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...
In staging the west coast premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation, director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck and her cast are working their Helicanuses and Thaisas off to keep this lesser-staged romance punchy and relevant…
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.…
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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, 17-year-old Karl Rossmann strives to make his own way, even as he encounters a series of increasingly strange and bewildering...
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. Running from November 5 to 9, 2025, at the Atwater Village Theatre, the show features a...
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 vanished, and these two remain, locked in Rec Room #4 together… whether they like it or not. Armed with nothing but crappy board...
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 directed by Co-Artistic Director of Ammunition Theatre Company Diana Wyenn , director, co-divisor, and dramaturg of the critically...
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 Redemption LOS ANGELES — To Each Their Own, a gripping modern crime noir by award-winning playwright Travis Williams...
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 are faced with the world's unpredictable cruelty. Jesse, a nice Jewish boy from North London, falls hopelessly for Alex, a young...
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 favorite based on a June 23, 1992 Weekly World News story about a half-boy, half-bat who grew up living...
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 Hair by Douglas Lyons , directed by Velani Dibba , produced in association with Jessica Green Harrison . A...
ANNOUNCING NIGHTINGALE AT ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE FEATURING LANCE A. WILLIAMS AND DIRECTED BY BRANDON MENDEZ HOMER , PRESENTED BY STARVING ARTISTS US ADAPTED TO THE STAGE BY ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER FREDERICK MENSCH OPENING NOVEMBER 8th THROUGH NOVEMBER 17th STARVING ARTISTS US to...
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. Welcome to Clarkston, Washington, where Jake and Chris meet working the night shift at Costco. Jake, a...
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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) |
