The Turning World Premiere Original Musical Book, Music and Lyrics by Zack Zadek Music Supervised by Geoffrey Ko Choreographed by Chanel DaSilva Directed by and Developed with Sammi Cannold In Association with Benton Whitley and Mark Lunsford A WORLD PREMIERE FOLK-INFUSED...
A Telenovela Play with Music By Karen Zacarías Directed by Marcela Lorca A DELIGHTFULLY UNAPOLOGETIC HOMAGE TO TELENOVELAS On a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born—one into outlandish wealth, and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by...
THE EXPLOSIVE COMING-OF-AGE STORY COMES TO THE WEST COAST In a one-stoplight town in Georgia, in a high school AP English class, five young women begin questioning the stories and the heroes they’ve been taught to believe in, against a score of pop music and fury. As their class...
August Wilson’s Fences COMPLETING AUGUST WILSON’S CENTURY CYCLE AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP Set in segregated Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Fences depicts the life of Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball star now scraping by as a sanitation worker. Excluded from the major leagues...
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Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with iden…
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.…
Beneath the florid poetry, the stunningly-detailed costumes, and the imagistic staging, Sophocles would instantly recognize the overarching humanity that has carried his play through the centuries.…
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…
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.…
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The story of East Harlem is the story of how American music is made. It's where mambo, salsa, and boogaloo converged to give rise to iconic hits like “I Like It Like That,” "Oye Cómo Va," and "Boogaloo Blues.” It’s where cultures came together and artists who challenged the...
Puppet Up! – Uncensored offers an evening of adult-focused improv comedy brought to life by talented puppeteers from The Jim Henson Company. Created by Brian Henson and directed by Patrick Bristow, the show is based on audience suggestions, resulting in unique and hilarious...
Here Lies Love is a groundbreaking musical about former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos' and the Marcos' rise to power and subsequent fall at the hands of the Philippine People Power Revolution. Witness her journey through “exhilarating songs” ( USA Today ) and...
Fake It Until You Make It, a world premiere by playwright Larissa FastHorse, explores themes of ambition and identity within the nonprofit sector. Directed by Michael John Garcés, the comedic play follows Wynona, a Native American business owner, and her rivalry with a white...
"The most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many a season. Seriously satisfying. As directed by Joe Mantello, who does his most sensitive work in years here, every character is created equal -- every one of them emerges as selfish, loving, cruel...
Set in Palm Springs on Christmas Eve Brooke Wyeth releases a tell-all confessional novel painting her Reagan-adjacent parents in a less-than-flattering light. Directed by Tony Award Winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Assassins, Wicked)
“You want to rile people up, you’ve got to give them something to like better than the things they like OR something to HATE better than the things they like.” - President Charles Smith in November by David Mamet The end of the line for an unpopular president is the inauguration...
President Charles Smith is desperate to be re-elected and hes not afraid to beg, bargain or sacrifice to get there.
“Look at these pictures. Look at them! You see the dark rectangle, like a doorway, an aperture, yes, but it’s also a gaping mouth letting out a silent howl of something feral and foul and primal and real.” - Mark Rothko in Red by John Logan “What we see, above all, is an artist...
“Right this minute, what matters most is that bean, pork and cheese burrito they’re making for me. Little North Hollywood all-night outdoor Mexican food stand, God bless you.” - Woman in Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa The uniquely Southern California...
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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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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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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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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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) |
