5317 York Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90042
Outside In Theatre is a theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
A deeply personal and comedic new work written and performed by Ecuadorian-American storyteller Christopher Moncayo-Torres and directed by Bernardo Cubría. Blending live storytelling, family history, improvisation and cooking, the show follows Moncayo-Torres as he attempts to...
Set in 1975 Alabama, Coco Queens follows four Black women who gather each year inside a neighborhood beauty shop for Coco Queens Weekend, a tradition of food, music, laughter, reflection and healing. When long-buried secrets surface, the women must confront the wounds between...
The brand new McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of the cheeky, macabre classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS—now on stage through October 11, 2026 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts—is quite possibly the most eye-popping, delightfully entertaining iteration of the stage show yo…
Following a successful world premiere earlier this year, the theatre-hockey romance play Melt stages its encore at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre. Melt agonizes over missed opportunities and the question “What if?”…
Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.…
The show is a swing for the fences like every show at the underrated and underseen Nocturne is.…
To kick-off the 2026-2027 run of their often Broadway-centric Cabaret Series, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa tapped not only a proven Broadway star, but an OC native, too for a triumphant homecoming concert: Krysta Rodriguez. Marking her Center cabaret debut, Rodriguez performed to rap…
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
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.…
Asian AF celebrates its 10th anniversary with a four-day festival bringing together more than 200 AAPI comedians and performers from across the country. Programming includes stand-up, improv, sketch, character comedy, musical comedy, variety shows, live role-playing and...
BUTCH BALLET is a movement theatre work created by award-winning writer and director gina young, centering butch lesbians, trans men, and nonbinary mascs in a series of intimate vignettes exploring tenderness and queer joy. The near-wordless piece uses ballet elements such as...
O: A Rhapsody in Divorce, written by Jami Brandli and directed by Jessica Hanna, reimagines The Odyssey through a modern lens, following O, a neurobiologist in her 40s whose husband asks for a separation but refuses to leave their home. Displaced and untethered, O embarks on a...
Playwright Jami Brandli leads a free 90-minute writing seminar covering Aristotle's Six Elements of drama: Character, Action, Ideas, Language, Music, and Spectacle/Theatricality. The workshop takes place in the lobby of Outside In Theatre on June 14 from 12 to 1:30 PM.
Dark Metropolis is a completely improvised cyber-noir created live in the moment by an ensemble of narrative improvisors, with no script and no safety net. Born out of Outside In Theatre's Story Studio, the show places characters at the crossroads of fate and destiny within a...
The play centers on a disabled teenager in a wheelchair and his father living under a ruler who trades safety for obedience, and examines how care, fear, and power shape the lives of those caught inside that system. WHO: Written by John Guerra Directed by Brian Hashimoto Cast...
Breaking Bread is an improv show that welcomes you to pull up a chair at both the figurative and literal dinner table, where a family gathers for their annual holiday feast, complete with all the charming chaos that comes with the territory. With suggestions from the audience...
Outside In Theatre is thrilled to announce the Los Angeles run of Roger Guenveur Smith ’s solo performance In Honor Of Jean-Michel Basquiat . The Design team includes Marc Anthony Thompson on Sound, which he will be running live during performances, Arlo Sanders on Lighting and...
Torera is a powerful play about a young latina woman who dares to step into the bullfighting arena in Yucatán, Mexico, confronting tradition, identity, and legacy. Written by Monet Hurst-Mendoza and directed by Jude Lucas, Torera intimately portrays Elena María Ramírez’s path to...
California Story, written by Roger Q. Mason and directed by Michael Alvarez, will premiere on May 12, 2025, at the Caminito Theatre in Los Angeles. This genre-defying historical drama delves into the life of California's last Mexican governor, Pío Pico, exploring themes of...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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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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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
