Theater

Tuesday-June 3: “The Vagina Monologues,” Spreckels Theatre. Eve Ensler’s play about women’s lives and bodies, with a celebrity cast.

* “Smokey Joe’s Cafe--The Songs of Leiber and Stoller,” Wilshire Theatre. Revue starring Gladys Knight.

Tuesday-June 24: “Saturday Night Fever--The Broadway Musical,” Shubert Theatre. Also June 26-July 8 at Orange County Performing Arts Center. National tour.

May 31-June 10: “Velvetville,” Highways Performance Space. Paul Zaloom’s multimedia puppet satire.

May 31-July 1: “Art,” Globe Theatres, Old Globe Theatre. Yasmina Reza’s play about friendship and the value of art.

June 1-9: “Romeo Hall & Juliet Oates,” John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. Troubadour Theater Company. Shakespeare’s classic and 1980’s rock ‘n’ roll.

* “Home on the Range,” Downtown Playhouse Theater. Carlos F. Grasso’s play about reincarnated saints stuck in a traffic jam.

June 1-17: “I Ought to Be in Pictures,” La Mirada Theatre. Neil Simon’s comedy.

June 1-23: “Edmond,” Complex. David Mamet’s drama about an Everyman’s disturbing walk on the wild side.

June 1-30: “Wait Until Dark,” Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre. Frederick Knott’s thriller.

* “Moving On” and “Laundry and Bourbon,” William Alderson Studio Theatre. Two one-acts.

June 1-July 1: “The Beard of Avon,” South Coast Repertory. Amy Freed’s new comedy about the debate over Shakespeare’s authorship.

June 1-July 8: “New World,” MET Theatre. Premiere of Tom Grimes’ political drama.

June 1-July 15: “There’s No Place Like Hollywood,” Stella Adler Theatre. Dan Berkowitz and Shirley Hillard’s musical parody.

June2-June 17: “Carousel,” Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities.

June 2-30: “The Lover,” Actors Art Theatre. Harold Pinter’s examination of a 10-year marriage.

June 2-July 1: “American Buffalo,” Laguna Playhouse. David Mamet’s edgy comedy about honor among thieves.

* “Mercadet, the Napoleon of Finance,” Antaeus Company at Ivy Substation. Classic French comedy by Honore de Balzac.

* “A Little Night Music,” Interact Theatre Company. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s romantic musical. John Rubinstein directs and heads the cast.

* “The Chairs,” Sledgehammer Theatre at Saint Cecilia’s Playhouse.

June 2-July 8: “Henry IV, Part 2,” Knightsbridge Pasadena.

June 3-Sept. 30: “Much Ado About Nothing,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

June 5-10: “Cinderella,” Orange County Performing Arts Center. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical, starring Eartha Kitt.

June 5-27: 9th annual Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival (at Hudson Theatre).

June 6-10: “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial,” L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center. Stacy Keach heads the cast in a live radio theater production of Herman Wouk’s drama.

June 7-28: “Running With Your Eyes Closed (and Other Secret Truths About Motherhood),” bang Improv Studio.

June 7-July 1: “Next?,” Stages Theatre Center. Simon Muntner’s comedy.

June 7-July 8: “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks,” Geffen Playhouse. Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce star in Richard Alfieri’s new play.

June 7-July 15: “The Body of Bourne,” Mark Taper Forum. World premiere of John Belluso’s drama about Randolph Bourne.

June 8-10: “Chicago,” Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Terrace Theater. National tour of the Bob Fosse, Kander and Ebb musical revival. Also June 12-17, Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

June 8-July 6: “Collage,” Raven Playhouse. Synthaxis Theatre Company’s improv and theater games.

June 8-July 8: “Don Carlos,” Evidence Room. Friedrich Schiller’s classic.

June 8-July 14: “Dangerous Obsession,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre. N.J. Crisp’s British thriller.

June 8-July 15: “Central Avenue,” Fountain Theatre. Stephen Sachs’ play about the 1940s black jazz scene in L.A.

June 9-23: “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Grove Theater Center, Amphitheatre.

June 9-July 1: “Legal Briefs,” Antaeus Company at Ivy Substation. Four short comedies about the law.

June 9-July 15: “Mad Boy Chronicle,” 24th Street Theatre. Michael O’Brien’s Viking comedy.

June 11: “Mind’s Eye View,” Highways Performance Space. Storytellers for adults, from Leo Garcia’s Stories for Performance workshop.

June 11-19: “Great Scenes From ... Classic American Plays,” Circus Theatricals at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.

June 12-17: “Ragtime,” Pasadena Civic Auditorium. National touring production of the hit musical version of E.L. Doctorow’s novel, by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.

June 14-July 7: “42nd Street,” PCPA Theatrefest, Solvang Festival Theatre.

June 14-July 28: “blitzkrieg,” Actors Circle Theatre. Brooke Berdis’ play about a chaotic game of Pictionary.

June 15-16: “The Child,” the Group at Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe Theatre, Lee Strasberg Creative Center. Free workshop production of Sarah Schulman’s play about the consequences of homophobia.

June 15-17: “At First Blush” and “The Forsaken,” Highways Performance Space. Double performance bill with Rochelle Fabb and Michael Sakamoto.

June 15-July 22: “The Day Room,” Court Theatre. Play by Don DeLillo.

June 15-Indefinitely: “You Haven’t Changed a Bit and Other Lies,” Whitefire Theatre. Jerry Mayer and Steve Mayer’s musical comedy about growing up at 60.

June 16: “Yankee Doodle Dandies,” California Artists Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Radio theater tribute to early American statesmen, writers and poets, plus Colonial music. With Leslie Easterbrook, Richard Crenna, William Windom.

* “Hootenanny!,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. 100th birthday celebration of the late theater and film actor Will Geer. Music, poetry, theatrical performances and food.

* “Debbie Reynolds in Performance,” Alex Theatre. Benefit for VNA Care/Hospice in the Home of Glendale.

June 16-17: NoHo Theatre & Arts Festival 2001, NoHo Arts District. Free. Lankershim Boulevard, between Cumpston Street and Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood.

June 16-24: “Hair,” Wadsworth Theater. Reprise! presents the 1968 rock opera. With Sam Harris, Billy Porter, Jennifer Leigh Warren and Steven Weber.

June 16-July 22: “The Boys in the Band,” Knightsbridge Pasadena.

June 16-Aug. 5: “The Book of Esther,” Theater East. New comedy by Wendy Graf.

June 16-Indefinitely: “After Crystal Night,” Odyssey Theatre Ensemble. Drama by John Herman Shaner.

June 17-July 1: “The Circumference of a Squirrel,” Taper, Too at Actors’ Gang. John S. Walch’s multi-character solo show.

June 17-July 15: “The Collected Works of Billy the Kid,” La Jolla Playhouse. A play by Michael Ondaatje (“The English Patient”).

June 19-July 15: “Save It for the Stage,” El Portal Center for the Arts. Charles Nelson Reilly’s autobiographical solo show.

June 20-24: Common Ground Festival 2001, A.S.K. Theater Projects, UCLA’s North Campus. Innovative works-in-progress by established theater artists and ensembles.

June 21-July 7: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Edison Theater. Loud*R*Mouth Theatre Company’s Mardi Gras version of Shakespeare’s romp.

June 22-24: “Good Guy/Bad Guy,” Highways. RK Corral’s multimedia space western.

June 22-July 1: 4th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory. Workshop productions, readings, including works from the Hispanic Playwrights Project.

June 22-July 15: “Death Defying Acts” (David Mamet’s “The Interview,” Elaine May’s “Hotline,” Woody Allen’s “Central Park West”), International City Theatre at the Center Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

June 22-July 29: “Possible Worlds,” The Group at Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe Theatre, Lee Strasberg Creative Center.

June 25-Indefinitely: “Ten Tops,” Sacred Fools Theatre.

June 27-July 15: “Charlie Victor Romeo (CVR)--A Collective: Unconscious Production,” UCLA, Macgowan Little Theatre. West Coast premiere of the New York hit, a live theatrical documentary based on “Black Box” transcripts of real-life airplane crashes.

June 29-July 14: “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” Shakespeare Orange County, Chapman University, Waltmar Theatre.

June 29-July 22: “Hamlet,” Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, California Lutheran University. Shakespeare’s tragedy. Outdoors.

June 29-July 29: “The Weir,” Ensemble Theatre at Alhecama Theatre.

June 29-Aug. 4: “The Dining Room,” Group Repertory Theatre. A.R. Gurney’s play.

June 29-Aug. 5: “Dancing at Lughnasa,” Knightsbridge Pasadena.

* “Brother Brian Sister Kathleen,” Gascon Center Theater. Kim Terrell’s new drama.

June 30: “Dinner With Milton,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre. Kristan Ryan’s slice of 1950s life in Morocco.

June 30-Aug. 12: “The Substance of Fire,” Theatre 40, Beverly Hills High School campus. Jon Robin Baitz’s drama.

June 30-Sept. 30: “The Cradle Will Rock,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. The 1938 political musical about workers’ rights.

July 5-22: “The Comedy of Errors,” Shakespeare Festival/LA at Pershing Square. Also July 26-Aug. 5 at South Coast Botanic Gardens.

July 6-Aug. 4: “Mrs. Feuerstein” 2100 Square Feet. Murray Mednick’s surreal portrait of a schoolteacher coming to terms with the Holocaust. Padua Playwrights Productions.

July 6-22: “Cowgirls,” Music Theatre of Southern California, San Gabriel Civic Auditorium. Also July 27-29: Alex Theatre. Musical comedy about a classical trio accidentally booked into a country-western hall.

July 6-Aug. 12: “The Hostage,” Pasadena Shakespeare Company at the Fremont Centre Theater. Brendan Behan’s play.

July 6-Aug. 14: “Macbeth,” Knightsbridge Los Angeles.July 6-Aug. 19: “Do I Hear a Waltz?,” Pasadena Playhouse. Richard Rodgers-Stephen Sondheim musical with Carol Lawrence, Alyson Reed and Anthony Crivello.

July 7: Plaza Sweets Series: Shelley Berman and Noel Harrison, Civic Center Plaza. Beverly Hills.

July 7-Aug. 11: “Twelfth Night,” Globe Theatres, Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Shakespeare’s comedy.

July 8-Sept. 1: “Contact,” Ahmanson Theatre. The 2000 Tony Award winner for best musical, three stories told through dance and dialogue.

July 9-Aug. 8: “The Battle of Shallowford,” Theatre 40. Ed Simpson’s play about a small town’s reaction to Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast of “War of the Worlds.”

July 11-15: “Zoot Suit,” Skirball Cultural Center. L.A.Theatre Works’ live radio theater version of Luis Valdez’s landmark play. July 12-29: “The Tempest,” PCPA Theatrefest, Solvang Festival Theatre. Also Aug. 4-17, Marian Theatre.

July 13-29: “Swingtime Canteen,” Plummer Auditorium. Tribute to the music of the World War II era, presented by Fullerton Civic Light Opera.

July 13-Aug. 5: “As You Like It,” Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, California Lutheran University. Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. Outdoors.

July 13-Aug. 17: Open Fist Director’s Festival: A Collection of One-Acts, Open Fist Theatre.

July 13-Aug. 19: “Frederick of Prussia/George W’s Dream of Sleep,” City Garage. An exploration of the insanity of male power, by Heiner Mller.

July 14: Plaza Sweets Series: “A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream,” Civic Center Plaza.

July 14-28: “My Fair Lady,” PCPA Theatrefest, Marian Theatre. Also Aug. 2-18, Solvang Festival Theatre.

July 14-Aug. 19: “True West,” Knightsbridge Pasadena.

* “Sweetheart,” Evidence Room. Megan Mullally’s cabaret show.

July 15-29: “I Am My Own Wife,” La Jolla Playhouse. Doug Wright’s comedy, a work-in-progress.

July 20-Aug. 25: “The Sum of Us,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre. David Stevens’ comedy about love: gay, straight, platonic, familial.

July 21: Plaza Sweets Series: Dale Gonyea, Civic Center Plaza.

July 21-Aug. 25: “Da,” Globe Theatres, Cassius Carter Centre Stage. A comedy by Hugh Leonard.

July 24-29: “True West,” Skirball Cultural Center. L.A.Theatre Works’ live radio theater version of Sam Shepard’s dark comedy with Anthony Lapaglia and Alfred Molina.

July 26-Sept. 7: “Bed Boys & Beyond,” Hudson Avenue Theatre. Musical comedy revue about the lives of five gay men.

July 27-Aug. 5: “The Sound of Music,” Cabrillo Music Theatre at Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

July 27-Aug. 11: “As You Like It,” Shakespeare Orange County, Chapman University, Waltmar Theatre.

July 28-Aug. 26: “Wonderful World,” Laguna Playhouse. Richard Dresser’s comedy about two brothers.

July 28-Sept. 9: “Real Girls,” Hudson Avenue Theatre. Robin Greenspan’s comic love story.

July 28-Sept. 1: “The Boswell Sisters,” Globe Theatres, Old Globe Theatre. A world premiere musical from “Forever Plaid” creator Stuart Ross about the 1940s singers.

July 28-Oct. 21: “Medea,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

July 29-Aug. 26: “Be Aggressive,” La Jolla Playhouse. Annie Weisman’s comedy/drama about cheerleaders.

July 29-Sept. 16: “In Real Life,” Mark Taper Forum. Charlayne Woodard’s solo autobiographical new work.

July 30-Aug. 12: “The Fantasticks,” El Portal Center, Circle Theatre.

Aug. 1-12: Fountain Theatre New Works Festival: “Hotel Lobby,” Fountain Theatre. A play by Stephen Keep Mills.

Aug. 3-Sept. 1: “The All Night Strut,” West Valley Playhouse.

Aug. 4: Plaza Sweets Series: Marie Cain and Louis Nye, Civic Center Plaza.

Aug. 4-Sept. 9: “Last of the Suns,” Los Angeles Theatre Center. Playwrights’ Arena presents a new play by Alice Tuan (“Ikebana”).

Aug. 5-Sept. 2: “The Laramie Project,” La Jolla Playhouse. Southern California premiere of a drama by Moises Kaufman.

Aug. 10-Sept. 16: “My Night With Reg,” Knightsbridge Pasadena.

Aug. 11: “Timon of Athens,” Beverly Hills Live! Greystone Classical Series, Greystone Park.

Aug. 11-12: “Twinkle! Twinkle!,” California Artists Radio Theatre at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Jo Anne Worley stars in the musical comedy by Richard Erdman, with music by Don Piestrup.

Aug. 11-26: “The Government Inspector,” Culver City Public Theatre, Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park. Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of political corruption.

Aug. 11-Sept. 9: “The Rainmaker,” Rubicon Theatre Company. N. Richard Nash’s classic with Stephanie Zimbalist and Carlos Sanz in the leading roles.

Aug. 12-Sept. 15: “Another American: Asking and Telling,” Mark Taper Forum. Marc Wolf’s solo work looking at the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays in the military.

Aug. 15-26: “Twelfth Night,” Grove Theater Center, Amphitheatre.

Aug. 18-Sept. 16: “Alternative Guest,” Sledgehammer Theatre.

Aug. 22-Sept. 9: Fountain Theatre New Works Festival: “Hair Pieces,” Fountain Theatre. Short plays by women.

Aug. 23-Sept. 30: “Musical Chairs,” El Portal Center for the Arts, Circle Theatre. New musical by Joel Hirschhorn about the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

Aug. 23-Sept. 9: “Rope,” PCPA Theatrefest, Solvang Festival Theatre. Also Sept. 15-30, Marian Theatre. Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller.

Aug. 24-Oct. 6: “The Clytemnestra Project: An Exploration of the Fall of the House of Atreus,” Theatre of NOTE.

Aug. 24-Oct. 13: “Kiss Me, Kate,” Shubert Theatre. Rex Smith and Rachel York in the national touring revival of the backstage musical classic by Cole Porter, and Sam and Bella Spewack.

Aug. 25: Plaza Sweets Series: “Corky Hale & Friends in A Salute to Hollywood Songwriters,” Civic Center Plaza.

Aug. 25-26: “MacHomer” (or “The Simpsons Do MacBeth”) Irvine Barclay Theatre. Rick Miller’s solo comedy.

Aug. 25-Sept. 9: “On Golden Pond,” PCPA Theatrefest, Marian Theatre. Also Sept. 13-Oct. 7, Solvang Festival Theatre.

Aug. 25-Sept. 30: “Tracers,” Knightsbridge Pasadena.

Aug. 25-Oct. 20: “Twelfth Night,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Aug. 30-Oct. 21: “Romeo and Juliet,” Knightsbridge L.A.

Aug. 31-Sept. 29: “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre. Steve Martin’s comedy.

Aug. 31-Oct. 6: “Beast on the Moon,” Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre.

Sept. 5: “1776,” UCLA, Freud Playhouse. Reprise! presents the Sherman Edwards/Peter Stone musical.

Sept. 7-Oct. 7: “The Circle,” South Coast Repertory. W. Somerset Maugham’s drawing room comedy.