Growing up in separate households, half-siblings Kweku and Amoaa have never been close. But when their father dies unexpectedly, a generational curse is unleashed, sending them from Brooklyn to Ghana to pay their respects and claim their birthright. The play explores sisters...
When Linda's wealthy brother dies unexpectedly, his family is left conspicuously out of the will. Linda, her emotionally estranged sister, and her angsty adult daughter navigate the mourning process at a drunken funeral afterparty with the 20-something former stripper who...
Written by Laura Winters and directed by Shaina Rosenthal, this staged reading is part of IAMA Theatre Company's 9th Annual New Works Festival.
Written by Alicia Carroll and directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed, this play is Carroll's 2025 Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission work, presented as a staged reading at IAMA Theatre Company's 9th Annual New Works Festival.
Written by Liba Vaynberg and directed by Nikki DiLoreto, this staged reading is part of IAMA Theatre Company's 9th Annual New Works Festival.
IAMA Theatre Company's 9th annual New Works Festival offers audiences a first look at future hits while giving playwrights the chance to experience public reception of their work for the first time. Since 2018, the Festival has been the starting point for new plays that often...
Written by John Lavelle and directed by Jennifer Chang, this staged reading is part of IAMA Theatre Company's 9th Annual New Works Festival.
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a rare revival of Marisol, the Obie-winning play by José Rivera, directed by Amanda Weier. A darkly funny, apocalyptic fable about survival, faith and hope, the play follows Bronx resident Marisol Pérez as she navigates a terrifying, unraveling...
The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of this darkly funny, emotionally charged new play by Emmy-nominated playwright Janine Nabers, directed by Michelle Bossy. The ensemble cast includes Kelly McCreary, Tamberla Perry, John Clarence Stewart, Kristen Ariza, Deanna...
What We Leave Behind is an IAMA-commissioned world premiere play written by IAMA ensemble member Gloria Calderón Kellett and directed by IAMA Associate Artistic Director Margaux Susi. The play is part of IAMA Theatre Company's 2026–2027 season exploring questions of identity...
Swiss writer Max Frisch’s post–World War II absurdist satire THE ARSONISTS hit Los Feliz like a blow torch, scorching everything in its path.…
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
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…
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A sneak peek reading and talkback hosted by Lena Waithe for The Echo Theater Company's upcoming world premiere of The Peterson Show, a darkly funny, emotionally charged new play by Janine Nabers directed by Michelle Bossy. The play follows five former child stars who reunite as...
The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of a deliciously off-kilter comedy. Ru hasn’t left his bedroom in six years. Mick can’t stop paying for affection. Julianne mourns the life she never pursued. Dylan sells companionship to anyone who can afford him. In this...
F**king Strangers is a dark comedy by Erik Patterson, commissioned by The Echo Theater Company and directed by artistic director Chris Fields. The play follows four characters whose real-life and online obsessions blur into genuine intimacy: Ru (Michael Sturgis), a man who...
Step right up to Atwater Village Theatre, where Open Fist Theatre Company presents an immersive theater extravaganza. Under the cracked neon glow of the Big Top, The Great Clown Bank Show erupts in a fever-dream spectacle of greed, glitter and grotesque excess. Follow the rise...
The Great Clown Bank Show is an immersive circus-theater extravaganza created and directed by Hank Jacobs, featuring original circus music by Stephen Jacobs and songs by Michael Messer with lyrics by Jacobs and Messer. The story follows the rise of the Greedy family, a scheming...
IAMA Theatre Company concludes its 18th season with the workshop production of ...but you could've held my hand, written by JuCoby Johnson and directed by H. Adam Harris. The play is a time-hopping portrait of four Black friends growing up, growing apart, and growing into...
The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of a darkly comic, deeply human exploration of love, desire and unconventional relationships. Calvin is devoted to his wife, Bonnie. But if Calvin is going to move forward, he needs to open up their relationship to include his...
Hailed by critics as “wildly inventive, “impactful and imaginative” and “a must see,” Dietrich Smith ’s acclaimed adaptation of Franz Kafka ’s first novel returns to the stage for a limited six-week run. Arriving in New York City on a steamer, 17-year-old Karl Rossmann strives...
“ 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 drama that unfolds on the second floor of a classic New York brownstone at three distinct moments in its history...
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 gets stripped away when Andrea and Aaron decide to open their marriage...
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Comics Reading Comics Dynasty Typewriter (9/13-9/13) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
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Jane Austen UnScripted Kings Road Park (9/12-9/27) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
