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What Had Happened Was....

What Had Happened Was....

Jul 5

Staged reading of a play. Written by Reginald Edmund. Directed by Ben. Guillory. Presented by The Robey Theatre Company. Commissioned by The Robey Theatre Company. Featuring...

Review: THE REAL LADY MACBETH World Premiere at The Actors Company

Review: THE REAL LADY MACBETH World Premiere at The Actors Company

by Shari Barrett · June 28, 2026

The intense production will pull into its spell thanks to the astonishingly real characters brought to life by four amazing actors who authentically portray these historical druids on the darkened and often spooky, mist-filled set.…

Review: TREASURE ISLAND at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Review: TREASURE ISLAND at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

by Melissa Heckscher · June 22, 2026

Review: Even if you leave wanting a few more cannon blasts from Theatricum Botanicum's 2026 adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND, you'll be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful place to spend a summer evening.…

Review: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN World Premiere Musical at Torrance Theatre Company

Review: THE FIRST GENTLEMAN World Premiere Musical at Torrance Theatre Company

by Shari Barrett · June 22, 2026

Director Glenn Kelman is to be commended for taking on the challenge of coordinating twenty cast members moving scenery and set pieces into place to create 22 set changes in 14 locations on such a small stage, as well as setting the timing of each Ameri-News video projection to forward the story. An…

Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

by Evan Henerson · June 21, 2026

Casting high school aged teen-agers can be a trickier needle to thread than one might think. Two actors who are still in high school wrestling down the spectrum of emotions, growth journeys and heartbreak of Shakespeare’s tale is no small achievement. Asher Hagler and Quinnlyn Scheppner make thei…

Review: AMAZING GRAVES Sets Two Short Plays Inside the Same Cemetery

Review: AMAZING GRAVES Sets Two Short Plays Inside the Same Cemetery

by Shari Barrett · June 17, 2026

Have you ever wondered what really goes on in cemeteries when memories are shared with those seen and unseen at grave sites?  Then head on over to see two, funny and life-affirming plays in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, bundled together as Amazing Graves, produced by Amanda Lynne for Neo…

Review: Diana Varco Shares Her Journey to RISE Above Childhood Rage

Review: Diana Varco Shares Her Journey to RISE Above Childhood Rage

by Shari Barrett · June 16, 2026

It's a very well done, confrontational hour-long play at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, but also life-affirming to know none of us are alone in the struggle for emotional maturity rather than turn to the easy crutches of overeating, alcohol abuse, drug use or unbridled sex to forget about …

Review: ANASTASIA - THE MUSICAL Enchants at La Mirada Theatre

Review: ANASTASIA - THE MUSICAL Enchants at La Mirada Theatre

by Michael Quintos · June 11, 2026

I'll say this now: this Summer's most beguiling, most enchanting theatrical surprise is perhaps the brand new, gorgeously opulent regional production of ANASTASIA - THE MUSICAL, now on stage at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through June 20, 2026. A visual stunner punctuated by remark…

Past Shows

‘Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos’

‘Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos’

Apr 30 – May 24, 2026

Latino Theater Company welcomes the return of San Jose-based LGBTQ+ ensemble Teatro Alebrijes with Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos (Carlota: Jewelry Box of Secrets), a bold...

Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos

May 2 – May 24, 2026

Teatro Alebrijes, a San Jose-based LGBTQ+ ensemble, presents a bold reimagining of Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Inside the home of Carlota...

Colored People's Time: A History Play

Colored People's Time: A History Play

Apr 16 – May 17, 2026

Written by Leslie Lee. Directed by Ben Guillory.  beginnings of Jim Crow, we witnessed the grit and resilience of Colored people who simply had no choice...

The Storyteller of East L.A.

The Storyteller of East L.A.

Apr 9 – May 17, 2026

Blending intimate family drama with elements of magical realism, Latino Theater Company resident playwright Evelina Fernández explores themes of memory loss and the complexities of...

Medea

Medea

Feb 15

Staged reading of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen's English language adaptation of the classic tragedy by Euripides. Ben Guillory directs.Jason, the hero of legend, has...

Mascogos

Mascogos

Oct 11 – Nov 9, 2025

Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere of Mascaogos (Mahs-KO-gohs), a bold, historical sci-fi drama by Miranda González exploring the untold stories of Mexico’s Underground...

The Great Lover

The Great Lover

Oct 9 – Nov 9, 2025

 Our story: In Alexandre Dumas’ The Great Lover, the Duke de Richelieu proposes a wager: he can—and will—seduce the first beautiful woman who crosses his path....

नेहा & Neel

नेहा & Neel

Oct 18 – Sep 16, 2025

Asian American theater collective Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company team up for their third collaboration in as many years with a joyous new...

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon

May 1 – May 25, 2025

Latino Theater Company brings back Chicago’s Water People Theater for a three-week run of the Jeff Award-nominated The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon following...

The Last Play of Rickerby Hinds

The Last Play of Rickerby Hinds

Apr 17 – May 25, 2025

A play. A memoir. A rant. Rickérby Hinds, a pioneer of Hip-Hop theater, has the unique ability to challenge conventional notions of the stage while...

Just Like Us

Just Like Us

Apr 10 – May 18, 2025

Latino Theater Company opens its 40th Anniversary Season with the professional West Coast premiere of a non-fiction play by Karen Zacarías, inspired by the bestselling...

Stoneheart

Stoneheart

Oct 25 – Nov 10, 2024

Valeria Vega, Lourdes Arteaga, Vanessa Flores Cabrera, Adriana Cuba Cuentas, Markuz Rodriguez and Lester Isariuz.

Yamel Cucuy

Yamel Cucuy

Oct 26 – Nov 8, 2024

Award-winning Austin-based theater company Glass Half Full Theatre will make their Los Angeles debut with the acclaimed drama Yamel Cucuy at Encuentro 2024, playing October...

A Girl Grows Wings

A Girl Grows Wings

Oct 10 – Oct 20, 2024

Latino Theater Company and Mexico’s Organización Secreta Teatro presents the poignant story of one girl’s journey as she navigates the fallout her undocumented status inflicts...

God Will Do The Rest

God Will Do The Rest

Aug 31 – Sep 29, 2024

Karaoke, chicken adobo and Santo Niño prayers. “We can only do our best, diba (right)?” Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company present God Will...

Ghost Waltz

Ghost Waltz

Apr 25 – Jun 2, 2024

Latino Theater Company presents a boldly original new play about Juventino Rosas, one of Mexico’s most significant classical composers — an Indigenous musician whose life...

Tacos La Brooklyn

Tacos La Brooklyn

Sep 21 – Oct 29, 2023

Appropriation… or appreciation? Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere of an exciting, multilingual comic drama developed in Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas playwriting...

The Travelers

The Travelers

Sep 23 – Oct 15, 2023

“We are all travelers, Brother. Our journeys take place inside.” Latino Theater Company, in association with San Francisco’s Magic Theatre and resident home company Campo...

This Is Not a True Story

This Is Not a True Story

Sep 14 – Oct 15, 2023

Artists at Play in association with Latino Theater Company presents an exhilarating new comedy that tackles, head-on, the fetishization and anti-Asian racism of Orientalist works....

Evolution of a Sonero

Evolution of a Sonero

May 11 – May 28, 2023

Sonero [noun]: an improvising lead singer in salsa music. Hip-hop meets salsa when poet, actor and singer Flaco Navaja, backed by five world-class Latinx salsa...

Whittier Boulevard

Whittier Boulevard

Apr 20 – May 28, 2023

The world premiere an original, ensemble-devised work from L.A.’s Latino Theater Company, employs the company’s trademark blend of comedy, drama, music, dance and theatrical magic...

Organización Secreta Teatro

Organización Secreta Teatro

May 3 – May 14, 2023

Latino Theater Company presents Mexico City’s interdisciplinary, experimental ensemble Organización Secreta Teatro in two new performance works. Pueblo Espíritu (“Spirit Town”) explores a post-pandemic dystopian...

How I Learned What I Learned

FeaturedHow I Learned What I Learned

Apr 15

Los Angeles premiere of Tony Award and two-time Pultizer Prize winning playwright August Wilson's autobiographical one-man show, "How I Learned What I Learned"...

(Un)Documents

(Un)Documents

Oct 13 – Nov 20, 2022

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you...

Desert Stories for Lost Girls

Desert Stories for Lost Girls

Sep 29 – Oct 16, 2022

Latino Theater Company partners with Native Voices at the Autry, the only Actors Equity theater company in the country dedicated to developing and producing new...

Found

Found

Feb 14 – Mar 23, 2020

The West Coast premiere of a new musical comedy that hits all the right “notes.” Found isn’t just based on a true story, it’s based...

Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evil Doers

Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evil Doers

Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2019

A sci-fi Latino noir satire, inspired by interviews with immigrants who crossed the border to escape economic despair and war, that spotlights anti-immigrant hysteria. In...

Revoluciones

Revoluciones

Apr 18 – May 12, 2019

A highly theatrical fever-dream that employs magical realism to tell the kaleidoscope journey of a strong and passionate woman facing an impossible tragedy. A desperate...

Home

Home

Feb 28 – Apr 21, 2019

Writer/performer Nancy Mas coming-of-age tale about growing up sandwiched between two cultures. Desperately seeking approval from her Chinese Toisan immigrant family, Nancy journeys away from...

The Mother of Henry

The Mother of Henry

Mar 15 – Apr 14, 2019

In the working class melting pot that was Boyle Heights in the 1960s, five diverse employees in the return department at Sears form a tight...

Canyon

Canyon

Feb 22 – Mar 24, 2019

In a backyard deep within a canyon during Labor Day weekend 2016 before everything in America changed we meet a newlywed couple and a Mexican...

Desert Rats

Desert Rats

Oct 25 – Nov 18, 2018

A dark comedy about life and crime in America's contemporary West. In a squalid motel room on a hellish day in Barstow, brothers Frank and...

Members Only

Members Only

Oct 25 – Nov 18, 2018

A roller-coaster ride to redemption. The year is 1982: the golden age of boxing, the dying gasp of disco, the flowering of identity politics —...

Enrique´s Journey

Enrique´s Journey

Oct 17 – Nov 7, 2014

Encuentro Theatre Festival - Su Teatro ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY Adapted by Anthony Garcia, from the Pulitzer Prize winning work of Sonia Nazario - • Directed by...

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The Lion King in Los Angeles The Lion King
Pantages Theatre (12/17-2/13)
Macbeth in Los Angeles Macbeth
Shakespeare by the Sea (6/26-7/25)
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong in Los Angeles Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Ahmanson Theatre (12/12-1/10)
Gershwin and the Golden Age in Los Angeles Gershwin and the Golden Age
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11)
Neon Dreams: The Digital Musical Experience in Los Angeles Neon Dreams: The Digital Musical Experience
Sunset Digital Theater (6/01-6/30)