A sharp satirical drama written by Ray Richmond and directed by Lee Costello, described as a homage to the works of Clifford Odets. The play follows Rebecca and Daniel, a couple steeped in political resistance, as they struggle to rebuff an unbearable truth unfolding in real...
Written and directed by Christina Tinde Jesenski, this 65-minute American Gothic drama follows a preacher's daughter and her father's protégé as they give in to a secret, tender intimacy outside an abandoned church, until guilt takes hold of one but not the other. The production...
Written and directed by Barrett DeYoung, this 60-minute play is set in a 1940s therapist's office where a therapist tries to hold her composure through patient after patient while quietly unraveling herself. The production was recommended by LA Theatre Bites as the best thing...
A solo show written and performed by Dara Kosberg, nominated for the 2026 Fringe Award for Comedy. When Dara gets the call that her mother is dying while she is studying abroad in Australia, an already complicated mother-daughter relationship becomes even more so. The show takes...
Written and performed by Stefan Marks, an LA Ovation Award winner known for OPHELIA at the Odyssey Theatre and HELLO, this 60-minute solo show follows an older man who, after being kicked out of a develop-your-own-one-person-show workshop, searches for one truthful moment to...
Dominic Hoffman is the writer of two previous solo performances: UNCLE JACQUE’S SYMPHONY (winner of two Ovation, awards-best new play/best actor) and LAST FARE (winner best actor award, NAACP). In this, his third solo, he reimagines a modern day apocalypse and the fallout...
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Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.…
The show is a swing for the fences like every show at the underrated and underseen Nocturne is.…
To kick-off the 2026-2027 run of their often Broadway-centric Cabaret Series, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa tapped not only a proven Broadway star, but an OC native, too for a triumphant homecoming concert: Krysta Rodriguez. Marking her Center cabaret debut, Rodriguez performed to rap…
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
The world premiere of The Best Boarding House in Delaware by writer and director Marja-Lewis Ryan is now playing at The Electric Lodge in Venice, CA. The play, featuring Emmy Award-winning actress Leigh Taylor-Young, is inspired by the true crimes of Dorothea Puente, exploring...
The Electric Lodge Presents: High Voltage Queenfest 2026 A pageant variety show Talent abounds in our fair city, but only one can be crowned monarch of the Queenfest Pageant. The contestants may be the most skilled comedians, musicians, and farm animal impressionists around– but...
The Electric Lodge Presents: High Voltage Queenfest 2025 R.I.P. To Our Rights; A funeral variety show Queenfest , an International Women's Day Variety Show, invites you to a funeral variety show in honor of Our Rights. In lieu of flowers, all proceeds will be donated to Planned...
Solo performer Jim Loucks brings his new show The Biscuiteater to the Electric Lodge. Based loosely on his childhood, The Biscuiteater is told in Loucks’ distinctive Southern storytelling style with songs and humor. Granddaddy was his hero, a big man with a bigger personality...
My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. My Mother’s Keeper moves fluidly back and forth between 1914 and the...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
