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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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 the sleepy, Welsh seaside town of Llareggub — a name that seems innocent enough until you read it backwards...
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 closely around. Expect to be fully immersed in this beautiful, provocative and disturbing ghost story, a memory play by Rattlestick...
Cooped up on maternity leave and eager for conversation, Jessie invites the funny and forthright Lina for coffee in their neighboring backyards. They become fast friends, quickly bonding over their shared “new mom” experience—and arousing the interest of a wealthy neighbor...
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 of “pride” through one family's feverish clash over who is right and who is crazy. The Dahl family gathers to celebrate...
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 twist. French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Middle, Secrets and Lies) heads the cast. May 11 through June 16: Fridays...
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 closely around. Expect to be fully immersed in this beautiful, provocative and disturbing ghost story, a memory play by Rattlestick...
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 far will powerful men and institutions go to keep their secrets — and who pays the price when they do? Set in 1992 Massachusetts...
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 our nation's current social and political climate and how the past year has affected us. Finding it hard to get off the...
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 Company revives its smash hit production of this award-winning play-within-a-play by Second City’s Ron West and composer Phil Swann, Ron and Phil...
An evening of five world premiere short plays by female writers that explore the treatment of women in today's political climate: “yaj?,” written and directed by Mary Laws; “Sherry and Vince,” written by “Charlotte Miller,” directed by Tara Karsian; “At Dawn,” written by...
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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) |
