CURRENTLY

Upcoming Stand Up Comedy - Show dates:

June 20th
The Comedy Store - Belly Room

8pm

8433 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90069-1993

Reservations/General information line: (323) 650-6268

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July 1st
Pinata
A funny and confessionally naked personal essay show featuring working writers, actors and comedians.

8pm

Bang Theater
457 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA, 90036
Reservations/General information Line: (323) 653-6886

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July 11th
Ice House - Main Room

8pm

The Ice House ComedyClub
24 N. Mentor Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91106

Reservations/General Information Line: (626) 577-1894

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July TBA
Sit N' Spin

8pm

Comedy Central Stage
6539 Santa Monica Boulevard
Hollywood, California 90038

Call for reservations: (323) 960-5519

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July 20th
Sex N' Candy Show - A night of strippers and comedians. It doesn't get much better.

8pm

diPiazza's
5205 East Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach, CA 90804

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PAST SHOWS

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*A Company of Wayward Saints
Written by George Herman

The company is a commedia dell' arte group who wander by mistake into the eye of an allegory. They are humanity, wayward saints all, who are far from home and without means. A nobleman may be their salvation if they can put on a good show for him. Surprisingly, the Company chooses to present the history of man, from the Garden of Eden through Everyman in birth, adolescence, marriage and death. Along the way they enact other wayward adventures such as the assassination of Julius Caesar and the homecoming of Odysseus. It is a fine mosaic of life redeemed by humor and human understanding.

Performance Dates – June 2008 through July 2008

Tickets $20.00 General / $15.00 Discount tickets for Groups/ Students / Seniors
323-469-3113 for Reservations and further information

LOCATION: Front Entrance
Write Act Repertory Theatre
6128 Yucca Ave
(1 block off Gower & the 101 – just east of the historic Capitol Records building)
Hollywood, CA. 90028

PARKING/TRANSPORTATION: Back Entrance
Parking is available on-site at the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church parking lot located one block below with an easy Write Act Rep entrance. The free ample parking lot is located at Write Act Repertory Theatre 6125 Carlos Ave. Hollywood, CA. 90028

Under Ben Falcone’s tight direction, the Groundling’s “B” company offers one of the lightest, freshest and least offensive sketch shows I’ve seen in years. The closest thing to overt sexuality is a hilariously innocent look at auditions for “Hooter Girls” presented as a pastiche from A Chorus Line as written by Candace Brown and performed with glee by most of the company’s women. Another buoyant musical comedy bit is Colleen Smith’s “Unconventional Waiter,” an extremely odd and disturbingly funny paean to a rude restaurant server. The most outlandish piece is Paige King’s “Conch,” in which an unattractive young woman carries on a beach-blanket affair with a shellfish — it is remarkable how long this joke works. Most of the sketches are quick and energetic with not a single moment of eye-rolling stupidity. As often in a Groundlings show, the improv bits are weak but fortunately brief, few and far between. Groundling Theater, 7307 Melrose Ave.; Sun., 7:30 p.m.; indef. (323) 934-9700.

While there’s nary a Frankie and Annette parody in the bunch, the Groundling Sunday Company’s latest sketch comedy show features some great surf riffs as bridges between the skits, courtesy of musical director Willie Etra and percussionist Greg Kanaga. One of the most hilarious pieces is Colleen Smith’s near silent “Intellectual Debate.” Starring Smith, Candace Brown and Hyla Matthews, the sketch skewers pretentious coffeehouse hipsters through a series of visual gags. Mike Rose scores with “Camp,” a sketch about two senior counselors (Rose and Brown) handing out cabin assignments to novice campers. The highlight of Act 2 is Kent Sublette’s “Grease Is the Word,” a piece about a bowdlerized high school musical production. Most of the bits hit their targets, and Act 1 is consistently hilarious, but Act 2 seems rather anemic by comparison. Director Ben Falcone might purchase a small hoe to weed out a few patches of underwritten material. Nevertheless, the ensemble is talented, and Falcone deserves kudos for keeping the handful of improv bits short, focused and funny. Groundling Theater, 7307 Melrose Ave., Hlywd.; Sun., 7:30 p.m.; indef. (323) 934-9700. Written 04/01/2004 (Sandra Ross)