June Brings Tributes, Revues, Satire and Michael Crawford

Summer air seems to signal lighter fare, with theater in June (mostly) waxing happy with revues, satire, musical comedy, historical tributes and ruminations on romance. The openings include:

Today: Songwriter-comedian Dale Goneya and actress Betty Garrett are a “Party of 2” in the musical series “Sunday at 3” at Studio City’s Theatre West.

Today: “Sum of Its Parts No. 5” offers a new roster of solo performers--Burke Byrnes, Sandra Tsing Loh, Susan Krebs and Mel Green--at Theatre/Theater in Hollywood.

Today: Two immigration agents in 1986 New York interrogate an Israeli politician and a Colombian journalist in “Hospitality,” Allan Havis’ treatise on power, at the Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles.

Wednesday: The multiethnic improvisational group “The Improvables” performs at the Santa Monica Improvisation for one night only.

Thursday: 1928 Berlin comes to 1991 Hollywood when “Grand Hotel” plays a six-week run at the Pantages. Tommy Tune directs the Tony Award-winning musical.

Thursday: “Only You,” Timothy Mason’s comedy about uncommitted relationships in the ‘90s, opens at Hollywood Actors Theatre.

Thursday: Lew Riley follows a contemporary Everyman through the 20th year of marriage and midlife crisis in “The Married Bachelor,” opening at the Gene Dynarski Theatre in Hollywood.

Friday: Another take on romance and marriage, Dermot Davis’ “All About Love,” opens at the Celtic Arts Center in Hollywood.

Friday: A homeless man has a run-in with the police in “Mayor’s Limo,” premiering at the American New Theatre in Hollywood. Mark Nassar, Tony of “Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding,” wrote and stars in this piece.

Friday: Bruce Graham’s small-town comedy, “Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille,” is revived at the Carpet Company Stage in Los Angeles.

Friday: “Rockin’ With Rachmaninoff,” a musical fantasy by Horace Silver, premieres in a gala benefit performance for Challengers Boys and Girls Club at Barnsdall Park’s Gallery Theatre.

Friday: North Hollywood’s Group Repertory Theatre presents “Razzle Dazzle,” a dramatic revue inspired by William Saroyan’s book of the same name. Lonny Chapman arranged and directs.

Saturday: The spirits of Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead come to life in Ron Lazar’s “Blue Harbour Honeymoon,” at the Chapel Court Theatre in Hollywood.

Saturday: Stan Freeman resurfaces in his solo turn as Oscar Levant in Joel Kimmel’s “At Wit’s End,” one night only at Pepperdine University’s Smothers Theatre.

June 9: At Santa Monica’s Highways Performance Space, a Hittite Empire presentation of Keith Antar Mason’s “The Case of the Missing Cockhound” is featured in a benefit launching the Los Angeles Black Repertory Company.

June 9: Topanga’s Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum kicks off its summer season with Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” and a reprise of last season’s tribute to the labor movement, “Worker’s USA!”

June 10: More observations on marriage come from Hindi Brooks’ comedy, “Happily . . . Even After,” at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills.

June 11: John Bishop’s period whodunit, “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” bows at the Tiffany Theatre in Hollywood.

June 11: Nyna S. Andersen’s musical tribute to Martin Luther King, “King,” opens at the West End Playhouse in Van Nuys.

June 12: Larry Gelbart and Cy Coleman’s story of a detective-writer-turned-screenwriter, “City of Angels,” opens at the Shubert Theatre in Century City. Michael Blakemore directs Tony winners James Naughton and Randy Graff.

June 13: Thomas F. Murray wrote and stars in “Green and Dying,” a one-man show about poet Dylan Thomas, at the Powerhouse in Santa Monica.

June 14: Dennis Spedaliere’s “Vicious,” the tale of ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungeon, is directed by Dorothy Lyman (who also staged a local 1984 production) at A Directors Theatre in Hollywood.

June 13: At Hollywood’s Highland Grounds, the Actors Gang presents another installment of its live radio serial, “Webbsville: Episode 3,” the saga of a wet little town where the soil is strange and the people are stranger.

June 13: Van Nuys’ 28-seat California Cottage Theatre begins its fifth season with Joseph Rubanoff’s dark comedy “A Necessary End.” Admission is free.

June 14: A Chicago family grapples with the idea of institutionalizing their retarded son in Donald Wayne Jarman’s “Go Fish” at the Gardner Stage in Hollywood.

June 14: A group of recovering alcoholics and drug abusers are threatened with the breakup of their “family” in Leonard Melfi’s “The Baby Kids,” also at Gardner Stage (in a separate space).

June 15: Look for four female roommates, four men, mistaken identities and miscommunicated messages in Sherry Kramer’s “Wall of Water,” opening at West Hollywood’s Coast Playhouse.

June 16: At Theatre/Theater, the revolving “Sum of Its Parts No. 5” segues into a new lineup, featuring Keegan & Lloyd, Kary Lynn Vail, Eric Trules and Dave Higgins.

June 20: The theatrical concert “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” offers selections from “Phantom of the Opera,” “Evita,” “Cats” and “Starlight Express.” Michael Crawford joins the cast of 12 at the Universal Amphitheatre.

June 21: Five people journey from alcohol and drug dependency to sobriety in Bill Dyer and Bob Prince’s new musical, “The Fellowship,” opening at St. Gensius Theatre in Hollywood.

June 21: “Frozen Futures,” a new science-fiction comedy about time travel, disembodied heads, genetic engineering and Sun Block No. 90, opens at Theatre/Theater.