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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...

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...

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...

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...

Theatre 40 presents the Los Angeles premiere of David Mamet's streamlined adaptation of the dark 1905 drama by British playwright Harley Granville-Barker. The Voysey Inheritance is a portrait of greed, centering on a family of financial planners who have been using a Ponzi scheme to defraud their clients and lead an extravagant lifestyle for two generations. Learn more...

Zarek Saxton is one of Hollywood's biggest directors and he thinks he is making a movie that will change the world. Problem is, he was supposed to be making a slasher film. In steps the producer, who, thanks to an Insanity Clause in Zarek's contract, has the eccentric director confined to a psych ward for observation. Learn more...

Crown City Theatre Company presents The Apple Tree. Written by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, the team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me, this Tony Award-winning collection of three one-act musicals explores the temptations of love. The musicals are based on Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve, Frank R. Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, and Jules Feiffer's Passionella. 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...

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...

Rapper Shwayze comes to The Canyon. Known for his hit single "Buzzin'" and self-titled album (co-written by collaborator Cisco Adler), Shwayze and Adler went on to star in their own MTV reality series, also called Buzzin'. Learn more...

Toronto playwright Hannah Moscovitch's audacious new play examines the legacy of the Holocaust. East of Berlin is about the next generation and asks what happens when you discover your father was a Nazi war criminal? What happens when two sons of SS Officers fall in love with each other? What happens when your Mother survives Auschwitz and you fall in love with a German? Learn more...

Bil Dwyer's clever, acerbic takes on marriage, fatherhood, and everyday life have made him a top national headliner. A finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Bil has also had his own half-hour Comedy Central special, and hosted such shows as Comedy Central's BattleBots and Fox Sports Net's Ultimate Fan League. 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...