Ancient Greeks were the forefathers of modern theater, using off-the-cuff storytelling to talk their way out of chariot-speeding tickets. Relish the timelessness of an ancient art with today’s deal to see the musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes at La Jolla Playhouse’s Mandell Weiss Theatre. Seating is available in area one. Choose from the following options:

• For $33, you get one ticket for the performance on Thursday, August 25, at 8 p.m. (a $63 value before fees, or up to a $66 value online, including all fees).
• For $36, you get one ticket for the performance on Friday, August 26, at 8 p.m. (a $69 value before fees, or up to a $72 value online, including all fees).
• For $33, you get one ticket for the matinee performance on Saturday, August 27, at 2 p.m. (a $63 value before fees, or up to a $66 value online, including all fees).
• For $44, you get one ticket for the evening performance on Saturday, August 27, at 8 p.m. (an $85 value before fees, or up to an $88 value online, including all fees).
• For $36, you get one ticket for the matinee performance on Sunday, August 28, at 2 p.m. (a $69 value before fees, or up to a $72 value online, including all fees).
• For $33, you get one ticket for the evening performance on Sunday, August 28, at 7 p.m. (a $63 value before fees, or up to a $66 value online, including all fees).

The multiple Tony Award–winning La Jolla Playhouse stacks each spectacular season with audience-enchanting plays that often matriculate to Broadway and off-Broadway success. Ravenous theatergoers concur that a similar fate awaits Sleeping Beauty Wakes, so they have demanded that the theater continue the play’s magical run through the end of August. Directed by Rebecca Taichman, the play focuses on a modern-day teenager and her awakening at a sleep-disorder clinic. When a curiously ageless father brings his daughter in for treatment, the clinic’s patients embark on a collective dream journey, storing what remains of their sanity in the overhead bins.

A musical score by theatrical power-trio GrooveLily backs up Beauty’s lyrical angst with a guitar-and-piano-heavy soundtrack inspired by the medieval arena rock duo The Brothers Grimm. The 492-seat Mandell Weiss Theatre does the cast justice by placing audiences as close to the action as the fourth wall allows, allowing them to cross-reference every expression or bit of dialogue with the play’s sourcebook, written by Rachel Sheinkin.