Playhouse Village Association

Ice House Comedy: Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson, Michael Blaustein
2024-01-17 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson, and Michael Blaustein. Live in the Legendary Room! Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Show Starts at 7:30PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Playhouse: KATE
2024-01-17 20:00 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
In her widely celebrated one-woman show, revered comedian Kate Berlant explores the events of her life that have brought her to this moment. Embodying many characters in this tour de force performance, she expertly morphs before our eyes and exposes a truth she has, until now, kept hidden. Directed by Bo Burnham.
Kate Berlant is an Emmy-nominated comedian, actress, and writer. She most recently concluded her first sold-out London and second sold-out New York run of KATE, her one-woman off-Broadway play, to a rapturous response, “The New York City Show to See” (Vulture). Her comedy special Cinnamon in the Wind (directed by Bo Burnham) is now streaming on Hulu. In addition, her A24/Peacock sketch comedy special Would It Kill You to Laugh?, created with her collaborator John Early, has been nominated for both a Critic’s Choice and Primetime Emmy award. Kate’s film credits include Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario, Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You. She can currently be seen on the Amazon series A League of Their Own, starring alongside Abbi Jacobsen and Nick Offerman; her additional television credits include Search Party, The Other Two, Transparent, and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, as well as her celebrated episode of Netflix’s The Characters. She was named a Just for Laughs “New Face of Comedy” and a Variety “Ten to Watch

Ice House Comedy: West Coast Jam
2024-01-17 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents West Coast Comedy hosted by Scruncho! Live in the California Room. Ice House doors open at 6:30pm Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show starts at 8PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Howie Mandel Sebastian Maniscalco Tiffany Haddish
2024-01-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presented an exciting evening of comedy with Howie Mandel, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Tiffany Haddish! Live in the Legendary Room. Ice House doors open at 6:30PM. Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 7PM.

Ice House Comedy: Howie Mandel Sebastian Maniscalco Tiffany Haddish
2024-01-18 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Howie Mandel, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Tiffany Haddish! Live in the California Room. Ice House doors open at 6:30PM. Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Show Starts at 7:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Howie Mandel, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Tiffany Haddish
2024-01-18 21:45 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Howie Mandel, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Tiffany Haddish! Live in the California Room. Ice House doors open at 6:30PM. Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show starts at 9:45PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Shindig Show w/ Jamie Kennedy and Tom Arnold
2024-01-19 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Shindig Show with Jamie Kennedy and Tom Arnold. The ShinDig Show is one of the top comedy shows in Los Angeles bringing you the biggest headliners as seen on Comedy Central, Netflix, HBO, The Late Show, Def Jam, and Showtime. Don’t miss this Ultimate Comedy Party. This show always has the hottest rising talent and the biggest Stars of comedy. This week we have Jamie Kennedy from Scream and Tom Arnold from True Lies headlining!

Ice House Comedy: Sharon Mahoney
2024-01-19 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sharon Mahoney and friends! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 8PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Comedy Madness
2024-01-19 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Comedy Madness featuring Michael Quu, Greg Burman, Shoshana Seidman, Jer Bear Magic, Tony Shriller, and Wiley Watts! Live in the California Room! Venue doors open at 6:30pm. Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 10pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Comedy Madness
2024-01-19 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Comedy Madness Michael Quu, Greg Burman, Shoshana Seidman, Jer Bear Magic, Tony Shriller, and Wiley Watts. Live in the California Room! The show Starts at 10PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Uncensored Comedy w/ Chaunte Wayans
2024-01-19 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Uncensored Comedy with Chaunte Wayans! Live in the Legendary Room. The show starts at 10pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman’s Ed - Fiction Writing Class with Diana Wagman (8 weeks)
2024-01-20 10:30 - 12:30 | Atrium Building, 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
This Fiction Writing Class is for writers interested in working on short stories or a novel. There will be an optional weekly exercise and suggested readings, but it is predominately a workshop to discuss and advance each other’s work, concentrating on the elements that make fiction compelling: character, point of view, setting and description, conflict and resolution. Each writer will share work twice, the ultimate goal being a complete short story or a novel chapter.
Diana Wagman is the author of six novels. Her second, Spontaneous, won the 2001 PEN West Award for Fiction. Her fourth, The Care & Feeding of Exotic Pets, was very briefly a best seller. She has had many short stories and essays published, most recently in Conjunctions and Prairie Schooner, and is an occasional contributor to the Los Angeles Times. She has taught as adjunct faculty across southern California, from Loyola Marymount to CalArts to Cal State San Bernardino.
TO SIGN UP FOR THIS WRITING CLASS, PLEASE CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE AT (626)449-5320 BY 1/18/24.
*This class will be held on the following dates – 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/2, and 3/9 and will take place in the Vroman’s Meeting Room located next door to Vroman’s Main Store in the Atrium at 709 E. Colorado Blvd. Suite 120.
If for any reason you cannot attend this set of classes you have signed up for, please give 24 hour notice, before the first class, of your cancelation in order to receive a refund.

Monopole by Wine RX: Wine & Tarot Reading with Briony James
2024-01-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Monopole by Wine RX invites you to join them for an evening of wine and tarot readings!

Ice House Comedy: The Headliners
2024-01-20 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents The Headliners featuring Kevin The Carpenter, Richard Asperger, J Marie, Ari Maize, Oldskool, Shang Forbes, and Hurricane! Live in the California Room! Ice House doors open at 6:30pm Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Show Starts at 7:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Jeff Leach & Friends
2024-01-20 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Jeff Leach & friends featuring Aida Rodriguez, Mike Lawrence, Jenny Zigrino, Leah Bonnema. Live in the Legendary Room! Ice House doors open at 6PM. Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 8PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: The Takeover Comedy Show
2024-01-20 21:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents The Takeover Hosted by: Nikole Denise featuring Auguste DeRose-Jones, Bobbie Oliver, John Grimes, Sarah Rose Hyland, Walter Ford and Bree Webber! Live in the California Room! Show Starts at 9:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Unplugged Comics
2024-01-20 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Unplugged Comics featuring Richard Villa, Ace Murdoc, J Valentino, and Ernesto Ledezma! Live in the Legendary Room! The show Starts at 10PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Cheeseburger Week
2024-01-21 - 2024-01-27 | CA
uring January 2024 in Pasadena, there’s a citywide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the cheeseburger. Join us in wishing our darling cheeseburger a very happy 100.🍔💯

Vroman's: Nikki Vargas, in conversation with Jeremy Tarr, discusses Call You When I Land
2024-01-22 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She’d settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaw’s of the world, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But between corporate happy hours and wedding dress fittings, she couldn’t shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn’t look like her. And so, she bought a plane ticket: first to Cartagena. Then to Panama. Then to Iguazú.
What begins with one freelance travel writing assignment escalates into a whirlwind, globe-spanning journey that would transform Nikki’s life. Taking her from the street food stalls of Vietnam to the cascading waterfalls of Argentina, Nikki uncovers shocking truths about her family, comes face to face with a new love interest – or two – and ultimately turns a no-name blog into the internationally celebrated venture of Unearth Women, the first major female-focused travel publication.
Told in transporting detail and candid reflections, Call You When I Land takes the familiar story of a woman going abroad to find herself and turns it on its head, as the act of traveling becomes, for Nikki, an exhilarating career path – and ultimately a tool to champion women’s voices across the world.

Vroman's: Mark Eaton discusses Historical Fiction Now
2024-01-23 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre’s character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century.
Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several authors writing across these categories, the volume explores the nature of reading, writing, and writing about historical fiction in the present moment while meditating on some of the myriad contexts of the genre.
What inspires writers to choose particular moments, events, and personalities as the subjects of their fictional imaginings, and with what implications for their readers’ understanding of the present? How do contemporary scholars approach the making and reception of historical fiction, and how do these approaches resonate with writers’ own preoccupations in the process of invention? What might scholars of a genre with a long and complex history learn from its contemporary practitioners? Conversely, how do novelists understand their own historical fictions (if at all) in relation to the theoretical and critical traditions shaping the work of their academic colleagues? (Oxford University Press, USA)

Ice House Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson
2024-01-23 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, and Doug Benson! Live in the Legendary Room. The show starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson
2024-01-23 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, and Doug Benson! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 7:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

T. Boyle's Tavern: Geeks who drink Trivia
2024-01-23 20:00 | T. Boyle’s Tavern, 37 N Catalina Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106, Select a Country:
Tboyle Tavern is now hosting Geeks Who Drink trivia night every Tuesday Night starting at 8PM.

Ice House Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, Joe Wong
2024-01-23 21:45 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Sebastian Maniscalco, Kevin Nealon, and Joe Wong! Live in the California Room. The show starts at 9:45PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

USC PAM: Sacred Sand Mandala
2024-01-24 14:00 - 17:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
USC Pacific Asia Museum is proud to host Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India. They will spend four days creating a Sand Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhist tradition that involves the creation and destruction of paintings made using colored sand. Once completed, it is dismantled as a symbol of the Buddhist belief in the transitory nature of material life.
The opening blessing ceremony will take place on Wednesday, January 24th at 2:00PM and the closing dissolution ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 27 at 3PM. Museum visitors will be able to observe the creation of the mandala during regular public open hours.
Schedule of events:
Opening blessing ceremony:
Wednesday, January 24th: 2:00 PM
View the monks as they work to create the mandala
Wednesday, January 24th, 2:00-5:00
Thursday, January 25th, 2:00-5:00
Friday, January 26th, 2:00-5:00
Saturday, January 27th, 2:00-5:00
Closing ceremony:
Saturday, January 27th, 3:00 pm

Monopole Wine by RX: Wine is Bottled Poetry
2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Monopole by Wine RX for an evening of poetry and Wine featuring guest poets Phil Allen, Tamisha Tyler, and Victoria Lynne Mc Coy!

Vroman's: Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein discuss American Wings
2024-01-24 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the acclaimed author of Flygirl and the bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes the thrilling and inspiring true story of the desegregation of the skies.
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person have of learning to fly in a country constricted by prejudice and Jim Crow laws, where some previous Black aviators like Bessie
Coleman had to move to France to earn their wings?
American Wings follows a group of determined Black Americans: Cornelius Coffey and Johnny Robinson, skilled auto mechanics; Janet Harmon Bragg, a nurse; and Willa Brown, a teacher and social worker. Together, they created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago’s South Side. As the U.S. hurtled toward World War II, they established a school to train new pilots, teaching both Black and white students together and proving, in a time when the U.S. military was still segregated, that successful integration was possible.
Complete with black-and-white photographs throughout, American Wings brings to light a hidden history of pioneering Black men and women who, with grit and resilience, battled powerful odds for an equal share of the sky. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons for Young Readers)
Sherri L. Smith is the author of several novels for young adults, including the critically acclaimed The Blossom and the Firefly, Flygirl, Orleans, and Pasadena, as well as the middle-grade novel The Toymaker’s Apprentice. Visit her online at sherrilsmith.com
Elizabeth Wein is a recreational pilot and the owner of about a thousand maps. She is the author of several young adult novels, including Code Name Verity, an Edgar Award winner and a #1 New York Times bestseller; Black Dove, White Raven, winner of the Children’s Africana Book Award; and most recently, Stateless. Her book A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II was a finalist for YALSA’s Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award. A dual American-British citizen, Elizabeth lives in Scotland. Learn more at ElizabethWein.com and follow her on Twitter @EWein2412

Ice House Comedy: Al Madrigal, Joey Bragg, Charlotte McKinney
2024-01-24 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Al Madrigal, Joey Bragg, and Charlotte McKinney! Live in the Legendary Room! The show starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Archetype Yoga: Full Moon Intention Setting (Wolf Moon)
2024-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Archetypa Yoga, 638 e colorado ave, pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Archetype Yoga presents Full Moon Intentions Setting + Sound Bath + Tarot Reading to connect with January’s Wolf Moon – this moon is inspired by the cries of the wolves during the wintertime. It’s our reminder of the depth of winter and the necessary shifts that are made to make it through.
Full Moon Sound Bath
w/ Sara + Jen
Wednesday, Jan. 24th
7:30-9:00pm
Soundbat + tarot + tea

Ice House Comedy: Rudy Moreno & Friends!
2024-01-25 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Rudy Moreno & Friends featuring Allan Havey, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Oscar, and Phil Medina! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 7:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.
