Playhouse Village Association

Vroman's: Local Author Day young readers edition featuring Vanessa Lanang, Dr. Joy Pillay, and Alexandra Adlawan
2023-08-27 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Kaliyah is sworn to slay the dragon that took her mother’s life. But, even with the skills of generations of slayers coursing through her veins, she’s not prepared for Ryu, the one boy who can make her question everything she believes. When the Dragon Akademie orders an unwarranted execution of two slayers, Kaliyah is shocked by the revelation of their corrupt rule. Seeking vengeance for her mother, she forges an alliance with Ryu. With dangerous lies uncovered at every turn, Kaliyah and Ryu’s worlds converge, stoking the flames between them. But one dark secret they both share could rip them apart…if it doesn’t destroy Kaliyah first.

Monopole by Wine RX: Macramé with Me at Monopole by Wine Rx & Dj Lillyanne
2023-08-27 14:00 - 16:30 | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Monopole by Wine Rx is hosting a beginner’s Macramé Workshop! Learn basic knots and create your own ready-to-hang macramé wall-hanging by the end of the workshop. Includes prepared materials and guided instructions by Lilly and a wine flight or 2 glasses curated by Monopole.
The event takes place upstairs in the Mezzanine Loft where you can connect with fellow macramé enthusiasts, enjoy a Sunday funday and take home a beautiful macramé creation!
Limited Capacity • 21 & Over *Live DJ Downstairs*
Registration is a $15 Non Refundable deposit and pay the balance at the event.

Iman's Music Studio: Jazz Night & Jam Session
2023-08-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Iman’s Music Studio, 678 E. Walnut St. Unit 110, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Iman’s Music Studio is hosting an evening of Jazz which will include, a jazz performance with special guests Yasmin Khaleghi, RobFlert Anderson, and Favian Mendez-Guevara. The evening will include an open jam session anyone who would like to participate should bring their own instrument. Be sure to RSVP on the Flyer.

Vroman's: Local Author Day featuring Charlie Retts, Sharon Heath, and Christopher M. Allport
2023-08-27 16:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Charlie Retts presents It’s All About You!
Middle management is the glue that holds organizations together, yet many middle managers encounter a lack of support from upper management and massive employee disengagement. This book is a practical solution. Based on Charlie Retts’ decades of experience in middle management, along with his doctorate in adult education, this book will help you in assessing your own current leadership style, and then guide you to become a more effective and engaged manager. Using stories, Retts helps the reader explore real-life situations to assess all the options that could have been available, as well as assessing what you might have done. Each chapter ends with reflection questions and “key points.” Along the way, brief “stop for a moment” reflections help to focus on the reasons and benefits of different approaches.

Sharon Heath presents The Mysterious Composition of Tears
After a series of climate calamities, physicist Fleur Robins takes off for deep space in a desperate attempt to save the species from extinction. During her mysteriously prolonged absence, the internet has crashed, fire and flood have devastated whole countries, and End of Times cults have proliferated. There have been some intriguingly hopeful changes, too-nanoparticle holograms have replaced electronic devices, young people are witnessing exquisitely colorful “Shimmers,” and the most gifted of them converse regularly with animals and trees.
While Fleur’s distraught husband Adam leads their Caltech physics team in frantic efforts to pinpoint her whereabouts, and Fleur herself plots her return home, their teenaged children Callay and Wolf fall in love with surprising partners. But when the charming son of an End of Times pastor crosses Wolf’s path during a particularly vibrant Shimmer, events are set in motion that will upend everyone’s life and transform planet Earth itself.
This latest installment of Sharon Heath’s saga of the quirky Nobelist Fleur is simultaneously a vision of what awaits us in a post-Covid world, a wild romp through quantum reality, and a deep sea dive into the dark and light vagaries of the human heart.

Christopher M. Allport presents Senja Chronicles
During a terrifying home invasion, a Scandinavian hunter’s teenage daughter is kidnapped, and his wife is brutally killed. After a botched police investigation, Sigurd Martinsen finds himself connected to Echo Team, an exclusive NATO special-ops unit.
Old Norse legends are awakened when Echo’s shocking discoveries turn out to be far worse than the suspected Russian-backed militants, hiding in an obsolete, Nazi-created, World War II era tunnel system.
What happens deep within the bowels of Northern Norway’s fabled Segla Mountain when Sigurd and Echo Team — like modern-day Vikings — find themselves up against menacing cave-dwelling trolls, who have been awakened and are ready to kill intruders?

Ice House Comedy: Crack up for a Cause
2023-08-27 18:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Crack up for a Cause hosted by Chico Will featuring Alex Thomas, Comedian “CP,” Heather Jay, Sean Porter, and Mark Hayes. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

The Mixx: Live tribute Enanitos Verdes
2023-08-27 21:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The Mixx Pasadena presents Summer Rock concerts with a live tribute to Enanitos Verdes by one of the best tributes in Southern California, MARCIANOS Sing and Dance to all the best favorite songs. Ane Uno record player, playing the best of Alterlatino Pop Rock

Vroman's: Tyler Parker discusses A Little Blood and Dancing
2023-08-29 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
It’s a tale as old as time: doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to Tyler Parker’s Oklahoma, and one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year from one of our best, funniest new writers.
Check out Sylvia Table: he drives a seafoam-green 1968 Ranchero, owns a badass sword, and is one dead uncle away from an inheritance that should set him and the love of his life, Lady Sixkiller, on the road to easy living and the family she’s always wanted. Sure, he may not be cut out for any kind of conventional job, but as long as Lady can hold things down as a waitress until rich old Methuselah shuffles off this mortal coil, what’s the big deal? Yes, things are looking good for Sylvia Table, aka Big Noise, aka Grandest Poobah, aka Big Quiche.
But uncles don’t always die on schedule, maternal clocks keep ticking with increasing urgency, doing crimes beats working for a living, and the past refuses to stay buried. In this case, the past takes the form of Priscilla Blackwood, a woman locked in an eternal one-sided conversation with Jesus Christ Himself, and dead set on enacting vengeance for the murder of her father, which she witnessed as a little girl. Whether Table knows it or not, he’s on a collision course with an avenging angel who believes she’s got the Lord on her side.
Combining the linguistic punch of Elmore Leonard, the living landscapes of Cormac McCarthy, and the comic soul of Charles Portis, A Little Blood and Dancing announces Tyler Parker as one of our most extraordinary new voices. (Strange Light)

Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon: Andrew Harrison (saxophonist) and Jason Lo (pianist)
2023-08-30 12:10 - 12:30 | Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, 91101, United States
Enjoy music with your lunch Wednesdays from 12:10 – 12:40PM in the Sanctuary at PPC. If you love classical virtuosos or contemporary maestros, each week promises a captivating performance that will leave you mesmerized. Best of all, admission is free and accessible to all music lovers. For the schedule of upcoming performers, visit ppc.net.

Vroman's: Exploring Southern California Vantage Points with Made In L.A. Writers
2023-08-30 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
In Los Angeles, the only constant is change. Our lives go through cycles and rotations. We incorporate new ideas, people, workplaces, and patterns as we create the futures we have dreamed of since childhood. The stories we tell are malleable and shifting. We seek out places to survey the world around us, to understand where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going. In a sprawling, intricately patterned landscape shaped by the lives of millions, we find commonalities and differences, joy and sorrow, and moments of convergence.
In this fifth volume of the Made in L.A. fiction anthology series, stories are told through lenses focused on the aptitude of Angelenos to reinvent and reimagine, to take action for ourselves and for others. As storytellers, Angelenos understand that to seek truth in a world of continual shifts and evolution requires constant readjustment of the prism through which we perceive modern society. To solve the failures and dilemmas of the past, present, and future, we must observe from every conceivable angle, and from every vantage point.

SCCM: Play for All Abilities: Guide Dogs of America
2023-08-31 14:00 - 15:30 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
Southern California Children’s Museum is hosting Guide Dogs of America – Join SCCM Thursday, August 31 from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM for a Meet-and-Greet with the pups during Play for All Abilities programming. Four dogs accompanied by their handlers will be on site! All activities are included with general admission.
About Guide Dogs of America:
Located on a beautiful 7.5-acre campus in Los Angeles, Guide Dogs of America serves a diverse range of individuals from the U.S. and Canada. Our mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs. At Guide Dogs of America, we transform lives through partnerships with service dogs. We breed, raise, and train guide dogs for individuals who are blind/visually impaired and service dogs for veterans and children with autism. We also place facility dogs with professionals in hospitals, schools, and courtrooms. Our highly skilled canines become trusted companions that increase people’s confidence, mobility, and independence. All programs and services, including transportation, personalized training, room/board, and postgraduate support, are provided at no cost to the recipient.
About Play for All Abilities:
SCCM welcomes children and families of all abilities. Play for All Abilities hours take place the last Thursday of every month from 12:30-3:30 PM. These are dedicated play hours when we welcome families and children with developmental differences. Play for All Abilities means we stand true to our values of access and inclusion.
During Play for All Abilities hours, SCCM adjusts their space and programs to provide:

Less crowded space
Quiet atmosphere with limited stimuli (low lights, no music, no microphone)
Provide space for families to build community and children to make friends
Sensory backpacks which include noise-cancelling headphones and sensory toys*
Visual guide
Nonverbal communication cards

*Sensory backpacks are available any day of the week as a free daily rental, ask a staff member at check-in!

The Mixx: Rock En Español vs 80s KARAOKE
2023-09-01 18:00 - 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The Mixx Pasadena presents Rock En Espanol vs 80’s Karaoke hosted by Handsome Devil.

Ice House Comedy: Ahmed Ahmed & Friends
2023-09-01 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Ahmed Ahmed & Friends featuring Mike Perkins, Blake Bartee, Steven Briggs, and Adam Hunter. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Fantastically Foolish Fridays
2023-09-01 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Fantastically Foolish Fridays hosted by Roz Washington with special guest Micahel Colyar, CP, Bryon Bowers, Kanisha Buss, Dante Chang. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2 item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Savage AF Live
2023-09-01 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Savage AF Live featuring Raymond Montoya, Von DeCarlo, Shang, Black Pedro, and Keith Michael Ashton. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Heritage: Playhouse District Walking Tour
2023-09-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Pasadena Heritage, The Blinn House 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, 91101, United States
Join Pasadena Heritage for a walking tour of the Playhouse District.
Pasadena, settled by a group of farmers from Indiana in the 1870s, developed initially along the Arroyo Seco. The Pasadena Playhouse Historic District contains approximately 34 buildings, which represent the eastward growth of the City’s urban core during the 1920s and 1930s after Pasadena’s economy had changed from agriculture to tourism. The development of this area was spurred by the construction of Pasadena’s grand and imposing Civic Center in the 1920s, prompting the construction of residential, religious, and cultural facilities in the district. This walking tour includes the Scottish Rite Temple, the United Artist Theater, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Professional Building (Pasadena’s only example of Gothic revival office building architecture), and the Bank of the West building, to name a few.
Tours last approximately 1.5 hours with a walking distance of approximately 1 mile.

Vroman's: Special Storytime Featuring Susi Schafer presents The Glow Show
2023-09-02 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
In this delightful undersea story, kids will boost their social emotional learning and explore the importance of cooperation and friendship–and discover incredible true facts about sea creatures. Perfect for fans of The Rainbow Fish!
Glow is a bioluminescent squid who loves to dance and twirl. And the faster he twirls, the brighter he GLOWS! He loves to show off his skills…and becomes quite a show-off with a bad attitude. He doesn’t like sharing the spotlight. And when he ditches his friends in search of fans, he loses his glow! Can Glow find his way home–and if he does, will his friends take him back? As readers follow Glow’s journey, they’ll learn all about bioluminescence and fascinating ocean creatures along the way.

Ice House: Comedy Juice
2023-09-02 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Comedy Juice with Zainab Johnson, Grant Cotter, Sara Weinshank, Johnny Mithell, and Auguste Derose-Jones. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House: Girls on Fire
2023-09-02 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Girls on Fire featuring Lou Lou Gonzalez, Kate Quigley, Renee Percy, Kiki Yeung, and Gina Yanshere. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat
Girls on Fire features some of the best female comedians and comedy writers on the comedy scene today and they all have landed at The Legendary Ice House! You’ve seen them on Last Comic Standing, HBO Def Comedy Jam, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Sketch Comedy, Amazion Upload, and many other comedian and television platforms. This is truly a show you don’t want to miss! These GIRLS are on FIRE!

The Mixx: Yaught Rock Night
2023-09-02 20:00 | The Mixx, 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The Mixx Pasadena presents a live tribute to 70’s, Early 80’s Cuts, and Yaught Rock Hits with FM Classics. Enjoy three hours of live music and Tiki and Tropical Drinks all night long.

Ice House Comedy: Fudge Factor
2023-09-02 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Fudge Factor is an improvised standup comedy game show where the audience submits topics for the comedians to riff on. Every member of the audience gets to be a part of the action by writing down suggestions. Then they get to sit back and watch, while the comedians fudge their way through their sets. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: The Comedy Joint
2023-09-03 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents The Comedy Joint with live music. Live in the Legendary Room! 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House: Labor Day Comedy w/ Sebastian Cetina
2023-09-03 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Cetina featuring Jerry Garcia, George Wang, and Victor Vasquez. Live in the California Room! 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Storytime with Mr. Steve
2023-09-06 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Mr. Steve and the gang at our Colorado Blvd. location at 11 am for story time!

Pasadena Playhouse: The Sound Inside (Wine Wednesday)
2023-09-06 20:00 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Not everything is as it seems behind the ivy-covered walls of Yale, where an unlikely bond leads to an unthinkable favor. Writing professor Bella Baird is looking for answers, but a fateful encounter with a mysterious student could lead to life-changing consequences for both of them. Nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play, Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp’s haunting 90-minute thriller will leave you wondering who you can trust and remind you everyone has a story — the question is how it ends.
Wine Wednesday
Preview week Wednesday, ticket holders are invited to come early and enjoy complimentary wine prior to the show at Pasadena Playhouse.
The Wine Wednesday performance of The Sound Inside will be on Wednesday, September 6 at 8:00 PM.

Pasadena Heritage: Lecture with Graham Larkin "Lessons from the Daylight Factory" Swanson & Peterson's Furniture Works
2023-09-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Pasadena Heritage, The Blinn House 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, 91101, United States
In 1929, a red brick building with a dramatic expanse of windows was constructed on the eastern edge of Pasadena, just west of Eaton Wash and south of the Santa Fe railway. Built to the design of McNeal Swasey, architect of the Hotel Constance and other local landmarks, this facility served for more than forty years as the Swanson & Peterson workshop and showroom. Swedish émigrés David Swanson and Erik Peterson were makers of fine custom furniture and cabinetry throughout LA County, and Swasey’s building is a testament to their own high standards of design and fabrication. Modest on the outside, it opens onto a surprisingly vast and well-lit factory floor, beneath a sawtooth roof cleverly hidden from the street. This is a highly evolved example of a daylight factory, complete with passive lighting and ventilation systems — not to mention resistance to fire and vibrations. A prime example of the golden age of sustainable design and a repository of local history, Swasey’s building has held up for almost a century. A potential project could demolish the building, but it is one worthy of saving!
About the Speaker
Graham Larkin is a Pasadena-based historian, curator, and advocate for livable streets. After a decade in the US, studying and teaching art and architectural history (PhD Harvard, 2003; postdoc Stanford, 2003-2005), he returned to his native Canada. There he worked at various federal agencies, including six years as Curator of European & American Art at the National Gallery of Canada. An interest in sustainable urbanism led him to found Vision Zero Canada, advocating for the elimination of traffic harm and the promotion of active mobility. During the pandemic, he moved back to California, where he is working as an architectural historian.

Vroman's: Laura Picklesimer discusses Kill For Love
2023-09-07 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses–and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction–at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody, fatal affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to kill attractive young men.
As Tiffany’s bloodlust deepens and the bodies pile up, she must contend with mounting legal scrutiny, social media-fueled competing murders, and her growing relationship with Weston, who she thinks could be the perfect boyfriend. A female-driven, modern-day American Psycho, Kill for Love exposes modern toxic plasticity with dark comedy and propulsive plot.

Boston Court: Measure Still For Measure
2023-09-07 20:00 | Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91206, United States
Boston Court’s first-ever immersive play, utilizing the entire building, will take you on a journey behind the curtain to experience the layered and intimate complexities of creating theatre. In this play-within-a-play, a renowned director rehearses a spectacular new production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, “the original #metoo story.”
But backstage, there’s an even bigger drama playing out as the power dynamics of the play and the rehearsal blow up in the course of the night. Don’t miss this unique and unexpected world premiere written and directed by Boston Court Artistic Director Jessica Kubzansky.
CONTENT WARNING: Contains depictions of sexual harassment.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: This show has immersive elements which will require the audience to move between spaces. In every space, there is seating available for those that need it. Please contact our box office for any questions or special arrangements to ensure your best and most comfortable experience.

Party in the Park
2023-09-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Playhouse Village Park, 701 Union St, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Celebrate the one-year anniversary of Playhouse Village Park! Party in the Park features a free evening concert with a live performance by Jazz in the Park series-favorite, Susie Hansen Latin Jazz Trio presented by Ice House Comedy Club. Bring your blanket or chair and enjoy the band’s infectious blend of salsa and Latin jazz that has the audience smiling and dancing. There will also be refreshments, giant games, and activities for families!
Party in the Park
1st Anniversary Celebration
Playhouse Village Park
September 17 | 5-7PM
Free!
Playhouse Village Park is located at 701 E Union St.
Playhouse Village Association would like to thank Playhouse Village Foundation and Ice House Comedy Club for their generous support!

Playhouse Village: Union Street Protected Bikeway Ribbon Cutting
2023-09-09 08:30 - 11:00 | Playhouse Village Park, 701 Union St, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
PASADENA, Calif.— The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Union Street Protected Bikeway project along Union Street between Arroyo Parkway and Hill Avenue and along Holliston Avenue between Union Street and Cordova Street is scheduled for Saturday, September 9, 2023, in front of City Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
The Union Street Protected Bikeway is a 1.5-mile-long two-way protected bike lane along Union Street and a 0.3-mile-long bike boulevard along Holliston Avenue with traffic signal and curb ramp improvements along both streets. This project is an opportunity for residents and visitors to reach Pasadena destinations such as Old Pasadena, Playhouse Village, Pasadena City College, and CalTech on a bike.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and resource fair will take place on Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Centennial Square. Local, state, and federal elected officials and dignitaries have been invited to speak at the event and join us in an inaugural bike ride. The morning’s events will begin at 8:30 a.m., with dignitaries speaking at 9:30 a.m. and a short inaugural bike ride on Union Street from City Hall to Playhouse Village Park and back, immediately to follow.

The Playhouse House Village team will be set up at Playhouse Village Park, offering a community water station to all ride participants. Don’t forget to drop by and stay hydrated!

Pasadena Heritage: Open Doors California Sponsored by the California Preservation Foundation
2023-09-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Pasadena Heritage, The Blinn House 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, 91101, United States
Pasadena Heritage will open its doors at the historic Blinn House for participants of this California Preservation Foundation celebration, happening up and down the state with more than 70 historic sites open. We will participate on Saturday, September 9th, with an open house here as well as a self-guided tour of Ford Place. For more information about Open Doors and to register, please visit CPF’s event page.
