Pretty Funny Women
January 19
Join the legendary El Portal Theatre for a very special LIVE taping of Pretty Funny Women, the longest-running, all-female stand-up show in the world. Created by veteran comedian Lisa Sundstedt, Pretty Funny Women has been filling comedy venues throughout the country for the past 20 years, with totally different line ups of hysterical women on each show. For this special evening of comedy, Pretty Funny Women will feature 10 of the hottest up-and-coming female comics from around the country for a show guaranteed to deliver lots of laughs. More>>
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Mid Life Mood Swing
What happens when you turn 50, have two teenagers and are married almost 20 years? You have a Mid Life Mood Swing! It's Mary Kennedy’s (Shameless, Hulu, CONAN) journey being a roadie for her mom’s wedding band, having the real-life Kennedys as her cousins and navigating motherhood and ultimately menopause.It is quite a comedic ride through 80s nostalgia to present-day chaos.
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Twelve O’Clock Tales with Ava Gardner
Movie star. Femme fatale. Homewrecker. Civil Rights activist. Hollywood, California… 1974. On the set of the blockbuster disaster film, Earthquake, Oscar-nominated screen siren Ava Gardner is focusing on her first big-budget starring role in over a decade. Tucked away in her dressing room bungalow, the “queen of the scandal sheets” does battle with her past. But only a fool would bet against Ava.
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Tragic Magic
A drama of tragedy, redemption, and transformation. A daughter of Lithuanian displaced persons growing up in Chicago and needing to fit in, Sigute experienced the dragon of addiction. The show takes us on a wild-ride of Sigute’s life with stories of her hanging with the bad boys, experiencing harrowing alcohol-induced blackouts at a young age; #MeToo casting couch shame; drug-infused escapades as a star manager on Rodeo Drive in the ‘80s...More>>
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Blood Supply: A Zombie Apocalypse Love Story
A post-apocalyptic rock musical set one year after the zombie virus. Raw and authentic, hilarious and poignant, writer Holly Anne Mitchell debuts in this powerhouse piece on loss, hope, love, resilience, and redemption. Can love survive the end of civilization or even save it?
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50-Hour Drive-By Theatre Festival
Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre kicks off their fabulous 31st season with their 50-HOUR DRIVE-BY THEATRE FESTIVAL – the 20th annual hot n’ tasty hour of spankin’ new mini plays. Written, directed and performed in a speedy two days!
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Home Front
VJ Night, 1945. On this night anything can happen — the world is never going to be the way it was. Austin Highsmith Garces and C.J. Lindsey star as a white woman and an African American soldier who fall in love the night World War II ends — a time of euphoria for Americans after years of devastating conflict. But can that sense of goodwill and new beginnings wipe away racial mistrust and discrimination in a country mired in the Jim Crow Era?
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Piece of Mind
When Gwen and Allie open a daring business venture to shore up their meager retirement savings, it seems like a stroke of brilliance. Offering an alternative to traditional counseling, they provide a room with a coffin on a rent-by-the-hour basis. Clients are offered the opportunity to take turns playing dead while one airs their grievances and is heard in full. Piece of mind is expected to follow. . While the concept is unique, they unwittingly open a Pandora’s box.
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Hollywood Fringe Scholarships
Fringe Scholarships are available to first-time Hollywood Fringe producers who contribute to the ethnic, cultural, racial, disability, D/deaf, and intersectional LGBTQIA+ diversity of the Fringe community.
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NoHo Bid Update
The NoHo Arts District is an arts district because of the theatres, dance studios, recording studios and the many folks who create art. But there is one group that has helped to #KeepNoHoArtsy (and clean and safe) – the (NOHO BID).
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Beverly Hills Art Show Call to Artists
The City of Beverly Hills welcomes visual artists to apply to the spring Beverly Hills Art Show on May 20 and 21, celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary!
Final deadline: February 21.
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The NoHo Card is a FREE discount card app for restaurants, bars, theatres, classes, shopping and services at businesses in and around the NoHo Arts District. More>>
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