Ritch Shydner presents a compelling one-night-only performance, exploring the evolution of stand-up comedy in America. Through anecdotes about forgotten trailblazers, martyred icons, and well-known stars, ...
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Past Shows
Guinea Pig Solo
11/8 - 12/1/2024
The West Coast Premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Guinea Pig Solo . A stunning riff on Buchner's 1836 classic Woyzeck, this "electrifying journey into the depths ...
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Heading Into Night: A clown play about... [forgetting]
10/4 - 11/17/2024
Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer and award-winning director Beth F. Milles bring a clown ode to loss and remembrance to the Odyssey stage, exploring ...
Kill Move Paradise
9/14 - 11/3/2024
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the Southern California premiere of a humorous, uplifting, powerful new drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames ( Fat Ham ). ...
3 Faces of Steve: Sondheim in Concert
9/5 - 9/29/2024
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents a song compendium that spans the breadth of Stephen Sondheim’s oeuvre, directed by soprano Angelina Réaux, who personally knew and worked ...
The Pitch
7/12 - 8/4/2024
A visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre. Written by Tom Alper. Directed by Louie Liberti. Tom Allen is a widower, raising his 15-year-old daughter as ...
Stalin's Master Class
4/6 - 5/26/2024
In this wildly comic, music-filled drama, “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet cultural minister Andrei Zhdanov summon composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich ...
Brushstroke
1/23 - 3/3/2024
The Lower East Side, 1956. Marvin (Malcom Barrett), a young art patron with a secret, meets Ted (James Urbaniak), a middle-aged painter with a secret. ...
Birds of North America
9/22 - 11/19/2023
Birding connects a father and daughter whose relationship is strained by different views of the world in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble ’s Los Angeles premiere of ...
"A Slight Ache"
8/26 - 10/1/2023
Harold Pinter fans can enjoy 72 minutes of quintessential Pinter in the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's rarely-produced early work. Written in 1958, this tragicomedy of manners ...
A Slight Ache
8/26 - 10/1/2023
Harold Pinter fans can enjoy 72 minutes of quintessential Pinter in the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s rarely-produced early work . Pinter’s tragicomedy of manners is a ...
Elephant Shavings
8/26 - 10/1/2023
A lazy person‘s guide to enlightenment. The stage is set for drama, humor and absurdity when one member of a theater’s acting ensemble finds herself ...
The Dreamer Examines His Pillow
2/17 - 2/26/2023
A visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre. Written by John Patrick Shanley. Directed by Anne Kathryn Parma. Produced by PLP Productions. Tommy has isolated himself ...
Ghosts
9/8 - 10/23/2022
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents acclaimed British director Richard Eyres stunning new adaptation of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. Eyre illuminates Ibsens masterpiece, seen as a scandalous ...
Wakings!
4/23 - 6/5/2022
Sleep, awakeness, psychosis, enlightenment, coma. How thin is the veil that separates them? The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble explores some of the many states of human ...
God of Carnage
5/12 - 5/29/2022
Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Foursome Productions presents the first L.A. revival of Yasmina Rezas scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning comedy of manners ...
it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
2/19 - 3/20/2022
The world premiere of its alive, ITS ALIVE!, an outrageous musical satire that reflects on our national panic in the face of the pandemic, conceived ...
The Serpen t
3/4 - 5/3/2020
Go ahead take the apple. A work of experimental theater that explores the biblical Book of Genesis while comparing it to the modern experience, The ...
Orphée
3/8 - 4/5/2020
Orpheus, Eurydice, a trouble-making horse and Death herself converge in this very funny and irreverent reimagining of the Greek myth by surrealist poet, playwright and ...
The Christopher Boy’s Communion
2/13 - 2/23/2020
Pulitzer Prize; NY Drama Critics Circle; OBIE Award Recipient David Mamet directs his new play in Los Angeles, scheduled for 11 performances only. A guest ...
La Vie En Rose
11/2 - 12/14/2019
Grammy-winning chanteuse Julia Migenes travels back to the Paris of Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway in this evening of nostalgic French chansons by ...
Before
11/14 - 12/8/2019
A new play with much music, influenced by the golden era of Hollywood musicals, from Irish writer/performer Pat Kinevane and the team that previously brought ...
In Circles
9/14 - 11/10/2019
Papa Dozes, Mama Blows Her Noses. Thats just one of the delightfully quirky musical numbers from this Obie award-winning musical romp adapted by composer Al ...
Loot
6/8 - 8/10/2019
A bank heist, a corpse and a crazy cast of characters. Joe Ortons darkly comic masterpiece continues to shock and delight over five decades later. ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
5/23 - 7/7/2019
In the sultry streets of New Orleans, passions flare and cultures collide in Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Blanche DuBois, a fading relic of the ...
Faith Healer
3/23 - 5/12/2019
Brian Friels mysterious, humorous and unforgettable work about the life and times of an itinerant Irish healer. Is Fantastic Francis Hardy a miracle worker or ...
Too Much Sun
2/28 - 4/21/2019
The West Coast premiere of the acclaimed off-Broadway hit by Nicky Silver (Broadways The Lyons). Celebrated actress Audrey Langham reaches her breaking point while rehearsing ...
Hir
1/19 - 3/17/2019
A darkly funny, shockingly absurd and endlessly surprising vision of a world in transition by MacArthur genius Taylor Mac. Somewhere in the suburbs, Isaac has ...
Paradise
1/24 - 2/17/2019
Viola Davis and Julius Tennons JuVee Productions and American Oasis present the West Coast premiere of Laura Maria Censabellas moving, funny and thought-provoking drama, Paradise. ...
Steambath
10/20 - 12/16/2018
What if God turned out to be a Puerto Rican steam bath attendant, assisted by a butler named Gottlieb? Renowned stand up comedian and actor ...
Radiant Vermin
10/18 - 11/18/2018
The Los Angeles premiere of an outrageous comedy with a killer heart by acclaimed British playwright and provocateur Philip Ridley. In this viciously funny satire ...
Old Clown Wanted
9/22 - 11/4/2018
Three aging clowns compete for a job in an absurdly comic look at man’s fear of uselessness in society. Inspired by a 1970 Federico Fellini ...
Side by Side by Sondheim
7/21 - 9/16/2018
The sophistication, wit, insight, heart and genius of Broadway's most innovative and influential artist is at the center of this tribute to composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim. ...
The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne
6/28 - 8/12/2018
The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne tells the story of an American tragedy from the point of view of the victim – a ...
Lysistrata Unbound
6/9 - 8/4/2018
In this newly imagined, dramatic version of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata by acclaimed playwright Eduardo Machado, an aristocratic Athenian matron is crushed by fateful events and gradually ...
Bad Jews
4/21 - 6/17/2018
A savagely hilarious comedy about family, faith and legacy. A beloved grandfather has died and a treasured family heirloom with religious significance is up for ...
Bearing Witness
6/1 - 6/17/2018
A moving father-son story of Vietnman veteran Thomas Bird’s relationship with his World War II veteran dad and their mutual healing from the traumas of ...
Ashes to Ashes
12/7 - 1/14/2018
The Athena Cats, a collective of Southern California female playwrights and directors, presents a madcap romantic comedy that’s a perfect escape for the holidays. Liberal ...
The Red Dress
10/26 - 11/19/2017
Set in Berlin and inspired by a true story, Tania Wisbar’s romantic drama explores the intersection of politics and art during the years between the ...
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
9/15 - 10/8/2017
This funny, sad, lyrical and highly original coming of age story from emerging playwright Kevin Armento features an unconventional narrator — the cell phone belonging ...
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
7/1 - 8/27/2017
A powerful and bold theatrical experience that was an overwhelming success off-Broadway, this revue of Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel’s songs pays tribute to his unique ...
Rding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes
7/28 - 7/30/2017
Billy Hayes recounts the true story of his arrest in 1970 at the Istanbul Airport with two kilos of hashish taped to his body, his ...
Farragut North
4/15 - 5/21/2017
A taut and plot-twisting story of political, emotional, and sexual intrigue, penned by the creator of Netflix's House of Cards. During a hotly contested presidential primary campaign a wunderkind ...
Hillary and Monica
5/27 - 6/12/2016
Directed by Joel Zwick...
HILLARY AND MONICA
5/20 - 6/12/2016
Directed by Joel Zwick...
Videos
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It's All Your Fault, Tyler Price!
The Hudson Theatre (11/7 - 12/15) | |
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New Year's Eve with D-Nice & Friends
Walt Disney Concert Hall (12/31 - 12/31) | |
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Chanticleer Deck the Hall Holiday Concerts
Walt Disney Concert Hall (12/17 - 12/17) | |
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Arturo Sandoval: Swinging Holiday - Deck the Hall Holiday Concerts
Walt Disney Concert Hall (12/23 - 12/23) | |
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Pasadena Symphony: Mozart Jupiter Symphony
Ambassador Auditorium (1/25 - 1/25) | |
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E-40
Saban Theatre (3/1 - 3/1) | |
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Seoul Festival with the LA Phil: Night 1
Walt Disney Concert Hall (6/6 - 6/6) | |
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Celebrating MTT
Walt Disney Concert Hall (2/1 - 2/1) | |
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Jesus Christ Superstar
Coachella Valley Repertory (3/16 - 3/16) | |
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