What to Do: Guidebook for the Season

L.A. Times Archives

May 25, 2000 12 AM PT

Following on the next several pages is a broad listing of summer events, organized by category.

THEATER

Wednesday: “Another Time,” L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

Wednesday-July 2: “Defiled,” Geffen Playhouse.

Wednesday-July 5: “An Evening of Chekhov,” Hudson Guild Theatre.

June 1-July 2: “The Full Monty,” Old Globe Theatre.

June 2-3: “Project Alice,” Fabulous Monsters, Village Auditorium, Ed Gould Plaza, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.

June 2-17: “Enough,” Glaxa Studios.

June 2-18: “A Grand Night for Singing,” La Mirada Theatre.

June 2-24: “Immortality,” Los Angeles Theatre Center.

June 2-25: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” A Noise Within.

June 2-July 2: “The Education of Randy Newman,” South Coast Repertory.

June 2-July 9: “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” Japanese American Players, Gene Bua Acting for Life Theatre.

* “The Jewish Wife” and “The Informer,” Lee Strasberg Creative Center.

* “MedeaText: Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore,” City Garage.

June 2-Sept. 1: “John Raitt Friday Night Concert Series,” John Raitt Theatre.

June 3-24: “Me and the SLA,” Village Auditorium, Ed Gould Plaza, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.

June 3-25: “Murder in the First,” Laurel Theatre.

June 3-July 2: “Damn Yankees,” At the Grove Theatre.

June 3-July 9: “That Kind of Woman,” T.H.A.W. at Bitter Truth Theatre.

June 4-July 2: “Blood Wedding,” first production under Anne Hamburger at La Jolla Playhouse, Weiss Theatre.

June 4-Sept. 24: “The Taming of the Shrew,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

June 5-July 17: “Reader’s Theatre,” Bilingual Foundation of the Arts.

June 6-11: “The Civil War--The Broadway Musical,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

June 6-28: Blank Theatre Company Eight Annual Young Playwrights Festival, Hudson Theatre.

June 6-July 9: “Lifegame,” La Jolla Playhouse, Weiss Forum.

June 7-25: “George Gershwin Alone,” Tiffany Theatre.

June 8-25: “Twelfth Night,” Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.

June 8-July 2: “Elinor Adjusting,” Theatre West.

June 8-July 16: “The Father,” McCadden Place Theatre.

* “The Poison Tree,” Mark Taper Forum.

June 9-July 9: “Three Sisters,” El Portal Center, Circle Theatre.

June 9-Indefinitely: “Groundlings vs. the State of California,” Groundling Theatre.

June 9-18: “By the Hand of the Father,” Margo Albert Theater, Plaza de la Raza.

June 9-25: “The Threepenny Opera,” Performance Riverside.

June 9-July 2: “Elinor Adjusting,” Theatre West.

* “Kitchen Khronicles,” Tamarind Theatre.

June 9-July 15: “Six Degrees of Separation,” Attic Theatre Centre.

* “Accidental Dancers,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre.

June 9-July 19: “You Can’t Take It With You,” Pasadena Shakespeare Company at Fremont Centre Theatre.

June 9-July 22: “R.U.R.,” Group Repertory Theatre.

June 9-July 30: “Cool My Tongue,” Celebration Theatre.

June 10: “Dear Brutus,” California Artists Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill.

June 10-25: “Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Pinata Woman and Other Superhero Girls Like Me” and “Drive My Coche,” Taper Too, Actors’ Gang.

* “Dreamgirls,” Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities.

June 10-July 9: “The Three Sisters,” Stella Adler Studio Theatre.

June 10-July 16: “The Tempest,” Knightsbridge Theatre.

June 11: “Grossinger’s . . . The Last Resort,” Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

June 11-July 9: “Conversations” and “The Actor’s Nightmare,” Fremont Centre Theatre, South Pasadena.

June 13-28: “Memory Rites,” 2100 Square Feet Theater.

June 14-18: “Neat,” L.A. Theatre Works, Skirball Cultural Center.

June 15-25: “3rd Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival,” South Coast Repertory.

June 15-30: “The Early Girl,” American Renegade Theatre.

June 15-July 9: “Fosse,” Shubert Theatre.

June 15-July 28: “The Big Knife,” Hollywood Court Theatre.

June 16-24: “UR-BOOR,” Los Angeles Theatre Center, Tom Bradley Theatre.

June 16-July 15: “The Actor’s Nightmare” and “The Real Inspector Hound,” Attic Theatre Centre.

June 16-July 16: “Wild Life,” Powerhouse Theatre.

June 17-Aug. 13: “Stardust,” Saddleback Civic Light Opera, Cabaret Theatre, Saddleback College.

June 20-25: “Common Ground Festival 2000,” A.S.K. Theater Projects, UCLA.

June 23: “Night of Griots,” Taper Too, Actors’ Gang.

June 23-25: “Ventriloquism Unplugged, A Concert of Belly Talkers,” Santa Monica Puppet and Magic Center. (Family shows, June 24-25.)

June 23-July 16: “The Deal,” International City Theatre at Center Theatre, Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

June 23-July 23: “Touch,” Theatre of NOTE.

* “As Bees in Honey Drown,” Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa Barbara.

June 24: “Crime Scene, The Second Anniversary Show.”

June 24-Aug. 6: “A Month in the Country,” Odyssey Theatre. (310) 477-2055.

June 25: “The Music of George and Ira Gershwin,” Sing! Sing! Sing! at the Jazz Bakery.

* “Freud, Groucho and Me, An Afternoon With David Steinberg” Skirball Cultural Center.

* “The Ghost Sonata,” Sledgehammer Theatre. Through July 23.

June 30-July 15: “The Taming of the Shrew,” Shakespeare Orange County, Chapman University.

June 30-July 16: “Man of La Mancha,” Saddleback Civic Light Opera, McKinney Theatre, Saddleback College.

June 30-July 30: “Romeo and Juliet,” Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks.

July 1-16: “The Square,” Taper Too, Actors’ Gang.

July 1-30: “Much Ado About Nothing,” Shakespeare Festival/LA. Through July 2: Burton Chace Park, Marina del Rey. July 6-16: Pershing Square, downtown L.A. July 20-30: South Coast Botanic Garden, Palos Verdes.

July 2-9: “MedeaTextL.A.,” City Garage.

July 5-9: “American Appetites,” L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

July 6-30: “The Last Outpost,” Watts Village Theatre company at Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 4.

July 6-Aug. 5: “Icarus and Aria,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

July 7-15: “A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream,” Troubadour Theater Company, Grove Theater Center, Festival Amphitheater; also Aug. 18-26 in Grove Theatre Center Theatre on the Green, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton.

July 7-30: “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” Music Theatre of Southern California. July 7-23: San Gabriel Civic Auditorium; July 28-30, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

* “The Day Emily Married,” Lost World at Robinson Theatre, Whittier College.

July 7-Aug. 12: “The Taming of the Shrew,” PCPA Theaterfest, Solvang Festival Theatre (July 7-23), Marian Theatre (July 29-Aug. 12).

July 7-Aug. 13: “New Blue Shorts,” Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex.

* “The Fiery Furnace,” Eclectic Company Theatre.

July 8-17: “Weights,” Taper Too, Actors’ Gang.

July 8-30: “The Show Goes On, a Portfolio of Theater Songs,” Laguna Playhouse.

July 8-Aug. 12: “Henry V,” Old Globe Theatre, Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

* “Anything Goes,” PCPA Theaterfest, Marian Theatre, Allan Hancock College (July 8-23), Solvang Festival Theatre (July 28-Aug. 12).

July 8-Sept. 30: “Harold and Maude,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

July 11-23: “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

July 14-22: “The Wide Open Ocean Ate Aimee Semple Whole,” Actors’ Gang.

July 14-30: “Always . . . Patsy Cline,” Fullerton Civic Light Opera at Plummer Auditorium.

July 14-Aug. 6: “The Taming of the Shrew,” Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks.

July 16-Aug. 20: “The Good Doctor,” Pasadena Playhouse.

July 18-Aug. 24: “False Bravado,” Blue Sphere Alliance at the Lex.

July 19-Sept. 3: “James Joyce’s The Dead,” Ahmanson Theatre.

July 20-Aug. 5: “Blithe Spirit,” Grove Theatre Center Theatre on the Green, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton.

July 20-Aug. 26: “Open Fist Director’s Festival,” Open Fist Theatre.

July 20-Sept. 18: “Looking for Louie,” Pacific Resident Theatre.

July 21-Aug. 26: “Daughters,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre.

July 21-Aug. 27: “The Secret Nymph of New Hyde Park,” American Renegade Theatre.

July 21-Sept. 10: “Once in a Lifetime,” West Coast Ensemble.

July 22-Aug. 13: “The Trial of Othello,” Theatre West.

July 22-Aug. 26: “God’s Man in Texas,” Old Globe Theatre, Cassius Carter Centre Stage.

July 22-Sept. 2: “At the End of the Line,” Two Roads Theatre.

July 22-Sept. 3: “Taking Sides,” Odyssey Theatre.

July 23: “Partners in Rhyme, the Music of Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael,” Sing! Sing! Sing!, at the Jazz Bakery.

July 23-Aug. 20: “Sheridan,” La Jolla Playhouse, Weiss Theatre.

July 28-30: “Veterano, a Legacy of Valor,” produced by Four Brown Hats, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Tom Bradley Theatre.

July 28-Aug. 6: “Fiddler on the Roof,” Cabrillo Music Theatre at Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

July 28-Aug. 13: “Grease,” Saddleback Civic Light Opera, McKinney Theatre, Saddleback College.

July 29-Aug. 12: “The Tempest,” Shakespeare Orange County, Chapman University.

July 29-Aug. 20: “An Antigone Story,” Cornerstone Theater at Subway Terminal Building, 417 S. Hill St.

July 29-Sept. 2: “Things We Do for Love,” Old Globe Theatre.

July 29-Oct. 21: “Our Town,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Aug. 3-27: “Expecting Isabel,” Mark Taper Forum.

* “One Act Marathon,” Attic Theatre Centre.

Aug. 3-Sept. 10: “La Ronde 2000,” El Portal Circle Theatre.

Aug. 4-Sept. 3: “The Merchant of Venice,” Pasadena Shakespeare Company at Fremont Centre Theatre, South Pasadena.

Aug. 4-Sept. 10: “Top Dogs,” City Garage.

Aug. 4-Sept. 15: “L.A. Connection’s Longformation,” L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre.

Aug. 4-Oct. 29: “Heterosexuals in Crisis,” Santa Monica Playhouse.

Aug. 6-Sept. 3: “The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union,” La Jolla Playhouse.

Aug. 8-13: “Cabaret,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Aug. 9-Sept. 13: “The Presidents,” City Garage.

Aug. 10-12: “Fame,” Performance Riverside.

Aug. 10-Sept. 24: “Darker Faces of the Earth,” American Renegade Theatre.

Aug. 11-Sept. 16: “How to Steal an Election,” Actors’ Gang.

Aug. 12-Oct. 8: “Lysistrata,” Foliage Theater Project, Hancock Park.

Aug. 16-27: “Hamlet,” Grove Theater Center, Festival Amphitheater. Also Sept. 7-17, Grove Theatre Center Theatre on the Green, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton.

Aug. 18-Sept. 17: “Darker Face of the Earth,” Fountain Theatre presentation at American Renegade Theatre.

Aug. 19-Sept. 24: “A Man for All Seasons,” Knightsbridge Theatre.

Aug. 19-Oct. 1: “1940’s Radio Hour,” PCPA Theaterfest, Marion Theatre (Aug. 19-Sept. 3), Solvang Festival Theatre (Sept. 8-Oct. 1).

Aug. 21-Sept. 26: “Properties of Silence,” 2100 Square Feet Theater.

Aug. 22-27: “Titanic,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Aug. 23-27: “Sprawl,” Actors’ Gang.

Aug. 24-Sept. 23: “Cut, Poison, and Burn,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

Aug. 25-Sept. 24: “Beast on the Moon,” Fountain Theatre.

Aug. 26-Oct. 8: “Gross National Product,” Odyssey Theatre.

Aug. 26-Indefinitely: “Dandelion Wine,” Colony Studio Theatre.

Aug. 27: “A Little Travelin’ Music . . . Please!,” Sing! Sing! Sing! at the Jazz Bakery.

Aug. 29-Oct. 24: “View of the Dome,” Hudson Avenue Theatre.

Sept. 1-24: “Loot,” International City Theatre at Center Theatre, Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

Sept. 1-Oct. 7: “Spinelli,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre.

Sept. 1-Oct. 8: “Trumpet to the Morn,” Knightsbridge Theatre.

Sept. 1-Oct. 22: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Sept. 2-Oct. 8: “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Knightsbridge Theatre.

CHILDREN

June 3: “Kitty Cat Craft and Concert Hour with Jessica Harper,” Storyopolis.

* “72 Degrees and Sunny,” South Coast Repertory, Second Stage. Also June 4.

* “Getty Family Festival,” Getty Museum.

June 4: “Performing Arts Family Festival,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

June 7-25: “Blue’s Clues Live Tour,” San Diego Civic Center (June 7-11), Orange County Performing Arts Center (June 21-25).

June 9-24: “Cyrano de Bergerac” (50 minute adaptation) East L.A. Classic Theatre, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. June 10-11: Los Angeles City College.

June 10-11: “Bliss,” South Coast Repertory, Second Stage.

June 11: “Courtney Campbell in Concert,” McCabe’s.

June 17: “L.A. Kids Read Festival,” KLOS Story Theatre, Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W. 5th St.

June 18: “Reader’s Theatre Project,” Los Angeles Children’s Museum.

June 24-Aug. 31: “Fourth Annual Pet Show,” Storyopolis.

June 25: “Barnyard Madness With the Three Little Pigs,” Other Space, Santa Monica Playhouse.

June 30-Aug. 27: “Cinderella,” Santa Monica Playhouse.

July 6-Aug. 19: “Occidental Children’s Theatre Festival,” Hillside Amphitheatre lawn, Occidental College.

July 8-Nov. 11: “Sleeping Beauty,” Glendale Centre Theatre.

July 9: “Dave Kinnoin in Concert,” McCabe’s.

July 10-Aug. 18: “Open House at the Hollywood Bowl,” Hollywood Bowl, Entry Plaza.

July 15-Aug. 6: “History of Art,” Imagination Station, Miles Memorial Playhouse, Reed Park.

July 15-16: “Life in a Gold Rush Camp,” Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

July 16: “Craig ‘n Co.’s Sunday Funday 2000,” Bernard Milken JCC, 22622 Van Owen, West Hills (800) 6-CRAIG-8.

July 18-29: “Make-A-Circus,” Long Beach venue pending (July 18); Lennox Boys and Girls Club (July 20); Lafayette Park (July 21); Torrance venue pending (July 22); Wilson Park (July 23); Playa del Norte (July 26); Voyager Park (July 27); Glorietta Bay Park (July 28); Balboa Park (July 29).

July 29: “Storytelling Performance with Jennifer & Jon,” Children’s Book World.

July 29-Aug. 27: “Lies and Legends: The Musical Stories of Harry Chapin,” Laurel Theatre.

July 29-Indefinitely: “Arabian Nights,” Bob Baker Marionette Theatre.

Aug. 19-Sept. 10: “History of the World,” Imagination Station, Miles Memorial Playhouse, Reed Park.

Aug. 26: “Hogwarts Academy: ‘Harry Potter Day,’ ” Storyopolis.

Aug. 30-Sept. 4: “Summer Stock 2000,” Santa Monica Playhouse.

COMEDY

Sundays: Jay Leno, Comedy and Magic Club.

Sundays: “Uncabaret With Beth Lapides,” LunaPark.

Sundays: “A Raisin’ in the Sunday Show,” ACME Comedy Theatre.

Thursdays in July: Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady and Greg Proops, tentative at the Hollywood Improv.

June 6-8: Galavision comedy taping, Ice House.