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Review: SPAMALOT Revives A New Quest at OC's Segerstrom Center


by Michael Quintos - February 20, 2026

Initially billed as a show that was 'lovingly ripped off' from the 1975 cult classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Tony Award–winning 2005 Broadway musical comedy MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT™ gleefully gallops back onto the stage in a brand new production with its signature coconut-clack...

Review: APPLAUSE at Eli & Edythe Broad Stage


by Cary Ginell - February 18, 2026

Musical Theatre Guild, the Los Angeles-based company that produces staged readings of long-forgotten, rarely seen musicals, has done it again with a stellar and highly entertaining production of the 1970 musical Applause. ...

Review: THREE COCONUTS World Premiere Comedy at Miles Memorial Playhouse


by Shari Barrett - February 18, 2026

I really enjoyed the story, acting and staging, along with recognizing the Yiddish comments, behavior and attitudes from my own life being raised by a close-knit Jewish family....

Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA Journeys Back to Musical Theatre West


by Michael Quintos - February 17, 2026

Directed by James Vásquez with musical direction by Ryan O'Connell and choreography by Shani Talmor, this remarkably solid new production of the 1965 Tony Award winner boasts haunting visuals and superb performances from its assembled ensemble, led by a trio of excellent leads that offer three dist...

Review: AMADEUS at Pasadena Playhouse


by Andrew Child - February 17, 2026

Director Darko Tresnjak has crafted a visually-appealing world that unfortunately reduces the action of the play to broad strokes enacted in a toy theatre....

Review: SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA at Geffen Playhouse


by Evan Henerson - February 17, 2026

SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA is trying to be perhaps too many things at once and not really succeeding at any of them....

Review: POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE at Fountain Theatre


by Evan Henerson - February 13, 2026

These are words that both sing and challenge. If, like this reviewer, you were not previously acquainted with June Jordan, POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE is a crackling introduction....

Review: South Coast Repertory Presents GOD OF CARNAGE


by Michael Quintos - February 10, 2026

Wildly surprising and deliciously savage, Yasmina Reza's machete-edged 2006 dark comedy GOD OF CARNAGE—here directed by Marco Barricelli and continues performances at OC's South Coast Repertory through March 21, 2026—has to be one of the most ferocious dissections of modern-day performative civi...

Review: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF? at South Coast Rep


by Tracey Paleo - February 09, 2026

South Coast Repertory’s production of Edward Albee’s dark psychological comedy 100% embodies all the epic frustration and athletic dysfunction which begins and ends with Martha. ...

Review: Will Swenson Leads New SoCal Revival of SWEENEY TODD at La Mirada Theatre


by Michael Quintos - February 05, 2026

In what is clearly proving to be the must-see stage production of the new year so far here in Southern California, McCoy Rigby Entertainment's stunning new production of the 1979 Tony Award-winning classic SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET—now playing a limited engagement at the La Mi...

Past Shows

Disposable Necessities
Disposable Necessities
Dec 15 – Feb 29, 2020

"CRITIC'S CHOICE" - LA Times In the future, aging and death have become annoyances of the past thanks to a process of downloading the digitized...

Finks
Finks
Nov 10 – Dec 30, 2018

A New York Times Critic’s Pick, “Finks” was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and Rogue Machine’s West Coast premiere production brings together writer Joe...

Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Oct 6 – Dec 30, 2018

Fascism is spreading across Europe. It’s 1939 and Franco marches on Barcelona. Two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission. In Berkeley, California, theoretical...

American Saga - Gunshot Medley: Part 1
American Saga - Gunshot Medley: Part 1
Sep 8 – Oct 14, 2018

A lyrical and mystical new play, with live music, about the struggle against systemic racism. Set in a haunted North Carolina graveyard this intricately crafted...

100 Aprils
100 Aprils
Jun 9 – Jul 16, 2018

Winner of the 2017 Ovation Award for “Best Season,” and two time recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle “Polly Warfield Award for an...

Mexican Day
Mexican Day
May 26 – Jul 1, 2018

Unprecedented in Los Angeles theatre, award-winning playwright Tom Jacobson has created a trilogy of plays based on local history, and simultaneously produced by three theatre...

El Nino
El Nino
Feb 24 – Apr 2, 2018

WINNER BEST SEASON 2017 - OVATION AWARD Rogue Machine kicks off their 2018 season with Justin Tanner’s new play El Niño, directed by his long...

bled for the household truth
bled for the household truth
Nov 18 – Dec 18, 2017

Keith doesn't need a roommate, but wants one. He wants a female roommate. Pen needs a place to live - and a lot more. bled...

Daytona
Daytona
Sep 9 – Oct 30, 2017

The American premiere of Daytona, from noted British playwright and actor Oliver Cotton, will open at Rogue Machine on September 9th, after having a celebrated...

Les Blancs
Les Blancs
May 27 – Jul 3, 2017

Lorraine Hansberry considered this her most important play. It was her final work. Les Blancs depicts the waning days of colonialism crossing into the 20th...

The Pleasure Project
The Pleasure Project
Jun 8 – Jun 24, 2017

What do the humans have that could possibly be worth saving? Paula, the sexiest of the aliens, knows the answer! In this hilarious, irreverent and...

We Are Not These Hands
We Are Not These Hands
Jun 2 – Jun 24, 2017

Two cagey 15 year olds, Moth and Belly, live in the ruins of a dystopian society where filth is abundant and the addiction to consumerism...

The Interference
The Interference
Jun 6 – Jun 8, 2017

He said. She said. Truth. In a culture where student athletes become celebrities, everybody has an incentive to bury the truth…except the victim. Winner of...

Still Life
Still Life
Mar 4 – Apr 23, 2017

Academy Award winning writer (BIRDMAN) and Broadway playwright (ON YOUR FEET), Alexander Dinelaris, examines the causal link between ethics and success, life and death, art and...

Bull
Bull
Jun 9 – Jun 26, 2016

Running in rep during (and beyond) L.A.’s largest celebration of performing arts, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Rogue Machine presents the West Coast Premiere of Mike...

Bull
Bull
Jun 9 – Jun 26, 2016

BULL is a razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying. It offers ringside seats as three employees fight to keep...

Smoke
Smoke
Jun 15 – Jun 25, 2016

SMOKE presents an intense sexual situation with adult language. “You know you get to choose what happens to you, right?” That’s what John tells Julie...

Smoke
Smoke
Jun 15 – Jun 25, 2016

Starting as part of L.A.’s largest celebration of performing arts, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Rogue Machine stages the West Coast Premiere of SMOKE by Kim...

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