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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...

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...

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...

Written and directed by Daisuke Tsuji, a former Cirque du Soleil clown, Monkey Madness mashes satire, clowning, pantomime, dance, music and puppetry together into a wild and grotesque theatrical event. The show follows a simple story about Monkey Boy, whose wish is to evolve into a human being, and the tribe of monkeys and apes that try to adapt to the new human culture. Learn more...

Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Broadway's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity series) star in David Mamet's gripping drama of a power struggle between a university professor and one of his students. Stiles reprises her role, after performing to rave reviews on London's West End. 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...

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...

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...

The Actors' Gang presents Our Town. Known for their politically charged performances, the famed theater company unveils an incisive production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, whose portrait of small-town life in Grover's Corners has resonated with generations of Americans. Learn more...

One of the most produced musicals in America, Crowns explores the lives of the "hat queens," six women in the South whose stories of love, loss, identity and sisterhood are woven into the hats that crown their heads and the songs that speak their truth. Based on an acclaimed book, Crowns captures the thrill of self-expression with a series of intimate musical portraits. Learn more...

Santa Monica's historic Aero Theatre presents a double feature of comedy classics from Monty Python. 1975's Monty Python and the Holy Grail brilliantly spoofs the legend of King Arthur, and inspired the hit Broadway musical Spamalot. 1979's Monty Python's Life of Brian, filmed on the set of Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, tells the story of a hapless man (Graham Chapman) mistaken for the Messiah. Learn more...

The Los Angeles Galaxy host a Major League Soccer game on the Fourth of July. Landon Donovan and the Galaxy host the New England Revolution, featuring deadly striker Taylor Twellman and former Galaxy right back Chris Albright. A spectacular display of fireworks follows the game. Learn more...

Trevor and Susannah are on the verge of a breakup--and they're determined to take their friends and family down with them. As the evening progresses, this unstable pair travels from bedroom to bedroom, raining hysterical havoc on everything they touch and assuring that no one will sleep. Learn more...

Long Beach Playhouse presents James Yaffe's thriller Cliffhanger on their mainstage. A college professor goes to outrageous lengths to avoid forced retirement. Together with his wife, mild-mannered Henry Lowenthal plots and schemes his way to promotion. Learn more...