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...
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...
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Puppet Up!'s motley crew of Jim Henson puppets are as raw and funny as you can get...if you're willing.…
Here are my interviews with director Melissa Chalsma, composer David Melville, and actor Carene Rose Mekertichyan on COMEDY OF ERRORS presented by Independent Shakespeare Company outdoors in Griffith Park this summer.…
All in all, Lakefront offers a very enjoyable two-hour romantic journey guaranteed to keep you laughing and rooting for these lost and lonely souls looking for their soulmate.…
Focusing on four lonely people in Southern California, it dramatizes the ever-shifting facets of our relationships as we struggle to be vulnerable and honest with others and ourselves.…
Beautifully and tenderly directed by Matthew McCray, this ferociously performed and often visually hypnotic intimate production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is such a pleasant surprise, instantly becoming one of Chance Theater's most piercingly emotional new musicals it has ever produc…
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi…
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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 explores the Black experience in 20th century America decade-by decade. A captivating story about legacy...
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 spirit of humanity. The archetypical American family, Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus live in Excelsior, New Jersey with...
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 delight of bourgeois underwear tycoon John Tarleton and his wife, their sweet, seemingly proper daughter is set to...
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 meat pies by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler that has become a modern classic. Savor the macabre...
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...
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 amateur players stumble into the forest of feuding fairies, reality is upended as chaos and mischief abound. Anything...
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 by Lydia R. Diamond from the novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Faced with constant ridicule and abuse...
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 Shakespeare’s words that otherwise might have disappeared forever.May Three years after the Bard’s death, John Heminges...
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 of places. Poignant, chilling, funny and sensual, this intimate two-hander is the story of Valentin, a macho political prisoner whose...
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 wound. Yet, beneath their animosity lies a mutual attraction that neither dares confess —...
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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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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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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KYŌWA: Nikyokan Wadaiko x UnitOne James Armstrong Theatre (9/26-9/27) |
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Audra McDonald The Soraya (4/03-4/03) |
