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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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 comedy will leave you gasping with shock and laughter as it explores the deepest sensitivities in our culture with hilarious...
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 voice. Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner talking smack, passing the time, and hoping that today a miracle will come...
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 Friels Tony Award-winning play, loosely based on the lives of his mother and aunts, is a rich and deeply moving portrait of the...
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 and Sterling is falling apart. She attempts to keep it together by rewriting the past with the help of two...
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 employed to educate and entertain the immigrant workers. The arrival of a new lector is cause for celebration, but when he reads...
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 big questions and wage tiny battles with the ferociousness of a pack of adolescent warriors. New York Times theater critic Ben...
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 political climate and how the past year has affected us. Finding it hard to get off the couch and get to the theater? Open...
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 falls short when the aging parents hatch a not-so-funny way to avoid the retirement home. Jan...
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 the life of an all-American nuclear family. Sept. 14 through Oct. 21: Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:p.m., and...
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 chic, unnamed New York magazine, the only thing that matters is style, status — and selling out to...
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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) |
