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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

Fostered
Fostered
Jun 7 – Jul 20, 2025

Fostered is an adult comedy about a rather chaotic family in Scarsdale, New York. Set in 2016, just prior to the election, and moving into...

Fostered
Fostered
Jun 7 – Jul 20, 2025

Fostered is an adult comedy about a rather chaotic family in Scarsdale, New York. Set in 2016, just prior to the election, and moving into...

Demolition
Demolition
Sep 26 – Nov 24, 2024

This heartwarming and funny new play explores how a young boy navigates life’s complexities, and the decisions that can form us as adults.

The Spy Who Went Into Rehab
The Spy Who Went Into Rehab
Sep 20 – Oct 6, 2024

What happens when a James Bond-like spy gets sent to rehab for his excessive drinking, gambling, womanizing and anger issues? His journey to enlightenment gets...

The Spy Who Went Into Rehab
Jul 26 – Aug 25, 2024

The Spy Who Went Into Rehab offers a comedic exploration of a James Bond-like hero grappling with his destructive habits as he undergoes rehabilitation. Playwright...

A Permanent Image
A Permanent Image
Feb 3 – Feb 25, 2024

OBIE Award winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s A PERMANENT IMAGE thought provoking play is extending through February 25, 2024. Those traditionally joyous and colorful holidays are approaching...

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Apr 29 – Jul 2, 2023

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the N.Y. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, this hilarious and touching production is Christopher Durang’s...

Albee/Pinter
Albee/Pinter
Nov 18 – Dec 17, 2022

Harnessing the flair of two iconic playwrights, Pacific Resident Theatre delights in offering a pair of meaty dark comedies. Albee’s Fam and Yam and Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter are presented...

Stalled
Stalled
Apr 2 – May 15, 2022

A new contemporary live play with music and spoken word, celebrating the multi-layered nature of womens lives. Supported by a live band quartet, the story...

All My Sons
All My Sons
Jan 10 – Mar 8, 2020

"Explosive as ever. Well-paced staging" - LA Times EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 8th! Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play,...

Andy Warhol’s Tomato
Andy Warhol’s Tomato
Sep 26 – Oct 27, 2019

Its 1946 in Pittsburgh. An 18-year-old Andy Warhol finds himself in the basement of the working class bar. Over the course of a summer, Andy...

I am Sophie
I am Sophie
Nov 17 – Jan 27, 2019

Are you living your true self? Filled with philosophie de la vie, humor, and heartache I Am Sophie is a journey of identity. The audience...

Baby Doll
Baby Doll
Sep 16 – Sep 30, 2018

Pacific Resident Theatre presents a Workshop of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ BABY DOLL Screenplay by Tennessee Williams Adapted for the Stage by Pierre Laville and Emiliy Mann...

Alright Then
Alright Then
Jan 27 – Mar 25, 2018

Starring Orson Bean and Alley Mills Tony Award nominee, and winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (Best Solo Performance 2015), Orson Bean,...

Sunday Concert Series
Sunday Concert Series
Nov 12 – Dec 10, 2017

Pacific Resident Theatre’s Sunday Concert Series (in their new space, formerly Wanda’s Antique Store, next to the 703 Mainstage Theater), will be an eclectic endeavor: ...

It's Time
It's Time
Mar 11 – Apr 16, 2017

Created by award winning writer/performer Paul Linke, who is returning to PRT, having performed his superb “Time Trilogy” there in 1998. His remarkable new show...

A Touch Of The Poet (extended dates)
A Touch Of The Poet (extended dates)
Dec 9 – Jan 29, 2017

"A production for serious theatergoers...thrilling, unexpected” - Broadway World Burning with the dramatic fire of irreconcilable passions and conflicting dreams, this rarely produced masterpiece is...

A Touch of the Poet
A Touch of the Poet
Nov 5 – Dec 18, 2016

Burning with the dramatic fire of irreconcilable passions and conflicting dreams, this rarely produced masterpiece is set in a tawdry tavern near Boston on the...

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Jun 18 – Aug 14, 2016

Poetry of the heart ignites powerful desires that can no longer be ignored by Alma. The preacher’s daughter boldly seizes on a chance to follow...

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