# Saturday, October 20, 2012

6:15 pm - 7:15 pm

Beyond Tot Shabbat: Eat, Play, Pray

Shabbat , Tarzana
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Judea
Venue: Temple Judea

Friday, November 9 at 6:15 pm. On the second Friday of each month, Temple Judea, in Tarzana, offers a special multi-media rich service & dinner designed for families with children ages Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Includes live music & a story with Rabbi Don Goor. RSVP for dinner at...

6:15 pm - 7:15 pm

Beyond Tot Shabbat: Eat, Play, Pray

Shabbat , Tarzana
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Judea
Venue: Temple Judea

Friday, November 9 at 6:15 pm. On the second Friday of each month, Temple Judea, in Tarzana, offers a special multi-media rich service & dinner designed for families with children ages Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Includes live music & a story with Rabbi Don Goor. RSVP for dinner at...

9:30 am - 11:00 am

Qigong

Programs , Santa Monica

Qigong for Cancer Patients and Their Families in Clover Park, Santa Monica This FREE class is intended to help improve the lives of those with cancer and their families. Come strengthen your body, mind and spirit with the practice of qigong with instructor and brain cancer survivor since 2000,...

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer:  Lunch & Learn

Programs , West Los Angeles

Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer:  Lunch & Learn This FREE workshop is intended to help improve the lives of those with cancer and their caregivers. Join Ani Balmanoukian, MD of The Angeles Clinic for this free workshop that will cover the latest treatments for lung cancer. Side effects,...

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond

Arts & Entertainment , San Gabriel Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Los Angeles Jewish Symphony

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond A Celebration of the Historic and Contemporary Connections Between African-American and Jewish Music of the Spirit Monday, April 29, 2013, 8:00 pm, Ann & Steve Morgan Auditorium, University of La Verne The program will feature a wide variety of participants,...

8:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Theatre in the Dark

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Odyssey Theatre
Venue: Odyssey Theatre

Darkness! Audience in the dark! Actors in the dark! No light! What happens in a totally dark theater, with the audience intimately involved with actors playing in front of and around them and by constantly changing spatial and aural perspectives utilizing voice, music and sound—and always...

7:30 pm - 4:00 pm

The Night Watcher

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: LA Theatre Works
Venue: James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Hall, on UCLA Campus

The subject is motherhood, and no matter how many times she says “no,” actress Charlayne Woodard’s maternal instincts keep getting called into action. A surprise call from a friend with a last-minute adoption opportunity sends this self-described “blue collar actor” into a hilarious...

7:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Nearly Lear

Arts & Entertainment , Downtown
Organizations/Sponsors: 24th Street Theatre
Venue: 24th Street Theatre

24th Street Theatre brings Canada’s international touring production to the U.S. for one weekend only. In this mischievous one-woman tour-de-force adaptation of King Lear, Susanna Hamnett plays the Fool—and every other character—to tell a very personal and poignant story with breathtaking...

All Day

Six Million and One, an award-winning documentary by Israeli director David Fisher

Arts & Entertainment , Encino
Organizations/Sponsors: Nancy Fishman Film Releasing
Venue: Laemmle Town Center 5

Four siblings in search of history set out on a remarkable journey in this eloquent, intense and sometimes even humorous portrait of documentary filmmaker David Fisher, his sister and two of his brothers.  Together, they retrace the footsteps of their late father—a Holocaust survivor who was...

All Day

Jacaranda Music October 20th Concert

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Jacaranda Music
Venue: First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Jacaranda Music Oct. 20, 2012 concert. Contemporary American composer Tobias Picker will narrate the West Coast premiere of “The Encantadas,” inspired by the Herman Melville novella, for Jacaranda music’s season opener. Program also features Steve Reich’s “City Life,” Grammy...

1:00 pm

Enchanted Fairytale Interactive Halloween Theatre

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

90 minutes of pure fun for kids and their grown-ups! You take the stage for a delightful afternoon of interactive story-telling, sing-a-longs, crafts, face-painting, enactment of a fairytale, theatre games, refreshments and special surprise gifts. This delightful Santa Monica Playhouse special...

2:00 pm

You Can’t Take it With You

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Antaeus Company
Venue: Deaf West Theater

Find out who’s really crazy when a couple of lovebirds bring their mismatched families together. The Antaeus Company, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater ensemble, presents You Can’t Take It With You, the timeless comedy about love, life and living. Set during the Great...

2:00 pm

“Book of Mormon”

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Venue: Pantages Theatre

The National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play a strictly limited 12-week engagement from September 5 through November 25, 2012 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. “The question people most ask me about the show – aside from ‘can you...

3:00 pm

DOROTHY’S ADVENTURES IN OZ- EXTENDED!

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

“It’s a hoot! A return trip to the Emerald City in the Santa Monica Playhouse’s imaginative, colorful musical” LA TIMES. It’s the joyous Rudie-DeCarlo musical comedy, a hilarious and heart-warming internationally acclaimed reworking of the beloved story, filled with music and dance, fun...

7:30 pm

Jacaranda Music October 20th Concert

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Jacaranda Music
Venue: First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Jacaranda Music Oct. 20, 2012 concert. Contemporary American composer Tobias Picker will narrate the West Coast premiere of “The Encantadas,” inspired by the Herman Melville novella, for Jacaranda music’s season opener. Program also features Steve Reich’s “City Life,” Grammy...

7:30 pm

THE FOOLS - Moliere’s racy comedy EXTENDED!

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

“GO!” raves LA WEEKLY. “100% SWEET” exclaims Bitter Lemons. “Best Bets!” exclaims L.A. Times, “Barnum and Bailey mixed with Monty Python, with flights of verbal artistry and plentiful belly laughs.” It’s the internationally acclaimed Rudie-DeCarlo musical THE FOOLS, a romantic,...

7:30 pm

Country Roads: A John Denver Celebration!

Arts & Entertainment , Ventura County
Organizations/Sponsors: West Coast Performing Arts Presenters
Venue: Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Scherr Forum

Country Roads: A John Denver Celebration Featuring Jim Curry and the John Denver Band with Special Guests Original John Denver Band Members Jim Connor - John Sommers - Richie Garcia Relive the magic and memories of John Denver in ‘Country Roads: A John Denver Celebration,’ the acclaimed national...

8:00 pm

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Arts & Entertainment , Long Beach
Organizations/Sponsors: International City Theatre
Venue: International City Theatre

The joint is jumpin’ in this Tony Award-winning musical revue based on the life of Thomas “Fats” Waller. Step back to the Golden Age of Jazz, when places like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were havens for snappy swing music and snazzy jazz, and the stride piano infused the soulful...

8:00 pm

You Can’t Take it With You

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Antaeus Company
Venue: Deaf West Theater

Find out who’s really crazy when a couple of lovebirds bring their mismatched families together. The Antaeus Company, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater ensemble, presents You Can’t Take It With You, the timeless comedy about love, life and living. Set during the Great...

8:00 pm

44 Plays for 44 Presidents: LA

Arts & Entertainment , Mid Wilshire
Organizations/Sponsors: Drive Theatre Company
Venue: The Attic Theatre

44 Plays for 44 Presidents is a single 2-hour play comprised of 44 mini-plays-one for each president-where we see them as human beings, and are left to decide where our country will head next.  Partnered with Rock the Vote, our lobby will have live voter-registration, candidate-matchmaking and more...

8:00 pm

In the Red and Brown Water

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Fountain Theatre
Venue: The Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s lusciously theatrical and boldly original new play. Lyrically weaving together elements of urban contemporary realism with West African mysticism, In the Red and Brown Water tells the tale of Oya, who can run faster...

8:00 pm

“Book of Mormon”

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Venue: Pantages Theatre

The National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play a strictly limited 12-week engagement from September 5 through November 25, 2012 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. “The question people most ask me about the show – aside from ‘can you...