KLÜB Through May 11. Existential comedy in which 10 dysfunctional performers audition with their life stories to escape from a play. The Actors' Gang, Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, 310.838.4264. Map L11

TWO UNRELATED PLAYS Opening May 11. Double bill of Mamet plays, featuring world premiere of Keep Your Pantheon and his early work Duck Variations. Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City, 213.628.2772. Map L11

A CHORUS LINE Opening May 21. Seventeen dancers audition for a Broadway musical in the longest-running American musical on Broadway. Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.628.2772. Map H16

EMERGENCY Through May 25. Artist Daniel Beaty utilizes slam poetry and song to portray 40 characters in a play about race relations. Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood, 310.208.5454. Map J10

LOVE, JANIS Opening May 29. Musical about 1960s rocker Janis Joplin as told through letters to her family. Wilshire Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 323.655.0111. Map J12

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PALACE Through May 31. Story of a racially motivated crime in volatile, pre-apartheid Johannesburg. Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena, 626.356.7529. Map Q20

WICKED Ongoing. Very clever blockbuster musical returns with many of its Broadway stars. Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, 213.365.3500. Map W21

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum Theatricum's 2008 summer season includes productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Macbeth and two additional plays, as well as special performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream -- only on Thursday nights in August -- featuring a pre-show Fairyland Buffet Dinner in the theatre's adjacent gardens. 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga; 310.455.3723; www.theatricum.com