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Ever get the feeling you’ve lost your moxie? Retirees Christina and Robert were feeling that way when they met at a wedding a few weeks...
Theatre 40
241 S. Moreno Dr.Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Upcoming Shows
Review: F**KING STRANGERS at Echo Theatre Company
Focusing on four lonely people in Southern California, it dramatizes the ever-shifting facets of our relationships as we struggle to be vulnerable and honest with others and ourselves.…
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Chance Theater
Beautifully and tenderly directed by Matthew McCray, this ferociously performed and often visually hypnotic intimate production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical is such a pleasant surprise, instantly becoming one of Chance Theater's most piercingly emotional new musicals it has ever produc…
Review: APPLAUSE at The Group Rep
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
Review: MUSE/IQUE DEFIANTLY JONI: A SINGER/SONGWRITER BARES HER SOUL at Mark Taper Forum
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi…
Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge
John Wuchte and his Kick Boom Theater ensemble of five actors and two onstage musicians (Wuchte on percussion and Sarah Green on guitar) continue their exploration of live percussion scoring the actors’ movement, gestures and stylized dialogue during Anatomy of a Back at the Electric Lodge in Veni…
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Musical Theatre West
Musical Theatre West's brand new presentation of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT marks the fifth time the 74-season-old institution is revisiting this ubiquitous musical, this time starring hunky Broadway alum and America's Got Talent standout Brian Justin Crum. For all intents and purp…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Wisteria Theater
Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.…
Review: MEXODUS at Pasadena Playhouse
When we hum along, dance, applaud or whatever (folks in the up close Get Down section probably have more opportunity to, you know, get down), the connection to the story and to its themes feels that much more immediate.…
Review: PAINTED PONIES Starring Rachel Sorsa at Ruskin Group Theatre
Sorsa’s extraordinary talent in enveloping Pam as if she was inside her soul, along with Elina de Santos minimally invasive direction by keeping Sorsa seated on the couch center stage to tell her story into her cell phone, will keep your sharp focus on Ian McRae’s monologue honoring human resili…
Past Shows
The Woman Who Knew Too Much
Staged reading of a play. Written by Janice Kennedy. Directed by Melanie MacQjueen.When Dorothy Killgallen, a well-known journalist and TV presence on “What’s My Line?”,...
The Jury Game
The Jury Game is a staged reading of a new satirical comedy written and directed by Warren Davis, presented by Theatre 40. In this play,...
The Jury Game
Staged reading of a new play,In this satirical comedy, federal trials are decided by a game show in which the studio audience is the jury....
Crossing Delancey
Isabel is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she...
Patriotic Games
Staged reading of a play.Patriotic Games is described as the battle for the soul of America.War rages in Europe. The Nazis have conquered most of...
The Unexpected Guest
Written by Agatha Christie. Directed by Warren Davis. Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot...
The Ten Tombs of Dr. styles
Staged reading of a play. Written by Frank Semerano. Directed by Christopher Franciosa. What Secrets Lie Within the Ten Tombs? Horton Sumner Malden is an Egyptologist...
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Play readings followed by Q&A.January 26- A Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher. A Nazi agent summons Pablo Picasso to a storage vault for an interrogation. A...
Unnecessary Farce
A play reading. Written by Paul Slade smith. Directed by Melanie MacQueen.wo cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling...
What Opa Did
What Opa Did follows Kate, a young New Yorker, as she confronts her Jewish grandparents’ past in Germany, where they were forced to hide with...
Theatre 40
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, join us and show your love for Theatre 40 and for our playwrights as we present an evening of...
Dracula, My Love
Staged reading of a new play, written and directed by Syrie James.A romantic retelling of Dracula unlike any ever created. In this spellbinding tale of...
An Inspector Calls
This play occurs when a young woman meets with an untimely demise and a respectable family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with...
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Play readings followed by Q&A.September 29, 2025- What Is Murder? by Ken Levine. Four former Jeopardy champions meet for a weekend to prepare for the...
All These Women
This world premiere play examines the almost insurmountable struggle women faced to get the right to vote in America. It is 1913, and women in...
A Jukebox for the Algonquin
The residents at the Placid Pines Senior Care Center really want a jukebox. When it costs more than the center can raise, a small band...
POWER & LIGHT
Power & Light dramatizes the titanic clash of genius between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as they battle to electrify the world. It is an...
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Mount Wilson Observatory presents “Jazz / Carte Blanche to Tom Ranier” Mount Wilson Observatory (8/09-8/09) |
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Akram Khan Company, Thikra: Night of Remembering Royce Hall (10/10-10/10) |