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Keep It Clean Comedy
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While you were busy swing dancing, JC Coccoli's been hosting a night of "speakeasy-esque" standup comedy. Hear her explain why Keep it Clean Comedy came to exist. "Working comics in L.A. were in dire need of a speakeasy spot to work their showcase material. Prepping for performances on Leno,... More >> |
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| Los Feliz | Comedy |
Facebook
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Tear yourself away from Facebook for an evening and submit yourself to Facebook, the weekly show formerly known as MySpace. The show's creator, Owen Burke, and his comedy cronies will make fun of two audience members, as only trained improvisers can. Here's Burke's promise: "Each week two... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Comedy |
Vance Sanders' Open Mike of Love
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Mr. Sanders can be counted on to bring a quality group of comics to his weekly "Open Mike of Love" standup show. Lineup varies and is subject to change. It's also subject to occasionally not being all that funny, but for the most part, the comics are top-notch, or just below top-notch. Just go... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Valentine's Day, Comedy |
The Happy Hour Story Experiment
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Comedian Melinda Hill and writer Eve Sturges' "experimental hour of storytelling with their fancy, famous friends and exciting newcomers." More >> |
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| Out of Town | Comedy |
New Material With Kevin Nealon
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The Weeds star and former SNL standout does hilarious standup on a weekly basis, with bits on fatherhood and other touchstones of modern-day living. More >> |
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| West Hollywood | Comedy |
Sit 'n' Spin
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Always a smart option: Storytelling by Jill Soloway, Maggie Rowe, Jaclyn Lafer and assorted guests of varying hilarity; www.sitnspin.org. Feb. 23: Mary Elizabeth Williams Villano, Carla Snowden, Danielle Bernabe, and Harmon Leon. More >> |
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| Hollywood | Holiday, Comedy |
Stanley Kubrick
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After the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's joint acquisition with the Getty of Robert Mapplethorpe's art and archives proved to be a major coup, LACMA now holds the distinction of being the first U.S. art institution to host an exhibit dedicated to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
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Pull your chair up to the comedic campfire and enjoy a great (free!) show featuring top comics and maybe a famous drop-in. Maria Bamford and Melinda Hill bring excellent standups every week really, like Blaine Capatch, Patton Oswalt, Matt Besser -- you get the idea. More >> |
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| Out of Town | Comedy |
Heart of Darkness
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In his haunting, solo adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, playwright-actor Brian T. Finney navigates his craft directly through the work's core themes of madness, imperialistic exploitation and, well, the horror. Finney reimagines the story as monologue, artfully... More >> |
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| Culver City | Theater |
The 4 & 20
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Against all odds, there is yet another reason to frequent Eagle Rock's All Star Lanes. If glow-in-the-dark bowling, embarrassment-indifferent karaoke and recession-friendly drinks aren't enough to tempt, here's another delight: novice comedy. The 4 & 20 is a weekly selection of four of the... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Comedy |
Trainspotting
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Director Roger Mathey and Seat of the Pants Productions return with a solid revival of their 2002 production about four lower-class Edinburgh youths prematurely entombed in a hellish world of sex, heroin addiction and violence. The story is based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh (the source... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Theater |
Do Lord Remember Me
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During the mid 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project, at the request of President Franklin Roosevelt, undertook an extensive gathering of oral histories from former slaves about their lives. It is these voices from an ugly past that are the material for James de Jongh's stirring 1977 docudrama Do... More >> |
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| West Adams/ Crenshaw/ Baldwin Hills | Theater |
Our Class
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A disturbing drama, executed by an accomplished ensemble under Matthew McCray's direction, Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class deals with the alleged massacre of 1,600 Jews by their Polish neighbors in a small town in 1941. The multistranded plot builds around 10 individuals, five Jewish and five... More >> |
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| Northeast L.A. | Theater |
Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers
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Traditional productions of Peter Pan have relied on huge casts, acres of elaborate scenery and complicated flying apparatus, but director Michael Matthews proves that's all unnecessary in this production of Michael Lluberes' revisionist adaptation. For starters, there's a male actor, Daniel... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Theater |
Put Your Hands Together
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The Put Your Hands Together comedy showcase was conceived to present only one thing: 75 pulse-pounding, mind-melting, spine-shattering minutes of laughter inspired by some of the best comics in Los Angeles. Produced in conjunction with aspecialthing records -- the rare record label that still... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Comedy |
Miljohn Ruperto/Ulrik Heltoft: Voynich Botanical Studies
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The Voynich Manuscript, written sometime in the 1400s or 1500s, has never been read. No one knows how to decipher the mystery language it was written in, though world-class code breakers have tried. No one knows who wrote it, or why, though theories abound. The manuscript also features a number... More >> |
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| Chinatown/ Elysian Park | Art - Galleries, Arts |
Comedy Palace
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One of the best stand-up shows in L.A., Comedy Palace, takes place every Thursday night in the small roof space of a Chinese restaurant in Los Feliz. Producer Sam Varela has a knack for booking both big-name talents and future rising stars of the alternative stand-up scene. Veteran comics like... More >> |
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| Silver Lake | Comedy |
Brecht on Brecht
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Playwright George Tabori assembled a huge master script -- too massive for inclusion in any one production -- of materials collected from the works of Bertolt Brecht. Directors are urged to make their own selection from the myriad pieces, which include poems, songs, scenes and transcripts of... More >> |
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| Northeast L.A. | Theater |
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
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Dig Columbia Records' short list: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen and Willie Nelson. Sean Wilentz -- America's hippest historian -- has written an epic tome called 360 Sound: The... More >> |
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| Downtown | Arts, Art - Museums |
Falling for Make Believe
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The Colony Theatre's latest effort isn't quite there yet: Mark Saltzman's world-premiere musical about the wordsmith half of songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart requires polishing (and a hit would help get the faltering theater back on its feet). But for music lovers and nostalgic theater buffs,... More >> |
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| Burbank | Theater - Large, Theater |
Speedy Graphito: NEWWORLDS
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Thanks to the mainstreaming of street art, it's easy to lose sight of the earlier generation of global pioneers who laid the movement's foundations. Studio City's Fabien Castanier Gallery is aiming to fix that, presenting French urban-art icon Speedy Graphito in his second show with the gallery... More >> |
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| San Fernando Valley | Art - Galleries |
California Scene Paintings From 1930 to 1960; Christopher Miles: Bloom; John O'Brien: Meander
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"Christopher Miles: Bloom," "John O'Brien: Meander" and "California Scene Paintings 1930-1960" all open at the Pasadena Museum of California Art this weekend, presenting three very different yet conceptually interrelated displays that speak to life in the Greater Los Angeles region through... More >> |
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Art - Museums |
Smoke and Mirrors
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If you've forgotten the childlike joy and sublime wonderment of seeing magic performed, Albie Selznick's theatrical show is an enchanting reminder. The accomplished actor-magician puts on a bewildering tour de force that has more "how did he do that" flashes than can be counted. The show also... More >> |
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| San Fernando Valley | Theater |
Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art From the Collections of LACMA and The Broad Art Foundation
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You have to walk through Cady Noland's Office Filter, a metal gate with a jacket hanging on one end of it, to get into the second gallery of LACMA's "Ends and Exits" show. There you'll find a yellow tarp across which Keith Haring painted his red, rambunctious characters, and the dress of white... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open
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When artists celebrate the first big museum survey of their career, it's an opportunity to regard the entire sweep of their creative evolution. Seeing early works along with curious side projects, sketches, photographs and other work-process materials lends a deep level of insight, taking the... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Arts, Art - Museums |
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