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Tucked into Los Feliz's Center for Inquiry-West, the Steve Allen Theater is an intimate performing venue that presents a wide array of concerts, plays, vaudeville and comedy. In keeping with the Center's humanist mission (to offer a place of refuge for such local organizations as Spanish-Speaking Atheists and the Skeptics' Book Club), the theater hosts "bold new work, uncategorizable performance, and creative explorations of science and theology; a place where comedy, drama, horror, music and the bizarre [can] share a stage." When the theater first began putting on shows, it focused on comedians like Dana Gould, Emo Philips, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Kids in the Hall, as well as theatrical productions and esoteric philosophical and metaphysical explorations by everyone from NASA scientists to members of the Church of Satan. Before long, the theater also brought in live musicians, including the daft ragtime diva Janet Klein, Lavender Diamond and the charming pop duo the Ditty Bops mingling with harder-edged sounds from Rancid and Dethklok. Added to the mix is the center's ongoing fascination with horror and film culture, with presentations and screenings by the likes of Toby Hooper, Joe Dante, David Cronenberg, Miranda July and James Franco. In homage to its namesake inspiration, the late comedian Steve Allen, the theater is an unusual nexus point of scientific curiosity and vaudevillian variety.

Tomorrow!

Every week Saturday

It's been six years since Ron Lynch, along with Craig Anton, launched Tomorrow!, the wildly unpredictable midnight comedy show at the Steve ...

ResBox

Third Thursday of every month, 8:00pm

Rob Zabrecky

Sat., February 18, 8:00pm

a variety show with magic, music, "audience interaction, parapsychology, and more" from the Possum Dixon singer

Ann Magnuson's Drawing Room Apocalypse

Sat., February 25, 8:00pm

Cartoon Dump

Fourth Monday of every month, 8:00pm

Dive into the trash behind Cartoon Dump and discover lost treasures of TV animation that frankly should have remained forgotten. Hosted by E...

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Triple Threat

By Skylaire Alfvegren | Thu, January 05, 2012

The Unholy Three describe their act as "a quickly paced, provocative, Dada-esque combination of wizardry, mentalism and offbeat humor." But it's so much more. Made up of the ghoulish Rob Zabrecky (former Possum Dixon frontman), "scientific phenome... More >
Acting Drunk Is Not Like Being Drunk

By Libby Molyneaux | Thu, December 01, 2011

"Rudy Casoni is a crooning lounge singer who, some say, is the bastard son of Frank Sinatra himself. He does a variety show, or 'Boozebag Revue' as he refers to it, every couple of months at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood. The show usually... More >
The Third Annual Best Doorknockers Christmas Pageant Eve

By | Thu, November 03, 2011

A benefit for the Steve Allen Theater with Santa's favorite little helpers, The Doorknockers (Randy Liedtke & Davey Johnson), plus special guests aplenty (hint hint). Thu., Dec. 15, 8 p.m., 2011 More >
The Funniest Man in Highland Park

By Wendy Gilmartin | Thu, September 22, 2011

Marc Maron busts out of his Highland Park garage to bring his burning-hot, twitter-trending comedy podcast to an actual, physical stage in front of real live people tonight. Once a month he ventures out of "the Park" for live sets where he shoots ... More >
The 911 on Halloween

By Libby Molyneaux | Thu, September 22, 2011

Reverend Al -- he of Cacophony Society fame – has nightmared up another Art of Bleeding outdoor, three-night affair titled Haunted Highway 2, featuring a full-scale car crash scene (where you can trick or treat!), plus an ambulance show, blood wre... More >

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