Theater

“Lettice & Lovage”--Ellen Geer, left, and Earnestine Phillips are in the comedy about the clash between a free-spirited history enthusiast and a dour preservationist, playing at Theatricum Botanicum.

* “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea”--John Patrick Shanley’s offbeat romance about a troubled single mother and a trucker who connect in a Bronx bar opens tonight at the Tamarind Theatre.

* “Love 40”--Stephen Downs and Toni Handcock Downs’ newly revised musical about love and tennis opens tonight at the Century City Playhouse on West Pico Boulevard.