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ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE

3269 Casitas Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Upcoming Shows

For Want of a Horse
For Want of a Horse
Apr 17 – May 25, 2026

The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of a darkly comic, deeply human exploration of love, desire and unconventional relationships. Calvin is devoted to...



Review: SPAMALOT at Hollywood Pantages Theatre


by Amanda Callas - March 30, 2026

Outrageously silly and positively contagious in its deranged fun, Spamalot is quite possibly the best night out you will have all year. ...

Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Hudson Theatres Backstage


by Melissa Heckscher - March 30, 2026

Chalomot's debut production may not be flawless, but it marks a meaningful first for a new theater company willing to take risks, invest in artists, and bring emotionally-driven theater to smaller spaces....

Review: KIM’S CONVENIENCE at Ahmanson Theatre


by Harker Jones - March 27, 2026

While KIM'S CONVENIENCE is charming, the nutritional value may feel more like catching dinner at a 7-Eleven than a fully rounded meal....

Review: SWEET CHARITY! at The JAXX Theater Hollywood is "must see" MUSICAL THEATRE!


by Gavin Glynn - March 26, 2026

Pow Thrust! Bam!! The is the best polished musical theater production currently on the boards in LA!  Musical Theater god, James Lent, took a four piece hugely talented band with only a five piece orchestrations to sound magically like a full orchestra bringing a solid punch to every number!  Crea...

Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Nocturne Theatre


by Harker Jones - March 24, 2026

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is an electrifying take on the last days of Jesus from one of the most underrated venues in Los Angeles....

Review: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU at Morgan-Wixson Theatre


by Shari Barrett - March 22, 2026

When Tony “accidentally” brings his conservative parents over for dinner a night too early, all hell breaks loose as the polished socialites clash with the chaos and disorder of the Sycamore clan, which raised the roof with laughter thanks to Cate Caplin’s spot-on direction and the impeccable ...

Review: FAIRVIEW at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre


by Evan Henerson - March 23, 2026

Despite its title, its well-intentioned if cynical nod to diplomacy, Oz Scott’s production is a swift kick to the nether regions. You will probably laugh – hard and often, and you will emerge after 100 minutes with plenty to discuss....

Review: DRAGON MAMA written and performed by SARA PORKALOB at Geffen Playhouse


by Shari Barrett - March 18, 2026

In this next chapter, Sara takes on many personas who interact with her mother during her lifetime, each one a standout as an individual through unique voice and movement thanks to Sara's great skill with improvisation....

Review: ALL MY SONS at Antaeus Theatre Company


by Harker Jones - March 17, 2026

What did our critic think of ALL MY SONS at Antaeus Theatre Company?With Miller’s prescient book and under Nguyễn’s precise and fluid direction, ALL MY SONS is another gem in the Antaeus crown....

Review: THE COLOR PURPLE by Chromolume Theatre at The Zephyr


by Shari Barrett - March 16, 2026

Directed magnificently by Elijah Green, with energetic choreography by Katie Powers-Faulk and musical direction by Miki Yokomizo, the totally entertaining and artistically brilliant production pulled me in from the moment it started....

Past Shows

Brownstone
Brownstone
Jan 24 – Feb 28, 2026

“If only these walls could talk.” Open Fist Theatre Company makes that wish a reality with the Los Angeles premiere of Brownstone, a bittersweet comedic...

Esther Perel Ruined My Life
"Esther Perel Ruined My Life"
Dec 6 – Dec 15, 2025

IAMA Theatre Company will present a workshop production of Mathilde Dratwa’s biting, tender, and tragically modern play Esther Perel Ruined My Life. The glossy veneer of marriage, monogamy, and motherhood...

Amerika, or The Man Who Disappeared
Amerika, or The Man Who Disappeared
Oct 17 – Nov 22, 2025

Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of new stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s first novel. Arriving in New York City on a steamer,...

The Menopause Monologues
Nov 5 – Nov 9, 2025

The Menopause Monologues is a collaborative theater movement designed to illuminate the experiences surrounding menopause, created by Carrie Vanhouten and directed by Lisa Anne Morrison....

Sinner's Laundry
Sinner's Laundry
Jun 13 – Jun 28, 2025

Sam and Jess would like to welcome you to Newport Women’s Correctional Facility to join them in The Rapture!  All the other inmates have mysteriously...

Trauma Play
"Trauma Play"
May 22 – Jun 2, 2025

IAMA Theatre Company closes its 17th season with a workshop production of the dark comedy Trauma Play by Abigail Miller. This new work will be...

To Each Their Own
To Each Their Own
Apr 17 – May 4, 2025

New Crime Noir Drama To Each Their Own Premieres in Los Angeles Art Crush LA’s First Theatrical Production Delivers a Powerful Tale of Betrayal, Loyalty, and...

One Jewish Boy
One Jewish Boy
Mar 20 – Apr 28, 2025

The Echo Theater Company presents the West Coast premiere of One Jewish Boy, a funny, biting, bittersweet story about two young people in love who...

Bat Boy: The Musical
Bat Boy: The Musical
Feb 28 – Apr 6, 2025

Horrifying Musical Brought Back to Horrifying Life by Horrifying Theater Company! More terrifying than Cats! Open Fist Theatre Company presents the horror rock musical cult...

Don't Touch My Hair
Don't Touch My Hair
Feb 13 – Feb 24, 2025

IAMA Theatre Company, committed to cultivating new voices and creating new, boundary-pushing work, continues its 17th season with the workshop production of Don't Touch My...

NIGHTINGALE
NIGHTINGALE
Nov 8 – Nov 17, 2024

ANNOUNCING NIGHTINGALE AT ATWATER VILLAGE THEATREFEATURING LANCE A. WILLIAMS AND DIRECTED BY BRANDON MENDEZ HOMER, PRESENTED BY STARVING ARTISTS USADAPTED TO THE STAGE BY ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER FREDERICK...

Clarkston
Clarkston
Sep 13 – Oct 21, 2024

The Echo Theater Company presents a profoundly poignant, empathic and hopeful new play about human connection by MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” recipient Samuel D. Hunter....

The Bauhaus Project
The Bauhaus Project
Jul 19 – Aug 25, 2024

Open Fist Theatre Company premieres The Bauhaus Project by Tom Jacobson, a world premiere theatrical event presented in two binge-worthy parts (Part 1: Bauhaus Weimer...

Arrowhead
Arrowhead
Feb 8 – Mar 4, 2024

IAMA Theatre Company presents a new comedy about love, sex, identity… and found family. Gen is unexpectedly pregnant. Gen is also a lesbian. Yeah, it’s...

Radical or, are you gonna miss me?
Radical or, are you gonna miss me?
Nov 11 – Dec 11, 2023

What do you do when the people you call family are the ones who hurt you the most? After being bailed out of jail by...

Blood at the Root
Blood at the Root
Sep 9 – Oct 28, 2023

Racial tensions erupt in an explosive ensemble drama based on a real-life incident at a Louisiana high school. Open Fist Theatre Company presents Blood at...

Certain Death and Other Considerations
Certain Death and Other Considerations
Sep 24 – Oct 15, 2023

Direct from a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this ensemble-devised, “eco-anxious” dark comedy combines Greek tragic structure, realism and physical theater to explore...

Certain Death and Other Considerations
Certain Death and Other Considerations
Sep 24 – Oct 15, 2023

Direct from a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this ensemble-devised, “eco-anxious” dark comedy combines Greek tragic structure, realism and physical theater to explore...

Crabs in a Bucket
Crabs in a Bucket
Jul 14 – Aug 21, 2023

“If I can’t have it — neither can you!” The Echo Theater Company presents an outrageous, smart and very funny satire about the impact of...

Starmites
Starmites
Jun 2 – Jul 8, 2023

Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager...

The Thin Place
The Thin Place
Mar 17 – Apr 24, 2023

Linda can speak with the dead. Hilda wants to. The Echo Theater Company presents a spine-tingling new play that questions the things we don’t know...

And If I Don't Behave Then What
And If I Don't Behave Then What
Jan 28 – Mar 4, 2023

If I resist, if I cross that line, if I don’t conform …what then? Open Fist Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of the...

Do You Feel Anger?
Do You Feel Anger?
Jan 21 – Feb 25, 2023

The #MeToo movement meets cancel culture in this truly outrageous comedy that The New York Times calls “ingenious,” “inspired” and “flat-out hilarious.” When Sofia is...

Anatomy of Gray
Anatomy of Gray
Nov 19 – Jan 21, 2023

Set at the end of the 19th century in the small town of Gray, Indiana, The Wizard of Oz meets Our Town in the Open...

To The Bone
To The Bone
Oct 1 – Nov 5, 2022

Sometimes you get thrown a curveball. Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of a darkly funny comedy about family, baseball, genetics and the...

Mother Sisters
Mother Sisters
Oct 5 – Oct 27, 2022

The Echo Theater Company presents a docu-play curated and constructed by Makaela Vogel based on interviews she conducted with her eight aunts. Looking back over...

Babe
Babe
Sep 14 – Oct 24, 2022

Old habits die hard. The Echo Theater Company presents a dark comedy about cultural evolution and the selves we thought we knew. Abby has been...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jun 17 – Aug 13, 2022

Open Fist Theatre Company presents a provocative new production of A Midsummer Nights Dream set in the Antebellum South. Intrigued by the Mechanicals line That...

Untitled Baby Play
Untitled Baby Play
May 27 – Jun 27, 2022

Six women find themselves trapped on an email chain as they plan their friend's baby shower when IAMA Theatre Company presents the world premiere of...

The World Premiere of Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Solo Flight
The World Premiere of Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Solo Flight
Mar 11 – Mar 27, 2022

Dreamer. Rebel. Outcast.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird.Banished to the Far Cliffs by his flock for daring to break with tradition, Jonathan spends his...

Stand Up If You're Here Tonight
Stand Up If You're Here Tonight
Oct 1 – Oct 30, 2021

VS. THEATRE COMPANY & CIRCLE X THEATRE CO. announce thatTHE WEST COAST PREMIERE OFSTAND UP IF YOURE HERE TONIGHTWritten and Directed by John Kolvenbach Is...

Poor Clare
Poor Clare
Mar 11 – Apr 20, 2020

Poor Clare is a very funny modern spin on the Middle Ages that couldnt feel more timely. Clare is just a regular noblewoman living in...

Rorschach Fest
Rorschach Fest
Feb 10 – Apr 5, 2020

Perception is everything. Open Fist Theatre Company opens its 30th anniversary season with three programs of short works, performed in rotating repertory, by playwrights renowned...

Handjob
Handjob
Sep 4 – Oct 21, 2019

When a gay writer hires a man to work as a shirtless cleaner, homophobia, racism and issues of consent bubble to the surface. This outrageous...

Pass Over
Pass Over
Jul 10 – Aug 19, 2019

Antoinette Nwandus provocative mashup of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga is a rare piece of politically charged theater by a bold new American...

Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa
Jul 6 – Aug 18, 2019

The beautiful, rolling hills of Ireland hold many stories and secrets. Set in the summer of 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, Brian...

Mama Metal
Mama Metal
May 17 – Jun 23, 2019

This joyfully irreverent black comedy entwines issues of identity with pop culture icons to tell a truly unique mother-daughter story. Sterling Milburns mother is dying...

Anna in the Tropics
Anna in the Tropics
Apr 27 – Jun 8, 2019

Nilo Cruzs poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars were still rolled by hand and lectors were...

The Wolves
The Wolves
Mar 13 – Apr 22, 2019

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, these 16- and 17-year-olds navigate...

What Matters Now?/! (Another Political Pop-Up of the Theatrical Kind)
What Matters Now?/! (Another Political Pop-Up of the Theatrical Kind)
Mar 15 – Apr 6, 2019

Open Fists annual political pop-up features a rotating roster of short plays by writers from across the country that explore our nation's current social and...

Last Call
Last Call
Jan 11 – Feb 23, 2019

In this semi-autobiographical dramedy by writer/producer Anne Kenney (Outlander, Switched at Birth, L.A. Law), the Vaughn familys go-to defense mechanism of sarcasm and mordant humor...

All Night Long
All Night Long
Sep 8 – Oct 21, 2018

The thin line between waking and dreaming, the conscious and subconscious, is exposed in playwright John O’Keefe’s outrageously funny, surreal sit-com about 18 hours in...

Gloria
Gloria
Sep 12 – Oct 21, 2018

A razor-sharp, darkly comic drama about ambition, office warfare and pecking orders by MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. For the 20-somethings working at a...

Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood
Jul 20 – Aug 25, 2018

Intensely beautiful, poignant and sublimely funny, this “play for voices” by the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recounts the dreams, gossip and waking hours of...

What Happened When
What Happened When
Jul 25 – Aug 23, 2018

On a snowy night in a rural farmhouse, three siblings huddle together in the dark with a flashlight, while the audience (unseen by them) gathers...

Cult of Love
Cult of Love
May 18 – Jun 24, 2018

IAMA concludes its 10th anniversary with the final installment in Leslye Headland’s “Seven Deadly Plays” cycle — a black comedy that explores the final sin...

Forever Bound
Forever Bound
May 9 – Jun 16, 2018

Are we all savages? A rare book dealer's desperate scheme to avoid bankruptcy goes shockingly awry in this darkly funny literary thriller with a surprise...

What Happened When
What Happened When
Apr 11 – Apr 26, 2018

On a snowy night in a rural farmhouse, three siblings huddle together in the dark with a flashlight, while the audience (unseen by them) gathers...

An Undivided Heart
An Undivided Heart
Mar 14 – Apr 22, 2018

Echo Theater Company and Circle X Theatre Co. join forces to present Yusuf Toropov’s new play that is part thriller and part spiritual mystery. How...

One Year Later
One Year Later
Feb 16 – Mar 3, 2018

A three-week only political pop-up in a speakeasy setting, Open Fist’s ‘One Year Later’ gives voice to playwrights across the U.S. Fourteen short plays explore...

deLEARious
deLEARious
Nov 3 – Dec 16, 2017

Tragedy meets hilarity and King Lear gets a happy ending in a madcap musical romp à la Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Open Fist Theatre...

Welcome to Your Alternative Reality
Welcome to Your Alternative Reality
Jul 15 – Aug 12, 2017

Take the edge off your week with a bracing tonic of laughter and lunacy! Highlights in this evening of interwoven one-acts and sketches include a...

2017 EST/LA PLAYWRIGHTS ONE ACT FESTIVAL
2017 EST/LA PLAYWRIGHTS ONE ACT FESTIVAL
Jun 21 – Jul 16, 2017

Newly produced works of one-act treasures, written by some of L.A.’s top playwrights, will be presented this summer throughout June and July. EST/LA is curating...

Woody's Order!
Woody's Order!
Mar 25 – Apr 22, 2017

When Woody, a nonverbal, highly intelligent, cerebral palsied 8 year old realizes that something might one day happened to his parents, he “orders” backup. Woody always plans...

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