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Los Angeles Theatre Center

514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Upcoming Shows

‘The Dance and the Railroad’

‘The Dance and the Railroad’

Oct 1 – Nov 1, 2026

Asian American theater collective Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company reunite for their fourth collaboration in four years with a rare revival of The Dance and the Railroad , a haunting and deeply moving early work by David Henry Hwang . Set during the Chinese Railroad...

What Had Happened Was....

What Had Happened Was....

Oct 22 – Nov 15, 2026

What Had Happened Was… follows Marcellus Turner, a passionate Los Angeles City Councilman and community advocate determined to create meaningful change for the people he represents. Told through a documentary-style blend of interviews, memories and reflections, the play traces...

Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages

Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages

by Evan Henerson · September 14, 2026

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS bears the imprint of its original director, the uber-talented Jessica Stone, and a team of collaborators who span a whole mess of creative genres. Along with their marvelous ensemble, they take us away.…

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company

by Edmund Whelan · September 13, 2026

Rooted in Faustian legend, a horticultural horror musical takes over Tulare for the next three weeks. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors highlights the dangers of greed and talking plants as destitute protagonist Seymour Krelbourn discovers his mysterious fly-trap plant may sud…

Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court

Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court

by Evan Henerson · September 11, 2026

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…

Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre

Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre

by Harker Jones · September 8, 2026

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.…

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

by Evan Henerson · August 27, 2026

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.…

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

by Edmund Whelan · August 24, 2026

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.…

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · August 22, 2026

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.…

Past Shows

37 total · showing 31–37

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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 her home in New York Citys Chinatown in search of the American dream only to learn that...

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 bond as they cope with upheaval in their personal lives, their community and the rapidly changing world around them. Connie, a Latinx...

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 father and son as they all try their best to find a better view. IAMA Theatre Company partners with the Latino Theater Company to present...

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 Jesse plan a kidnapping. When day turns into night and their hostage is brought out of the trunk, the siblings find their troubles have just...

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 — a time before AIDS had a name. Two decades have taken their toll on Pedro Quinn, a gay Latino prizefighter still fighting well into his...

Orange Is The New Musical: The Unauthorized Parody

Orange Is The New Musical: The Unauthorized Parody

Jun 13

ORANGE IS THE NEW MUSICAL: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY opened this May to a sold out audience and is Kefi Studio’s LA stage debut. Fans of the award-winning women’s prison series will get to experience their favorite characters in a larger-than-life tribute through music and dance...

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 Anthony J. Garcia - Music composed and directed by Daniel Valdez at Los Angeles Theatre Center - Theater 2 514 S. Spring...

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