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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...

The widely-loved international homemaker, talk show host, gigastar, fashion icon, swami and most sought-after friend to the rich, famous and royal, is making a return to the Ahmanson with what she describes as her "First Last Tour." For more than four decades, Dame Edna has dazzled audiences the world over with her one-of-a-kind banter, infinite wisdom and fabulous beauty tips. Learn more...

America's foremost Hispanic contemporary dance company, Ballet Hispanico has been compared to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for their technique, power and evocation of a rich cultural heritage. In choreographer Pedro Ruiz's Club Havana, they'll perform a high-spirited selection of works inspired by Cuba's dance traditions; the program also includes two West Coast premieres. Learn more...

Based on the life and music of Thomas "Fats" Waller, the Tony-winning revue Ain't Misbehavin' is a swinging, finger-snapping tribute to the black entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1900s. Recreated at the Ahmanson by original Broadway director Richard Maltby, Jr., the show features 30 classic tunes like "Honeysuckle Rose" and "The Joint is Jumpin'." Learn more...

In this fast-paced Tony Award-nominated new play, British talk show host David Frost interviews former President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal. Written by Peter Morgan, screenwriter of The Last King of Scotland, Frost/Nixon dramatizes how Frost was able to elicit the apology that the rest of the world was waiting to hear from the former president. Learn more...

Minsky's is a big, new musical comedy set in a time when entertainment was about legs and laughs, and you had to push the limits to keep the customers buying tickets. It tells a rollicking backstage story, set in Prohibition-Era New York City, that peeks into a world populated by comedians, con men and seductive, sexy women. Learn more...

Oprah Winfrey presents The Color Purple, a soul-stirring musical based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the film by Steven Spielberg. It is the unforgettable story of a woman named Celie, growing up poor in rural Georgia in the early 1900s, and her inspiring journey into adulthood. Nominated for 11 Tony Awards, The Color Purple is a Broadway phenomenon. Learn more...

The Ahmanson Theatre hosts Spring Awakening, the Broadway hit that won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Based on a play that caused a scandal in 19th-century Germany, this bold, poignant rock musical tells the story of the sexual awakening of a group of German teenagers. Learn more...

Based on the movie about three office workers who turn the tables on their sexist boss, this new comedy features music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, including the blockbuster title song. Starring Emmy Award winner Allison Janney ("The West Wing"), 9 to 5: The Musical has a book by Patricia Resnick, who wrote the film, and is directed by Joe Mantello, director of Wicked. Learn more...

9 to 5: The Musical comes to the Ahmanson, and the best seats available to non-subscribers are reserved for Goldstar members to buy in advance at full price. Based on the hit movie about three office workers who turn the tables on their sexist boss, this new comedy features music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, including the blockbuster title song. With book by Patricia Resnick, who wrote the film, and directed by Joe Mantello, director of Wicked. Learn more...

From its premiere at the Ahmanson to a big Tony Award-winning hit on Broadway, The Drowsy Chaperone is coming home again. The show tells the glamorous and hilarious tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically) soaring to the rafters. Learn more...

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...

Join Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad, Alex Borstein, who voices Lois and many other characters, and the "Family Guy Orchestra" on a musical tour through the alphabet with a hilarious and irreverent 26-song set, which redefines the term eclectic. The evening will begin with the comedy of Janeane Garofalo, star of films such as The Truth About Cats And Dogs and Reality Bites. Learn more...

Based on the Cameron Mackintosh/National Theatre of Great Britain's award-winning London sensation, and hailed as "the revival against which all others will be measured," this glorious new production of My Fair Lady features one of Broadway's most beloved scores including "The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Get Me to the Church on Time", and brings together the original U.K. artistic team, including director Trevor Nunn (Les Misèrables), with stars Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O'Hare. Learn more...

Sweeney Todd, winner of two 2006 Tony Awards, comes to the Ahmanson, featuring Broadway stars Judy Kaye and David Hess. Tony Award-winner John Doyle directs this dazzling reinvention of a musical thriller, where the band of devilish characters are all musicians. The legendary demon barber, hell-bent on revenge, takes up with his enterprising neighbor in a delicious plot to slice their way through London's upper crust. Learn more...

The Ahmanson Theatre presents Alan Bennett's The History Boys, winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Play. This play, later made into a film, follows the senior year of eight history students in the north of England as they try to crack admission to Oxford and Cambridge. Along the way, they deal with two competing teachers with very different styles--one of whom makes inappropriate advances toward students. Learn more...

Hit musical Avenue Q comes to the Ahmanson, and the best seats available to non-subscribers are reserved for Goldstar Events members to buy in advance at full price. Full of humor and hummable tunes, Avenue Q is a hilarious look at life in New York City, featuring a fantastic cast of people and puppets. Tickets will be on sale at the box office starting July 29th, but the best seats are still available here. Learn more...

Full of humor and hummable tunes, Avenue Q is a hilarious look at life in New York City, featuring a fantastic cast of people and puppets. It tells the story of Princeton, a recent college graduate who moves to New York and finds himself living among a cast of bizarre and dysfunctional characters. Learn more...

Enjoy a two-show package of tickets to Dance at the Music Center, featuring Spain's Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 at the Ahmanson and American Ballet Theatre at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The acclaimed Spanish dance company features choreography by Nacho Duato, one of the world's most sought-after artists. American Ballet Theatre returns to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion after sold out performances in 2005. Learn more...

Richard Thomas (The Waltons) and George Wendt (Cheers) star in the intense courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men at the Ahmanson Theatre. What seems like an open-and-shut murder case becomes a twisted puzzle of prejudice and intrigue. Twelve jurors in a murder trial are corralled in a deliberation room, where they're faced with judging not only the alleged criminal, but also themselves. Learn more...

Direct from electrifying runs on Broadway and in London's West End, the smash-hit new production of Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? comes to the Ahmanson Theatre with its acclaimed original stars, Evening Standard Award winner Kathleen Turner and Tony Award winner Bill Irwin. Learn more...

Direct from Broadway, and the winner of 6 Tony(R) Awards including Best Score, The Light in the Piazza is the romantic new musical that finds Margaret Johnson on vacation in the Tuscan countryside with her daughter, Clara. Clara's unexpected encounter with a handsome Florentine named Fabrizio sweeps into a poignant tale of two unusual young people who fall in love--to explore the essence of love itself. Learn more...

Sister Aloysius harbors doubts about the charismatic parish priest at a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, as Father Flynn's relationship with an altar boy sparks the Sister's suspicion. But are his actions innocent? This Pulitzer winner and winner of four Tony awards, including Best Play and Best Actress for Cherry Jones, comes to the Ahmanson. Learn more...

David Hyde Pierce (Frasier's Niles Crane) stars in Curtains, a new musical comedy debuting at the Ahmanson before heading to Broadway. Set in 1950s Boston, this backstage murder mystery follows homicide detective Frank Cioffi as he investigates the murder of a leading lady. Bodies keep piling up and everyone is suspect, as Cioffi races to solve the crime. This classic whodunit features songs from the Tony Award-winning songwriters of Cabaret and Chicago. Learn more...

The Ahmanson Theatre presents The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, from Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs. The San Jose Mercury News says The Black Rider is "like the Threepenny Opera on acid," using the distorted perspectives of Expressionist painting and the exaggerated comedic gestures of cabaret and silent movies. Based on folklore, it's the story of a young clerk who must learn to hunt in order to marry his true love. He strikes a deal with the devil for magic bullets, but in this surreal world, nothing is what it seems: the devil sings, animals talk, and bullets have minds of their own. The dreamy score of The Black Rider, written by Tom Waits, incorporates eclectic instruments, such as the pocket trumpet, the glass harmonica, the drunk piano, and the musical saw. Learn more...

Dame Edna, the incomparable international housewife, megastar and guru, brings her all new extravaganza to the Ahmanson. Dame Edna asserts, "I don't do shows, I make history. My shows are 'events'." Joining Dame Edna onstage will be "The Gorgeous Ednaettes," scrumptious girl dancers in stunning costumes that the men folk will really appreciate if they ever can take their eyes off the Dame. Learn more...

Acclaimed Limon Dance Company, now celebrating 60 years, illustrates the vision of its legendary founder, Jose Limon. Their uplifting program includes the long awaited revival of Limon's profoundly moving Missa Brevis, to include some of L.A.'s most talented dancers, and the West Coast premiere of the whimsical Recordare by famed choreographer Lar Lubovitch. Recordare is the choreographer's interpretation of a Day of the Dead celebration. Complete with skeletons, and mariachis, this tribute to Limon's Mexican heritage is filled with visual delights. Learn more...

Thrilling, audacious and totally original, Matthew Bourne's all-male Swan Lake transforms one of ballet's best-loved stories into a stylish, witty, poignant, contemporary tale. Bourne blends ballet, style, humor, spectacle, character comedy and mime to create a passionate love story and a powerful Swan Lake for our times. Don't miss this landmark hit of the international stage in its brief L.A. return. Learn more...

Jack loves Gwendolen. Algernon loves Cecily. The women, too, are in love, with men they believe to be called Ernest - "that name that inspires absolute confidence." Lynn Redgrave stars in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Sir Peter Hall, who directed As You Like It at the Ahmanson last Spring. Learn more...

See it at the Ahmanson before it heads for Broadway next year! This musical tribute to the gay 1920s tells the deliciously silly tale of a pampered Broadway starlet who wants to give up show business to marry. Enter the chaperone, a debonair groom, a Latin lover, a dizzy chorus girl and a couple of gangsters, as the madcap plot spins completely out of control. Learn more...

Dead End, a Broadway sensation in 1935, returns to the stage to open the Ahmanson's new season. It's the story of a group of scruffy teenage boys on the streets of New York - playing cards on the stoop, roasting potatoes in a can, and swimming in the river. This production features 42 actors and one of the largest sets ever created for the Ahmanson, including an orchestra pit filled with 10,000 gallons of water to simulate New York's East River. Learn more...

Radiohead and Sigur Ros, two of today's hottest rock bands, joined forces to create music for modern dance legend Merce Cunningham. What happened next? Find out at the Los Angeles premiere of Split Sides, the revolutionary work that took the dance world by storm, generating "more hype and buzz than any dance in the company's 50-year history" (New York Magazine). Learn more...

See the American premiere of Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words at the Ahmanson Theatre. With a cool jazz score, this sexy, chic and thrillingly original dance drama is a spellbinding carnival of seduction, lust and power. The story is told entirely through music and dance with no dialogue. The result is a funny, sensual and completely original "play" that even people who don't think they like dance, will love! Learn more...

Shakespeare's warmest comedy, As You Like It is filled with laughter, love and song. Director Sir Peter Hall's new production, which premiered in August 2003 at England's famed Theater Royal Bath, has received dazzling reviews from London and New York critics. Here's your chance to see it for a limited time at the Ahmanson. Learn more...

The most critically lauded event of the last Broadway season is making a triumphant return to Los Angeles! Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with music and lyrics by Grammy-award winner Roger Miller, includes deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing actors performing in synchronized singing, speaking, dancing and signing. Learn more...

New offers added for this week. The Ahmanson Theatre presents Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change, the Tony Award-winning new musical from Tony Kushner, the creator of Angels in America. Caroline tells the story of an African-American maid on the eve of the Civil Rights revolution. "Caroline must be seen!" --Time Magazine Learn more...

Garth Fagan Dance, the latest artists in the Dance at the Music Center series, perform at the Ahmanson Theatre. "One of modern dance's most innovative choreographers" (NY Times) brings his fearless troupe to L.A. for an explosive program fusing Afro-Caribbean energy, balletic precision and rule-bending modern dance. Learn more...

From the producers of Hairspray and The Producers, and the songwriters of Beauty and the Beast, comes New York's biggest monster hit! Little Shop of Horrors, everyone's favorite boy-meets-girl, plant-eats-world phenomenon, at the Ahmanson Theatre. Learn more...

The Ahmanson Theatre proudly presents the acclaimed new production of "old-style musical romance" Thoroughly Modern Millie, the winner of 6 Tony Awards, starring Darcie Roberts (Aida, Crazy For You). Learn more...

Kate Mulgrew (Capt. Janeway on Star Trek Voyager) heads a star-studded cast in George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's classic comedy based on the lives of the Barrymores, America's First Family of Stage: the "enchanting" Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre. Learn more...

Experience the greatest love story ever sung: Puccini's Italian opera La Boheme is reimagined by Baz Luhrmann, creator of Moulin Rouge. Learn more...

One of Broadway's favorite musical comedies, 42nd Street comes to the Ahmanson Theatre in a sparkling new production. This is the Broadway musical for people who love Broadway musicals! Learn more...

Lily Tomlin returns to Los Angeles, reprising her Tony Award-winning performance of Jane Wagner's nationally acclaimed play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Learn more...

Described as "riveting" by the New York Times, Emmy award winning dance company Pilobolus performs their uniquely beautiful and acrobatic dance style at the Ahmanson Theater. Learn more...

Combining dance, drama and gymnastics into a performance style that has been called cinematic, the Diavolo Dance Theatre performs live at the Ahmanson. Learn more...

The 2002 Tony Award winning show Elaine Stritch at Liberty celebrates the legendary career of performer Elaine Stritch. Watch and listen as she performs classics like "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "The Ladies Who Lunch." Learn more...

Legendary Broadway star Barbara Cook, gifted with a clear, beautiful, lyric soprano voice, sings the songs of Stephen Sondheim and more. Learn more...

The Ahmanson presents smash hit Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk starring the red-hot energy of Savion Glover, the preeminent percussive dancer in the world, and his cast of amazing dancers, drummers and singer-narrators. Learn more...

Tony Award winning Morning's at Seven is the sweetly funny, gentle saga of the four "crazy" Gibbs sisters, their impossible mates and quirky offspring, and the hilarious truths and family secrets that hold them together. Learn more...