This week: A pair of tune-filled romps set in 1960s Britain, a musical comedy about a budding romance, and fact-based dramas about the civil rights and gay-rights movements.
Real Women Have Curves Josefina López's comedy-drama about five women who work at a sewing factory in East L.A. Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. Sun., 3 p.m.; Tue.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2 and 8 p.m.; next Sun., 2 and 7 p.m.; ends Oct. 4. $37-$125. (626) 356-7529.
Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin World premiere of Michael Benjamin's fact-based drama, set in 1963, about the gay African American civil-rights leader.