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Rogue Machine Theatre

1416 Electric Avenue
Venice 90291

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

21 total · showing 1–10

Ghostlight

Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

Ghostlight, with book by Chandler Patton and music and lyrics by Steven James Schmidt, is a new musical premiering as part of the 2026 SheLA Summer Theater Festival at Rogue Machine Theatre in West Hollywood. After bombing her audition for a revival of a show about 19th-century...

Her Way (隨她而流)

Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

Her Way (隨她而流), written by Jenn Melyan, is part of the 2026 SheLA Summer Theater Festival, presented by SheNYC Arts at Rogue Machine Theatre in West Hollywood. The play follows Jessica, who returns to her mother Anita's apartment in Kaohsiung, only to discover that her mother...

Litter

Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

Litter, written and directed by Bridget Flanery, is part of the 2026 SheLA Summer Theater Festival, presented by SheNYC Arts at Rogue Machine Theatre in West Hollywood. The play follows the aftermath of a backpack thrown from an Uber on a Des Moines highway, as Detectives...

Role Models

Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

Role Models, written and directed by Caroline Ullman, follows Jack and his older sister Willa, who haven't spoken in months since she moved to New York without him. When Jack visits Willa and meets her new boyfriend Peter, he realizes he already knows him and must decide whether...

The Partner or, The Sou-Sou Play

Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

The Partner or, The Sou-Sou Play, written by Ashley Denise Robinson, follows five first-generation women who gather every Tuesday night to exchange money, gossip, and insults. Their hidden lives are thrown into turmoil when a new, non-Caribbean member joins the group. The play...

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 soul into another host body, or Module. This is something only the very wealthy can afford and if you are rich enough you can be anyone...

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 Gilford and director Michael Pressman, both children of the Blacklisted. Joe Gilford shares the struggle his parents...

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 physicists recognize the horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its power from...

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 work brings past and present together in a soulful tale of lives destroyed by deep-seated tensions and conflicts that...

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 Excellent Season in a Small to Mid-Size Theatre,” Rogue Machine opens a stunning new play on June 9th. 100 APRILS is a darkly comic...

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Dinner with Friends  in Los Angeles Dinner with Friends
Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) PHOTOS VIDEOS
Gershwin and the Golden Age in Los Angeles Gershwin and the Golden Age
The Soraya (10/11-10/11)
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Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) VIDEOS
Melt : The Play in Los Angeles Melt : The Play
The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) PHOTOS
New Works Festival in Los Angeles New Works Festival
Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) PHOTOS
Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding in Los Angeles Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) PHOTOS
Worthy in Los Angeles Worthy
The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25)