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MATRIX THEATRE

7657 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046



Review: Updated FLOWER DRUM SONG Returns to Los Angeles by East West Players


by Shari Barrett - April 29, 2026

Astounding triple-threat talent is on display in big production numbers with attention-grabbing scenic elements by brilliant designers add to the artistic wonder of the entire production helmed by EWP Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal, choreographed by Janelle Dote Portman, with music direction by...

Review: BACK TO OZ at Mark Taper Forum


by Harker Jones - April 28, 2026

BACK TO OZ is an exhilarating trip through history and down the Yellow Brick Road...

Review: Last Call Theatre Invites You to Discover The Liminary


by Shari Barrett - April 27, 2026

Be ready to play your part to find out who can you trust and who wants to destroy The Liminary. Depending on the questions asked and information gathered via audience participation, the process and ending will be different at each of the performances....

Review: South Coast Repertory Presents World Premiere of EAT ME


by Michael Quintos - April 26, 2026

First developed and workshopped at South Coast Repertory’s annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2025, celebrated new “it” playwright Talene Monahon’s freshly birthed play EAT ME is currently being presented at OC’s Tony Award-winning regional theater as a fully-formed World Premiere prod...

Review: LOVE STRUCK by Macha Theatre/Films at Odyssey Theatre


by Shari Barrett - April 25, 2026

We never get a sense of what draws these two women to each other (other than sex), or what they have in common other than auditioning for acting work. Nor do we witness them falling in love, which makes it difficult to care whether or not their relationship succeeds....

Review: HELL MOUTH at The Road Theatre


by Harker Jones - April 23, 2026

The star of the show, in the end, is Jacobson’s script, leading us toward the titular HELL MOUTH through five well-drawn characters and their existential crises that mirror our own....

Review: MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS at Geffen Playhouse


by Evan Henerson - April 21, 2026

The Southland has had its share of memorable Fugard stagings, and the newly-opened revival of “MASTER HAROLD” at the Geffen Playhouse boasts an impressive roster of artists and creatives – onstage and off – who bring this tale vibrantly to life....

Review: AMERIKA OR, THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED - an Open Fist and Circle X co-production


by Harker Jones - April 16, 2026

The MVP of the show is the dynamic Oqalile Tshetshe, who has a star-making role that he inhabits with complexity, depth, and grace....

Review: Revamped MEAN GIRLS Musical Debuts at La Mirada Theatre


by Michael Quintos - April 15, 2026

Now having its Southern California regional production, MEAN GIRLS - THE MUSICAL continues performances at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through May 3, 2026. Produced by McCoy Rigby Entertainment, this fun, high-energy, youthfully-targeted new iteration of the 2018 stage adaptation o...

Review: TEEN BEAT LIVE: 80S MOVIE MIXTAPE at CineVita


by Melissa Heckscher - April 15, 2026

TEEN BEAT LIVE is an immersive musical ode to the 80s that's a must-see, whether or not you’ve ever used a rotary phone, worn a Walkman, or unfolded the boy-toy poster from a Teen Beat magazine....

Past Shows

My Son the Playwright
My Son the Playwright
Feb 6 – Mar 1, 2026

In his bold and intimate new solo show, L.A. cult icon and Rogue Machine resident playwright Justin Tanner dives head first with courage and sharp...

anthropology
anthropology
Oct 4 – Nov 9, 2025

An AI Thriller

Nice Girl
Nice Girl
May 7 – Jul 20, 2025

In suburban Massachusetts, 1984, thirty-seven-year-old Josephine Rosen has a dead-end job, still lives with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of an...

A Good Guy
A Good Guy
Sep 21 – Oct 13, 2024

“A Good Guy” runs at 8pm Fridays & Mondays; 5pm Saturdays; 7pm Sundays through October 13, 2024 (no performance on Friday, September 20 and Monday...

Hitler's Tasters
Hitler's Tasters
May 11 – Jun 30, 2024

A dark comedy based on the largely unknown story of young German women conscripted to taste Adolf Hitler’s food for poison, this fictional account explores...

Monsters of the American Cinema
Monsters of the American Cinema
May 10 – May 19, 2024

When his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself to be the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his...

Blue
Blue
Apr 7 – Jul 3, 2023

"RECOMMENDED” - Stage RawA suspense filled hour in pursuit of the truth. Blue touches on the inextricable links between power, violence, and the conflict between...

can i touch it?
can i touch it?
May 6 – Jun 11, 2023

Shay Solomon is many things - but there’s one thing she’s definitely not: a pawn in the bank’s efforts to buy up foreclosed real estate....

Come Get Maggie
Come Get Maggie
Feb 11 – Mar 26, 2023

Rogue Machine Theatre presents an intergalactic, joyously quirky new musical that pays homage to all those with the courage to live life as their true selves....

A Great Wilderness
A Great Wilderness
Sep 24 – Oct 30, 2022

Obie Award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter navigates complex terrain into gay conversion therapy. Walt has devoted his life to "curing" gay teenage boys but his...

The Beautiful People
The Beautiful People
Jun 25 – Aug 7, 2022

Its the late '90s and youre hanging out in the basement of an average home, somewhere in suburban America, with two teenagers as they stay...

@RogueMachineTheatre
@RogueMachineTheatre
Feb 26 – Apr 10, 2022

Award winning Welsh playwright Daf James has crafted a story around a young couple's dreams of adopting. When an unforeseen turn of events upends their...

On the Other Hand, We’re Happy
Mar 3 – Apr 10, 2022
THIS WONDERFUL LIFE
THIS WONDERFUL LIFE
Dec 22 – Jan 3, 2022

Rogue Machine brings Frank Capras iconic holiday film, Its a Wonderful Life, to the stage in this hilarious and heartwarming one-person show starring Leo Marks....

CHOICE
CHOICE
Mar 12 – Mar 22, 2020

If youre ever in trouble, Julie Watson is the attorney you want fighting for you. Shes smart, successful and utterly fearless. Where she goes, doors...

Paradise
Paradise
Mar 8 – Mar 31, 2019

What is the science behind first love? Two outsiders, a gifted Yemeni-American teenager at a poorly rated high school in the South Bronx and her...

Jews, Christians and Screwing Stalin
Jews, Christians and Screwing Stalin
Aug 16 – Sep 23, 2018

Took A Cab Productions and the world-famous Improv comedy club chain present an outrageous comedy, inspired by a true story, about family dysfunction, atonement and...

WEST BOLLYWOOD
WEST BOLLYWOOD
Jul 27 – Jul 29, 2018

Indonesian and ethnic Indian playwright, Aruna Harjani’s production of her World Premiere comedy with music WEST BOLLYWOOD, directed by Kiff Scholl, produced by Murray Kalis...

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