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Andy Wolk's production transports Sophokles’s work off the pages of a high school syllabus and directly across the threshold of our comfort zone.

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed the 2025 Season Award winners. Award recipients, finalists, and the greater Los Angeles professional theatre community will take part in a live reception event. See the full list of winners here.

Veteran director Jack Heller returns to the Odyssey Theatre to helm a visiting production of Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter, an evening of two rarely staged Pinter one-acts—both darkly comic, both unmistakably unsettling. Opening night is set for March 20, with performances continuing through April 26.

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed the Finalists for its 2025 Season Awards honoring significant achievements in each of the Circle’s season award categories.

Around the BroadwayWorld is our monthly snapshot of the biggest stories making waves across the global theatre community. In this February 2026 edition catch headlines about the renaming of the Kennedy Center Honors, layoffs affecting theater coverage at The Washington Post, and artists gathering in Washington, DC for the First Amendment Troop’s ResistDance performance.

Embodied by the exciting Ann Noble and surrounded by a solid cast, Richard and his dastardly deeds are every inch at home within the world of Guillermo Cienfuegos’s sweet and seedy production of RICHARD III for A Noise Within.

Here's my interview with director Guillermo Cienfuegos and Richard III star Ann Noble about their vision for the production.

Production photos have been released for RICHARD III, which begins performances this Saturday at A Noise Within. The production is a streamlined staging of William Shakespeare’s Richard III, reimagined in 1970s Britain and directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos.

Guillermo Cienfuegos will return to A Noise Within to direct a streamlined, high-velocity, darkly entertaining take on William Shakespeare's Richard lll.

Open-Door Playhouse will premiere There’s No Such Thing as Vampires on October 15, 2025. Written by John Cimics, directed by Kim Hlavac, and starring Ann Noble and Rob Nagle, the short audio play blends humor and suspense as two characters confront their fears while watching Dracula.

Audiences will have the chance to experience two critically acclaimed solo works by members of The Echo Theater Company this month when both are revived under the collective title Fall Fest. Learn more!

Corktown ’39 is a new play that feels like a classic, the kind of intelligent, thought-provoking drama that you can imagine a playwright like Aaron Sorkin or Henrik Ibsen might have written.

Performances of 52 Pick-Up will take place at the Broadwater Studio Theatre in Hollywood from June 7 through June 29 as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2025. Learn more!

Rogue Machine's political thriller about a little known Irish Republican Army (IRA) plot to assassinate the king of England opens Saturday, April 12 at 8pm.

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced the winners of its 2024 Theatre Season Awards, with a live reception set for April 21 at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica.

Now in its 11th year, Stage Raw will present its 2025 Stage Raw Awards Party on Monday, May 5, 2025 at Sassafras Saloon. Learn more about the awardees here!

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has revealed its 2024 Season Award Finalists and Special Award Honorees for theatrical excellence. See the list of nominees here!

Tom Jacobson’s script is a razor-sharp warning of how easy it is for history to repeat itself with long, dark shadows stretching across our country again.

The Skin of Our Teeth is an astonishing production of the classic play at A Noise Within through September 29th.  It is insatiably alive with sharp-fanged wit, whimsical thoughtfulness, and improbable wonder.  The Skin of Our Teeth is audaciously satirical, but also earnest its incandescent meditation on the eternal human cycle of apocalypse and overindulgence.

A Noise Within opened its 2024-25 “True Grit” season last weekend with “The Skin of Our Teeth,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning, time-bending comic romp by Thornton Wilder that’s a testament to the indomitable spirit of humanity. See photos from the production.