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Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse

Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse

by Michael Quintos · September 15, 2026

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…

Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages

Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages

by Evan Henerson · September 14, 2026

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: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company

by Edmund Whelan · September 13, 2026

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

Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court

by Evan Henerson · September 11, 2026

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

Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre

by Harker Jones · September 8, 2026

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: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

by Evan Henerson · August 27, 2026

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

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

by Edmund Whelan · August 24, 2026

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.…

Past Shows

11 total · showing 1–10

FAIRVIEW

Mar 14 – Apr 19, 2026

FAIRVIEW follows the Frasier household as they prepare for Grandma's birthday party, revealing the complexities of familial relationships and individual perceptions. Beverly is determined to orchestrate the perfect celebration, but tension arises as her family members grapple...

MY SON THE PLAYWRIGHT

Jan 24 – Mar 1, 2026

MY SON THE PLAYWRIGHT features Justin Tanner in a deeply personal exploration of a father-son relationship. Set against the backdrop of Douglas's apartment in Salinas, California, the play unfolds as he grapples with his emotions while awaiting his son's arrival, weaving through...

anthropology

Oct 4 – Nov 9, 2025

Rogue Machine's new season premieres with the North American debut of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, directed by John Perrin Flynn. The play follows Merril, a Silicon Valley software engineer, whose life spirals out of control after her sister Angie disappears. Desperate for...

Bacon

Bacon

Feb 4 – Apr 13, 2025

Mark is new at school and too scared to make friends. Darren is out of control and too scary to make friends.

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

Feb 7 – Mar 9, 2025

Winters keep getting worse in Evanston, IL where salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes and stories. But what’s with this creeping sense of dread? Is it because their boss Maiworm has noble visions of new green technology that...

Earthquakes in London

Earthquakes in London

Jan 16 – Mar 1, 2020

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we are borrowing it from our children. Three sisters are left to raise and care for one another after their mother dies and their father abandons them. Now adults, the sisters find themselves navigating a 21st century London that...

Miss Lilly Gets Boned

Miss Lilly Gets Boned

Sep 21 – Oct 28, 2019

Sex, faith, and violence are all part of this intricate package of connections in Miss Lilly Gets Boned. Bekah Brunstetter imaginatively explores the tenuous and permeable boundaries that separate our civilized side from our more animalistic one, and the ways that faith can...

Ready Steady Yeti Go

Ready Steady Yeti Go

Jun 1 – Jul 29, 2019

Rogue Machine's 12th season begins in association with the National New Play Network by presenting the Rolling World Premiere of David Jacobi's Ready Steady Yeti Go, directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos.In the aftermath of a hate crime, 7th grader Goon befriends Carly, one of the...

The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!

The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!

Nov 12 – Dec 19, 2016

Rogue Machine (“Best Production” - three seasons - Ovation, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards) presents the World Premiere of THE SUPER VARIETY MATCH BONUS ROUND! by Deb Hiett. “A sure-shot writer … bold new voice,” wrote the Village Voice about Deb Hiett’s play Words...

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