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...
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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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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 and Part 2 : Bauhaus Dessau and Bauhaus Berlin ) highlighting the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany...
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 confusing. So Gen does what any unexpectedly pregnant lesbian with a doe-eyed, (potential) arsonist of a girlfriend must: she...
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 her estranged sister, Belinda must reconcile the person she was with the person she feels she's destined to become. Commissioned by IAMA Theatre Company , Radical...
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 the Root , a “choreopoem” infused with hip-hop and movement, written by Dominique Morisseau and inspired by the true case of...
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 the implications of living as the last viable generation — the good, the bad and the funny...
“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 “crab mentality” on oppressed communities whose members work against one another instead of together. Amargo and Pootz are two bitter crabs...
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 Eleanor dreams her way into a comic book quest to save the galaxy, where teams up with Space Punk...
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 can’t understand. Abigail Deser directs the California premiere of The Thin Place by Obie Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath...
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 2021 Eurdram English-language Committee Award-winning And If I Don’t Behave Then What by Berlin-based Serbian playwright Iva Brdar , a provocative...
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 hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency, she finds she has her work cut out for her. These...
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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) |
