Annual Membership Covers Price of Admission to Local Performances

Tickets to some of the more delightful stage presentations I’ve seen in recent years have been purchased through On the House. This organization, whose business is predicated on the practice of “papering the house,” or filling all the seats, provides members with tickets for approximately 35 productions in any given week.

Members pay nothing for the tickets but pay a yearly membership fee of $149 (which is for two). You can attend as many of the offerings as you like, as often as you like.

Here’s how it works: On the House members call a hotline number, reserve two tickets in their names and show up at the theater box office to pick up the tickets.

As of this writing, members do not know what plays will be available this coming week. But some of the selections from last week were: a Michael Feinstein concert at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, the one-woman show “Bronte” at Tamarind Theatre in Hollywood and “Old Wicked Songs,” a drama at Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.

For membership information, call (310) 399-3868.

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