Co-directors Ellen Geer and Willow Geer have re-set Shakespeare's love story in New York City during the tumultuous Gilded Age, a period marked by stark social inequality and rampant industrialization. Through this lens, the famous love story becomes not just a tragedy, but a...
Treasure Island is a re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel by Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer, who also directs. A young man's romantic dream of pirates on the high seas becomes a harrowing reality as young Jim Hawkins, played by newcomer Ruben Jones...
Waiting in the Wings is a comedy by Noël Coward set in a charity home for retired actresses, exploring old age, lingering jealousies, and the enduring power of friendship. The play features an ensemble cast including Jan Wikstrom, Susan Angelo, Katherine Griffith, Jane Macfie...
The People of Pompeii is a darkly funny new comedy by Bernardo Cubría, co-directed by Ellen Geer and Xochitl Romero, set in Topanga Canyon in the smoky aftermath of the Palisades Fire. Weeks after their home is narrowly spared, Carlos and Vera invite friends over for a dinner...
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
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.…
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Inspired by the little-known, larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War, Will Geers Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of Trouble the Water, freely adapted by Ellen Geer from the 2019 award-winning historical...
Forty-one years after its premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre, Academy Award-winning writer Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond) has deconstructed his script for The West Side Waltz. In the world premiere of Thompsons newly revised, music and heart-filled comedy set during the...
Presented by The ADDERLEY Conservatory and Le Pitit Cirque - Pippin is a magical musical by Stephen Schwartz that illustrates mankind's search for meaning. A show that is sure to impress!
Summer has arrived! The 2019 repertory season at Theatricum Botanicums magical, outdoor Topanga amphitheater includes Twelfth Night, with original music that lends Shakespeares joyous romantic comedy a refreshing new sound and lifts the elevated language to even greater heights...
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s Summer Season of five mainstage productions kicks off on June 2 with Coriolanus, William Shakespeare’s searing tragedy about a leader who has nothing but contempt for the common people. Also on the mainstage, Opening June 3: Theatricum’s...
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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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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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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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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
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Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
