The Groundlings

El Grande de Coca Cola and the Groundlings' Latest Show Bring Vaudeville to 2013

L.A.'s Booming Indie Improv Scene

Dungeons & Groundlings

Laugh Your Way to 2013

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Making Fun of Crappy Gifts

5. Chop Schtick 2012 Oh, holy night! All Jewish comics on Christmas Eve -- and egg rolls, too! Wendy Hammers hosts, with Eric Schwartz, Monica Piper, more special guests and a sing-along. Genghis Cohen, Mon. Dec. 24, 7 & 9 p.m.

Euripides' Helen Adapted for the Kardashian Era, and Other New Theater Reviews

This week our critics liked Euripides' Helen at the Getty Villa, adapted for today's celebrity age, plus the new Groundlings Sunday night show, the 24th Street Theatre's play Rome at the End of the Line, and a new political dance performance from the Indian company Navarasa Dance Theatre. In our th ... More >>

Yard Sale This Sunday!

Camp Sunday

Theater Anecdotes, Anyone? Also, New reviews of Stations, Santasia and Camp Sunday

Rich Sofranko"Stations"​Boom Kat Dance Theatre's production of Stations at Santa Monica's Miles Memorial Playhouse landed this week's stage Pick; ​also recommended are the Whitefire Theatre's Santasia in Sherman Oaks, and the Groundlings' Camp Sunday. See all the reviews after the jump.Call for ... More >>

Top 5 Ridiculous But Awesome Christmas Shows In L.A.

​Need a break from all the credit card-maxing, house-lighting, bad party-attending and general seasonal stressing? Why not try something outside of the gift box this year? Here, five festive, somewhat freaky holiday haps in town that are anything but cookie-cutter Christmas confections. 5. Ch ... More >>

Live Nude Groundlings

Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, Zombie Joe's Devils Love at Midnight and Sandra Bernhard's I Love Being Me, Don't You?

Justin DavanzoSarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis presented by City Garage at Track 16/Bergamot Station​ ​ Local theater's looking kinda edgy in the dog days of late August: Paul Birchall had good things to say about City Garage's production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis; big nods also for Sandra Ber ... More >>

Sandra Bernhard at REDCAT

Steven GuntherSandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, Don't You?​Sandra Bernhard performs I Love Being Me, Don't You? this weekend, and through August 21. Check out Amy Lyons' review on Tuesday.(Here are the latest capsule NEW THEATER REVIEWS and this week's  Theater feature on Melissa James Gi ... More >>

How Crazy is This?

Groundlings Fundraiser Tonight at True Food Kitchen

​Try not to laugh so hard you squirt soda out of your nose. Actually, it promises to be a very adult evening at tonight's fundraiser for The Groundlings, the iconic LA improv troupe that launched tons of comedic talent: Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Phil Hartman, fried pie-loving Kathy Griffin, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Singles Cruise,The Next Fairy Tale, 'Til Death Do Us Part

Also, The Young Man From Atlanta, Oh, Momma and Obama and more

Groundlings Singles Cruise

Stage Raw: Groundlings Singles Cruise

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE ​Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>

GROUNDLINGS AND PROUD

Theater Reviews: Hot Pants, Cold Feet, Liberty Inn, Side by Side by Sondheim

Also, Rock 'n Ridicule, The Story of My Life, Tales of an Urban Indian and more

Groundlings Showcase Showdown

Stage Raw: Extropia

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO EXTROPIA ​ Photo by Keith Roenke Imagine how sonically colorless a world without traditional music would be. Actually, not very, accor ... More >>

Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

18 years after a bruising fall, Paul Reubens returns to an L.A. stage

Groundlings Space Camp

Stage Raw: Groundlings Enchanted Forest

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Elephant Man at Andak Stage CompanyGROUNDLINGS ENCHANTED FOREST Groundlings Enchanted Forest is one of 11 plays being reviewed this week. Photo courtesy of The G ... More >>

Groundlings, in the Study, With the Candlestick

Stage Raw: Stick Fly

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast ... More >>

Stage Raw: Time Stands Still

TIME STANDS STILL Time Stand Still (photo by Michael Lamont) is Donald Margulies' newest work, being given its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It would be nice to see our institutional theaters dip a bit deeper into the lake of American playwrights (perhaps lesser-known ones) ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Yo Ho Ho! A Pirate's Christmas, It's a Stevie Wonderful Life!

Also, Inspecting Carol and Groundlings Holiday Show

Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

Stage Raw: Home for the Holidays

IT'S A FABULOUS LIFE! The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles performs an evening on holiday snapshots at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Boulevard in Glendale; Saturday Dec. 20, 3 & 8 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 21, 3 p.m. (323) 467-9741 http://gmcla.org L.A. COUNTY HOLIDAY CELEBRATION Six hours of foo ... More >>

How to Survive the Holidays, Part 1

What to do Thanksgiving week

Let the Fake Laughing Season Begin!

Groundlings Special Lady Friend

The Groundlings, Your Body and You

Red Scare on Sunset

Theater Reviews: Lady, A Chorus Line, I Gelosi

Also, The Legendary Times of Bulgakov, and more

Edie Sings! Sheryl Crows!

What to do in L.A., March 7-13

Groundlings Swimsuit Edition

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Swimsuit Edition, A Good Smoke

Also, Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue!

Conversation With Lisa Kudrow

Shut Up and Eat Your Groundlings

Theater Reviews: Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, Groundlings

Also A Tuna Christmas

The Last Laugh

The Groundlings

Dancing On the Moon

Looking for the meaning of “alternative” with a pair of L.A.’s newest comedy impresarios

Shine On, You Crazy Loft-Liver

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Dog Days of Spring

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Red Any Good Carpets Lately?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Put Heading Here

Other Comedy

30 Years off the Cuff

How the Groundlings taught L.A. to laugh