Enemy of the People
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents director Bart DeLorenzo’s contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. When a doctor discovers his town’s hot springs are...
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Upcoming Shows
Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
Review: MUSE/IQUE DEFIANTLY JONI: A SINGER/SONGWRITER BARES HER SOUL at Mark Taper Forum
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi…
Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge
John Wuchte and his Kick Boom Theater ensemble of five actors and two onstage musicians (Wuchte on percussion and Sarah Green on guitar) continue their exploration of live percussion scoring the actors’ movement, gestures and stylized dialogue during Anatomy of a Back at the Electric Lodge in Veni…
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Musical Theatre West
Musical Theatre West's brand new presentation of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT marks the fifth time the 74-season-old institution is revisiting this ubiquitous musical, this time starring hunky Broadway alum and America's Got Talent standout Brian Justin Crum. For all intents and purp…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Wisteria Theater
Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.…
Review: MEXODUS at Pasadena Playhouse
When we hum along, dance, applaud or whatever (folks in the up close Get Down section probably have more opportunity to, you know, get down), the connection to the story and to its themes feels that much more immediate.…
Review: PAINTED PONIES Starring Rachel Sorsa at Ruskin Group Theatre
Sorsa’s extraordinary talent in enveloping Pam as if she was inside her soul, along with Elina de Santos minimally invasive direction by keeping Sorsa seated on the couch center stage to tell her story into her cell phone, will keep your sharp focus on Ian McRae’s monologue honoring human resili…
Review: IF/THEN at the Zephyr Theatre
What did our critic think of IF/THEN at Zephyr Theatre?…
Review: World Premiere E=MC² EINSTEIN THE MUSICAL Often Trades Depth for Silly Songs
I want to praise the quality of the large cast for their dedication to bringing so many authentic characters to life onstage while changing costumes, accents and physicality often in the blink of an eye. But with so much interesting history to be explored about a man who was often quoted, and misquo…
Review: THE GREAT CLOWN BANK SHOW at Open Fist Theatre Company
What did our critic think of THE GREAT CLOWN BANK SHOW at Open Fist Theatre Company?The lunacy is unbridled, but with all the insanity, you’re too often left wondering: “What is going ON??” And moreover: “Why??”…
Past Shows
Hymn
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Lower Depth Theatre join forces to present the West Coast premiere of a life-affirming new play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Lolita...
Hymn
Hymn is the West Coast premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti's play, directed by Gregg T. Daniel, presented in a co-production between Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Lower...
Robert Heide: In Search of Lost American Playwrights
Part of Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's Thresholds of Invention series, this afternoon of readings introduces Los Angeles audiences to playwright and Warhol collaborator Robert Heide, who...
The Riot Stage
The Riot Stage is an original production by teen-founded Shakespeare theater and film company led by 15-year-old Company Director Samantha Leeds, developed in collaboration with...
The Riot Stage: The Play. The Movie.
This show is an original story, in the vein of School of Rock blending Shakespeare, live performance, and film. It follows an unlikely teacher leading a group...
‘Picasso: Le Monstre Sacré’
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents British actor Peter Tate in a visceral, uncompromising portrait of the artist. Pablo Picasso was an undisputed genius and visionary artist,...
Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher is a neuro-inclusive production presented by EPIC Players Los Angeles, the city's first neuroinclusive theater company, marking their debut full-scale mainstage...
FeaturedLOVE STRUCK
Two Latinas one American one Cuban in a hurricane of Lust, Love and Other Devastations.
Comedy
Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter
An evening of two rarely staged Pinter one-acts—one chilling, one darkly comic, both unmistakably unsettling. In Party Time, affluent guests at a chic London gathering...
MONKEYS ON MY BACK & EVERYWHERE ELSE!
Monkeys on My Back & Everywhere Else! is a raw, hilarious, and deeply moving solo show with writer & performer Debbie Kasper—two-time Emmy–nominated writer and multiple award-winning...
OK, OLYMPIA, LET’S GO!
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents a multi-media celebration of the life of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis that includes You and Me, a one-act play written...
9th Annual ‘Dance at the Odyssey’ Festival
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s annual six-week celebration of contemporary dance expands in its ninth year, doubling the number of offerings and spilling over into a second...
Bob's Holiday Office Party
Bob's Holiday Office Party returns to the Odyssey Theatre for its 28th season, bringing back the beloved chaos of a small-town Iowa holiday gathering. Written...
Bluebeard's Castle
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the American premiere of a dark musical thriller inspired by a medieval French fairy tale. This horror-infused romance of deceit, murder,...
FeaturedGO PLAY!
GO PLAY! is a new poignant comedy written and directed by award-winning writer Barra Grant (Off-Broadway’s Miss America’s Ugly Daughter and A Mother, a Daughter and a...
Parallel Process
A raw, unflinching journey into moral injury, searing memories, and the fight to make peace with the choices of war
Just Another Day
Dan Lauria and Patty McCormack star in a different kind of love story
The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Jackie, fresh out of prison, enrolled in Alcoholics Anonymous, and newly employed, spots a mysterious hat in the room he shares with his high school...
Lear Redux
The final days of an aging actor strangely parallel those of Shakespeare’s tragic king in this evocative, perpetually surprising reconstruction of William Shakespeare’s King Lear...
Way Of The Peaceful Warrior - The Stage Play
A workshop production of A Story That Changes Lives, the literary sensation 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior' by Dan Millman, adapted for the stage and...
MALICE: Stories of Injustice
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents two evenings, one in English and one in Spanish, of MALICE: Stories of Injustice, a series of monologues inspired by true...
Dance at the Odyssey
The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the 8th annual Dance at the Odyssey festival, running from January 11 to February 16, 2025. This six-week event features...
The Seagull
The Seagull, one of Chekhov’s most popular plays and a favorite among actors, returns with a vital new production directed by Chekhov expert and actor...
Ritch Shydner's History of Stand-Up
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,...
Guinea Pig Solo
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 of...
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Heading Into Night: A clown play about... [forgetting]
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...
Comedy Night at the Odyssey
Comedy Night at the Odyssey features some of the best comics in the country on the third Friday of each month. The August 16 show...
Kill Move Paradise
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the Southern California premiere of a humorous, uplifting, powerful new drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames (Fat Ham). Four Black...
Kill Move Paradise
Kill Move Paradise, directed by Gregg T Daniel, explores the experiences of four Black men—Isa (Ulato Sam), Daz (Ahkei Togun), Grif (Jonathan P. Sims), and...
Being Piaf
Actress, singer and writer Eleanora Owen channels the “little sparrow,” sharing both her life story and repertoire with the audience. Tim Byron Owen directs this...
3 Faces of Steve: Sondheim in Concert
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...
Design For Living
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents Noël Coward’s witty, charming and provocative romantic comedy, banned in 1930s London for its risqué content and bawdy themes. Otto loves...
Stalin's Master Class
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...
KING
Luther, a man from Cork named in honor of his Granny’s hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., only leaves his apartment for essential journeys —...
Fear of Heights
Following its critically acclaimed, crowd-pleasing run last fall, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble brings back Kevin Flynn’s heartwarming and hilarious story of an Irish American kid’s phobias,...
Brushstroke
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
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 Birds...
Fear of Heights
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the West Coast premiere of a hilarious and heartwarming story about an Irish American kid's phobias, family life and the meaning...
A Slight Ache
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 funny,...
Elephant Shavings
“Worlds created, maintained and destroyed while you wait.” The world premiere of Elephant Shavings, written and directed by Odyssey Theatre Ensemble artistic director Ron Sossi...
Accommodation
Christopher Sepulveda & 3Gems ProductionsPresent A Visiting Production at the Odyssey Theatre,THE WORLD PREMIERE OFAccommodationWritten by Greg BurdickDirected by Brandon Baer & Garrett BaerLimited Engagement...
Yaacobi & Leidental
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the U.S. premiere of a funny, provocative romp with music written by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin and featuring songs by Alex...
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents a revival of Peter Nichols groundbreaking, semi-autobiographical dark comedy, named one of the 100 Most Significant Plays of the Twentieth Century...
Ghosts
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!
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
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...
The Pilot Who Crashed The Party
Paul Sand Projects is proud to announce that it will present a workshop production of THE PILOT WHO CRASHED THE PARTY: A Dangerous Satire in...
it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Fefu & Her Friends
Maria Irene Fornes; dir: Denise Blasor....
Loot
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
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
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...
FeaturedThe Things We Do
Bill falls for Sara, who besides believing he is someone else, happens to be married to Ted. Ted might be a good match for Alice,...
Too Much Sun
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
Lysistrata Unbound
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
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
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...
Freud's Last Session
September, 1939. On the day England enters World War II, legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud invites the young, rising Oxford don C.S. Lewis to his...
Ashes to Ashes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Directed by Joel Zwick...
HILLARY AND MONICA
Directed by Joel Zwick...
IONESCOPADE
- Eugene Ionesco; dir: Bill Castellino....
ANNAPURNA
- Sharr White; dir: Bart DeLorenzo....
RANK
- Robert Massey; dir: Wilson Milana....
FORGOTTEN
‘Forgotten’ is a captivating solo piece of theatre written and performed by Pat Kinevane. The play portrays four characters, between the ages of 80-100 years...
WAY TO HEAVEN
This stunning new play by Spanish playwright Mayorga is inspired by the true story of the elaborate deception that took place at the Theresienstadt concentration...
END DAYS
Deborah Laufer's End Days is a rapturously funny play with a deep seriousness at its core, a play that asks how, in a world where...
Diva on the Verge
Are you afraid of opera? Don't waste your money on a therapist--just go see Julia Migenes' Diva on the Verge. A stunning, irreverent, and often...
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Next to Normal Phantasma Arts (7/17-7/25) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can The Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Fool for Love Santa Monica Playhouse (7/23-7/26) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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Matilda the Musical Lewis Family Playhouse (7/18-7/26) |
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Dancing Queens! A Mamma Mia Drag Musical Parody Hamburger Mary's (6/20-8/22) |
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Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Rubicon Theatre (12/02-12/24) |