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Recent Los Angeles Discounts:
- Spotlight: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Hollywood Bowl
- Spotlight: LIZA MINNELLI - LIVE IN CONVERSATION at Million Dollar Theater
Brownstone
Jan 24 – Feb 28, 2026
“If only these walls could talk.” Open Fist Theatre Company makes that wish a reality with the Los Angeles premiere of Brownstone, a bittersweet comedic...
Review: APPLAUSE at Eli & Edythe Broad Stage
by Cary Ginell - February 18, 2026
Musical Theatre Guild, the Los Angeles-based company that produces staged readings of long-forgotten, rarely seen musicals, has done it again with a stellar and highly entertaining production of the 1970 musical Applause. ...
Review: THREE COCONUTS World Premiere Comedy at Miles Memorial Playhouse
by Shari Barrett - February 18, 2026
I really enjoyed the story, acting and staging, along with recognizing the Yiddish comments, behavior and attitudes from my own life being raised by a close-knit Jewish family....
Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA Journeys Back to Musical Theatre West
by Michael Quintos - February 17, 2026
Directed by James Vásquez with musical direction by Ryan O'Connell and choreography by Shani Talmor, this remarkably solid new production of the 1965 Tony Award winner boasts haunting visuals and superb performances from its assembled ensemble, led by a trio of excellent leads that offer three dist...
Review: AMADEUS at Pasadena Playhouse
by Andrew Child - February 17, 2026
Director Darko Tresnjak has crafted a visually-appealing world that unfortunately reduces the action of the play to broad strokes enacted in a toy theatre....
Review: SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA at Geffen Playhouse
by Evan Henerson - February 17, 2026
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA is trying to be perhaps too many things at once and not really succeeding at any of them....
Review: POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE at Fountain Theatre
by Evan Henerson - February 13, 2026
These are words that both sing and challenge. If, like this reviewer, you were not previously acquainted with June Jordan, POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE is a crackling introduction....
Review: South Coast Repertory Presents GOD OF CARNAGE
by Michael Quintos - February 10, 2026
Wildly surprising and deliciously savage, Yasmina Reza's machete-edged 2006 dark comedy GOD OF CARNAGE—here directed by Marco Barricelli and continues performances at OC's South Coast Repertory through March 21, 2026—has to be one of the most ferocious dissections of modern-day performative civi...
Review: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF? at South Coast Rep
by Tracey Paleo - February 09, 2026
South Coast Repertory’s production of Edward Albee’s dark psychological comedy 100% embodies all the epic frustration and athletic dysfunction which begins and ends with Martha. ...
Review: Will Swenson Leads New SoCal Revival of SWEENEY TODD at La Mirada Theatre
by Michael Quintos - February 05, 2026
In what is clearly proving to be the must-see stage production of the new year so far here in Southern California, McCoy Rigby Entertainment's stunning new production of the 1979 Tony Award-winning classic SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET—now playing a limited engagement at the La Mi...
Review: THE TYPIST at Hudson Guild Theater
by Shari Barrett - February 04, 2026
Bitterman’s script encompasses so many universal truths about the battle of the sexes in working out relationships that everyone will identify with the ups and downs that challenge even the closest couple to survive and stay together. The dialogue is fast-paced and delivered with the necessary emo...
Past Shows
"Esther Perel Ruined My Life"
Dec 6 – Dec 15, 2025
IAMA Theatre Company will present a workshop production of Mathilde Dratwa’s biting, tender, and tragically modern play Esther Perel Ruined My Life. The glossy veneer of marriage, monogamy, and motherhood...
Amerika, or The Man Who Disappeared
Oct 17 – Nov 22, 2025
Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of new stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s first novel. Arriving in New York City on a steamer,...
The Menopause Monologues
Nov 5 – Nov 9, 2025
The Menopause Monologues is a collaborative theater movement designed to illuminate the experiences surrounding menopause, created by Carrie Vanhouten and directed by Lisa Anne Morrison....
Sinner's Laundry
Jun 13 – Jun 28, 2025
Sam and Jess would like to welcome you to Newport Women’s Correctional Facility to join them in The Rapture! All the other inmates have mysteriously...
"Trauma Play"
May 22 – Jun 2, 2025
IAMA Theatre Company closes its 17th season with a workshop production of the dark comedy Trauma Play by Abigail Miller. This new work will be...
To Each Their Own
Apr 17 – May 4, 2025
New Crime Noir Drama To Each Their Own Premieres in Los Angeles Art Crush LA’s First Theatrical Production Delivers a Powerful Tale of Betrayal, Loyalty, and...
One Jewish Boy
Mar 20 – Apr 28, 2025
The Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of One Jewish Boy, a funny, biting, bittersweet story about two young people in love who...
Bat Boy: The Musical
Feb 28 – Apr 6, 2025
Horrifying Musical Brought Back to Horrifying Life by Horrifying Theater Company! More terrifying than Cats! Open Fist Theatre Company presents the horror rock musical cult...
Don't Touch My Hair
Feb 13 – Feb 24, 2025
IAMA Theatre Company, committed to cultivating new voices and creating new, boundary-pushing work, continues its 17th season with the workshop production of Don't Touch My...
NIGHTINGALE
Nov 8 – Nov 17, 2024
ANNOUNCING NIGHTINGALE AT ATWATER VILLAGE THEATREFEATURING LANCE A. WILLIAMS AND DIRECTED BY BRANDON MENDEZ HOMER, PRESENTED BY STARVING ARTISTS USADAPTED TO THE STAGE BY ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER FREDERICK...
Clarkston
Sep 13 – Oct 21, 2024
The Echo Theater Company presents a profoundly poignant, empathic and hopeful new play about human connection by MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” recipient Samuel D. Hunter....
The Bauhaus Project
Jul 19 – Aug 25, 2024
Open Fist Theatre Company premieres The Bauhaus Project by Tom Jacobson, a world premiere theatrical event presented in two binge-worthy parts (Part 1: Bauhaus Weimer...
Arrowhead
Feb 8 – Mar 4, 2024
IAMA Theatre Company presents a new comedy about love, sex, identity… and found family. Gen is unexpectedly pregnant. Gen is also a lesbian. Yeah, it’s...
Radical or, are you gonna miss me?
Nov 11 – Dec 11, 2023
What do you do when the people you call family are the ones who hurt you the most? After being bailed out of jail by...
Blood at the Root
Sep 9 – Oct 28, 2023
Racial tensions erupt in an explosive ensemble drama based on a real-life incident at a Louisiana high school. Open Fist Theatre Company presents Blood at...
Certain Death and Other Considerations
Sep 24 – Oct 15, 2023
Direct from a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this ensemble-devised, “eco-anxious” dark comedy combines Greek tragic structure, realism and physical theater to explore...
Certain Death and Other Considerations
Sep 24 – Oct 15, 2023
Direct from a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this ensemble-devised, “eco-anxious” dark comedy combines Greek tragic structure, realism and physical theater to explore...
Crabs in a Bucket
Jul 14 – Aug 21, 2023
“If I can’t have it — neither can you!” The Echo Theater Company presents an outrageous, smart and very funny satire about the impact of...
Starmites
Jun 2 – Jul 8, 2023
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager...
The Thin Place
Mar 17 – Apr 24, 2023
Linda can speak with the dead. Hilda wants to. The Echo Theater Company presents a spine-tingling new play that questions the things we don’t know...
And If I Don't Behave Then What
Jan 28 – Mar 4, 2023
If I resist, if I cross that line, if I don’t conform …what then? Open Fist Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of the...
Do You Feel Anger?
Jan 21 – Feb 25, 2023
The #MeToo movement meets cancel culture in this truly outrageous comedy that The New York Times calls “ingenious,” “inspired” and “flat-out hilarious.” When Sofia is...
Anatomy of Gray
Nov 19 – Jan 21, 2023
Set at the end of the 19th century in the small town of Gray, Indiana, The Wizard of Oz meets Our Town in the Open...
To The Bone
Oct 1 – Nov 5, 2022
Sometimes you get thrown a curveball. Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of a darkly funny comedy about family, baseball, genetics and the...
Mother Sisters
Oct 5 – Oct 27, 2022
The Echo Theater Company presents a docu-play curated and constructed by Makaela Vogel based on interviews she conducted with her eight aunts. Looking back over...
Babe
Sep 14 – Oct 24, 2022
Old habits die hard. The Echo Theater Company presents a dark comedy about cultural evolution and the selves we thought we knew. Abby has been...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jun 17 – Aug 13, 2022
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a provocative new production of A Midsummer Nights Dream set in the Antebellum South. Intrigued by the Mechanicals line That...
Untitled Baby Play
May 27 – Jun 27, 2022
Six women find themselves trapped on an email chain as they plan their friend's baby shower when IAMA Theatre Company presents the world premiere of...
The World Premiere of Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Solo Flight
Mar 11 – Mar 27, 2022
Dreamer. Rebel. Outcast.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird.Banished to the Far Cliffs by his flock for daring to break with tradition, Jonathan spends his...
Stand Up If You're Here Tonight
Oct 1 – Oct 30, 2021
VS. THEATRE COMPANY & CIRCLE X THEATRE CO. announce thatTHE WEST COAST PREMIERE OFSTAND UP IF YOURE HERE TONIGHTWritten and Directed by John Kolvenbach Is...
Poor Clare
Mar 11 – Apr 20, 2020
Poor Clare is a very funny modern spin on the Middle Ages that couldnt feel more timely. Clare is just a regular noblewoman living in...
Rorschach Fest
Feb 10 – Apr 5, 2020
Perception is everything. Open Fist Theatre Company opens its 30th anniversary season with three programs of short works, performed in rotating repertory, by playwrights renowned...
Handjob
Sep 4 – Oct 21, 2019
When a gay writer hires a man to work as a shirtless cleaner, homophobia, racism and issues of consent bubble to the surface. This outrageous...
Pass Over
Jul 10 – Aug 19, 2019
Antoinette Nwandus provocative mashup of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga is a rare piece of politically charged theater by a bold new American...
Dancing at Lughnasa
Jul 6 – Aug 18, 2019
The beautiful, rolling hills of Ireland hold many stories and secrets. Set in the summer of 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, Brian...
Mama Metal
May 17 – Jun 23, 2019
This joyfully irreverent black comedy entwines issues of identity with pop culture icons to tell a truly unique mother-daughter story. Sterling Milburns mother is dying...
Anna in the Tropics
Apr 27 – Jun 8, 2019
Nilo Cruzs poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars were still rolled by hand and lectors were...
The Wolves
Mar 13 – Apr 22, 2019
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, these 16- and 17-year-olds navigate...
What Matters Now?/! (Another Political Pop-Up of the Theatrical Kind)
Mar 15 – Apr 6, 2019
Open Fists annual political pop-up features a rotating roster of short plays by writers from across the country that explore our nation's current social and...
Last Call
Jan 11 – Feb 23, 2019
In this semi-autobiographical dramedy by writer/producer Anne Kenney (Outlander, Switched at Birth, L.A. Law), the Vaughn familys go-to defense mechanism of sarcasm and mordant humor...
All Night Long
Sep 8 – Oct 21, 2018
The thin line between waking and dreaming, the conscious and subconscious, is exposed in playwright John O’Keefe’s outrageously funny, surreal sit-com about 18 hours in...
Gloria
Sep 12 – Oct 21, 2018
A razor-sharp, darkly comic drama about ambition, office warfare and pecking orders by MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. For the 20-somethings working at a...
Under Milk Wood
Jul 20 – Aug 25, 2018
Intensely beautiful, poignant and sublimely funny, this “play for voices” by the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recounts the dreams, gossip and waking hours of...
What Happened When
Jul 25 – Aug 23, 2018
On a snowy night in a rural farmhouse, three siblings huddle together in the dark with a flashlight, while the audience (unseen by them) gathers...
Cult of Love
May 18 – Jun 24, 2018
IAMA concludes its 10th anniversary with the final installment in Leslye Headland’s “Seven Deadly Plays” cycle — a black comedy that explores the final sin...
Forever Bound
May 9 – Jun 16, 2018
Are we all savages? A rare book dealer's desperate scheme to avoid bankruptcy goes shockingly awry in this darkly funny literary thriller with a surprise...
What Happened When
Apr 11 – Apr 26, 2018
On a snowy night in a rural farmhouse, three siblings huddle together in the dark with a flashlight, while the audience (unseen by them) gathers...
An Undivided Heart
Mar 14 – Apr 22, 2018
Echo Theater Company and Circle X Theatre Co. join forces to present Yusuf Toropov’s new play that is part thriller and part spiritual mystery. How...
One Year Later
Feb 16 – Mar 3, 2018
A three-week only political pop-up in a speakeasy setting, Open Fist’s ‘One Year Later’ gives voice to playwrights across the U.S. Fourteen short plays explore...
deLEARious
Nov 3 – Dec 16, 2017
Tragedy meets hilarity and King Lear gets a happy ending in a madcap musical romp à la Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Open Fist Theatre...
Welcome to Your Alternative Reality
Jul 15 – Aug 12, 2017
Take the edge off your week with a bracing tonic of laughter and lunacy! Highlights in this evening of interwoven one-acts and sketches include a...
2017 EST/LA PLAYWRIGHTS ONE ACT FESTIVAL
Jun 21 – Jul 16, 2017
Newly produced works of one-act treasures, written by some of L.A.’s top playwrights, will be presented this summer throughout June and July. EST/LA is curating...
Woody's Order!
Mar 25 – Apr 22, 2017
When Woody, a nonverbal, highly intelligent, cerebral palsied 8 year old realizes that something might one day happened to his parents, he “orders” backup. Woody always plans...
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