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The Week of May 19th For Los Angeles, CA 90013

Mo' Better Mondays at Hollywood Improv, Hollywood's Coolest Comedy Club

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Monday, May. 19 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Monday night will never be boring again with Mo' Better Mondays at the Hollywood Improv. Here, the hottest urban comedians from around the U.S. stop in for a night that'll leave you laughing so hard, you won't be able to resist returning next week! Host DeRay Davis' credits include Barbershop, Semi-Pro, BET's Comic View, and skits on Kanye West's albums The College Dropout and Late Registration.  Learn More

Parlor Performances' 2008 Parlor-Palooza: Showcase of Theater, Cabaret, Comedy & More

Steinway Hall (Los Angeles, CA)
Monday, May. 19 2008 @ 7:30pm
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Parlor Performances presents the 2008 edition of their popular Parlor-Palooza showcase. Each night features eight performances by comedians, cabaret artists, musical satirists, and solo and historical shows — all addressing themes of immigration, globalization and/or the environment.  Learn More

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

Cote d'Azur Spa (Pasadena, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ Various Times
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ Various Times
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $100.00 - $310.00   Our Price: $50.00 - $155.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
As a wonderful gift or an indulgent treat for yourself, you can't do much better than a full body massage package or a facial package at the serene Cote d'Azur Spa, located in Old Town Pasadena. It's sure to be an unforgettable experience.  Learn More

Montreal's Just for Laughs Showcase at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $14.00   Our Price: FREE - $6.50*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Montreal's Just for Laughs, the premier comedy festival in North America, does their scouting at the world-famous Improv. Come see the comedy stars of tomorrow as Just for Laughs talent scouts showcase the best up-and-coming talent in the Los Angeles area.  Learn More

Jazz Greats at Catalina Bar and Grill

Catalina Bar and Grill (Hollywood, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm (Raw Sugar Jazz Quintet)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm (Karen Blixt CD Release)
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
This supper club hosts great live jazz in a setting with Old World charm. Catalina has lived up to its slogan "Nothing But the Best in Jazz" by presenting a veritable Who's Who of jazz legends such as Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Ray Brown, Joe Williams, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Benny Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and many more.  Learn More

Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit - A New Take on the Classic Play

Lounge Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
From the depths of Hell arrives a fresh twist on Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit. M.A.N. Power Entertainment breathes new life into the classic play about death through an original production design first conceptualized by the late Brett Gandy. No Exit exposes the corrupt lives and sudden deaths of three marvelously sinful souls, seductively stylized by abandoned dolls of different eras.  Learn More

Tony Kushner's Magical The Illusion at Hollywood Fight Club Theatre

Hollywood Fight Club Theater (Hollywood, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Tony Kushner (Angels in America) has freely adapted Pierre Corneille's delightful story The Illusion for the stage. As Pridamant, a rich old lawyer, nears the end of his life, he's tortured by one regret. His pain drags him far from home into a magician's cave. As he enters, a smart, funny mystery begins in which a father perceives his son as his son pursues his passions.  Learn More

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $32.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $16.00 - $30.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Pasadena Playhouse presents a groundbreaking revisionist production of Steinbeck's classic tale about two men searching for the American dream. In this provocative make-over, Of Mice and Men is set in 1942 California, where thousands of Hispanic migrant workers cross the border to pursue dreams of a better life for their families. This setting for Of Mice and Men amplifies Steinbeck's themes of loneliness and longing.  Learn More

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

Geffen Playhouse - Main Stage (Los Angeles, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $74.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $37.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Award-winning artist Daniel Beaty portrays a cast of 40 characters who all respond to a stunning phenomenon: a slave ship rises out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty. Beaty melds slam poetry, multi-character transformation and song to present a stirring, critically acclaimed commentary on modern black life.  Learn More

Wicked, Broadway's Hit Musical at the Pantages Theatre

Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $98.00   Our Price: $59.80*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Wicked, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, is "a phenomenon that keeps growing" (L.A. Times). Long before Dorothy drops in, two girls meet in the land of Oz and form an unlikely friendship, going on to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. Wicked has won 20 major awards, including a Grammy Award and three Tony Awards.  Learn More

Bowfire: Canada's Dynamic Violin Spectacle at the Wiltern

The Wiltern (Los Angeles, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $35.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.9 stars
Bowfire, the critically acclaimed "total violin experience," comprises 10 of Canada's best violinists and fiddlers, including Lara St. John, backed by a quintet of guitar, cello, bass, piano, and drums. The artists showcase styles as diverse as classical, rock, bluegrass, jazz, gypsy, Texas-style, country, Celtic and electric, in a seamless musical journey that is unparalleled.  Learn More

Camerata Pacifica's Season Finale at The Huntington Library

The Huntington Library (San Marino, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Following its first international tour, Camerata Pacifica performs a West Coast program of Schumann, Grieg and Mozart to conclude the 2007/2008 concert season. The four principal musicians of Camerata Pacifica - Catherine Leonard, Richard Yongjae O'Neill, Ani Aznavoorian and Warren Jones - perform a program that highlights their individual artistic talents and gift for ensemble playing.  Learn More

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

Write Act Repertory Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 2.7 stars
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?"  Learn More

The Groundlings Present The Crazy Uncle Joe Show

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.50   Our Price: $6.25*
Rated: 3.5 stars
The Crazy Uncle Joe Show is a side-splitting exercise in long form improv by the world-famous Groundlings. No games. No director. Just funny.  Learn More

Spanish Cuisine & Dramatic Flamenco at El Cid

El Cid (Los Angeles, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:00pm (Dinner), 8pm (Show)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 7:00pm (Dinner), 8pm (Show)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 7:00pm (Dinner), 8pm (Show)
Full Price: $34.95   Our Price: $21.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Enjoy an evening of Spanish cuisine and flamenco dancing on the beautiful wooden stage at El Cid, in hip Silverlake. Historic El Cid is a beautiful indoor-outdoor Spanish villa-style complex, and a night of flamenco could happen in no better venue. An inspiring, exotic evening! Price includes dinner and the show (but not beverages or tip).  Learn More

Live Music at the Jazz Bakery: Piping Hot Jazz!

The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 9:30pm (Joey DeFrancesco Trio)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 9:30pm (Joey DeFrancesco Trio)
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
All week long the Jazz Bakery offers the best in hot new jazz! LA Weekly called the Jazz Bakery the "most prestigious jazz space in Los Angeles," and it lives up to that by focusing on fantastic new acts as well as classics of the genre. A don't-miss, not only for jazz fans, but for lovers of all sorts of music!  Learn More

Moliere's Comedy Don Juan, from A Noise Within

A Noise Within at the Historic Masonic Temple (Glendale, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $14.00 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

Enjoy Shopping & Freebies at Shecky's Girls Night Out

Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport (Santa Monica, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 5:00pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 2.7 stars
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!  Learn More

Tosca: Los Angeles Opera Presents Puccini's Classic Story of Love and Power

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 1:00pm (matinee)
Full Price: $88.00 - $200.00   Our Price: $44.00 - $100.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
The Los Angeles Opera presents Puccini's Tosca. This famous opera is the tragic story of a love triangle between the fiery title character, a handsome painter, and a villainous police chief. The role of Tosca will be sung by Georgina Lukacs, the role of Cavaradossi will be sung by Gwyn Hughes-Jones, and the performances will be conducted by Placido Domingo.  Learn More

Award-Winning Broadway Actress Kathleen Chalfant in Red Dog Howls

El Portal Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $39.00 - $65.00   Our Price: FREE - $32.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Kathleen Chalfant, one of the theater's most celebrated actors from Wit and Angels in America, stars in the world premiere of Alexander Dinelaris's searing new play Red Dog Howls. The story concerns a young man who thinks he is Greek until he discovers a letter that his late father wrote to his grandmother, who hid their Armenian origins.  Learn More

Connecting the Dots: What Inspires an Artist, a Film Aesthetics Seminar

Aero Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 1.0 stars
The American Cinematheque continues its seminar series for filmmakers and other visual artists in May with an all-new film aesthetics seminar, Connecting the Dots: What Inspires an Artist, focusing on the influence of the legendary directors of world cinema and key 20th century artistic movements. Film clips will be used to inspire an open dialogue with the audience.  Learn More

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

David Henry Hwang Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $45.00 - $50.00   Our Price: $22.50 - $25.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
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.  Learn More

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)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm (Rob Mullins)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Spend the evening at the venue that is fast becoming Pasadena's hottest spot for live jazz: the Pasadena Jazz Institute's new home at the Paseo Colorado. Audiences will enjoy ongoing sets of music, performed by some of the most talented newcomers and veterans from the world of jazz.  Learn More

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: SOLD OUT*
Rated: 3.7 stars
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.  Learn More

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

The Colony Theatre Company (Burbank, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $50.00   Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The boss is an aging legend, cantankerous but charismatic. The new assistant is young and vulnerable, but full of grit. And then the fun begins. Based on the playwright's own real-life experience, the play is a hopeful and humorous tale of friendship amidst life's most inevitable adventure: growing old. By the author of The Colony's smash hit To Grandmother's House We Go.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 3.0 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Fremont Centre Theatre (South Pasadena, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this theatrical adaptation, written by the legendary author himself. A paternalistic government suspends basic individual liberties in the name of preserving the security of the homeland. That could never happen here...could it?  Learn More

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

El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 7:55pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 7:55pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 7:55pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $11.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The characters of C.S. Lewis' timeless fantasy come to life in this newest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series, in which the Pevensie siblings are magically transported back from England to the world of Narnia, where a thrilling, perilous new adventure awaits them. Audience members will be able to view an exclusive collection of set pieces and props direct from the movie, only at the El Capitan.  Learn More

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

Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $50.00   Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
This contemporary play explores the relationships between parents and children, what they share and what they fear they might share. A formerly brilliant mathematician whose mind has failed dies, leaving his youngest daughter a legacy. She may be brilliant, she may be crazy—or she may be something all her own.  Learn More

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
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $24.00 - $28.00   Our Price: $12.00 - $14.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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.  Learn More

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

The Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Many authors have chronicled the life of Queen Victoria. While some have written more broadly than others, the collective authors usually examine the same events and character, lending their own flourishes for refreshment. In this new musical, a rather recent and curious discovery about the sovereign is explored, revealing an explosive, bitter issue within the late-19th century royal family, wrought posthumously by none other than the Queen herself.  Learn More

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

NoHo Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $35.00   Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Open At the Top Productions presents the world premiere of Pest Control... The Musical. Based on Bill Fitzhugh's best-selling novel, it's the story of an exterminator who's mistaken for a notorious professional assassin and hired to kill the world's most dangerous man. Set to a rock musical score inspired by the styles of late 70's and early 80's rock with a dash of early hip-hop, the show stars Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks.  Learn More

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
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.50 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Coffee Will Make You Black, adapted from the award-winning novel by April Sinclair, traces the coming-of-age story of Jean "Stevie" Stevenson, a black teenager on the brink of s*xual awakening during the turbulent and politically charged late 1960s. A story of strength, discovery and acceptance, Coffee will have you craving a second cup.  Learn More

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

Lillian Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Tooth and Nail shines a bright light on the dysfunctional Laney family: their loves, foibles and caustic triumphs. Their modern New Jersey lives are comedically put to the test when the family patriarch suddenly begins living as Peter O'Toole's King Henry II from the classic film "The Lion in Winter" and tests everyone's mettle over a Sunday dinner.  Learn More

Blue Surge Explores Social Class and Relationship Struggles

Henke Studio Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Blue Surge is a dark, caustic, humorous look at five characters pushing their way through life on both sides of the law in small-city America. Each of them faces or denies, fights or embraces the dreams, social classes, pasts, futures and the fleeting of the present that make up who they are.  Learn More

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

Hudson Mainstage Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Anything can happen when Rodgers and Hart meet Kaufman and Hart in this midsummer night's romp in Central Park. I'd Rather Be Right mixes love, political satire and Yankee Doodle high jinks into an intoxicating fantasy, where Supreme Court justices cavort with leggy chorines and FDR desperately tries to balance the budget with a buck and wing and a prayer.  Learn More

A Chorus Line: The Broadway Hit Comes to the Ahmanson

Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm (Opening Night)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $90.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $45.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
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."  Learn More

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

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre (Beverly Hills, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 2.2 stars
Theatre 40 presents Tim Ryan Meinelschmidt's All the Help You Need: The Adventures of a Hollywood Handyman. This one-man tour de force, which won the 2004 New York Fringe Festival, chronicles Meinelschmidt's unexpected experiences as an aspiring actor and handyman in Los Angeles. Alternately hilarious and frightening, this remarkable story makes for riveting viewing.  Learn More

Science-Fiction Comedy Trapezoid at GTC Burbank

GTC Burbank (Burbank, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
Exploring the relationship between art and technology, Trapezoid tells the story of a Korean American poet who is hired by a technology think tank to put the "art" in artificial intelligence. When the robot creation falls in love with its human creator, it's man-made versus mankind—with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes tragic.  Learn More

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

Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
A comedy tour-de-force for two actors portraying a variety of eccentric characters in a beauty shop, highlighting the many intricacies of black women and the importance placed on their hair. Starring Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam, Caroline or Change) and Tracie Thoms (Rent, Cold Case), And Her Hair Went with Her is a celebration of the sisterhood of the salon.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 1.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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.  Learn More

Los Angeles Premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty from Rogue Machine

Theatre/Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
When women were men...on the stages of England, Edward Kynaston reigned as the most celebrated leading lady. His exquisite portrayals of Shakespeare's famous females brought him celebrity and love at the start of the Restoration. Then, a real woman named Margaret Hughes stepped on stage to steal his glory.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 3.8 stars
George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan is a tempestuous retelling of the mighty tale of Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the armies of King Charles of France against the British occupiers and their collaborators in the great wars of the 1400s in France.  Learn More

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

The Matrix Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Inspired by actual events, Boise, USA begins on Halloween night, 1955, in the quiet, respectable city of Boise, Idaho, when the shocking arrests of three men for "lewd and lascivious conduct" with three teenage boys set off a notorious "witch hunt" to purge the city of all suspected homosexuals. Family loyalties are soon divided, pitting brother against brother, father against son.  Learn More

High School Reunion Comedy the nothing boys at The Complex

East Theatre @ The Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
On the ten-year anniversary of his adulthood, Gregory James goes back to school. And on this Long Island evening in June, he and the other "nothing boys" will finally graduate. This new stage comedy was inspired by a real event.  Learn More

Romantic Comedy Teen Girl at the Zephyr Theatre

Zephyr Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $0.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $11.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Written in 1882 as an indictment of contemporary society, Ibsen's insights remain as relevant and timely more than a century later. Modern conflicts between government and the governed, the individual and the majority, science and commercialism are starkly mirrored in Ibsen's scathing, unsettling polemic.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 3.5 stars
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.  Learn More

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

Electric Lodge (Venice, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
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.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 3.2 stars
You never know what will happen or who'll be playing tonight when the Groundlings break all the rules!  Learn More

ComedySportz — Fast and Funny Comedy for Everyone

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $9.00 - $17.00   Our Price: FREE - $8.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Improvised, competitive comedy for the whole family! You won't have to worry about covering their ears if you bring them to this kid-friendly show. It was created especially for younger fans and their families! See live comedy created right before your eyes, with audience participation and suggestions incorporated into the act.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Mentalist Max Maven, called by Orson Welles "the most original mind in magic," presents his full-length show. It's not exactly a one-man show, because it involves dozens of minds...including yours!  Learn More

Richard Villa's Refried Fridays at the Hollywood Improv

The Hollywood Improv (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $17.00   Our Price: $4.00 - $8.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
The world-famous Improv serves you Refried Fridays, the hottest Latino Night to hit Hollywood in years. Hosted by Richard Villa, the show is a rotating line-up of the funniest Latino comics mixed in with some very special guests. Come see what everyone is talking about.  Learn More

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

The Groundlings Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $21.50   Our Price: $10.75*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Legendary comedy troupe The Groundlings present their main sketch show Groundlings, Your Body and You. This is the company's latest collection of improvisational and scripted sketches, from L.A.'s masters of Saturday Night Live-style comedy.  Learn More

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

Promenade Playhouse (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 9:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
In the heart of the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in beautiful, balmy Santa Monica is a great night of comedy, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! With comedians seen on Letterman, Leno, Comedy Central and HBO, the Promenade Playhouse delivers serious laughs from great comics!  Learn More

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*
Rated: 3.4 stars
The Ice House Comedy Club, Pasadena's famed comedy club, presents some of the best stand-up comics in the business. You've seen them on "The Tonight Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and Comedy Central. Now you can see them in person, live on stage. Check the complete listing for more details.  Learn More

The High: Improvised Teen Soap Opera at ComedySportz Los Angeles

National Comedy Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Welcome to The High, where the students are beautiful, the teachers are bold and the secrets are scandalous. It's an addictive, edge-of-your-seat teen soap and a hilarious, seat-of-your-pants comedy show, improvised live before your very eyes based on an audience suggestion.  Learn More

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*
Rated: 2.8 stars
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.  Learn More

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

The Coast Playhouse (West Hollywood, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: SOLD OUT*
Rated: 3.1 stars
The three plays being presented—Mister Paradise, The Palooka and And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens...—are from a collection of one-acts that were written over the course of Tennessee Williams's career, but published posthumously. He had a distinct talent for writing short plays, and these new discoveries include some of his most poignant and hilarious characters.  Learn More

Friday Forty - A Comedy Game Show

I.O. West Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: 1.2 stars
The game show world is obsessed with useless trivia. But who's there to make sure you're paying attention to what's going on in the world-right now? Friday Forty is the weekly game show that rewards your knowledge of what's going on in the world the last seven days. Contestants sit back, sip a 40-ounce, and face a fearsome 40 questions.  Learn More

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

Sidewalk Studio Theatre (Burbank, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.1 stars
Sidewalk Studio Theatre presents Milk and Cookies, the world premiere of a dark comedy by Jonathan Dorf. It's the tale of Margaret Nancy Reagan Ballmoth, a housewife forced to flee to Montana after her children allegedly kill a bank teller with poisoned cookies. She meets a milk-obsessed conspiracy theorist who helps her unravel the mystery of what really happened.  Learn More

Drama Lady from the Road Theatre Company

Road Theatre @ Lankershim Arts Center (North Hollywood, CA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Deep in the woods of downstate Illinois, three boyhood friends come together on a hunting trip. Now middle aged and on separate paths they find that the common thread of memory is being stretched to the breaking point. Can the war in Iraq reach even these secluded woods and destroy their friendship forever?  Learn More

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

Whitefire Theatre (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Emmy Award winner Mariette Hartley stars in a world-premiere comedy that's drenched in heart. In this play-within-a-play, a dysfunctional group of actors, a problematic set and a stage manager at his wits' end add to the tension between a writer and his producer-wife in rehearsal for a play about their own struggle with infertility.  Learn More

Witty Literary Comedy Bunbury at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - Studio Theatre (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $12.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
When Bunbury learns he's only a fictitious character who never appears in The Importance of Being Earnest, he uses his anonymity to infiltrate and alter classic literature, starting by giving Romeo and Juliet a happy ending. The resulting transformation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting for Godot and other works spawns a new sub-discipline in literary criticism—and may even change the world.  Learn More

Comic Thriller Gift of Murder at the Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse - MainStage (Long Beach, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $12.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
A famous actress, accompanied by her niece, is recuperating from a hectic season and a bit too much high living when a few surprise guests arrive and quickly turn things upside down. Combining humor and suspense, this thriller brings together a cast of charming and witty "theatre people" and plunges them into a plot of murder, mayhem and disguised identity.  Learn More

Hilarious New Comedy Office Sonata from Range View Productions

Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 1.8 stars
Office Sonata is a madcap satire of corporate America that follows the bizarre and often hilarious day-to-day workings of Empire Advertising. The story centers on a cadre of overworked and underappreciated executive assistants, who try as they might to endure the company's harebrained regimens to boost productivity and profit margin.  Learn More

Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Morgan-Wixson Theatre

Morgan-Wixson Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
In 1905 Manhattan, a 35-year-old "spinster" African-American seamstress creates custom lingerie for women of the boudoir and the brothel. She longs to break free and be herself in a society where she cannot quite fit into the set patterns that are stitched for African-American women. Intimate Apparel is the winner of five national awards for Best Play.