New Works Festival
Our New Works Festival produces short plays by local writers and directors from marginalized communities.
Victory Theatre
3326 W Victory BlvdBurbank, CA 91505
Upcoming Shows
Falsettos
A seamless pairing of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, two acclaimed Off-Broadway musicals written nearly a decade apart, Falsettos is the tale of a neurotic New Yorker named Marvin, who leaves his wife Trina and young son Jason to live with his lover, Whizzer. In time...
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a historical tragedy dramatizing the 44 B.C. conspiracy to assassinate the Roman leader to prevent him from becoming a tyrant. Following his murder on the Ides of March, led by Brutus and Cassius, the play centers on the subsequent chaos...
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…
Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Past Shows
17 total · showing 1–10
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
"Internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig takes to the stage to smash the fourth wall, rock the house, and tell her story. Backed by her band "The Angry Inch", Hedwig details her time in East Germany, her botched sex-change operation, and her loves and losses - all to...
Godspell
An eccentric troupe of players retell parables, bringing messages of kindness, hope, and community to life! Through games, comedy, and a wide variety of music, Jesus and his followers spread his word through his rebel television programming despite the encroaching authoritarian...
Luca & Uri
Luca & Uri written by Nicholas Pilapil LUCA & URI opens with a breakup between two men fiercely bound by love yet unable to hold on, tracing the fractured arc of their decade-long relationship in Los Angeles. As their dreams and desires pull them apart, their intimacy dissolves...
Peter and the Starcatcher
Set sail into the stars on this imaginative Peter Pan prequel! This Tony-award winning play inventively weaves the origin story of Neverland with a dozen actors portraying more than 100 unforgettable characters! A young and nameless orphan stows away on a ship with magical cargo...
From Best of the Fest
Join us for an unforgettable evening with some of the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s favorite performers at From Best of the Fest. From Best of the Fest takes place at Victory Theatre Center, 3326 W. Victory Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91505 on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8...
New Works Festival presented by Conundrum Theatre Company
8 new plays by Los Angeles playwrights premiering August 29-31 and September 5-7 at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank! Conundrum Theatre Company's New Works Festival produces short plays by local writers and directors from marginalized communities. Each play is themed around...
Four Women in Red
Someone knows. Somewhere. The Victory Theatre Center presents the world premiere of Four Women in Red , a provocative new play, written by Laura Shamas ( Chickasaw Nation ) and directed by Jeanette Harrison ( Onondaga ), about the current crisis of Missing Murdered Indigenous...
Four Women in Red
Someone knows. Somewhere. The Victory Theatre Center presents the world premiere of Four Women in Red , a provocative new play, written by Laura Shamas ( Chickasaw Nation ) and directed by Jeanette Harrison ( Onondaga ), about four resilient women searching for missing friends...
Crevasse
Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center present the world premiere of Crevasse by Tom Jacobson at the Victory Theatre in Burbank. Set in 1938, the play explores the encounters between German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and Walt Disney as she seeks American distribution for...
Crevasse
In 1938, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl went to Hollywood to find American distribution for her award-winning film, Olympia . Only one studio head would meet with her: Walt Disney. Son of Semele and the Victory Theatre present an astonishing true story of betrayal, Nazi...
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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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Carmen Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (10/17-11/07) PHOTOS |