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On this walking tour through Downtown Los Angeles' Little Tokyo district, guests will have an opportunity to learn about the history and culture of the neighborhood while stopping multiple times to sample local delicacies. Local foodies and tourists alike will appreciate this opportunity to indulge in authentic Japanese tea, mochi, pastries and savory dishes. Learn more...

The world-famous Hollywood Improv presents stand-up comedy seven nights a week. See top national headliners, the nation's best up-and-coming performers, and more. The club features frequent surprise drop-ins by TV and film's biggest comedy stars. Learn more...

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...

The Whitefire Theatre hosts Billie: Backstage with Lady Day. This solo show examines the life and career of jazz legend Billie Holiday, exploring the troubles she struggled with, the people and things she loved, and her unforgettable musical career. Learn more...

Dearly Departed Tours' Hollywood Movie Tour offers a unique way to see Los Angeles: by riding through some of the city's most memorable movie locations. Guests will watch scenes from over 50 films on board the tour bus while visiting the actual locations where those scenes were filmed -- from action films like The Terminator to iconic classics like Sunset Boulevard. Learn more...

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

Cirque du Soleil presents its hit touring show, KOOZA, the story of an innocent who enters a world of kings, thieves and other archetypal characters. KOOZA is a return to Cirque du Soleil's roots, combining classic circus acrobatics and broad slapstick clowning. Learn more...

Hollywood Curling presents a clinic on the Olympic sport of curling. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or a seasoned Canadian; all are welcome to join in the fun of this 500-year-old game. All equipment and instruction will be provided. Learn more...

The Minnesota Timberwolves play the Los Angeles Clippers at the STAPLES Center. Coach Kurt Rambis' Wolves feature one of the league's top big men in Al Jefferson. The Clippers' top players include point guard Baron Davis, center Chris Kaman and rising star Eric Gordon. Learn more...

This Broadway hit musical, based on the beloved holiday tale, features the classic tunes "You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch" and "Welcome Christmas." The production stars John Larroquette (Night Court) as the narrator "Old Max" and Stefan Karl (Nick Jr.'s Lazy Town) as The Grinch. Magnificent sets and costumes inspired by Dr. Seuss' original illustrations help transport audiences to the whimsical world of Whoville, breathing new life into this timeless story of the true meaning of the Holiday Season. Learn more...

The NoHo Arts Center hosts Just Imagine, a multi-media tribute to rock legend John Lennon. Tim Piper, who's toured the world performing the Beatles' hits, will front a live band in note-perfect renditions of Lennon's timeless songs, and share anecdotes from his life and career. Learn more...

From the same people who brought you the great Laserium shows at Griffith Park Observatory comes the new Laserium CyberTheater in Hollywood. This new production offers a high-tech update of Laserium shows of the past, with six projection screens and 3-D lasers shooting throughout the theater. Three different classic Laserium shows are currently in rotation, featuring music from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, the Beatles or Led Zeppelin. Learn more...

Children of Eden, a musical based on the Book of Genesis, comes to the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), the show touches on themes of family conflicts and faith as it recounts the story of Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel in the first act and Noah in the second. Learn more...

Actors Forum Theatre presents Polyester: The Musical. It's the story of The Synchronistics, an over-the-hill ABBA wannabe group that reunites to perform at a public access TV telethon. In 1979, their hit single "Better Together" rose to #2 on the charts. Now, they have to overcome their differences and dysfunctions to return to the spotlight. Learn more...

Ruskin Group Theatre presents Italian American Reconciliation. This sparkling, gritty romantic comedy is set against the backdrop of New York's Little Italy. Playwright John Patrick Shanley has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Academy and Tony Awards; his works include Doubt and Moonstruck. Learn more...

From the same people who brought you the great Laserium shows at Griffith Park Observatory comes the new Laserium CyberTheater in Hollywood. These shows feature the classic rock anthems of U2 and the hard-edged industrial sound of Nine Inch Nails, set to six projection screens and 3-D lasers shooting throughout the theater. Learn more...

Theatre Banshee presents Tent Meeting, written by Banshee's own Rebecca Wackler. Convinced that the poor misshapen creature to which his daughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox, with his browbeaten daughter and son in tow, heads off in their mobile home toward the Promised Land--Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Their journey culminates in a blasphemous yet outrageously funny epiphany. Learn more...

Above the Curve Theatre presents its fourth annual festival of one-act plays. This year's festival will showcase six plays (selected from hundreds of submissions), including both comedies and dramas. The comedies feature princesses, an accident-prone woman, and an unlikely audition, while the dramas deal with relationships in all stages. Learn more...

The Geffen Playhouse presents Equivocation. Bill Cain's witty and contemporary exploration of political power and artistic integrity was the breakout hit of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Commanded by King James I to write a play based on the Gunpowder Plot, Shakespeare discovers that the official story of the plan to blow up Parliament may conceal a darker truth. Learn more...

In the aftermath of the United States' second civil war in year 2060, two brothers lay dead. The conservative theocracy of Creon decrees that one will be buried with honors, and one will be unburied, dishonored and abandoned. Their sister, Antigone, is torn between the laws of her uncle's government and her love of family and own moral imperative. Her actions will set off a chain of devastating events leading to death and an ultimate rebirth. Learn more...

Eight: Love is a Gamble begins with a series of one-acts by award-winning New York playwright Adam Kraar, whose plays include Storm in the Iron Box, The Lost Cities of Asher and Freedom High. His one-acts depict people whose outsized passions don't fit into their odd environments. Second on the bill are one-acts written by Michael Bassett, a Chicago-based playwright whose plays are dark comedies where the characters' lives are perched on a razor's edge. Learn more...

Repertory East Playhouse presents M*A*S*H, the story of a dysfunctional Korean War medical unit. Based on the classic film, M*A*S*H follows the antics of "Hawkeye" Pierce, "Trapper John" McIntyre, and the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as they attempt to find distractions from the horrors of war. Learn more...

Landscaping the Den of Saints explores the hysterically destructive relationship between a floundering Hollywood writer and an eccentric millionaire with a rampant desire to indulge in his many addictions. Real and audacious, this multi-leveled dark comedy digs into the artist's desire to do (and deal with) anything to reach creative and financial success, capturing those increasingly uneasy moments that happen along the way. Learn more...

In this world premiere by Julie Hébert, three generations divided by race, culture and time connect when a white Southern woman discovers old love letters leading her to an African American half-brother. Melding realism and poetry, Tree is also a play about family and memory. Learn more...

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Better Angels is a true story of our 16th president that's never been told. During a crucial point in our nation's history, President Lincoln is visited by a gracious, courageous woman who asks him for help. It's more than a meeting of the minds -- it's a captivating connection, full of promise, that surprises them both. Learn more...

Slasher is the story of a D-list Hollywood movie director, Marc Hunter, who goes to Texas to shoot Bloodbath, a low-budget slasher flick. After he loses his name actress he casts a local Hooter Girl named Sheena McKinney as "The Last Girl" to be killed. This unleashes the thwarted feminist rage of Sheena's invalid mother. The ensuing events -- comical, intense and emotional -- result in a degree of horror Marc could never have imagined. Learn more...

Mrs. Cage features robbery, mayhem and murder in a supermarket parking lot. On this fateful day, the nice lady next door, Mrs. Cage, is driven over the edge as she finds her secret life exposed and destroyed. Learn more...

The Academy continues its comprehensive screening program of Oscar-winning documentaries from 1998-2003 with a double feature. Errol Morris' The Fog of War offers a penetrating examination of former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and his role in the Vietnam War. The short Chernobyl Heart traces the effects of radiation on the children of Belarus after a nuclear disaster. Learn more...

Set in 1930's London and inspired by the sensational Alma Rattenbury Trial, Molly is the story of a love quadrangle gone awry. Molly was written by renowned writer Simon Gray, whose plays are notable for their wit and emotional incisiveness. Learn more...

Jack Hawley is in love. He also has synesthesia; he tastes his feelings, smells what he touches and sees letters in color. When Jack decides to revisit his past, dealing with memories of death, a surprise about his mother, and his feelings for a girl he never stopped loving, Jack must take life head-on, no matter what color it is or how disturbing it tastes or smells. Learn more...

ELATE Theater Ensemble performs Neil Simon's 1971 dark comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue. The timely plot centers on executive Mel Edison, who loses his job after 20 years and must suddenly adjust to life at home. Compounding matters are a heat wave, a garbage strike, a burglary and noisy neighbors -- until a nervous breakdown offers Mel a fresh start. Learn more...