J. Bailey Burcham

CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION to Open Parish Players' 60th Season in Vermont
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 29, 2026

Parish Players will present Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation at the Eclipse Grange Theater in Thetford, VT, directed by J. Bailey Burcham in his Upper Valley directing debut.

COME FROM AWAY Opens Northern Stage's Season
by Stephi Wild - Aug 28, 2025

​​​​​​​Northern Stage opens its 2025/26 Season with the internationally acclaimed, Tony Award-winning musical Come From Away, running in the Byrne Theater at the Barrette Center for the Arts.

The Planet Earth Farewell Concert Comes to Hollywood Fringe in June
by Stephi Wild - May 8, 2024

Sacred Fools Theater Company has announced Jonas Oppenheim’s new play, The Planet Earth Farewell Concert, a world premiere musical satire about the climate crisis. 

LA's Shakespeare Youth Festival Unveils 2024 Season Featuring JULIUS CAESAR & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 13, 2024

Shakespeare Youth Festival - the country's youngest Shakespeare company will stage full productions of Shakespeare's classic plays, Julius Caesar, Richard II, and The Tempest in repertory. Learn more about the festival, and see how to purchase tickets.

Shakespeare Youth Festival Reveals Four Plays For 2024 Season
by Stephi Wild - Feb 13, 2024

Shakespeare Youth Festival will stage full productions of Shakespeare’s classic plays, Julius Caesar, Richard II, and The Tempest in repertory at the Hudson Theatre located in LA’s historic Theater Row. 

Artistic Director Blaire Baron to Step Down from Shakespeare Youth Festival
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 6, 2023

After seventeen years with Shakespeare Youth Festival, Blaire Baron is leaving Los Angeles as well as her position as Artistic Director of the youth arts non-profit that she founded. She will continue to serve on the Board of Directors and as a global ambassador from her new location in Staunton, Virginia (home of American Shakespeare Center).

SCHOOL FOR LOVE Premieres at the Hollywood Fringe
by Stephi Wild - May 16, 2023

2018 Hollywood Fringe Best Musical Nominee and 2021 Best Cabaret Nominee, Pamela Eberhardt, has arranged another musical experience for fringe audiences. In her cabaret, School for Love, a professor is going through a nasty divorce as three of her students find themselves in a love triangle.

THREE GUYS ONE GROUPON Comes to Hollywood Fringe
by Stephi Wild - Jun 1, 2022

The Sacred Fools Theater Company is delighted to welcome Hollywood Fringe Festival audiences back to the Broadwater for this year’s festival. The venue will be hosting dozens of shows, including the Company’s own offering, “Three Guys, One Groupon,” by J. Bailey Burcham, directed by Rebecca Larsen. 

Los Angeles Drama Club Partners With Auma Obama Foundation Sauti Kuu
by Stephi Wild - Apr 17, 2019

Los Angeles Drama Club - the country's youngest Shakespeare company - is proud and honored to be invited by director, Dr. Auma Obama, as guest artists-in-residence at the Sauti Kuu Foundation (SKF) based in Alego Nyangoma, Siaya County, Western Kenya, August, 2019. Sauti Kuu - meaning "powerful voices" - is partnering with Los Angeles Drama Club to further their mission of enabling children and young people in Kenya and beyond to find and use their voice to positively change their lives.

Photo Flash: First Look at the Madcap Holiday Comedy INSPECTING CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 7, 2018

Paul Thomas Panico Jr and PANIC! PRODUCTIONS are proud to bring the madcap holiday comedy, 'INSPECTINGCAROL' written by Daniel Sullivan, to the Hillcrest Center For The Arts. With a star-filled cast featuring Barry Pearl. Directed by Kirsten Chandler.  The talented and stellar cast will perform the hysterical Christmas favorite in September.  Open for a limited engagement, running September 7 through 23, 2018.

Panic! Productions PANIC! Announces Madcap Christmas Spoof INSPECTING CAROL
by Julie Musbach - Aug 20, 2018

Paul Thomas Panico Jr and PANIC! PRODUCTIONS are proud to bring the madcap holiday comedy, "INSPECTING CAROL" written by Daniel Sullivan, to the Hillcrest Center For The Arts. With a star-filled cast featuring Barry Pearl. Directed by Kirsten Chandler.  The talented and stellar cast will perform the hysterical Christmas favorite in September. 

Panic! Productions Presents INSPECTING CAROL By Daniel Sullivan
by Stephi Wild - Aug 19, 2018

Get your holiday cheer on with this hilarious, madcap comedy! Behind the scenes of a struggling theatre's annual slapdash production of a Christmas Carol, rehearsals are at a standstill. Tim is no longer Tiny, Scrooge wants to do the play in Spanish (Feliz Navidad), and their funding is on hold pending an inspection. This laugh out loud spoof makes for a night at the theatre that is anything but show business as usual.

PANIC! Productions Announces the Full Cast of INSPECTING CAROL
by Julie Musbach - Aug 6, 2018

PANIC! PRODUCTIONS are thrilled to announce their entire Cast for the madcap holiday comedy, "INSPECTING CAROL" written by Daniel Sullivan. In addition to the headliner, Barry Pearl, Panic! Productions and director Kirsten Chandler confirmed a talented and stellar cast to perform the hysterical Christmas favorite in September.

Trepany House Launches New Musical 300 BONES
by Julie Musbach - Aug 5, 2017

Trepany House at the Steve Allen Theater is excited to announce the first public showing of Derrick C. Brown and Amanda Rafkin's new musical 300 Bones. After selling out the initial show on August 12th, they have added another show on August 11th at 8pm, which will act as the show's first workshop concert.

Panic! Productions presents LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
by A.A. Cristi - May 1, 2017

            Panic! Productions closes its 2016-2017 season with a fresh take on the crowd-pleasing musical, "Little Shop of Horrors," June 2 through 18, at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. The Alan Menken-Harold Ashman ("Beauty and the Beast," "The Little Mermaid") musical will be directed by J. Bailey Burcham, with choreography by Tyler Matthew Burk, and musical direction by Josh Bednarsky.            

Panic! Productions Announce J.Bailey Burcham to Direct LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 27, 2017

J. Bailey Burcham, hot off his searing, critically-acclaimed lead performance in Panic! Productions' mounting of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Theatre 68, has signed on as director of Panic!'s next show, Little Shop of Horrors. Burcham will put his stamp on the Menken-Ashman musical favorite by updating the action to Los Angeles' Skid Row in the 1990s. Helping Burcham bring this fresh concept to life are choreographer Tyler Matthew Burk, music director Josh Bednarsky, set designer Rei Yamamoto, lighting designer Shara Abvabi, and costume designer Barbara Mazeika.

POISON and DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA Extend at Theatre 68
by Julie Musbach - Apr 1, 2017

Due to popular demand & rave reviews PANIC! PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCE the extension of Shanley's Twofer production through Saturday, April 15th, 2017 of DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA along with the premiere short of POISON.

BWW Review: You Will Want to Take a Shower After Seeing DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA at Theatre 68
by George Brietigam - Mar 27, 2017

Anyone who is a fan of creepy stuff will love this show.

Panic! Productions Presents the Classic Comedy FIGARO Beginning Today
by BWW News Desk - Jun 4, 2016

Panic! Productions wraps up its season with a lively production of 'Figaro,' Charles Morey's acclaimed recent adaptation of the classic Beaumarchais farce, June 4 through 19 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. J. Bailey Burcham directs this popular comic tale of love, deceit, mistaken identity, and comeuppance among the rich and their servants.

Panic! Productions Presents the Classic Comedy FIGARO This June
by Louisa Brady - May 7, 2016

Panic! Productions wraps up its season with a lively production of "Figaro," Charles Morey's acclaimed recent adaptation of the classic Beaumarchais farce, June 4 through 19 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. J. Bailey Burcham directs this popular comic tale of love, deceit, mistaken identity, and comeuppance among the rich and their servants.