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.…
Ruskin Group Theatre
3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405Santa Monica, CA 90405
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.…
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Past Shows
16 total · showing 1–10
Grangeville
Grangeville is a play by MacArthur Fellow and OBIE Award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter, directed by John Perrin Flynn, receiving its Los Angeles premiere. Two estranged half-brothers — one living in rural Grangeville, Idaho, the other in Amsterdam — reconnect through a...
Painted Ponies
Painted Ponies is a world premiere play written by Ian McRae and directed by Elina de Santos, honoring human resilience through the story of a parent haunted by past mistakes. A fiercely determined mother becomes an affecting portrait of a woman who tried her best to be human in...
Honour
Starring Marcia Cross and Matthew Letscher, HONOUR is a sharp and authentic examination of love, betrayal, and the fragile agreements that hold marriages together. When a celebrated writer can’t seem to “do the right thing,” decades of loyalty, intimacy, and compromise unravel...
The Fantasticks
Ruskin Group Theatre presents The Fantasticks, the world’s longest-running musical, opening July 18 in Santa Monica. Directed by Elina de Santos, this timeless love story is reimagined for a contemporary audience, exploring themes of young love, growth, and the complexities of...
Unsavory Fellow
Rich with dark comedy and stark reality, Nick James struts the path of most resistance as would any man whose ambitions are as grand as they are delusional. He aspired to be many things - a supermodel, a gigolo, an actor - anything but what he really was. “Unsavory Fellow” tells...
An Extraordinary Ordinary Man
“Be anything but a baker” became the echoing advice that defined John II’s upbringing. Raised in a tight-knit Italian American family he was well aware, by age 7, of the leading role he would fill in the generational business that his grandfather built in 1923. Embracing the...
It’s Only a Show!
Who do you carry with you on life's journey? For some, there are those inspirational individuals whose influence alters the very trajectory of our existence. Charles Nelson Reilly was one such luminary. He and Paul Linke crafted Charles's acclaimed solo play, Save It for the...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Written by Steve Martin and directed by Amelia Mulkey, the play imagines, in a light-hearted and humorous way, the similarities of the creative process involved with great leaps of imagination in art and science. “Terrific production of Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin...
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
A progressive white couple's proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her black fianc home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film. Blindsided by their daughter's whirlwind romance and fearful for her future...
Death of a Salesman
Rob Morrow stars in one of the greatest plays of the 20th Century. A Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner, the story stays strikingly relevant. Burdened by financial responsibilities and living on the edge of poverty, Willy Lomans American Dream is slipping through his grasp. The...
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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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Comics Reading Comics Dynasty Typewriter (9/13-9/13) |
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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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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) |
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Toots McApplesauce: Only Slightly Misbehaving Visionarium Live (10/09-10/09) |