Written and performed by Jennie Fahn. Directed by Tom Cavanaugh. This too-crazy-to-not-be-true story tells about the end of Jennie's mother’s life, The title refers to the unusual place Jennie’s mom hid her end-of-life instructions; it turned out, she was also hiding a secret...
With Edgar Allan Poe’s creation of the character of C. Auguste Dupin, the master of the macabre forever changed crime fiction. Dupin was the first modern detective. He was the archetype for literary sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, solving seemingly unsolvable crimes...
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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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 ago. During the reception, their intoxicated selves concocted an idea to help them get over their respective anxieties. Renting a lakefront...
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?”, was found dead in her apartment, everything about it looked wrong to those who knew her. And where was the...
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, federal trials are decided by a game show in which the studio audience is the jury, but as rules shift and politics replaces due process, the...
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. But as rules shift and politics replaces due process, can the new order survive challenges from both without and within? The cast includes...
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 is visiting her grandmother (Bubbe) in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This irascible granny and her friend the matchmaker have found a “good catch” for...
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 continent. President Roosevelt wants to send aid to England, now being bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe. Charles Lindbergh, the...
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 dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the woman’s dazed confession is anything but convincing, and the unexpected guest...
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 tasked with unraveling the mysterious discoveries of his late colleague and former instructor, Dr. Winston...
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 battle of wits ensues February 2- Address Unknown by Katherine Kressmann Taylor . A play told in letters. Two friends are torn...
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 mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next door, two undercover cops wait to catch the...
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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) |
