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Alpine Village Oktoberfest's Family Sundays
Alpine Village, Torrance, CA1-6 p.m. Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27. While this Oktaberfest operates on Fridays and Saturdays, those are 21-and-over affairs - it's Sunday when Alpine Village...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Anastasia
Hollywood Pantages, Hollywood, CA8 p.m. Tues.-Fri. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Sun. Oct. 8-Oct. 27. A shroud of uncertainty surrounded the fate of the...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Fowler Families: Dive into Design!
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Westwood, CAFamilies can explore how stepwells from as early as the fifth century have been used to store monsoonal rains for communities across India before imagining...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
MasterChef Junior Live!
Scherr Forum Theater, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Thousand Oaks, CAThis family-friendly stage show dishes out an overall immersive audience experience with Q & A sessions, head-to-head cooking demonstrations and fun (sometimes messy!) challenges with...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Norton Simon Fall Family Festival
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CAThe Museum’s creativity-fueled Fall Family Festival returns with pop-up art-making workshops happening in the galleries and garden that will take families on a journey around...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist
Lewis Family Playhouse, Rancho Cucamonga, CA5 p.m. Oct. 12; 1 p.m., 4 p.m. Oct. 19, 26; 1 p.m. Oct. 20-27. Set in modern-day Rio de Janeiro, this joyful retelling of...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
On Beckett
Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, CA8 p.m. Tues-Fri, 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Sun. Sept. 13-Oct. 27. Bill Irwin is a Tony Award-winning actor, and MacArthur,...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Outside the Lines: Painter's Workshop
Plaza West Covina, West Covina, CAOn the first and third Sundays of the month, Plaza West Covina will host a free "Painter’s Workshop," which will focus solely on painting techniques....
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Music Man
Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Thousand Oaks, CA8 p.m. Oct. 18, 25; 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Oct. 19, 26; 2 p.m. Oct. 20; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24; 1 p.m. Oct. 27. There...
10/20/2019: 1:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Create the Change Day Los Angeles 2019
Lawton Plaza at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles , CAJoin Project Giving Kids for an afternoon of hands-on service curated especially for youths and families. They will be assembling hygiene kits for people in...
10/20/2019: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jack and the Giant
The Assistance League Theatre, Hollywood, CA2 p.m. Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17. The Nine O'Clock Players have taken the classic English fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk, and...
10/20/2019: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Little Shop of Horrors
Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA8 p.m. Tues.-Fri. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Sun. Sept. 26-Oct. 20. What happens when a power-hungry, R&B-singing, carnivorous plant sets...
10/20/2019: 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Hollywood, CABased on the L. Frank Baum (author of the Wizard of Oz) book of 1913, this award-winning Louise Reichlin & Dancers/Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers...
10/20/2019: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Little Women
Sierra Madre Playhouse, Sierra Madre, CA8 p.m. Thur.-Fri., 2:30 p.m., 8 p.m. Sat. 2:30 Sun. (no show on Oct. 31). Oct. 17-Nov. 3. The Sierra Madre Playhouse premieres a new...
10/20/2019: 2:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Illustrator Christian Robinson at Skylight Books
Skylight Books, L.A., CAAward-winning illustrator Christian Robinson presents his newest picture book, "Just in Case You Want to Fly," written by Julie Fogliano.
10/20/2019: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Love In Bloom - A Musical Comedy Tribute To The Bard
Santa Monica Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA7:30 p.m. Sat., 3:30 p.m. Sun. Oct. 5–Nov. 24. This critically praised Rudie-DeCarlo musical comedy salutes the heroes and heroines of the Bard. You’ll laugh...
10/20/2019: 3:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Neil Simon’s Musical Fools
Atwater Village Theatre, Atwater Village, CA8 p.m. Sat., 4 p.m. Sun., 8 p.m. Mon. Oct. 12-Nov. 17. Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Neil Simon’s Musical Fools,...
10/20/2019: 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Pumpkin Nights
Fairplex, Pomona, CAPumpkin Nights is returning with even more magic than ever before! Taking place at the Fairplex, this interactive experience transports guests into an enchanted world...
10/20/2019: 5:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Zombie Hunter Train
Fillmore & Western Railway Co., Fillmore, CA7 p.m., 8:30 p.m. Sat., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Sun. Oct. 5-27. Take a train ride through the battle grounds of the Zombie Apocalypse! You...
10/20/2019: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nights Of The Jack
King Gillette Ranch, Calabasas, CA6-11 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. Oct. 3-Oct. 27. Mon.-Sun. Oct. 28-Nov. 3. Experience eerie evening encounters in King Gillette Ranch this October. Along a half-mile trail, you...
10/20/2019: 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
The Tragedie of Macbeth: An Immersive Experience
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, L.A., CA7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Sat.-Sun. (except Nov. 3: 3 p.m., 5 p.m.) Oct.12-Nov. 3. Created by a director from England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and a...
10/20/2019: 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm