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The Groundlings Present The Completely Different Late Show

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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You never know what will happen or who'll be playing tonight when the Groundlings break all the rules!

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ComedySportz — Fast and Funny Comedy for Everyone

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $9.00 - $17.00 Our Price: FREE - $8.00*
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Improvised, competitive comedy for the whole family! You won't have to worry about covering their ears if you bring them to this kid-friendly show. It was created especially for younger fans and their families! See live comedy created right before your eyes, with audience participation and suggestions incorporated into the act.

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Spanish Cuisine & Dramatic Flamenco at El Cid

El Cid (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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).

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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. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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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!

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

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $100.00 - $310.00 Our Price: $50.00 - $155.00*
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As a wonderful gift or an indulgent treat for yourself, you can't do much better than a full body massage package or a facial package at the serene Cote d'Azur Spa, located in Old Town Pasadena. It's sure to be an unforgettable experience.

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Richard Villa's Refried Fridays at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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The world-famous Improv serves you Refried Fridays, the hottest Latino Night to hit Hollywood in years. Hosted by Richard Villa, the show is a rotating line-up of the funniest Latino comics mixed in with some very special guests. Come see what everyone is talking about.

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

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $21.50 Our Price: $10.75*
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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.

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Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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!

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

Promenade Playhouse (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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In the heart of the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in beautiful, balmy Santa Monica is a great night of comedy, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! With comedians seen on Letterman, Leno, Comedy Central and HBO, the Promenade Playhouse delivers serious laughs from great comics!

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Pasadena Jazz: Live Music from Jazz Greats and Hot Newcomers

Pasadena Jazz Institute (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (Rob Mullins)
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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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.

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Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00pm (Stanley Jordan Trio)
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
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This supper club hosts great live jazz in a setting with Old World charm. Catalina has lived up to its slogan "Nothing But the Best in Jazz" by presenting a veritable Who's Who of jazz legends such as Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Ray Brown, Joe Williams, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Benny Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and many more.

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All-Pro Comedy at The Ice House Comedy Club

The Ice House (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:30pm (Ron Pearson)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:30pm (Ron Pearson)
Full Price: $12.50 - $17.50 Our Price: $5.00 - $8.00*
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The Ice House Comedy Club, Pasadena's famed comedy club, presents some of the best stand-up comics in the business. You've seen them on "The Tonight Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and Comedy Central. Now you can see them in person, live on stage. Check the complete listing for more details.

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

The Colony Theatre Company (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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The High: Improvised Teen Soap Opera at ComedySportz Los Angeles

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Welcome to The High, where the students are beautiful, the teachers are bold and the secrets are scandalous. It's an addictive, edge-of-your-seat teen soap and a hilarious, seat-of-your-pants comedy show, improvised live before your very eyes based on an audience suggestion.

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Moliere's Comedy Don Juan, from A Noise Within

A Noise Within at the Historic Masonic Temple (Glendale, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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?

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Improv Comedy Troupe Weird on Top at Eclectic Company Theatre

Eclectic Company Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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It's true: They're Weird, always On and at the Top of their game! This improv comedy troupe's show at Eclectic Company Theatre fills the bill for some side-splitting, tear-inducing, undergarment-threatening laughter.

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

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

The Coast Playhouse (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $29.99 Our Price: $10.00 - $15.00*
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The three plays being presented—Mister Paradise, The Palooka and And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens...—are from a collection of one-acts that were written over the course of Tennessee Williams's career, but published posthumously. He had a distinct talent for writing short plays, and these new discoveries include some of his most poignant and hilarious characters.

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Friday Forty - A Comedy Game Show

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE*
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The game show world is obsessed with useless trivia. But who's there to make sure you're paying attention to what's going on in the world-right now? Friday Forty is the weekly game show that rewards your knowledge of what's going on in the world the last seven days. Contestants sit back, sip a 40-ounce, and face a fearsome 40 questions.

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

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Sidewalk Studio Theatre presents Milk and Cookies, the world premiere of a dark comedy by Jonathan Dorf. It's the tale of Margaret Nancy Reagan Ballmoth, a housewife forced to flee to Montana after her children allegedly kill a bank teller with poisoned cookies. She meets a milk-obsessed conspiracy theorist who helps her unravel the mystery of what really happened.

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

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Hudson Guild Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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Drama Lady from the Road Theatre Company

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Deep in the woods of downstate Illinois, three boyhood friends come together on a hunting trip. Now middle aged and on separate paths they find that the common thread of memory is being stretched to the breaking point. Can the war in Iraq reach even these secluded woods and destroy their friendship forever?

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

Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Emmy Award winner Mariette Hartley stars in a world-premiere comedy that's drenched in heart. In this play-within-a-play, a dysfunctional group of actors, a problematic set and a stage manager at his wits' end add to the tension between a writer and his producer-wife in rehearsal for a play about their own struggle with infertility.

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

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

NoHo Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 Our Price: $12.00*
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When Bunbury learns he's only a fictitious character who never appears in The Importance of Being Earnest, he uses his anonymity to infiltrate and alter classic literature, starting by giving Romeo and Juliet a happy ending. The resulting transformation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting for Godot and other works spawns a new sub-discipline in literary criticism—and may even change the world.

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Comic Thriller Gift of Murder at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 Our Price: $12.00*
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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.

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Award-Winning Broadway Actress Kathleen Chalfant in Red Dog Howls

El Portal Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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Hilarious New Comedy Office Sonata from Range View Productions

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Office Sonata is a madcap satire of corporate America that follows the bizarre and often hilarious day-to-day workings of Empire Advertising. The story centers on a cadre of overworked and underappreciated executive assistants, who try as they might to endure the company's harebrained regimens to boost productivity and profit margin.

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

Lillian Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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A Chorus Line: The Broadway Hit Comes to the Ahmanson

Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
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."

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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. 23 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.

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Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Morgan-Wixson Theatre

Morgan-Wixson Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
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In 1905 Manhattan, a 35-year-old "spinster" African-American seamstress creates custom lingerie for women of the boudoir and the brothel. She longs to break free and be herself in a society where she cannot quite fit into the set patterns that are stitched for African-American women. Intimate Apparel is the winner of five national awards for Best Play.

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Science-Fiction Comedy Trapezoid at GTC Burbank

GTC Burbank (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Art|Works Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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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.

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

Garrett Morris' Downtown Comedy Club (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm (Peter Berman)
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $7.00*
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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.

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Acclaimed Drama Saturday Night at the Palace at Furious Theatre Company

Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Open Fist Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
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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.

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Agatha Christie's Comical Murder-Mystery A Murder is Announced

Westchester Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: $9.00*
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The Kentwood Players presents Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced at the Westchester Playhouse, a comical mystery with many twists and turns. In true Agatha Christie style, this classic whodunit has many suspects, each with their own motive, and the inimitable detective Miss Marple. This is not your ordinary open-and-shut case — see if you can figure out whodunit.

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The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, a Hauntingly Funny Play

El Centro Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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West Coast Ensemble presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman (The Glory Of Living, Spinning Into Butter). This play takes aim at contemporary America's love/hate relationship with success. The Sweetest Swing in Baseball is a clever, sometimes painful look at the fragility and disposable nature of celebrity.

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Los Angeles Premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Rogue Machine

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Make a date to join Celebration Theatre as SoCal's best of the best (and worst of the worst) will compete in a gong show of wacky, tacky and jaw-dropping proportions. Singers, dancers, comedians, poets, actors, magicians (and other "unique" "talents") will be on hand, doing what they do best (or not-so best) and vying for your votes.

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

Crossley Theatres (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: $15.00*
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Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical masterpiece The Glass Menagerie is considered by many to be his best work. The play provides an unflinching glimpse into the lives of the Wingfields, a family struggling to find happiness in their run-down apartment in Missouri.

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Fever: A New Musical Comedy at Ricardo Montalban Theatre

Ricardo Montalban Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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South Gate Stage and the Ricardo Montalban Theatre present Fever, a new musical comedy. During the last days of disco, actress Mia refuses to marry her co-star in a publicity stunt, and instead runs off with a Spanish gigolo for a secret wedding in the woods. Mia is chased by her producer, her father, her co-star and her best friend, who all collide with a band of supernatural forest creatures.

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Tense Drama Dream Man at the Skylight Theatre

Skylight Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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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.

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

The Matrix Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Long Beach Performing Arts Center (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $37.00 - $42.00 Our Price: $18.50 - $21.00*
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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.

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High School Reunion Comedy the nothing boys at The Complex

East Theatre @ The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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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.

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Romantic Comedy Teen Girl at the Zephyr Theatre

Zephyr Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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

Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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Wicked, Broadway's Hit Musical at the Pantages Theatre

Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $98.00 Our Price: $59.80*
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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.

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I'm Just Wild About Harry - A World Premiere Old-Fashioned Musical Comedy

Crown City Theatre @ St. Matthew's Church (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Crown City Theatre Company presents I'm Just Wild About Harry, a world premiere old-fashioned musical comedy for the whole family, featuring songs from the early 1900s. The show is based on a 19th century farce. It was hilarious as a play, and even more fun as a musical.

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

Electric Lodge (Venice, CA)
Friday, May. 23 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.

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Avenue Q Tony-Winning Author Jeff Whitty's The Hiding Place

The Attic Theatre and Film Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Set in the mid-'90s in New York City, The Hiding Place concerns Karl, a popular but unsatisfied novelist, and Myra, a struggling playwright/waitress new to the city. The two meet and embark upon a letter-writing affair with notes left hidden for each other in a secret spot on a busy street. A physical affair begins, ultimately leading to passion and pain.

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Six Wry Dance Pieces at Highways: Go Metro...

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Highways Performance Space presents Jamie Benson's and Andrae Gonzalo's Go Metro..., six wry dance pieces that utilize the L.A. public transit system as a vehicle for expressing human drama. Benson's seductive choreography fuses Jazz, Ballet, and Modern dance technique to explore the incessant instinct to "get somewhere" only to realize you've arrived at the place you began.

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Theater Artist, Comedian, and World-Class Juggler Sara Felder's One-Woman Play Out of Sight

Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: $9.00*
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Theater artist, world-class juggler, shtickmeister and comedy maven Sara Felder presents a bold new one-woman play about a nearly blind woman and her adult lesbian daughter. As they struggle for balance in their relationship, their differing views of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis underscores intergenerational differences that they must overcome in order to find common ground.

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Tomahawk, A Modern Musical Based on the Novel The Naked Man

Actors Forum Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Tomahawk, based on James Domine's novel The Naked Man, is a brutally honest story of tortured relationships in a sometimes funny, sometimes desperate search for love as the conflicting emotions of youth evolve into the delusional quandaries of middle-age. This world premiere musical features accompaniment by a live band.

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Fireworks Night at Dodger Stadium: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals

Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 7:40pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $125.00 Our Price: $16.00 - $77.00*
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The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with a special Friday night game. First, they'll take on Albert Pujols and the 2006 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals. Then, stick around after the game for a spectacular fireworks display.

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Comedian-Actor Craig Robinson (The Office) at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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The Hollywood Improv welcomes comedian and actor Craig Robinson. Best known as warehous supervisor Darryl Philbin on NBC's Emmy Award-winning show, The Office, Craig has been a favorite of Goldstar Events' members for years. Other TV credits include FX's Lucky, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and HBO's Def Comedy Jam.

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