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A NOISE WITHIN

3352 E Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena

Upcoming Shows

Exit the King
Exit the King
May 3 – May 31, 2026

A Noise Within presents Exit the King, Eugène Ionesco’s wildly funny and deeply human meditation on mortality. It’s King Berenger’s last day on Earth —...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Aug 23 – Sep 20, 2026

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the third play in August Wilson's ten-play "American Century Cycle," is the seventh production in the series to be directed by...

Come From Away
Oct 4 – Nov 1, 2026

Come From Away recounts the true story of what happened when 38 planes were diverted to the small town of Gander, Newfoundland on September 11,...

As You Like It
Feb 7 – Mar 7, 2027

Shakespeare's As You Like It is a gender-bending comedy that brims with laughter and keen insights into life, love, and human nature. When her uncle...

Great Expectations
Mar 21 – Apr 18, 2027

A Noise Within presents Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Great Expectations, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, in celebration of the company's 35th anniversary season. Based on Charles...

Trouble in Mind
May 2 – May 30, 2027

Trouble in Mind is Alice Childress's backstage drama about interracial politics, set on a New York City stage in the mid-1950s. A recently integrated theater...


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Review: South Coast Repertory Presents West Coast Debut of FREMONT AVE.


by Michael Quintos - May 14, 2026

Beautifully acted, engagingly riveting, and populated with impactful characters, Reggie D. White's thoughtfully sprawling and emotionally layered new play—directed by Lili-Anne Brown—delivers an ambitious, deeply affecting examination of generational legacy, Black identity, masculinity, and the ...

Review: MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS at Colony Theater


by Evan Henerson - May 13, 2026

As directed by Kristin Hanggi and led by actors Emma Hunton, Diana Huey and Aynsley Bubbico, KILLING MUSICALS looks to blend pathos, satire and female empowerment not always particularly smoothly....

Review: THE CAROLE KING AND JAMES TAYLOR STORY at BroadStage


by Shari Barrett - May 08, 2026

While harmonizing to perfection, Katis rules the piano with the sensitivity necessary to realistically perform King’s songs of self-awareness and the longing to find your place in the world, while Clews’ finger-picking expertise on guitar adds a real sense of introspective musical magic to Taylo...

Review: THE MUSIC THAT MAKES ME DANCE: THE SONGS OF JULE STYNE at the El Portal


by Harker Jones - May 07, 2026

This marks the second triumph for co-creator-director-choreographer Scott Thompson, following his sensational “One For My Baby” at the same venue last year....

Review: THE EAVES at Nocturne Theatre


by Harker Jones - May 05, 2026

Director Meyer keeps things moving at a fair clip without ever seeming rushed, and he serves up real scares....

Review: Updated FLOWER DRUM SONG Returns to Los Angeles by East West Players


by Shari Barrett - April 29, 2026

Astounding triple-threat talent is on display in big production numbers with attention-grabbing scenic elements by brilliant designers add to the artistic wonder of the entire production helmed by EWP Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal, choreographed by Janelle Dote Portman, with music direction by...

Review: BACK TO OZ at Mark Taper Forum


by Harker Jones - April 28, 2026

BACK TO OZ is an exhilarating trip through history and down the Yellow Brick Road...

Review: Last Call Theatre Invites You to Discover The Liminary


by Shari Barrett - April 27, 2026

Be ready to play your part to find out who can you trust and who wants to destroy The Liminary. Depending on the questions asked and information gathered via audience participation, the process and ending will be different at each of the performances....

Review: South Coast Repertory Presents World Premiere of EAT ME


by Michael Quintos - April 26, 2026

First developed and workshopped at South Coast Repertory’s annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2025, celebrated new “it” playwright Talene Monahon’s freshly birthed play EAT ME is currently being presented at OC’s Tony Award-winning regional theater as a fully-formed World Premiere prod...

Review: LOVE STRUCK by Macha Theatre/Films at Odyssey Theatre


by Shari Barrett - April 25, 2026

We never get a sense of what draws these two women to each other (other than sex), or what they have in common other than auditioning for acting work. Nor do we witness them falling in love, which makes it difficult to care whether or not their relationship succeeds....

Past Shows

Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
Mar 22 – Apr 19, 2026

Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork comes to A Noise Within in a visceral new production. Aging salesman Willy Loman has spent his life chasing the...

Richard III
Richard III
Feb 8 – Mar 8, 2026

Ambition knows no mercy. A Noise Within presents a streamlined, high-velocity, darkly entertaining take on William Shakespeare's thriller about the irresistible schemer audiences love to...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Nov 29 – Dec 24, 2025

A Noise Within’s delightfully festive, musically merry stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has become a Los Angeles tradition with its innovative staging,...

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Oct 12 – Nov 9, 2025

“They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone, Ohhh Lordy… Come with forty links of chain, Ohhh Lordy.” A Noise Within continues its commitment to...

One Man, Two Guvnors
One Man, Two Guvnors
Aug 31 – Sep 28, 2025

A Noise Within presents the hilarious, Tony Award-winning comedy by Richard Bean. Things start to look a little brighter for Francis Henshall, a hapless, out...

A Man of No Importance
A Man of No Importance
May 4 – Jun 1, 2025

A Noise Within presents the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by the late...

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Mar 23 – Apr 20, 2025

Mystery and romance abound in this thrilling and heart wrenching tale of self-determination adapted by Elizabeth Williamson from the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë. Orphaned...

Macbeth
Macbeth
Feb 9 – Mar 9, 2025

Delve deep into the psychological turmoil of a king tortured by guilt, fate and the corrupting influence of his own desires when A Noise within...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Nov 30 – Dec 24, 2024

A Noise Within’s delightfully festive, musically merry stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has become a Los Angeles tradition with its innovative staging,...

The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson
Oct 19 – Nov 10, 2024

A Noise Within continues its commitment to August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle” with The Piano Lesson, the fourth play in Wilson’s extraordinary 10-play cycle that...

The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth
Aug 24 – Oct 20, 2024

A Noise Within opens its 2024-25 “True Grit” season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning, time-bending comic romp by Thornton Wilder that’s a testament to the indomitable...

Misalliance
Misalliance
May 17 – Jun 9, 2024

Eight marriage proposals and a plane crash — all in one afternoon. A Noise Within presents George Bernard Shaw’s high-flying comedy, “Misalliance.” Much to the...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Feb 11 – Mar 17, 2024

Diabolical comedy, stunning terror, razor-sharp wit and extraordinary, soaring music. A Noise Within presents the dark, brooding, yet sharply comic story of love, revenge and...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Dec 1 – Dec 24, 2023

A Noise Within’s delightfully festive, musically merry stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has become a Los Angeles tradition with its innovative staging,...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oct 8 – Nov 12, 2023

A Noise Within presents its delightful yet deeply resonant production of Shakespeare’s most enchanting comedy. When two pairs of mixed-up lovers and a troupe of...

The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
Aug 27 – Sep 24, 2023

A Noise Within presents a haunting and tragic portrait of a Black girl’s coming of age in the racially turbulent 1940s, adapted for the stage...

The Book of Will
The Book of Will
May 7 – Jun 4, 2023

You don’t have to love Shakespeare to enjoy The Book of Will, playwright Lauren Gunderson’s re-imagining of the desperate search to find, preserve and print...

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mar 26 – Apr 23, 2023

Set in a South American prison cell in a country under authoritarian rule, two polar opposites discover that love may spring in the most unlikely...

Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Feb 5 – Mar 12, 2023

A Noise Within presents William Shakespeare’s hilarious, profound and all-around irresistible rom-com. Beatrice and Benedick’s verbal jousts are witty and sharp, each one calculated to...

Radio Golf
Radio Golf
Oct 16 – Nov 13, 2022

A Noise Within presents the final play in Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle” decade-by-decade exploration of the Black experience in 20th century...

Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Aug 28 – Oct 2, 2022

Revolt is afoot at Manor Farm, when downtrodden beasts of burden rise-up against the cruel Farmer Jones. But self-ruled animal utopia quickly gives way to...

Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
May 12 – Jun 5, 2022

Comedy. Romance. Poetry. Whimsy. Tales of Midas, Orpheus, Aphrodite and more swirl with passion in a funny, whimsical and heartbreaking meditation on the joys and...

Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
May 8 – Jun 5, 2022
The Bungler
Mar 31 – May 27, 2012
The Illusion
Mar 10 – May 19, 2012
Antony and Cleopatra
Feb 25 – May 13, 2012

Antony and Cleopatra is a love story with the power to shatter nations. (Sound hyperbolic? Trust us, it’s not.) But reality has a way of...

Noises Off
Jan 6 – Jan 15, 2012
Desire Under the Elms
Nov 12 – Dec 18, 2011
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
Oct 22 – Dec 16, 2011

Welcome to an uproarious world of drunkards and wine-drenched parties, depressive noblemen and dueling musicians, idiots and veteran jesters, religious zealots and erotic misunderstandings, all...

Videos


The Most Happy Fella in Los Angeles The Most Happy Fella
North Coast Repertory Theatre (6/03-6/28)
In the Blink of an Eye: A Musical Memoir in Los Angeles In the Blink of an Eye: A Musical Memoir
The Pico (6/19-6/21)
Melt : The Play in Los Angeles Melt : The Play
The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (6/11-6/13) PHOTOS
The Bomb in Los Angeles The Bomb
The Actors Company - Other Space (6/18-6/29)
Twinkle Time Presents Bilingual, Pop-Rock, Family Concert in Los Angeles Twinkle Time Presents Bilingual, Pop-Rock, Family Concert
Sierra Madre Playhouse (6/06-6/06)
A Faery Hunt Enchanted Adventure in Los Angeles A Faery Hunt Enchanted Adventure
Crestwood Hills Park (6/27-6/27)
For Want of a Horse in Los Angeles For Want of a Horse
Atwater Village Theatre (4/17-5/25)
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong in Los Angeles Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Ahmanson Theatre (12/12-1/10)
The Last Dinner Party in Los Angeles The Last Dinner Party
Fox Theater (5/27-5/27)
Cowboy Junkies: Celebrating 40 Years and Beyond in Los Angeles Cowboy Junkies: Celebrating 40 Years and Beyond
Smothers Theatre (9/19-9/19)