What to Do: Guidebook for the Season

July 2-3: "As You Like It," Shakespeare Festival/LA, Union Station. Also July 8-18 at Burton Chace Park, Marina del Rey; July 22-Aug. 1 at South Coast Botanical Garden.

July 2-11: "Bother!," Theater 150.

July 2-27: "Show Boat," Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera at Granada Theatre.

July 2-Indefinitely: "Medea: The Musical," Hudson Theatre

July 4-Sept. 19: "Saint Joan," Theatricum Botanicum.

July 6-11: "South Pacific," Pasadena Civic Musical Series, Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

July 7-11: "Arturo Ui," Berliner Ensemble at UCLA's Freud Theatre.

* "Denial," L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

July 7-Aug. 1: "Merton of the Movies," Geffen Theatre.

July 8-18: "Suburbia," Center Stage Theatre.

July 9-25: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," PCPA Theatrefest, Festival Theatre. Also at Marian Theatre, Allan Hancock College July 31-Aug. 14.

July 9-Aug. 29: "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me," Actors Alley at the El Portal Center, Studio Theatre.

* "The Balkan Women," West Coast Ensemble.

July 9-25: "Forever Plaid," Music Theatre of Southern California at San Gabriel Civic Auditorium. Also July 30-Aug. 1, Alex Theatre.

July 10-11: "The World and His Wife," California Artists Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt.

July 10-25: "Carousel," PCPA Theatrefest, Marian Theatre. Also at Festival Theatre, July 30-Aug. 14.

July 10-Aug. 1: "Riffs & Credos" and "The Whale Watchers," Playwrights' Arena.

July 10-Aug. 14: "Thunder Knocking on the Door," Old Globe Theatre, Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

July 10-Aug. 15: "Play It Again, Sam," Knightsbridge Theatre.

July 10-Aug. 22: "Mornings at Seven," Theatre 40 at Beverly Hills High School Auditorium.

July 10-Aug. 22: "Time Flies When You're Alive" and "Life After Time,"

Pacific Resident Theatre.

July 10-Aug. 29: "The Memorandum," Odyssey Theatre.

July 16-July 24: "Twelfth Dog Night," Grove Theatre, Festival Amphitheatre.

July 16-Aug. 21: "A Heart of Flesh," Alliance Repertory Company.

* "Waddles and Wonk," Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center.

July 16-Aug. 27: "The Vanishing Point," West Coast Ensemble.

July 17-Aug. 29: "The White Devil," Knightsbridge Theatre.

July 18-Aug. 22: "Play On!," Pasadena Playhouse.

July 19-Aug. 18: "Fences," Theatre 40 at Beverly Hills High School Auditorium.

July 20-25: "Sunset Boulevard," Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also at Pantages Theatre, beginning Oct. 5.

July 21-25: "Spread Eagle," L.A. Theatre Works at Skirball Cultural Center.

July 23-Aug. 7: "Measure for Measure," Shakespeare Orange County at Waltmar Theatre, Chapman College.

July 23-Aug. 22: "Ancient History," Fountain Theatre.

July 24-Sept. 4: "Missing Footage," Old Globe Theatre, Cassius Carter Centre Stage.

July 24-Oct. 17: "The Greeks (Part I, The Cursed and Part II, The Blessed)," Odyssey Theatre.

July 25-Aug. 29: "Jane Eyre," La Jolla Playhouse, Mandell Weiss Theatre.

July 27-Aug. 25: "Somewhere in Between," West Coast Ensemble.

July 28-Aug. 22: "A Chorus Line," Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera at Granada Theatre.

July 28-Aug. 29: "Pretty Fire," La Jolla Playhouse, Mandell Weiss Forum.

July 30-Sept. 4: "Eden," Theatre of Note.

July 30-Sept. 5: "Orphans," International City Theatre at Long Beach City College.

July 31-Sept. 4: "Cymbeline," Old Globe Theatre.

July 31-Sept. 26: "Scapin," Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.

July 31-Oct. 16: "The Seagull," Theatricum Botanicum.

Aug. 6-Sept. 5: "Wait Until Dark," Santa Monica Playhouse, Other Space.

* "Tapestry . . . The Music of Carole King," Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

Aug. 7-8: "Four Last Songs," California Artists Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt.

Aug. 12-15: "Division Street," San Francisco Mime Troupe at Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Aug. 12-Sept. 19: "The First Picture Show," Mark Taper Forum.

Aug. 13-22: "Cow Pattern Clothes," Saddleback College, Mission Viejo.

Aug. 17-22: "Footloose," Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also at the Pantages Theatre, Aug. 24-Sept. 5.

Aug. 19-29: "As You Like It," Grove Theatre, Festival Amphitheatre.

Aug. 20-Sept. 26: "Pre-Paradise, Sorry Now," City Garage.

* "Pearls and Marlowe," Pasadena Shakespeare Company, Plaza Pasadena Mall.

Aug. 21-Sept. 26: "Doctor Faustus," Knightsbridge Theatre.

Aug. 27-Oct. 3: "Love's Labours Lost," Knightsbridge Theatre.

Aug. 28-Sept. 26: "Tonight at 8:30," Pacific Resident Theatre.

Aug. 28-Oct. 7: "Charley's Aunt," Theatricum Botanicum.

Sept. 2-25: "Miss Saigon," Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Sept. 3-26: "Lend Me a Tenor," International City Theatre at Center Theatre.

Sept. 4-Oct. 9: "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Old Globe Theatre, Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

Sept. 4-Oct. 31: "Equus," Knightsbridge Theatre.

CHILDREN

Friday-Saturday: "First Los Angeles International Performing Arts Festival for Youth," USC.