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TITLE PENDING - A Solo Show about Betrayal, Breakdowns and Breaking out of Boxes
The Whitefire Theatre
13500 Ventura Blvd.Sherman Oaks, CA
Upcoming Shows
Texas Sodomy: The Incredible True Story of Lawrence v. Texas
Houston, 1998. John Lawrence and Tyron Garner are arrested under Texas's Homosexual Conduct law, and what begins as a drunken arrest grows into a constitutional battle stretching from Houston to Washington, DC. The play follows the two men and Lane Lewis, a Houston bartender and...
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.…
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
50 total · showing 11–20
SANTASIA - A Holiday Comedy!
SANTASIA – A Holiday Comedy! Come Celebrate SANTASIA’S 26th Year! at the Whitefire Theatre 12/12-12/27 SANTASIA - A Holiday Comedy! written and produced by Brandon Loeser and Shaun Loeser, directed by Shaun Loeser, is being presented in association with the Whitefire Theatre...
A Life Behind Bars
Let’s get this out of the way right now: A Life Behind Bars is NOT about incarceration. It’s about a bartender. A Life Behind Bars is Dan Ruth’s autobiographical dark solo comedy. As a young man in New York, establishing himself as a writer and actor, he took on a job to pay for...
FeaturedBARRYMORE
Barrymore's imagined attempt to revive his famous 1920 performance as Richard III, opens the door to reflect on his meteoric rise on stage and screen.
RIGHT
The Whitefire Theatre is proud to present the world premiere drama RIGHT, written and produced by Darryl Vinyard and directed by Bryan Rasmussen. From 2024 to 2025 the number of measles cases in the US has grown almost 450%; there have been 3 deaths so far this year. Over a...
A Life Behind Bars
Dan Ruth's A Life Behind Bars returns for an encore performance at The Whitefire Theatre, following its recognition as a "Best of Fest 2025" at the Whitefire Solofest. This engaging solo show chronicles Ruth's experiences as a bartender and storyteller in the dive bars of 1990s...
FeaturedA Life Behind Bars
"A Life Behind Bars" is actor/bartender/storyteller, Dan Ruth's award-winning solo performance about working, drinking and surviving the dives and seedy haunts of pre-Giuliani Brooklyn and Manhattan. "A Life Behind Bars" is a "tour de force black comedy" and an unapologetic and...
FINDING MY LIGHT
FINDING MY LIGHT Written and performed by Barbara Brownell, developed and directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson. Barbara Brownell sings, dances and portrays 18 characters in her one-woman show, Finding My Light . As a young girl, Barbara needed the light of her angels to help her...
A Life Behind Bars
The Whitefire Theatre, Sherman Oaks, CA For Immediate Release Press Contact: LAstageNY Dan Ruth, returns to Whitefire Solofest with his critically acclaimed “ A Life Behind Bars ” to Benefit the Los Angeles Fire Department, Thursday, Feb 27that 8PM. LOS ANGELES, CA JANUARY 15TH...
Notes from a Narcissistic Negro & Other N Words
Notes from a Narcissistic Negro & Other N Words is an award winning solo show written and performed by Elizabeth June detailing her experience with CSA: Childhood Sexual Abuse, Clergy Sexual Abuse, and Cancer Survival. Under the direction of Malini Singh McDonald, the piece...
PSA: PELVIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
When “know-it-all” NYC comedian Amy Veltman sought help for some pelvic floor issues, she quickly learned just how much she didn’t know about her body’s most basic functions. Why didn’t her OB/GYN dad ever tell her anything important? While in treatment, Amy discovered hilarious...
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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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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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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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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) |
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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) |
