Review: A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
Shotgun Players
1901 Ashby AveBERKELEY, CA 94703
Review: THE VISIT at Pasadena Playhouse
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse
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
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: ANTIGONE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF KINGS at Getty Villa & Latino Theater Company
Beneath the florid poetry, the stunningly-detailed costumes, and the imagistic staging, Sophocles would instantly recognize the overarching humanity that has carried his play through the centuries.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company
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
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
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: 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.…
Past Shows
27 total · showing 11–20
The Triumph of Love
Shotgun Players open their 2023 Season with a quest for love. The play follows the sly seductress Leonide as she adopts the dress and prerogatives of a man, invades the retreat of a rationalist philosopher who hates love, and wins the object of her desire. Gender confusion is...
Thirty-Six
Jenny and David are different. Jenny and David swipe right on Tinder. Jenny and David go on a date. Jenny and David ask each other a set of thirty-six questions that are supposed to lead to love. Far from your average staged reading, Shotgun Players give their actors just enough...
Siren
A moving play about loss, family, and forgiveness, Siren explores one family’s journey through grief. Filled with beautiful images of the sea and allusions to The Odyssey , the play is about running away, and guiding each other home. A Champagne Staged Reading written by Lisa...
Man of God
A funny feminist thriller about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along - and decide they are definitely gonna do something about it. Inspired by a real life incident at a Christian mission in Southeast Asia, this play delves into the lives of...
My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre
A brutally candid, painful, and bitingly funny play about transparency, honesty, and repairing centuries of damage done in the American theatre industry. Ohs play embraces the power of naming and celebrates truth on a journey toward building a balanced relationship that is no...
Babes in Ho-lland
In the sunless Pittsburgh winter of 1996, two co-eds connect over a shared love for R&B girl groups but quickly discover something deeper. While attending a predominantly white college, these two Black students create their own bubble of self discovery, music and sanctuary in...
The Claim
A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, 'The Claim' asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words. The runaway hit of the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 'The Claim' is a comically absurd and...
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Our world premiere Zoom commission follows a young, queer pastor attempting to navigate her new congregations shift to online worship due to COVID-19. As seasons change outside and the flat timeline of quarantine continues, the church fights to maintain a practice that rotates...
The Light
When they are forced to confront a devastating secret from the past, a surprise proposal gift puts the future of Genesis and Rashad's relationship at risk. The Light is a 70-minute, real-time rollercoaster ride of laughter, romance and despair that uncovers how the power of...
Citizen Brain
At the Global Brain Health Institute, Josh Kornbluth immersed himself in the study of brain disease and wondered if our society was suffering from political dementia. The discovery of the empathy circuit in the brain might be the cure. Can a neurotic storyteller, who flunked...
Is this your theatre? Claim it to manage listings and submit updates.
|
Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
|
Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
|
A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
|
Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
|
Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
|
It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
|
Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
|
New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
|
Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
|
Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
