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LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER

514 S Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Colored People's Time: A History Play
Colored People's Time: A History Play
Apr 16 – May 17, 2026

Written by Leslie Lee. Directed by Ben Guillory.  beginnings of Jim Crow, we witnessed the grit and resilience of Colored people who simply had no choice...

The Storyteller of East L.A.
The Storyteller of East L.A.
Apr 9 – May 17, 2026

Blending intimate family drama with elements of magical realism, Latino Theater Company resident playwright Evelina Fernández explores themes of memory loss and the complexities of...

‘Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos’
‘Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos’
Apr 30 – May 24, 2026

Latino Theater Company welcomes the return of San Jose-based LGBTQ+ ensemble Teatro Alebrijes with Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos (Carlota: Jewelry Box of Secrets), a bold...

Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos
May 2 – May 24, 2026

Teatro Alebrijes, a San Jose-based LGBTQ+ ensemble, presents a bold reimagining of Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Inside the home of Carlota...


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Review: THE CAROLE KING AND JAMES TAYLOR STORY at BroadStage


by Shari Barrett - May 08, 2026

While harmonizing to perfection, Katis rules the piano with the sensitivity necessary to realistically perform King’s songs of self-awareness and the longing to find your place in the world, while Clews’ finger-picking expertise on guitar adds a real sense of introspective musical magic to Taylo...

Review: THE MUSIC THAT MAKES ME DANCE: THE SONGS OF JULE STYNE at the El Portal


by Harker Jones - May 07, 2026

This marks the second triumph for co-creator-director-choreographer Scott Thompson, following his sensational “One For My Baby” at the same venue last year....

Review: THE EAVES at Nocturne Theatre


by Harker Jones - May 05, 2026

Director Meyer keeps things moving at a fair clip without ever seeming rushed, and he serves up real scares....

Review: Updated FLOWER DRUM SONG Returns to Los Angeles by East West Players


by Shari Barrett - April 29, 2026

Astounding triple-threat talent is on display in big production numbers with attention-grabbing scenic elements by brilliant designers add to the artistic wonder of the entire production helmed by EWP Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal, choreographed by Janelle Dote Portman, with music direction by...

Review: BACK TO OZ at Mark Taper Forum


by Harker Jones - April 28, 2026

BACK TO OZ is an exhilarating trip through history and down the Yellow Brick Road...

Review: Last Call Theatre Invites You to Discover The Liminary


by Shari Barrett - April 27, 2026

Be ready to play your part to find out who can you trust and who wants to destroy The Liminary. Depending on the questions asked and information gathered via audience participation, the process and ending will be different at each of the performances....

Review: South Coast Repertory Presents World Premiere of EAT ME


by Michael Quintos - April 26, 2026

First developed and workshopped at South Coast Repertory’s annual Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2025, celebrated new “it” playwright Talene Monahon’s freshly birthed play EAT ME is currently being presented at OC’s Tony Award-winning regional theater as a fully-formed World Premiere prod...

Review: LOVE STRUCK by Macha Theatre/Films at Odyssey Theatre


by Shari Barrett - April 25, 2026

We never get a sense of what draws these two women to each other (other than sex), or what they have in common other than auditioning for acting work. Nor do we witness them falling in love, which makes it difficult to care whether or not their relationship succeeds....

Review: HELL MOUTH at The Road Theatre


by Harker Jones - April 23, 2026

The star of the show, in the end, is Jacobson’s script, leading us toward the titular HELL MOUTH through five well-drawn characters and their existential crises that mirror our own....

Review: MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS at Geffen Playhouse


by Evan Henerson - April 21, 2026

The Southland has had its share of memorable Fugard stagings, and the newly-opened revival of “MASTER HAROLD” at the Geffen Playhouse boasts an impressive roster of artists and creatives – onstage and off – who bring this tale vibrantly to life....

Past Shows

Medea
Medea
Feb 15

Staged reading of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen's English language adaptation of the classic tragedy by Euripides. Ben Guillory directs.Jason, the hero of legend, has...

Mascogos
Mascogos
Oct 11 – Nov 9, 2025

Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere of Mascaogos (Mahs-KO-gohs), a bold, historical sci-fi drama by Miranda González exploring the untold stories of Mexico’s Underground...

The Great Lover
The Great Lover
Oct 9 – Nov 9, 2025

 Our story: In Alexandre Dumas’ The Great Lover, the Duke de Richelieu proposes a wager: he can—and will—seduce the first beautiful woman who crosses his path....

नेहा & Neel
नेहा & Neel
Oct 18 – Sep 16, 2025

Asian American theater collective Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company team up for their third collaboration in as many years with a joyous new...

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon
The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon
May 1 – May 25, 2025

Latino Theater Company brings back Chicago’s Water People Theater for a three-week run of the Jeff Award-nominated The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon following...

The Last Play of Rickerby Hinds
The Last Play of Rickerby Hinds
Apr 17 – May 25, 2025

A play. A memoir. A rant. Rickérby Hinds, a pioneer of Hip-Hop theater, has the unique ability to challenge conventional notions of the stage while...

Just Like Us
Just Like Us
Apr 10 – May 18, 2025

Latino Theater Company opens its 40th Anniversary Season with the professional West Coast premiere of a non-fiction play by Karen Zacarías, inspired by the bestselling...

Stoneheart
Stoneheart
Oct 25 – Nov 10, 2024

Valeria Vega, Lourdes Arteaga, Vanessa Flores Cabrera, Adriana Cuba Cuentas, Markuz Rodriguez and Lester Isariuz.

Yamel Cucuy
Yamel Cucuy
Oct 26 – Nov 8, 2024

Award-winning Austin-based theater company Glass Half Full Theatre will make their Los Angeles debut with the acclaimed drama Yamel Cucuy at Encuentro 2024, playing October...

A Girl Grows Wings
A Girl Grows Wings
Oct 10 – Oct 20, 2024

Latino Theater Company and Mexico’s Organización Secreta Teatro presents the poignant story of one girl’s journey as she navigates the fallout her undocumented status inflicts...

God Will Do The Rest
God Will Do The Rest
Aug 31 – Sep 29, 2024

Karaoke, chicken adobo and Santo Niño prayers. “We can only do our best, diba (right)?” Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company present God Will...

Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy
Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy
May 9 – Jun 16, 2024

Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena present the world premiere of an epic World War II odyssey inspired by an astonishing, little-known true story. Grand...

Ghost Waltz
Ghost Waltz
Apr 25 – Jun 2, 2024

Latino Theater Company presents a boldly original new play about Juventino Rosas, one of Mexico’s most significant classical composers — an Indigenous musician whose life...

Tacos La Brooklyn
Tacos La Brooklyn
Sep 21 – Oct 29, 2023

Appropriation… or appreciation? Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere of an exciting, multilingual comic drama developed in Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas playwriting...

The Travelers
The Travelers
Sep 23 – Oct 15, 2023

“We are all travelers, Brother. Our journeys take place inside.” Latino Theater Company, in association with San Francisco’s Magic Theatre and resident home company Campo...

This Is Not a True Story
This Is Not a True Story
Sep 14 – Oct 15, 2023

Artists at Play in association with Latino Theater Company presents an exhilarating new comedy that tackles, head-on, the fetishization and anti-Asian racism of Orientalist works....

Evolution of a Sonero
Evolution of a Sonero
May 11 – May 28, 2023

Sonero [noun]: an improvising lead singer in salsa music. Hip-hop meets salsa when poet, actor and singer Flaco Navaja, backed by five world-class Latinx salsa...

Whittier Boulevard
Whittier Boulevard
Apr 20 – May 28, 2023

The world premiere an original, ensemble-devised work from L.A.’s Latino Theater Company, employs the company’s trademark blend of comedy, drama, music, dance and theatrical magic...

Organización Secreta Teatro
Organización Secreta Teatro
May 3 – May 14, 2023

Latino Theater Company presents Mexico City’s interdisciplinary, experimental ensemble Organización Secreta Teatro in two new performance works. Pueblo Espíritu (“Spirit Town”) explores a post-pandemic dystopian...

How I Learned What I Learned
How I Learned What I Learned
Apr 15

Los Angeles premiere of Tony Award and two-time Pultizer Prize winning playwright August Wilson's autobiographical one-man show, "How I Learned What I Learned"...

(Un)Documents
(Un)Documents
Oct 13 – Nov 20, 2022

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you...

Desert Stories for Lost Girls
Desert Stories for Lost Girls
Sep 29 – Oct 16, 2022

Latino Theater Company partners with Native Voices at the Autry, the only Actors Equity theater company in the country dedicated to developing and producing new...

Found
Found
Feb 14 – Mar 23, 2020

The West Coast premiere of a new musical comedy that hits all the right “notes.” Found isn’t just based on a true story, it’s based...

Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evil Doers
Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evil Doers
Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2019

A sci-fi Latino noir satire, inspired by interviews with immigrants who crossed the border to escape economic despair and war, that spotlights anti-immigrant hysteria. In...

Revoluciones
Revoluciones
Apr 18 – May 12, 2019

A highly theatrical fever-dream that employs magical realism to tell the kaleidoscope journey of a strong and passionate woman facing an impossible tragedy. A desperate...

Home
Home
Feb 28 – Apr 21, 2019

Writer/performer Nancy Mas coming-of-age tale about growing up sandwiched between two cultures. Desperately seeking approval from her Chinese Toisan immigrant family, Nancy journeys away from...

The Mother of Henry
The Mother of Henry
Mar 15 – Apr 14, 2019

In the working class melting pot that was Boyle Heights in the 1960s, five diverse employees in the return department at Sears form a tight...

Canyon
Canyon
Feb 22 – Mar 24, 2019

In a backyard deep within a canyon during Labor Day weekend 2016 before everything in America changed we meet a newlywed couple and a Mexican...

Desert Rats
Desert Rats
Oct 25 – Nov 18, 2018

A dark comedy about life and crime in America's contemporary West. In a squalid motel room on a hellish day in Barstow, brothers Frank and...

Members Only
Members Only
Oct 25 – Nov 18, 2018

A roller-coaster ride to redemption. The year is 1982: the golden age of boxing, the dying gasp of disco, the flowering of identity politics —...

Orange Is The New Musical: The Unauthorized Parody
Orange Is The New Musical: The Unauthorized Parody
Jun 13

ORANGE IS THE NEW MUSICAL: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY opened this May to a sold out audience and is Kefi Studio’s LA stage debut. Fans of...

Enrique´s Journey
Enrique´s Journey
Oct 17 – Nov 7, 2014

Encuentro Theatre Festival - Su Teatro ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY Adapted by Anthony Garcia, from the Pulitzer Prize winning work of Sonia Nazario - • Directed by...

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