FeaturedWorthy
A wickedly funny and deeply personal solo performance that explores one woman’s complicated relationship with money, and the devastating history that has shaped it.
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FeaturedNew Works Festival
First Lamb Productions announces the opening of its New Works Short Play Festival, an evening of nine original short plays selected from more than sixty submissions received from playwrights across the country. The festival runs September 11 through September 26 at the Valley...
Los Angeles Premiere
FeaturedDinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Donald Margulies, is a moving, thought-provoking story about love, friendship, marriage, and the unexpected moments that change our lives. When one couple’s seemingly perfect relationship begins to unravel, their closest...
Los Angeles Premiere
FeaturedMelt : The Play
When college rivals Eli and Ryan are cast as lovers, rehearsal turns real, forcing them to confront masculinity, vulnerability, and how men love each other.
New Play
East To West : Hood To Hollywood
EAST TO WEST: HOOD TO HOLLYWOOD Opens September 18th at The Hudson Theatre The Hispanic Heritage Month double bill East to West: Hood to Hollywood opens Friday, September 18th for two performances only at The Hudson Theatre (Guild Space) in Hollywood. The evening pairs the world...
Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl reimagines the Orpheus myth through Eurydice's eyes as she journeys to the underworld, confronting love, loss, memory, and identity.
The Flowers Keep Watch
Spectral Child Presents an evening of one act plays written and directed by Sharon Yablon. The plays all take place in different parts and time periods of Los Angeles, and the characters move through supernatural and surreal worlds, often confronting things that have haunted...
The Ford/Hill Project
A play that transforms the Senate testimony of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford into a gripping evening of theater. Created by Lee Sunday Evans, Elizabeth Marvel, and Waterwell, with an ensemble of LA actors speaking from verbatim transcripts of the hearings. The play...
In the Tomb of Ten Thousand Calendars
Moving Arts Theatre presents In the Tomb of Ten Thousand Calendars by Stephen Dierkes, directed by Jeff Liu. Ninety feet underground, an emperor is laid to rest. A revolution tries to erase his memory. A son rejects everything his father stands for. In the Tomb of Ten Thousand...
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the third play in August Wilson's ten-play "American Century Cycle," is the seventh production in the series to be directed by Gregg T. Daniel for A Noise Within. Set in 1927 in a rundown Chicago recording studio, the play follows Ma Rainey as she...
The Arsonists
Passive complicity has never been so much fun. Tony award winning/Emmy nominated team presents a fresh take on Frisch’s classic - with relevance to a new generation of Angelenos. Presented by an award-winning creative team led by Luke Harlan ( The Gilded Age ), Andrew Hawkins (...
Tucked Away
Four very different young women held captive on the top floor of an abandoned building with no running water or electricity, part of a human trafficking ring, must find a way to connect in order to finally break free.
Under the Jello Mold
Written and performed by Jennie Fahn. Directed by Tom Cavanaugh. This too-crazy-to-not-be-true story tells about the end of Jennie's mother’s life, The title refers to the unusual place Jennie’s mom hid her end-of-life instructions; it turned out, she was also hiding a secret...
Confessions of a Sugar Baby
Written and performed by Allison Dayne. Directed by Cameron Lopez. A raw, fiercely comedic 60-minute solo show, every word true. When an uninsured 29-year-old actress collapses and is given eight months to live,the hospital demands $800,000 in cash upfront at a predatory 785...
Everybody
Tuesday, September 22–Friday, September 25, 2026 • 7:30 PM | Saturday, September 26, 2026 • 2 PM and 7:30 PM In the play Everybody , Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, explores the age-old question, “What is the meaning of life?” This work is a modern-day...
Roar of the Grain
The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company presents the first workshop of ROAR OF THE GRAIN: A New Play by Satu, Inspired by True Events. Produced by Johnny Patrick Yoder. Three nights only, September 24, 25, & 26th, 2026 at the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles. ABOUT...
The Swan
After a swan crashes through Dora's window, the rescued bird transforms into a young man who understands nothing about the inconsistencies of human emotion.
CTRL
A bold original play exploring technology, identity, anxiety, and human connection as four lives become increasingly shaped by the algorithms they trust.
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 contaminated, his attempt to expose the truth pits him against powerful interests—and transforms him...
Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe - Presented by MatchBox Theatre Co. Starring Liam Johnson Directed by Sanya Arnold Winner of the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, this one-of-a-kind solo show explores a man’s changing view of the things that make...
From the Perspective of a Canoe
After an unimaginable tragedy, a Fourth of July gathering exposes grief, secrets, shifting perspectives, and how quickly we judge those left behind.
Poetry For Strangers
It’s June in Los Angeles. You stumble across a woman with a vintage typewriter. After giving her just a word and a few bucks, she writes you a bespoke poem on the spot. You feel seen, you feel lighter, and you can’t help but smile as you go about your day. But the Poet? Oh...
The Hollywood Rush: A Night of Celebrity Theater Created in Less Than a Day
The Hollywood Rush : An electric, off-the-cuff night of theater written, directed, and acted in a single day. In less than one day celebrities come together to write, direct, and act in five - six original one act plays all benefiting FosterMore, an organization that supports...
Antigone: In the Language of Kings
Antigone: In the Language of Kings is a production by Latino Theater Company that reimagines Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy by setting it in pre-conquest Tenochtitlan, Mexico, weaving in pre-Hispanic music, poetry, and Aztec mythology. The adaptation explores themes of...
The Bed Trick
On the Cripe Stage… Shakespeare’s infamous “bed trick” from All’s Well That Ends Well gets a bold and frisky remix in this comic college romp. When deception and desire collide, three friends are forced to navigate the messy, hilarious, and sometimes shocking consequences of...
Waiting in the Wings
Waiting in the Wings is a comedy by Noël Coward set in a charity home for retired actresses, exploring old age, lingering jealousies, and the enduring power of friendship. The play features an ensemble cast including Jan Wikstrom, Susan Angelo, Katherine Griffith, Jane Macfie...
CLOWNISH: Not artificial. Or intelligent.
Put on your oversized shoes and big red noses for an evening of silliness and absurdity, performed by SF-infamous, professional clowns Sara Toby Moore and DeMarcello Funes under the direction of Colin H. Johnson. Moore, Funes, and Johnson make up San Francisco’s Thrillride...
ECO
Following its successful world premiere at the Lincoln Park Theatre Festival, ECO comes to the Fountain Theatre for a limited engagement. Not every love story is about the end. Some are about what remains. ECO is an intimate and visually striking original play by Jorge Durán...
Latest Los Angeles Reviews
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages
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.…
Review: ANTIGONE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF KINGS at Getty Villa & Latino Theater Company
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.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company
Rooted in Faustian legend, a horticultural horror musical takes over Tulare for the next three weeks. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors highlights the dangers of greed and talking plants as destitute protagonist Seymour Krelbourn discovers his mysterious fly-trap plant may sud…
Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court
In staging the west coast premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation, director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck and her cast are working their Helicanuses and Thaisas off to keep this lesser-staged romance punchy and relevant…
Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre
Swiss writer Max Frisch’s post–World War II absurdist satire THE ARSONISTS hit Los Feliz like a blow torch, scorching everything in its path.…
Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
Review: IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
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Jane Austen UnScripted Kings Road Park (9/12-9/27) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
