. He learns that with the help of "family," anything is possible.

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

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: $15.00*
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Many authors have chronicled the life of Queen Victoria. While some have written more broadly than others, the collective authors usually examine the same events and character, lending their own flourishes for refreshment. In this new musical, a rather recent and curious discovery about the sovereign is explored, revealing an explosive, bitter issue within the late-19th century royal family, wrought posthumously by none other than the Queen herself.

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

NoHo Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $35.00 Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
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Open At the Top Productions presents the world premiere of Pest Control... The Musical. Based on Bill Fitzhugh's best-selling novel, it's the story of an exterminator who's mistaken for a notorious professional assassin and hired to kill the world's most dangerous man. Set to a rock musical score inspired by the styles of late 70's and early 80's rock with a dash of early hip-hop, the show stars Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks.

Award-Winning Broadway Actress Kathleen Chalfant in Red Dog Howls

El Portal Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00 - $65.00 Our Price: FREE - $32.50*
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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.

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.50 - $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Coffee Will Make You Black, adapted from the award-winning novel by April Sinclair, traces the coming-of-age story of Jean "Stevie" Stevenson, a black teenager on the brink of s*xual awakening during the turbulent and politically charged late 1960s. A story of strength, discovery and acceptance, Coffee will have you craving a second cup.

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

Lillian Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
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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.

Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Blue Surge is a dark, caustic, humorous look at five characters pushing their way through life on both sides of the law in small-city America. Each of them faces or denies, fights or embraces the dreams, social classes, pasts, futures and the fleeting of the present that make up who they are.

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

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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Anything can happen when Rodgers and Hart meet Kaufman and Hart in this midsummer night's romp in Central Park. I'd Rather Be Right mixes love, political satire and Yankee Doodle high jinks into an intoxicating fantasy, where Supreme Court justices cavort with leggy chorines and FDR desperately tries to balance the budget with a buck and wing and a prayer.

A Chorus Line: The Broadway Hit Comes to the Ahmanson

Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm (Opening Night)
Full Price: $40.00 - $90.00 Our Price: $20.00 - $45.00*
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Winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this singular sensation is the longest-running American Broadway musical ever. Now Michael Bennett's smash hit is back! A Chorus Line follows the stories of 17 dancers as they audition to be in the chorus of a Broadway show. Marvin Hamlisch's score includes hits such as "What I Did For Love," "I Can Do That" and "One."

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

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
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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.

Science-Fiction Comedy Trapezoid at GTC Burbank

GTC Burbank (Burbank, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 Our Price: $8.00*
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Exploring the relationship between art and technology, Trapezoid tells the story of a Korean American poet who is hired by a technology think tank to put the "art" in artificial intelligence. When the robot creation falls in love with its human creator, it's man-made versus mankind—with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes tragic.

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

Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
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A comedy tour-de-force for two actors portraying a variety of eccentric characters in a beauty shop, highlighting the many intricacies of black women and the importance placed on their hair. Starring Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam, Caroline or Change) and Tracie Thoms (Rent, Cold Case), And Her Hair Went with Her is a celebration of the sisterhood of the salon.

Improvised Tennessee Williams at iO West

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE*
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The Kind Stranger Players improvise a new play in the style of Tennessee Williams — complete with all the heat, booze and sexual tension of the great playwright's masterworks. Bring a fan and enjoy the show.

Acclaimed Drama Saturday Night at the Palace at Furious Theatre Company

Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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2 a.m. The outskirts of Johannesburg. A broken-down motorcycle strands two white men at a lonely roadhouse with a Zulu waiter who only wants to close for the night... Saturday Night at the Palace examines the events leading up to a racially motivated crime in the volatile Gauteng Region of South Africa seven years before the official end of apartheid.

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $32.00 - $60.00 Our Price: $16.00 - $30.00*
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Pasadena Playhouse presents a groundbreaking revisionist production of Steinbeck's classic tale about two men searching for the American dream. In this provocative make-over, Of Mice and Men is set in 1942 California, where thousands of Hispanic migrant workers cross the border to pursue dreams of a better life for their families. This setting for Of Mice and Men amplifies Steinbeck's themes of loneliness and longing.

Los Angeles Premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Rogue Machine

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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When women were men...on the stages of England, Edward Kynaston reigned as the most celebrated leading lady. His exquisite portrayals of Shakespeare's famous females brought him celebrity and love at the start of the Restoration. Then, a real woman named Margaret Hughes stepped on stage to steal his glory.

George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at The MET Theatre

The MET Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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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.

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

The Matrix Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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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.

High School Reunion Comedy the nothing boys at The Complex

East Theatre @ The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00 Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
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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.

Romantic Comedy Teen Girl at the Zephyr Theatre

Zephyr Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $0.00 - $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Susan, a shy high school senior, gets a crash course in sex and drugs when her mom goes out of town for the weekend and her backyard suddenly becomes party central. Set in 1979, this coming of age romantic comedy hasn't been seen in twelve years.

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

Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
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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.

Wicked, Broadway's Hit Musical at the Pantages Theatre

Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $98.00 Our Price: $50.25*
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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.

Hit and Run: Musical Improv at the M Bar, with Velvet Tom

M Bar & Restaurant (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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Get ready for an off-the-cuff musical adventure unlike anything else in Los Angeles! The performers of Hit and Run use audience suggestions to create completely improvised songs and musicals of all kinds. From the melodies to the lyrics and dancing, every show is different, and everything you'll see is made up on the spot! Opening act: comic lounge singer Velvet Tom.

Three Generations of Women Celebrated in James Sherman's From Door to Door

Electric Lodge (Venice, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Mary Goodman is mourning the loss of her husband after 50 years of marriage. She reflects back on her life as a daughter, wife and mother searching for a vision of her own identity. Spanning 70 years of family history, From Door to Door is a funny, touching tribute to three generations of women in America.

Pippin, the Award-Winning Musical from the Composer of Wicked

David Henry Hwang Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $45.00 - $50.00 Our Price: $22.50 - $25.00*
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The Tony Award-winning musical Pippin receives a revitalizing twist with theatre anime visuals, hip-hop dance influence and contemporary music arrangements live on stage. Journey with Pippin as he braves the challenges found in the worlds of war, pleasure, politics, art, religion and love as he searches for his true calling. A stunning example of magic and merriment.

Cocktails, Jazz and Live Theatre: Reservations for Two at Write Act Rep

Write Act Repertory Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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Sip a cocktail, enjoy the sultry mood of live jazz and laugh your way into an evening of six original 10-minute one-acts about love, lust and the mysteries of relationships. Written, directed and performed by Write Act Rep members, the production boldly explores the age-old question "What is this thing called love?"

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