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

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $4.00*
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L.A. Connection puts on an outrageously funny improv show in the "Who's Line Is It Anyway" style. The show is one of the LA Times picks for New Year's Eve.

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Comedian Arj Barker (Flight of the Conchords) at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00 Our Price: $3.00 - $10.00*
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Comedian Arj Barker's career received a boost recently, when he was cast in the role of "Dave" on HBO's hit Flight of the Conchords. He's also the co-creator of the off-Broadway hit The Marijuana-Logues, and his stand-up appearances include Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

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U-Sical, the Improvised Musical, from ComedySportz

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 - $19.00 Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
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The National Comedy Theatre presents U-Sical, a full-length improvised musical comedy, featuring audience participation.

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

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $8.00 Our Price: FREE*
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Two shows, two casts—four feet tall! This improv show performed by kids is a great day out for families who love to laugh together. Take a ride into the minds and world of the children of the Valley as the kids of Joy Theatre perform comedy, standup, improv and sketches at the Raven Playhouse.

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

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 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.

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Improv Comedy for Kids at LA Connection

L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 5:30pm
Full Price: $7.00 Our Price: $3.00*
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LA Connection presents Improv Comedy for Kids, performed by some of the area's most talented young people. The performances are family-friendly and filled with laugh-out-loud-funny sketch comedy and improv.

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

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm
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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Enter the Mad Mind of the Teenager with Detention Span's Teen Improv

Raven Playhouse (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $8.00 Our Price: FREE*
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Being a teenager is tough, but the kids of Joy Theatre's Detention Span take teen angst and transform it into comedy gold. It's a madcap, fun-filled hour of sketch, improv, impressions, singing, and more at the Raven Playhouse. Relive the funniest moments of growing up—without actually having to, er, relive them.

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Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 9:30pm (Poncho Sanchez)
Full Price: $20.00 - $80.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $60.00*
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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)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm
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)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (TBA)
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.

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Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm (Hugh Masekela)
Full Price: $20.00 - $35.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $17.50*
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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.

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

Cafe Sevilla Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 6:30pm
Full Price: $47.50 Our Price: $29.50*
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The beautiful Cafe Sevilla invites guests to come and enjoy a magical evening of Spanish and Gypsy flamenco dance, a delicious three-course meal, and an atmosphere of European elegance and Mediterranean spirit. This complete flamenco performance includes dancers, singers, percussionists and guitarists.

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Salsa Boot Camp for Beginners and Advanced Beginners

The SalsaBox Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $60.00 Our Price: $40.00*
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The four-hour Salsa Boot Camp at Salsabox Studios is an immersion class, perfect for busy people who have always wanted to learn some moves for the salsa clubs. Classes are divided into Novice Beginners and Advanced Beginners; both will teach the basics of salsa, plus some fun routines. Class ends with a Latin lunch buffet.

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A Faery Hunt: "Best of LA" (Los Angeles Magazine) Children's Outdoor Adventure

O'Melveny Park (Granada Hills, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:30am
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Combining live theatre, interactive play and an appreciation of nature, A Faery Hunt is one of the longest running children's shows in Los Angeles. Set in beautiful O'Melveny Park, the children help the faery experts find their way into Faeryland—only to discover that Faery Queen Ainé's enchanted necklace is missing! Embarking on an exciting quest, the children actually become part of the story and participate in the action.

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

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this theatrical adaptation, written by the legendary author himself. A paternalistic government suspends basic individual liberties in the name of preserving the security of the homeland. That could never happen here...could it?

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One Night Stands - A Hysterical New Comedy

Avery Schreiber Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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The audience is a fly on the 4th wall as several couples relate to one another before and after they have sex for the first and last time in this hysterical new comedy. One Night Stands - The Sex Comedies is The Vagina Monologues of one-night stands.

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Carny Trash: Carnival Veteran Aye Jaye Tells Stories From the Midway

Steve Allen Theater, at the Center For Inquiry West (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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The Steve Allen Theater welcomes Aye Jaye. A second-generation carny, Aye Jaye is one of the foremost authorities on the carnival life, as well as a sleight-of-hand artist, public speaker comedian, and raconteur. Carny Trash is a look behind the senes of the midway, into the bizarre world of Tilt-a-Whirls, con artists, pinheads, and more.

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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)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm (Shawn Pelofsky, Vicki Barbolak)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:00pm (Shawn Pelofsky, Vicki Barbolak)
Full Price: $20.00 - $40.00 Our Price: FREE - $20.00*
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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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My Old Friends, a Tony-nominated West Coast Premiere Musical

Victory Theatre Center (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 4:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $34.00 Our Price: $17.00*
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Victory Theatre Center presents the West Coast premiere of the Tony nominated musical My Old Friends. At the Golden Years retirement hotel, there's a mixed bag of guests, a little romance, plenty of time for song, a little dancing and lots of jokes.

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Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, Based on the Myths of Ovid

Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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The stories in Metamorphoses are full of comedy, tragedy, pathos, laughter, tears, passion, violence, grief, regret and redemption. An ethnically diverse cast of men and women showcase the universal struggles of love and loss as characters such as Midas, Eros, Bacchus, Zeus, Aphrodite, Ceres and Psyche.

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Garage Rock Musical The Next Big Thing

Art|Works Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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It's 1983, and Chip and his budding garage band are looking for the new sound—much to the dismay of Chip's mom, a singer-songwriter from the '60s with a checkered past and a belief that good music is more than a simple hook. Music by members of rock band Breech, winner of the DIY Album of the Year with its release, "Apron Strings," and nominee for "Best Indie Band" by the OC Weekly.

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Songs From An Unmade Bed, An Urban Romantic Musical at Celebration Theatre

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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One lyricist and 18 composers join forces to create a unique music/theatre event in Songs From An Unmade Bed, a solo work that propels a smart, resilient, wry, and ultimately romantic gay New Yorker through the heartaches and triumphs of love in the big city.

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Cal Phil Festival on the Green at The Arboretum

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden (Arcadia, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 7:30pm (Movie Magic)
Full Price: $25.00 - $83.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $41.50*
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Enjoy a summer evening of live music and delicious food in a beautiful outdoor setting. The California Philharmonic plays its annual summer series, Cal Phil Festival on the Green, at The Arboretum. Order a catered meal or bring a picnic to enjoy under the stars, and hear one of Southern California's leading orchestras play music from Broadway and Hollywood, as well as classical, dance music and more.

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Adam Baum & the Jew Movie, Directed by Oscar-Winner Paul Mazursky

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
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The Hayworth presents Adam Baum & the Jew Movie, an acclaimed new comedy directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Mazursky (Harry and Tonto) and starring Richard Kind (Spin City, Mad About You), Nicholas Brendan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Gregory Mikurak (CSI: Miami). With wit and wisdom, playwright Daniel Goldfarb takes an insightful look into the heart and mind of a Jewish immigrant who has made something of himself in post-war United States.

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Saturday Champagne Brunch Cruise Around Marina Del Rey

Hornblower Cruises and Events (Marina del Rey, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ Noon
Full Price: $53.00 Our Price: $35.00*
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Take in the sights, listen to relaxing music, linger in the sun and enjoy a leisurely Saturday brunch on this two-hour cruise. Hornblower Cruises' lavish brunch buffet features a savory selection of all your favorites and includes complimentary free-flowing champagne.

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Unbeatable Harold, A Romantic Adventure, at Ruskin Group Theatre Company

Ruskin Group Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
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Nothing is impossible in the heart of an artist, or for those who dare to dream...BIG. When a man's passion pushes him to venture into unfamiliar commitments, anything can happen. When he falls for a beautiful girl who seems to miss some of the splendor of life's bigger possibilities, there is so much to be explored.

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Stephen Sondheim's Assassins: West Coast Ensemble Presents Darkly Humorous Musical

El Centro Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $34.00 Our Price: $17.00*
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West Coast Ensemble presents Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's bold, surreal and darkly humorous musical Assassins. This controversial, Tony Award-winning show is a musical exploration of nine individuals who assassinated or attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Capsized Flotsam, a Gay Edwardian Comedy

Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00 Our Price: FREE - $11.00*
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If Oscar Wilde were alive today...well, he would be really, really old! But he would also be writing plays like Capsized Flotsam, a new comedy receiving its West Coast premiere at the Ark this summer. Local L.A. playwright Donaco Smyth meshes the wit of Wilde with the fantastic worlds of H.G. Wells, then throws in some of the outlandish zaniness of Monty Python for good measure.

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The Last Five Years: A Musical Love Story, Frontwards and Backwards

Hudson Backstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $34.99 Our Price: $17.50*

This contemporary song-cycle musical chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to breakup....or from breakup to meeting, depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World), the show is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress, told from both points of view.

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Rabbit Hole: 2007 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama Presented By Camelot Artists Productions

Skylight Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole tells the story of Becca and Howie, a married couple with a secret grief - eight months earlier, their 4-year-old son Danny was killed by a car. Since Danny's death, Becca looks for ways to move on from the tragedy but finds her methods don't align with Howie's. The play has won many awards, including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

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The Lion in Winter: Kentwood Players Present Classic Tale of Medieval Plotting

Westchester Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: $9.00*
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The Kentwood Players present James Goldman's The Lion in Winter. It's the story of King Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, known for their acrimonious relationship. The King and Queen's battle to determine the royal succession is marked by treachery, scandal, and some of the sharpest dialogue ever seen on stage. The classic 1968 film version starred Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.

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Sketch Comedy and Music in Bar Tricks and Other Human Feats

Celebration Theatre (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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From Todd Milliner and Rob Mello, the creators of 1985, Id Napped! and Milk Cartons comes a brand-new sketch comedy experience. Bar Tricks and Other Human Feats is a witty and fast-paced hour of comedy and music centered around finding a new perspective on life, love and everything in between.

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Award-Winning Play Desert Sunrise

Lillian Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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The critically-acclaimed play Desert Sunrise, by Israeli Army veteran Misha Shulman, will have its West Coast premiere at The Lillian Theatre. Desert Sunrise begins with a chance encounter between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian shepherd seeking refuge in the West Bank. They meet warily, quarreling, laughing, fighting their way to a place of mutual acceptance. Just when it seems they have forged a bond, the Palestinian's girlfriend abruptly alters their trajectory.

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Shakespeare's Hamlet, Reimagined by Gangbusters Theatre Company

Little Victory Theatre (at the Victory Theatre Center) (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Departing from their usual practice of presenting 20th century classics with their original speed and violence, the Gangbusters Theatre Company is delving into Shakespeare's most famous play. The director, who is new to the company, is maintaining a respectful faithfulness to the Bard's text, while taking a startling approach to the material.

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Rose: A Journey Through 20th-Century Jewish Life, at the Odyssey Theatre

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $45.00 Our Price: FREE - $22.50*
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This one-woman play starring Naomi Newmann takes the audience on a restless journey through 20th-century Jewish life: from a Ukrainian shtetl to the Warsaw ghetto to Atlantic City and Miami, with side trips to a hippie commune in Connecticut and an Israeli settlement on the West Bank.

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Marriage on the Rocks in Refuge from the Storm at Actors Group Theatre

Actors Group Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
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A tavern serves as refuge from a fierce storm for Tom and Doris, whose marriage is in a crisis. As the raging storm forces others into the tavern, they become players in the couple's drama. Can their marriage survive all the ghosts in their closet?

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Macbeth - Shakespeare's Tragedy As You've Never Seen It Before

Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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The Porters of Hellsgate are proud to continue their second season with William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Set within a representational, ever-shifting gothic fever dream, the events of the classic tragedy unfold with a visceral dread and nightmarish immediacy while traversing the path toward a poignant, bittersweet, inevitable conclusion.

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The Comedy of Errors: Shakespeare's Uproarious Classic, Set in 1960s Venice Beach

Open Fist Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, based on an ancient Roman play, is the western world's prototypical sitcom, replete with lies, mistaken identities, and infidelities. Open Fist Theatre Company's brand new adaptation is set in Venice Beach in the 1960s, and its mayhem is the perfect cure for the summertime blues. Ron West directs.

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West Coast Premiere of Brett Neveu's American Dead

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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American Dead is an elegiac rendering of the death of another American small town. The story is deceptively simple, often humorous. As a man grieves for his murdered sister his town continues wasting away, having been blighted by the closing of industry, the death of the family farm and the prevalence of methamphetamine.

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Powerful New Drama Body Politic from Echo Theater Company

Zephyr Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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The Echo Theater Company presents Body Politic, a new play by acclaimed playwright Jessica Goldberg. It's the story of a screenwriter trying to access Ward 57 of Walter Reed Hospital, where soldiers who have suffered cataclysmic injuries in Iraq recover, but she is refused by an Army captain. What occurs between them is the surprising and poignant story of what can happen when people with deep commitments and beliefs come to recognize each other's humanity.

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See Costumes from 2008 Emmy-Nominated TV Shows on a Quick Culture Tour

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, FIDM, Museum & Galleries (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 11:30am
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Join a Quick Culture tour of the 3rd Annual Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design Exhibit, featuring costumes from the 2008 Emmy-nominated shows as well as current and past TV shows, including "Mad Men," "Pushing Daisies," "Project Runway" and "The Tudors." The Quick Culture Art Guides will share amusing and fun facts about the TV shows, the stars, the designers, and the costumes.

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

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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Following a successful run at the Hudson Theatre, this new musical version of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations moves to the Odyssey Theatre for an extended run. The rich score brings to life the story of young Pip and his journey of obsession, disillusionment, and redemption. The show was a Los Angeles Times "Critic's Choice" and a LA Weekly "Theatre Pick of the Week".

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The MisMatch Game: Camp Version of Classsic Game Show

Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center presents the return of their cult-favorite show The MisMatch Game. A camp take on classic game show Match Game, the show features top local performers and comedians impersonating the show's regular panelists (including Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly). Local radio host Dennis Hensley portrays host Gene Rayburn in this wacky, spontaneous show.

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Suddenly Last Summer: Lodestone Theatre Ensemble Presents Tennessee Williams Drama

GTC Burbank (Burbank, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 Our Price: $8.00*
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Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, the pioneering Asian-American theater company, presents a production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer. The Asian-American cast brings a unique spin to Williams' story of Sebastian Venable's mother and sister, who are forced to come to terms with the horrifying secret underlying his death.

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Fairy Tale Hansel and Gretel from The Bubble Gum Playhouse

The Bubble Gum Playhouse at the Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: FREE - $6.00*
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When chubby Hansel and pudgy Gretel discover an edible cottage in the woods, they believe their prayers have been answered! As they help themselves to the goodies, they discover there's more to the cottage than meets the eye and that the enthusiastic occupant has plans to keep them "jumping."

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George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession at the Chandler Studio Theatre

The Chandler Studio Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 Our Price: $11.00*
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The Production Company presents Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's controversial comedy. The story of a young woman who discovers that her mother's success is due to her ownership of a chain of brothels, Shaw's daring attack on social hypocrisy was banned in the US and Britain for many years after its debut. Gillian Doyle, Joanna Strapp and Jeremy Lelliott star.

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Attic Theatre Ensemble's 17th Annual Denise Ragan Wiesenmeyer One Act Marathon

The Attic Theatre and Film Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Attic Theatre Ensemble presents their 17th Annual Denise Ragan Wiesenmeyer One Act Marathon. It's an evening of four new one-act plays, which the theater has carefully selected from hundreds of submissions. The evening includes Ron Fromstein's compelling one-man piece Black and Blue; Tom Sime's Ex's Exes; Kasey Wilson's Marked For Love, a film noir parody; and Donald Steele's poignant Misconceptions.

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Pleiades, a Cluster of Work Created within Seven Days by Seven Progressive Dancemakers

Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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As part of Sweat! — Highways Performance Space's 1st annual festival of new dance by emerging choreographers — artist and curator Flora Wiegmann and her select group from New York and Los Angeles present Pleiades. Highways will host this part commune, part collective for seven working days in which the group will create brand new material within a shared space.

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Campy Comedy 7 Redneck Cheerleaders from Elephant Stage Works

Elephant Space Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
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7 Redneck Cheerleaders is a comedy about a first-time playwright and seven L.A. actors, telling the story of a boy who is willing to be a cheerleader for love - 8x10's, pom-poms and rifles.

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Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play at Theatre 40

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
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Lost in Yonkers, like many of Neil Simon's plays, draws on his experiences growing up in New York City. Considered by many critics as Simon's best work and the pinnacle of his career, it's the winner of nine Tony and Drama Desk Awards and his first play to win a Pulitzer Prize.

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One Woman's Comedic Quest for Greatness in Saint Alice of Chattahoochee

The Cavern Club Theatre (at Casita Del Campo) (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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Alice begins her journey as an ambitious nine-year-old determined to lip-synch her way to the top. But her lifelong quest for greatness is thwarted by community theater directors, child beauty pageant queens, religious fanatics, corporate drones, even her own family—until one day she has a revelation that will either land her in an institution or pave her way to glory.

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4th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival: More Than 50 of the Best Short Films

Laemmle's Sunset 5 (West Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 10:15am - 7:30pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $60.00 Our Price: $15.00 - $30.00*
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The 4th annual HollyShorts Film Festival features more than 50 of the best and brightest short films from across the country and around the globe, plus panels and interviews with filmmakers. One ticket gets you into a full day of films!

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FOCUSfish Flying Circus Presents GUSH-E.D.: A Circus Adventure for All Ages

Ford Amphitheatre (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
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For the third year in a row, FOCUSfish Flying Circus will bring its evolutionary new circus under the stars to the John Ford Amphitheatre. This year's production, GUSH-E.D.: The Extra Dimension, tells a story of love for the planet, personal redemption and triumph over fear as artists juggle, contort, hoop, hang and fire-breathe their way along a magical journey.

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Down the Rabbit Hole, Fairy Tale Musical with a Twist, at the Whitefire Theatre

Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Straight from sold-out shows in NYC, Down the Rabbit Hole comes to L.A. This one-woman musical is based on the classic fairy tale characters but with an adult twist, starring pop star EJ. It will dazzle your senses, tickle your funny bone and touch your heart.

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Shakespeare's Political Drama Macbeth, Set in Modern Times

Next Stage (Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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This production of Macbeth keeps the classic dialogue while updating the setting to a modern-day political thriller. Set in a time and place where both men and women can engage in battle while a queen can rule a country, this Scottish play is tight with a fast pace.

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Farmers' Market and West 3rd Street Food Tasting Tour

3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 9:30am
Full Price: $49.00 Our Price: $30.00*
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Spend a Friday or Saturday morning sampling delicious world cuisine in the heart of mid-city Los Angeles. This walking and tasting tour from Melting Pot Tours includes tastings at various stops in the famous L.A. landmark Farmers' Market at 3rd and Fairfax. Then, heading west along 3rd Street, you'll enjoy additional small gourmet bites at specialty eateries and a visit to a renowned cookbook store.

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Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit: Classic Comedy at Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 Our Price: $12.00*
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Long Beach Playhouse presents Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a classic farce in which a novelist invites a medium to conduct a séance in his home, hoping to expose her as a fraud. Instead, the medium succeeds in summoning the spirit of the writer's temperamental late first wife, much to the annoyance of his current one.

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Arthur Miller's Detective Drama Some Kind of Love Story

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 2:00pm (Preview)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
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Tom, a hard-boiled private eye, finds himself torn between his love for Angela and his need to solve a murder case that has occupied him for years. Finding herself in the middle of police corruption, Angela struggles through the haze of schizophrenia to reveal the truth and save Tom's life.

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Guys and Dolls, Broadway Musical Comedy at Civic Theatre Under the Stars

Walter D. Ehlers Community Recreation Center-Outdoor Patio Stage (Buena Park, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price: $7.50*
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Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, this oddball romantic comedy—considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy—soars with the spirit of Broadway as it introduces audiences to a cast of vivid characters who have become Broadway legend. Frank Loesser's bright, brassy score goes from the heat of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the New York City sewers.

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Breaking The Cypher: Multi-Media Breakdance Show at El Portal Theatre

El Portal Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $15.00*
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Breaking The Cypher rocks the stage with a fresh and expressive vision of hip-hop culture. Artistic Directors Amy "Catfox" Campion and Jacob "Kujo" Lyons harness the extreme physicality of breakdance into a multi-media performance that features spoken word and rhymes, a DJ, three exclusive dance videos, and ground-breaking choreography.

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Hilarious Comedy The Foreigner from ELATE

Lincoln Stegman Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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ELATE presents The Foreigner, a farce set at a Georgia fishing lodge that is visited by a British sergeant and his shy English friend, Charlie. The sergeant declares to all that Charlie is a foreigner and speaks no English (so he won't have to carry on conversations). It's what Charlie overhears, but shouldn't, that fuels the non-stop hilarity and sets up the wildly funny climax.

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Funkfest 2008 at the Greek: Morris Day, S.O.S. Band, Zapp, More

The Greek Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $35.00 - $62.50 Our Price: $17.50 - $31.25*
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The Greek Theatre presents Funkfest 2008. This concert features some of the funkiest bands of the '70s and '80s playing all night long. The lineup features Morris Day ("Jungle Love"), S.O.S. Band ("Take Your Time (Do It Right)"), Zapp ("Computer Love"), Midnight Star ("No Parking on the Dance Floor"), and Con Funk Shun ("Love's Train").

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