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Cameron Watson Named Artistic Director of Skylight Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 12, 2025

Cameron Watson will become Skylight’s new Artistic Director. Gary Grossman will be stepping down after four decades of leadership as Producing Artistic Director of Skylight Theatre Company at the end of this year.  ...

Cameron Watson Named Artistic Director of Skylight Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 12, 2025

Cameron Watson will become Skylight’s new Artistic Director. Gary Grossman will be stepping down after four decades of leadership as Producing Artistic Director of Skylight Theatre Company at the end of this year.  ...

MRS CHRISTMAS World Premiere to Open at The Aurora Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 05, 2025

Created in the mind behind last year's winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Play, Mrs Christmas will light up the holidays in Southern California with a world premiere from Tom Jacobson at The Aurora Theatre....

Los Angeles New Play Project Reveals 2025 Award Recipients


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 29, 2025

Marking its fifth year of championing boundary-pushing theater, the Los Angeles New Play Project has revealed the group of 2025 award recipients whose bold, timely works explore themes from politics and American history to immigration and suspense....

MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA Opens at Urbanite Theatre October 31


by A.A. Cristi - October 17, 2025

Urbanite Theatre will present the regional premiere of Christian St. Croix’s Monsters of the American Cinema beginning October 31 and running through December 7, 2025....

Review: ANTHROPOLOGY at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre


by Evan Henerson - October 17, 2025

No form of artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the experience of sitting through Lauren Gunderson’s ANTHROPOLOGY, and specifically what Rogue Machine Theatre’s John Perrin Flynn has accomplished with it for the play’s North American premiere at the Matrix Theatre....

Rogue Machine's ANTHROPOLOGY Comes to The Matrix Theatre


by Stephi Wild - October 01, 2025

The North American Premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, directed by John Perrin Flynn, will launch Rogue Machine’s new season on their mainstage. Learn more here!...

Interview: Playwright Tim Venable of ADOLESCENT SALVATION at Rogue Machine


by Shari Barrett - September 06, 2025

The world premiere of Tim Venable’s play Adolescent Salvation is taking place at Rogue Machine in the intimate upstairs Henry Murray Stage at the Matrix Theatre. ...

Rogue Machine Theatre Reveals FAIRVIEW and More for Season 18 Lineup


by A.A. Cristi - August 04, 2025

Rogue Machine Theatre will open Season 18 on October 4, 2025, with four L.A. premieres including Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview. The season also features Fringe participation and the Playwright’s Roundtable Festival....

Ruskin Theatre Opens THE FANTASTICKS Next Week


by Stephi Wild - July 09, 2025

Moonlight, magic, and timeless romance comes to Santa Monica as The Fantasticks takes center stage for a limited run. This multi-award-winning musical is the longest-running in the world....

Past Shows

Disposable Necessities
Disposable Necessities
12/15 - 2/29/2020


"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
11/10 - 12/30/2018


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
10/6 - 12/30/2018


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


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
6/9 - 7/16/2018


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
5/26 - 7/1/2018


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
2/24 - 4/2/2018


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
11/18 - 12/18/2017


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
9/9 - 10/30/2017


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
5/27 - 7/3/2017


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
6/8 - 6/24/2017


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
6/2 - 6/24/2017


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
6/6 - 6/8/2017


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
3/4 - 4/23/2017


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
6/9 - 6/26/2016


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
6/9 - 6/26/2016


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
6/15 - 6/25/2016


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
6/15 - 6/25/2016


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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