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A NOISE WITHIN

3352 E Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena

Upcoming Shows

Death of a Salesman
Mar 22 – Apr 19, 2026

Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman will be presented in a new production at A Noise Within, directed by co-artistic director Julia...

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...



Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Nocturne Theatre


by Harker Jones - March 24, 2026

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is an electrifying take on the last days of Jesus from one of the most underrated venues in Los Angeles....

Review: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU at Morgan-Wixson Theatre


by Shari Barrett - March 22, 2026

When Tony “accidentally” brings his conservative parents over for dinner a night too early, all hell breaks loose as the polished socialites clash with the chaos and disorder of the Sycamore clan, which raised the roof with laughter thanks to Cate Caplin’s spot-on direction and the impeccable ...

Review: FAIRVIEW at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre


by Evan Henerson - March 23, 2026

Despite its title, its well-intentioned if cynical nod to diplomacy, Oz Scott’s production is a swift kick to the nether regions. You will probably laugh – hard and often, and you will emerge after 100 minutes with plenty to discuss....

Review: DRAGON MAMA written and performed by SARA PORKALOB at Geffen Playhouse


by Shari Barrett - March 18, 2026

In this next chapter, Sara takes on many personas who interact with her mother during her lifetime, each one a standout as an individual through unique voice and movement thanks to Sara's great skill with improvisation....

Review: ALL MY SONS at Antaeus Theatre Company


by Harker Jones - March 17, 2026

What did our critic think of ALL MY SONS at Antaeus Theatre Company?With Miller’s prescient book and under Nguyễn’s precise and fluid direction, ALL MY SONS is another gem in the Antaeus crown....

Review: THE COLOR PURPLE by Chromolume Theatre at The Zephyr


by Shari Barrett - March 16, 2026

Directed magnificently by Elijah Green, with energetic choreography by Katie Powers-Faulk and musical direction by Miki Yokomizo, the totally entertaining and artistically brilliant production pulled me in from the moment it started....

Review: FOURSOME at IAMA Theatre Co. & Celebration Theatre


by Andrew Child - March 15, 2026

This is inside baseball with tensions, heartaches, and personal touches that no one wants to have to explain afterward to their token straight friend....

Review: OCTOPUS'S GARDEN at Theater At Boston Court


by Evan Henerson - March 14, 2026

Weston Gaylord’s mind-bender of play enhances the mystery of an already fascinating creature and of the limitless possibilities of what we don’t know....

Review: AKHNATEN at Los Angeles Opera


by Andrew Child - March 13, 2026

Glass feels to be in direct conversation with grand opera, layering incantations from the chorus over triangulations of notes played nearly ad nauseam on violas to evoke something of the mystery that shrouds ancient Egypt in western culture....

Review: BEETLEJUICE at Hollywood Pantages


by Evan Henerson - March 13, 2026

With all its visual delights on full display, the non-Equity production directed by Catie Davis (from the original direction by Alex Timbers) is a carnival of the macabre....

Past Shows

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...

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