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THEATRE 40

241 S. Moreno Dr.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

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Unnecessary Farce
Unnecessary Farce
Feb 28

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...

Unnecessary Farce
Unnecessary Farce
Feb 28

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...

Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Jan 26 – Mar 16, 2026

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...

Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Jan 26 – Mar 16, 2026

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...

Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Jan 26 – Mar 16, 2026

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...

Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Jan 26 – Mar 16, 2026

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...



Review: British Farce THE COTTAGE At Torrance Theater Company


by Shari Barrett - February 24, 2026

Hilarity ensues as alcohol is consumed, leading to brilliant cat and mouse games during which laughs abound....

Review: HERE LIES LOVE at Mark Taper Forum


by Evan Henerson - February 22, 2026

With so many delights and leaning heavily into both the political moment that is recounts and what America is experiencing in the here and now, HERE LIES LOVE rocks as aggressively as it rallies....

Review: SPAMALOT Revives A New Quest at OC's Segerstrom Center


by Michael Quintos - February 20, 2026

Initially billed as a show that was 'lovingly ripped off' from the 1975 cult classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Tony Award–winning 2005 Broadway musical comedy MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT™ gleefully gallops back onto the stage in a brand new production with its signature coconut-clack...

Review: APPLAUSE at Eli & Edythe Broad Stage


by Cary Ginell - February 18, 2026

Musical Theatre Guild, the Los Angeles-based company that produces staged readings of long-forgotten, rarely seen musicals, has done it again with a stellar and highly entertaining production of the 1970 musical Applause. ...

Review: THREE COCONUTS World Premiere Comedy at Miles Memorial Playhouse


by Shari Barrett - February 18, 2026

I really enjoyed the story, acting and staging, along with recognizing the Yiddish comments, behavior and attitudes from my own life being raised by a close-knit Jewish family....

Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA Journeys Back to Musical Theatre West


by Michael Quintos - February 17, 2026

Directed by James Vásquez with musical direction by Ryan O'Connell and choreography by Shani Talmor, this remarkably solid new production of the 1965 Tony Award winner boasts haunting visuals and superb performances from its assembled ensemble, led by a trio of excellent leads that offer three dist...

Review: AMADEUS at Pasadena Playhouse


by Andrew Child - February 17, 2026

Director Darko Tresnjak has crafted a visually-appealing world that unfortunately reduces the action of the play to broad strokes enacted in a toy theatre....

Review: SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA at Geffen Playhouse


by Evan Henerson - February 17, 2026

SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA is trying to be perhaps too many things at once and not really succeeding at any of them....

Review: POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE at Fountain Theatre


by Evan Henerson - February 13, 2026

These are words that both sing and challenge. If, like this reviewer, you were not previously acquainted with June Jordan, POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE is a crackling introduction....

Review: South Coast Repertory Presents GOD OF CARNAGE


by Michael Quintos - February 10, 2026

Wildly surprising and deliciously savage, Yasmina Reza's machete-edged 2006 dark comedy GOD OF CARNAGE—here directed by Marco Barricelli and continues performances at OC's South Coast Repertory through March 21, 2026—has to be one of the most ferocious dissections of modern-day performative civi...

Past Shows

What Opa Did
What Opa Did
Jan 15 – Feb 15, 2026

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
Theatre 40
Feb 10

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
Dracula, My Love
Feb 7

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
An Inspector Calls
Nov 13 – Dec 14, 2025

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
Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars
Sep 29 – Nov 10, 2025

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
All These Women
Sep 18 – Oct 19, 2025

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
A Jukebox for the Algonquin
Jul 24 – Aug 24, 2025

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
Mar 31 – Apr 30, 2024

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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