The history of theater goes all the way back to the 1970s, when audiences were eager to see living movies. See how far these unfilmed talkabouts have come in only 40 years with today's Groupon: for $22, you get one ticket to see City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, starring Jai Rodriguez from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, at the Adrienne Arsht Center (a $45 value). The performances will take place at the Carnival Studio Theater in the center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House. Choose from the following showtimes:

• Thursday, June 23, at 7 p.m.
• Friday, June 24, at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, June 25, at 10 p.m.
• Sunday, June 26, at 4 p.m.

Seating will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis at will call.

The Adrienne Arsht Center provides a grandiose setting for Summer Shorts, a gut-busting showcase of seven of America’s freshest short plays. Having swept Broadway, cabarets, and the silver screen, former star of Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and metrosexual makeover guru Jai Rodriguez headlines the collection of deliriously paced vignettes chock-full of five-minute rib-ticklers and bawdy 20-minute farces. Melding Jai’s magnetism with City Theatre’s stable of lauded actors and seven snappy scripts, Summer Shorts takes audiences on a brisk ride from the comfort of a fully seated, optionally upright position.