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, 2001, and its residents opened their homes to thousands of stranded strangers. The Olivier Award-winning musical features an infectious...
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 threatens her life after usurping her father's estate, Rosalind flees into the woods with her cousin Celia, disguising herself as...
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 Dickens' classic novel, the story follows Pip, orphaned as an infant and raised in poverty...
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 company is in rehearsal for a so-called "progressive" drama, and the play-within-a-play marks the first opportunity for...
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To celebrate the musical's 40th anniversary, South Coast Reportory recreates INTO THE WOODS with a decisively different approach, one that both entices and, at times, triggers an uneasy vibe (at first) that seems to have permeated out from the show's darker second half. Admittedly, something felt of…
There are no easy answers here, but playwright Janine Nabers raises many questions. What happens when something outside your control forever taints your legacy? How to separate art from artist? How to hold someone accountable even when you love them?…
When the US airspace shut down after the attacks of 9/11, what happened to the planes already on their way? Hit Broadway musical Come From Away, penned by Canadian composer-lyricist couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein, recounts the story.…
Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.…
The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…
Following a successful world premiere earlier this year, the theatre-hockey romance play Melt stages its encore at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre. Melt agonizes over missed opportunities and the question “What if?”…
Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.…
The show is a swing for the fences like every show at the underrated and underseen Nocturne is.…
To kick-off the 2026-2027 run of their often Broadway-centric Cabaret Series, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa tapped not only a proven Broadway star, but an OC native, too for a triumphant homecoming concert: Krysta Rodriguez. Marking her Center cabaret debut, Rodriguez performed to rap…
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
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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 Gregg T. Daniel for A Noise Within. Set in 1927 in a rundown Chicago recording studio, the play follows Ma Rainey as she...
Power. Music. Survival. Legacy. Continuing its long-term commitment to the work of August Wilson, A Noise Within presents Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the seventh of the 10 plays in Wilson's landmark American Century Cycle to be produced by the company. Set during a single...
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 — he just refuses to accept it. As the king stubbornly denies the inevitable, his crumbling kingdom is held together by an...
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 promise of success, believing that charisma and ambition would guarantee prosperity and respect. But as financial...
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 hate . Charismatic and contemptible in equal measure, burdened by physical challenges and...
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, whimsical costumes, original music and boundless good cheer. Audiences are invited to arrive early to...
“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 August Wilson’s 10-play “American Century Cycle” with Joe Turner’s Come and Gone . Set in 1911 during the Great Migration, this second...
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 of work musician in England’s seaside town of Brighton, when he lands two jobs in one fantastic day. But now he’s working...
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 Terrence McNally (the Tony Award-winning team behind Ragtime ). In this intimate and evocative musical that celebrates the...
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 as a child, the strong-willed Jane takes a position at Thornfield Hall working as a governess for the...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
