Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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...
Upcoming Shows
Come From Away
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
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
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
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...
Auditions
Review: AMAZING GRAVES Sets Two Short Plays Inside the Same Cemetery
by Shari Barrett - June 17, 2026
Have you ever wondered what really goes on in cemeteries when memories are shared with those seen and unseen at grave sites? Then head on over to see two, funny and life-affirming plays in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, bundled together as Amazing Graves, produced by Amanda Lynne for Neo...
Review: Diana Varco Shares Her Journey to RISE Above Childhood Rage
by Shari Barrett - June 16, 2026
It's a very well done, confrontational hour-long play at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, but also life-affirming to know none of us are alone in the struggle for emotional maturity rather than turn to the easy crutches of overeating, alcohol abuse, drug use or unbridled sex to forget about ...
Interview: Director Ellen Geer on TREASURE ISLAND at Theatricum Botanicum
by Shari Barrett - June 12, 2026
BroadwayWorld spoke with director Ellen Geer about her vision for the production, what drew her to adapt it for Theatricum Botanicum, and what she hopes audiences will love about the story as much as she does....
Review: ANASTASIA - THE MUSICAL Enchants at La Mirada Theatre
by Michael Quintos - June 11, 2026
I'll say this now: this Summer's most beguiling, most enchanting theatrical surprise is perhaps the brand new, gorgeously opulent regional production of ANASTASIA - THE MUSICAL, now on stage at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through June 20, 2026. A visual stunner punctuated by remark...
Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes New Tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC
by Michael Quintos - June 08, 2026
You may ask yourself—is seeing a touring stage production of the globally and generationally ubiquitous 1959 musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC still worth experiencing live on stage in 2026? While the stage musical in its current touring form certainly doesn't offer anything revolutionary or new to the s...
Review: 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica
by Shari Barrett - June 06, 2026
9 to 5 the Musical was an enjoyably nostalgic experience for those of us who actually lived through working in mid-20th Century offices, albeit losing much humorous dialogue and lyrics due to the faulty sound system....
Review: GRANGEVILLE Staged to Absolute Perfection at the Ruskin Group Theatre
by Shari Barrett - June 05, 2026
The West Coast premiere of Grangeville is staged to absolute perfection on all levels including the script, director, actors, and overall technical brilliance at the Ruskin Group Theatre....
Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at LA OPERA
by Andrew Child - June 04, 2026
Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Kosky’s Magic Flute returns to LA Opera with a whimsical fusion of animations by Paul Barritt. The effect of the production is a bit surprising. Yes, as characters are revealed by revolving doors and interact with animations of barking dogs, Mozart’s music takes on a n...
Review: Defying Gravity - An Evening with Stephen Schwartz Flies to the Irvine Barclay
by Michael Quintos - June 04, 2026
It's a very rare treat—particularly all the way here in Orange County, California—to hear Broadway songs and the stories behind them performed directly by the legendary composer himself, even for just a one-night-only event. But that is exactly the gift bestowed upon a rapt audience recently whe...
Review: HELL'S KITCHEN at Hollywood Pantages
by Evan Henerson - June 03, 2026
As substantial as its built-in assets are, the two-time Tony Award winner, musical is lacking in other areas. Book writer Kristoffer Diaz has crafted an exciting leading character, and an even more interesting supporting player. Alas, he has also included a rather perfunctory family triangle that gu...
Past Shows
Exit the King
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 —...
Death of a Salesman
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
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 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
“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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Antony and Cleopatra
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...
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
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
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The Most Happy Fella North Coast Repertory Theatre (6/03-6/28) |
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MISS MAGNOLIA BEAUMONT GOES TO PROVINCETOWN Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre (6/17-6/28) |
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Mike Blaha: Pivotal Nomad Broadwater Studio (6/07-6/24) |
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My Life is a Sonnet Broadwater Studio (6/07-6/27) |
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The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due to the End of The World) Broadwater Second Stage (6/16-6/27) |
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Musical Memoir The Pico (6/19-6/21) |
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A Haunting Revue II Impro Theatre (6/06-6/26) |
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STRAITJACKET SIRENS Three Clubs (6/01-6/30) |
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Bus People – A Hilarious & Optimistic Take on L.A. Public Transit The Actor's Company (6/06-6/28) |
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The Lionheart Play Festival Skylight Theatre (6/19-6/21) |
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