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Presented by SakeSocial.com, the LA Sake Festival will play host to over 100 brands of sake, mixologists and classes. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about different styles and varieties in addition to unlimited tastes. Learn more...

Cirque Berzerk combines aerial acrobatics, clowning, and other traditional circus performances with punk rock and burlesque influences. Their psychedelic, psychotic, and distinctly adult performances have made them a hit; they return to the Los Angeles State Historical Park. Learn more...

The Ahmanson presents the Los Angeles debut of the Tony-winning musical Monty Python's Spamalot. Based on the classic comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and written by original Python Eric Idle, Spamalot follows the wacky Knights of the Round Table on their quest, as they confront rude Frenchmen, killer rabbits, and more. John O'Hurley (Seinfeld) stars as King Arthur. Learn more...

In this comedy, written and directed by Justin Tanner, author of the hit play Voice Lessons, a conservative Orange County couple invite some fellow swingers over to their place for a night of snacks and nude twister. Learn more...

Glendale Centre Theatre presents Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical. Set on America's Western frontier, this story of the love between a cowboy and a farm girl features such classic Broadway hits as "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top," and the exuberant title song. Learn more...

Ruskin Group Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Mutiny at Port Chicago, written and directed by Paul Leaf. It tells the riveting, rarely-heard story of a 1944 explosion in San Francisco's East Bay, which left over 300 people dead and fifty soldiers imprisoned for mutiny. Leaf's historical dramas have won him two Peabody Awards. Learn more...

Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain. Learn more...

Originally produced on Broadway in 1956, Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain is one of the earliest plays after World War II to address substance abuse and its destructive effect on personal relationships. This striking portrayal of love and addiction broke new ground for its depiction of realism in the theater. Learn more...

Chivas USA hosts the Los Angeles Galaxy in a Major League Soccer battle for home field bragging rights. Chivas USA is the American affiliate of Club Deportivo Guadalajara, Mexico's most popular soccer club; both the Galaxy and Chivas play their home games at the Home Depot Center. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents Side Man. This touching, comic drama won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1999. Spanning over three decades, it's the story of Gene, a jazz trumpet player, and the turmoil his family suffers as a result of his passion for jazz music, seen through the eyes of his only son Clifford. Learn more...

The Greek Theatre hosts the Heroes of Woodstock 40th Anniversary Tour. This celebration of America's most legendary music festival is hosted by Country Joe McDonald, and features live performances by Jefferson Starship (performing the music of Jefferson Airplane), Ten Years After, Canned Heat and Big Brother & The Holding Company. Learn more...

When Sara, a young teacher from the Midwest, leaves her boyfriend and family to take an inner city teaching assignment in the Bronx, she's befriended by traffic reporter Callie. After the two women unexpectedly fall in love, their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate. Learn more...

Two of America's smoothest singers co-headline the Greek Theatre. Michael McDonald became a legend with the Doobie Brothers, and with such solo hits as "I Keep Forgettin'," the Grammy-winning "Yah Mo B There," and the chart-topping "On My Own." Boz Scaggs started his career alongside Steve Miller, and released 1976's hit album Silk Degrees. Learn more...

Lyle Lovett's music combines incisive, witty lyrics with music ranging from country and folk to big-band swing and traditional pop. He's sold over four million albums and won four Grammy awards. See him and his Large Band at the Greek Theatre, with special guest Madeleine Peyroux, whose smoky-voiced jazz singing has earned her comparisons to Billie Holiday. Learn more...

The Greek Theatre hosts Go Country 105's second annual Summer Under the Stars concert. Rodney Atkins will headline this concert featuring modern country stars; his 2006 debut album If You're Going Through Hell sold over a million copies. Jack Ingram and the Eli Young Band will also perform. Learn more...

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents a pair of poignant, funny plays about the Jewish-American experience by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the Dustin Hoffman comedy Tootsie. 74 Georgia Avenue follows a successful businessman who revisits the Brooklyn neighborhood of his youth when his marriage falters. The Pushcart Peddlers is a farce about two immigrants who sell bananas. Learn more...

Celebration Theatre presents Altar Boyz. This Off-Broadway hit has found popular success and critical acclaim. It's a clever and tuneful spoof tellling the tale of a pious boy band and their attempts to achieve fame, with such tunes as "Girl You Make Me Wanna Wait" and "Jesus Called Me On My Cell Phone." Learn more...

The Grammy Museum celebrates the life and work of Michael Jackson with a display of Jackson's most iconic and elaborate wardrobe pieces, including the suit he wore on the cover of Thriller. The exhibit also includes video of some of Jackson's Grammy performances. Tickets also include admission to the full museum, with exhibits spanning the history of modern music. Learn more...

Set out on a challenging three-hour hunt through Hollywood in this fun-filled CityRace urban adventure hunt. In a team of two to four players, you'll use brainpower to crack codes, solve tricky puzzles, research little-known facts and more...all while racing against other teams to be first to the finish with the most correct answers. Learn more...

There will be fireworks on and off the field in 2009 at Dodger Stadium, as every Friday night is Fireworks Night. The on-field firepower will be supplied by Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, Orlando Hudson and a potent Dodger lineup as they seek to recapture the division title. A spectacular fireworks show follows each Friday home game. Learn more...

Set in the piano lounge at the Doubletree Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, God Box is a musical dramedy in one act where Ana Guigui (that's "gui" as in "gui-tar"), tells her own life story and her adventures of searching for a soul mate. This is a story of love, family, desires, independence and freedom with heart-warming characterizations and memories. Learn more...

This new urban adventure hunt from CityRace will have teams of participants competing to solve a challenging series of clues and puzzles while racing through historic and revitalized areas of Downtown Los Angeles. A series of keys will be hidden along this three-hour scavenger hunt, and they will unlock a secret treasure chest at the end of the course. Learn more...

Home to more than 12,500 ocean animals, representing nearly 500 species, the Aquarium of the Pacific celebrates the planet's largest and most diverse body of water: the Pacific Ocean. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, this world-class aquarium features a wide array of hands-on activites, live and video presentations, and more. Learn more...

The Black Dahlia murder is the most compelling unsolved crime Los Angeles has ever known. What Jack the Ripper is to London, the Torso Killer to Cleveland, the Black Dahlia is to L.A. Esotouric's most popular Crime Bus tour begins in the lobby of the historic Biltmore Hotel and traces beautiful murder victim Elizabeth Short's path across postwar Los Angeles to her mysterious 1947 death. Learn more...

Listen to the best of classical music under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl. With Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and more, there's something for classical lovers and new listeners alike this summer -- even fireworks! (See additional details for program information.) Learn more...

Murders, arsons, kidnappings, robberies, suicides, oddball happenings...it's an alternate history of Pasadena that's as fascinating as it is creepy. Join Esotouric's ace researchers on a four-hour guided luxury coach tour as they dip into the confidential files of old Pasadena -- from RFK's assassination to Eraserhead star Jack Nance's strange end and the 1926 Rose Parade grandstand collapse. Learn more...

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's outdoor summer season continues with Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The bucolic Topanga Canyon hillside is the perfect setting for this whimsical story of love, mischief, matchmaking and magic in an enchanted forest inhabited by faerie folk, woodland creatures, and a donkey. Learn more...

Enjoy a new take on Chekhov's classic comedy The Cherry Orchard at the outdoor amphitheater at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, terraced into the hillside of the rustic canyon. Re-set in 1970s Virginia during the aftermath of the civil rights movement, an old Southern family desperately clings to tradition in this newly updated version of The Cherry Orchard. Learn more...

Musical Theatre of Los Angeles and Canary Productions present Cabaret. Kander and Ebb's classic musical is set in 1930s Berlin, as the romantic intrigues of several performers at a seedy nightclub play out amid the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The Met Theater will be transformed into the "Kit Kat Klub", and actors will serve as waiters throughout the production. Learn more...

Enjoy a summer evening of live music and 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. Learn more...

Based on the hit 1987 movie, Big: The Musical follows frustrated, 13-year-old Josh, who wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old man after wishing he were "big." As he becomes a toy company executive and falls in love, Josh realizes that there's more to being an adult than he'd bargained for. Learn more...

Broadway/L.A. presents a three-show season ticket package at the Pantages Theatre. See Fiddler on the Roof, the classic Tony Award-winning musical, starring Topol, who played Tevye in the film version; Legally Blonde The Musical, the smash hit based on the MGM film; and Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, based on the animated special. Learn more...

Say Goodbye, Toto is a fanciful re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz told from the point of view of Dorothy's dog, Toto. Amy Heidish's whimsical play, making its world premiere at Ark Theatre, finds Toto tangling with cats, witches, wizards and Munchkins and battling with the Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man for Dorothy's affections. Learn more...

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet has become one of American Ballet Theatre's signature productions. Against the sumptuous setting of Renaissance Italy, MacMillan weaves a sensual dance tapestry underscored by Sergei Prokofiev's stirring music, showcasing the beauty and passion of the beloved star-crossed lovers. Learn more...

Celebrating the Weng Collection Exhibition at The Huntington, this concert festival will feature exciting compositions by Chen Yi and Lei Liang. Travel from the world of Asia to the world of Italian opera as the concert features rare and fascinating string quartets from Puccini and Verdi. Learn more...

The Echo Theater Company presents the absurdist comedy The Illustrious Birth of Padraic T. Duffy. Jay wants to be a writer. There's only one problem: his family is completely functional. He becomes enmeshed in a power struggle between Jerry Brown and a pro football player who believe he's the second coming of Padraic T. Duffy and will save the world -- a world where Linda Ronstadt is a maid, Richard Nixon a writing teacher and Jesus really hates cats. Learn more...

Picture this: tons of single professionals mingling and having a good time. It's a classy event with an ingenious twist--all the ladies have a lock and every man gets a key. The goal? Match the right lock with the right key. Do it again and get tickets to win great prizes! Learn more...

Jon Lovitz headlines his own comedy club at Universal Citywalk. Best known for his seven years on TV's Saturday Night Live, he's also had a long-running film and TV career, voicing the lead in animated series The Critic, appearing in such movies as A League of Their Own, and more. Learn more...

The Groundlings are L.A.'s masters of Saturday Night Live-style comedy. Join them for their hilarious show, Enter the Sunday, featuring the Sunday Company's revue of sketch and improvisational comedy, all performed by up-and-coming sketch comedians. Learn more...

The circus returns to Honda Center as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus presents Zing, Zang, Zoom. This year's brand-new installment of the "Greatest Show on Earth" introduces a big dose of magic into the act, courtesy of illusionist Alex Ramon. In addition, there will be a bevy of exotic animals and thrilling, high-flying stunts. Learn more...

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...

Filipino-American comedian Rex Navarrete, star of Badass Madapaka, headlines at The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club. Navarrete has sold out shows at comedy clubs across the country, including the Punch Line, Laugh Factory and Cobb's -- and now he's coming to the Improv. Learn more...

Los Angeles' signature music facility comes alive with the sounds of the California Philharmonic on Sunday afternoons this summer. Music fans can beat the summer heat in the visually and acoustically stunning Walt Disney Concert Hall and hear one of Southern California's leading orchestras play music from Broadway, Hollywood and the Beatles, as well as classical, opera and more. Learn more...

Paris, the City of Light, is the inspiration of some of the most romantic music ever written. Stroll down the Champs-Élysées with the Pasadena POPS and sip the champagne, ogle the latest fashions and live La Vie en Rose as the POPS performs everything from the immortal songs of Edith Piaf to the irresistible energy of an An American in Paris. Learn more...

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...

The popular 80s Prom Party returns -- this year, to the Sunset Strip's House of Blues -- offering fun-seekers another chance to pull that taffeta dress or ruffled shirt out of the closet. Prom-goers can dance the night away to the sounds of two 80s cover bands. Admission includes prom pictures, and the proceeds support local animal rescues. Learn more...

College football returns to the Rose Bowl as the UCLA Bruins host the Kansas State Wildcats in a nonconference matchup. Kansas State will try to rebuild under new head coach Bill Snyder, who returns after a three-year absence. Rick Neuheisel's Bruin squad hopes to benefit from a strong recruiting class and a new quarterback (Kevin Prince). Learn more...

The critically-acclaimed He Asked For It is the award-winning story about the complexities of gay relationships in the contemporary Internet-age society. Writer Erik Patterson and director Neil Weiss strike a balance between comedy and tragedy as the characters struggle to move beyond one-night stands to the difficult sacrifices of true love. Learn more...

A winner of virtually every major L.A. theater award, the local musical phenomenon Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara continues at the Geffen's Skirball-Kenis Theater, with Oscar-winner Taylor Hackford directing. Inspired by the true story of swinging Vegas lounge act Louis Prima and Keely Smith, the show includes classic hits like "Embraceable You" and "Just a Gigolo." Learn more...