Steve Allen

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Paul Scheer's Sexy Christmas Spectacular

This week's list includes two great Eddies, Izzard and Pepitone. 5. Paul Scheer Sexy Christmas Spectacular Paul Scheer promises his "famous celebrity friends will tell you the true meaning of Christmas and the other December holidays that don't really count." With Ed Helms, Casey Wilson, Rob Hueb ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including SNL Vet Garrett Morris' Revamped Comedy Club

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Our list includes an up-and-coming Brit and an original SNL star. 5. Set List Paul Provenza and Troy Conrad concocted this wildly popular show where comics are handed unpredictable topics ... More >>

10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in Los Angeles

Live comedy is once again enjoying a boom period, even if some of the bigger clubs and bloated chains around the country are going bust. Thanks to the internet's generous enabling of DIY promotion, production, talent booking and ticketing, who needs a humorless industry gatekeeper when one can simpl ... More >>

Fellowship!

Triple Threat

The 911 on Halloween

Tomorrow!'s Sixth Anniversary at the Steve Allen Theater: Six Outrageous Comedy Acts That Took Place in the Middle of the Night

D. StonebergerHosts Brendon Small, Ron Lynch and Craig Anton stay awake at the sixth anniversary Tomorrow! show.​ As Saturday segued to Sunday, insomniacs broke from their Norm's nosh to gather at the Steve Allen Theater where a cult milestone took place: The sixth anniversary of Tomorrow! - ... More >>

Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti

Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others

Music Picks: NKOTBSB, Mixed Message, Earthless

Also, Catwalk, Holly Miranda, Darwin Dees, and others

'Re-Animator The Musical,' Now With Ravaging Rock Band Openers

Lina Lecaro Head bangers welcome at Re-Animator- The Musical. ​From Alice Cooper to GWAR to Marilyn Manson, sinister schlock and rock have always gone hand in (severed) hand. Music artists embellishing their stage show with theatrical thrills will never cease (even Lady Gaga's got monsters and ... More >>

The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Re-Animator: The Musical

Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator: The Musical and B. Walker Sampson's Alceste

Music Picks: Breakestra, Slang Chickens, the Muffs, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Also Meth Leppard, Tennis With Lord Huron, Kid Infinity and others

L.A. Theater in 2010

Thanks for the memories

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Stage Raw: McNulty/SLM Colloquy Reaction

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain TheatreMcNULTY/SLM COLLOQUY REACTION The L.A. Times devoted print space in last Sunday's paper to an email discussion of small theater in Los Angeles that transpired between the Times' Theater Critic, Charles McNulty, and me. The reactions ... More >>

Stage Raw: Beyond

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON IN THE HEIGHTSNEW REVIEW GO BEYOND ​ Photo courtesy of El Portal Theatre This musical extravaganza, conceived and directed by Aurelien Roulin, is described as a cross between French cabaret and Cirque de Soleil, but ... More >>

Kate Micucci: Music Not Quite From Here

OH, HENRY

Brick’s Picks: Heavy Traffic

Stage Raw: The Future Belongs to Us?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the FrogTHEATRE OF NOTE MARATHON ​ Fire-eater Julia Prud'homme Photo by Kiff Scholl Theatre of NOTE presents its 15th annual Performance Marathon this coming Saturday, Jan. ... More >>

Nevermore

GO LA: Rum, Sodomy and John Waters’ Filthy World

Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings!*

What to do in L.A., December 5-11

How to Survive the Holidays, Part 1

What to do Thanksgiving week

Over the Weekend: Absinthe Among the Dead, Family Guy C.R.A.P., Bruce McCulloch Comedy, The Roots Live

It's funny -- every weekend in Los Angeles we promise ourselves we're going to relax, do chores, catch up on some sleep, but it never happens. Monday arrives and we're more exhausted than when the weekend began. I guess if your Friday night kicks off with The Roots live at the Palladium and an absin ... More >>

How Deep Is Your Throat?

What to do in L.A., October 17-23

Live! Onstage! Real Pochos!

What to do in L.A., July 25-31

Glow, Baby, Glow!

What to do in L.A., July 18-24

Special Jury Duty Edition! (Van Nuys Courthouse)

What to do in L.A., May 2-8

The Hollywood Hot Shots

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo, 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

After her big kiss with El Rushbo,24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

Theater Reviews

Laughter and Its Echoes

Diz White’s primer on comedy groups

Emo Philips in the Shredder

Up in Smoke

A musical comedy sums up our grave new world

Rock Picks

For the week of Oct. 5–12

The Tomorrow Show

What Would Jesus Do this Week?

Another Lost Weekend?

What to do from March 3 - 9

Expert Advice: Put it in Park

Stuff Happens

The Green Monster

Tom Green, from the great wild North; plus, Dick and Paula, and Joe Bonanno

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in