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The Los Angeles Theatre Center

514 S Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

The Los Angeles Theatre Center is a theatre in Los Angeles.

Upcoming Shows

The Dance and the Railroad

Oct 3 – Nov 1, 2026

A rare revival of this haunting and deeply moving early work by David Henry Hwang, directed by Katherine Chou in a co-production between Asian American theater collective Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company. Tony Jin and Scott Keiji Takeda star as Lone and Ma, immigrant...

Speaking in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues

Oct 15 – Nov 15, 2026

The world premiere by Luis Alfaro explores small-town Chicano life in a Pentecostal church on the edge of a cornfield in Earlimart, California. Hermana Romie, Hermana Cubby, Hermano Mando and Hermano Tico share chisme, food, and devotion to the Apostolic faith after their pastor...

Articles

Review: WIVES at East West Players

Review: WIVES at East West Players

by Evan Henerson · October 22, 2026

Far more corny than it is cutting or inspiring...the play offers a few insights, scattered laughs and a ton of heavy-handed self-actualization. Even at 90 minutes, this one feels repetitive.…

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Ovation Theatre

Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Ovation Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · October 21, 2026

Jagged Little Pill takes on a Herculean challenge: create a good original story out of a set of existing songs connected only by artist. Diablo Cody, the librettist for this Alanis Morissette musical, accomplishes this feat.…

Review: FALSETTOS at Victory Theatre

Review: FALSETTOS at Victory Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · October 18, 2026

Let’s face the music: William Finn’s Falsettos, written during the Reagan administration’s brutal fumbling of the AIDS epidemic and polarizing of the LGBTQ+ community, remains strikingly relevant to today.…

Review: COME FROM AWAY at A Noise Within

Review: COME FROM AWAY at A Noise Within

by Evan Henerson · October 16, 2026

Clearly there were a lot worse places to be on that infamous day than small provincial Gander. In Julia Rodriguez-Elliott’s spirited and heart-warming production...A Noise Within let’s us savor that unique visit.…

Review: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum

Review: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum

by Amanda Callas · October 14, 2026

Waiting in the Wings explores the glamor and elegance of a lost era, life on the stage of 1920s music halls, the terror and loss and beauty of aging, and the incomparable treasures of female friendship. …

Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre

Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · October 11, 2026

Before the hit movie-to-musical adaptations Legally Blonde and Heathers, Laurence O’Keefe wrote Bat Boy, a cult classic camp-horror musical about a boy who is half human and half bat.…

Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre

Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre

by Harker Jones · October 6, 2026

CRONE CREED is an ambitious take on mythology and fate, and it is one of the best shows the El Portal has offered in recent years — out of a field of many exceptional efforts.…

Past Shows

13 total · showing 1–10

The Storyteller of East LA

May 18 – May 31, 2026

The Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere production of The Storyteller of East LA, written by resident playwright Evelina Fernández and directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela. Blending intimate family drama with elements of magical realism, the play explores themes of...

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 and her three daughters, long-buried secrets emerge when the youngest daughter encounters a handsome stranger in town...

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 26 through November 8 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center. Yamel Cucuy is the story of a girl on the...

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 on her hopes and dreams. Fleeing violence in their home country, Alma’s parents cross the border when...

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 story has gone untold and whose works have been attributed to Europeans. Following Rosas from his father’s...

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 plays by Native artists, to present a haunting and lyrical rumination on identity, family and colonialism over...

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 on hundreds of them! When the lost and broke Davy happens to find a peculiar note meant for someone else on the windshield of his car, it sparks an...

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 a visually dynamic, profoundly moving and provocatively funny tour de force, New Orleans-based performance...

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 bond as they cope with upheaval in their personal lives, their community and the rapidly changing world around them. Connie, a Latinx...

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 father and son as they all try their best to find a better view. IAMA Theatre Company partners with the Latino Theater Company to present...

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