Socks Whitmore News

EPIC Players Los Angeles will present Once Upon a Cabaret, a Disney-themed performance highlighting neurodivergent artists and guest appearances by Kristen Bell and Josh Gad.

Join Kristen Bell and Josh Gad at EPIC Players' Once Upon a Cabaret, a magical Disney-themed evening in LA celebrating inclusion and creativity.

One of the great pleasures of attending Inventing/Inviting: Trans Songs of Change is that brilliant producers Socks Whitmore and Tanner Pfeiffer have managed to do something quite rare: assemble not only a choir and solo artists with jaw-dropping, stunning vocal talent, but also composers, songwriters and storytellers who are creating the kind of deeply human, profoundly original and shockingly gorgeous new works that we need now.

The Burbank Colony Theatre will host INVENTING/INVITING: Trans Songs of Change September 12–13, 2025. Led by Socks Whitmore and the trans vocal ensemble 8TPS, this 75-minute concert blends pop, classical, and folk music to celebrate trans voices and stories.

On the heels of back-to-back award-winning productions LOVE CHICKEN and Annex playwright Maddox Pennington joins director Elisawon Etidorhpa to create an intergenerational community for trans and nonbinary folks at the Zephyr Theater for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. 

Celebration Theatre will host its annual awards gala Saturday, March 23rd, 2-5 pm, to celebrate its arts community’s creative heroes and raise critical funds during an entertaining afternoon of special appearances and festivities. 

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announces officers and members for the 2024 season.

Overtone Industries, a genre-bending opera-theater company developing and presenting original stories, hosts Original Vision: Leveling, its third annual presentation of workshops from developing composers and librettists, on December 9 at 6pm at Teatro Frida Kahlo.

The 2023 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its current officers and members for the upcoming 2023 season. Founded in 1969, the Circle currently includes 21 critics covering productions across the Greater Los Angeles area.  

The 9th Annual Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival's Solo Performer EMPOWERMENT WEEKEND.

Pothos Arts & Theater House will present Trans Voices Cabaret: Pride, the West Coast premiere of the internationally performed Trans Voices Cabaret series. Trans Voices Cabaret: Pride kicks off Pride Month with two performances, Friday June 3 at 8pm and Saturday June 4 at 2pm, at The Complex Theatres and Studios in Hollywood.

The third year of the record-breaking North American Tour of Dear Evan Hansen relaunched on December 7, 2021 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The tour will stop by more than 30 cities across the US and Canada in the 2021/2022 season.

Amid a pandemic with all live performance shuttered, a team of graduate students from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Experience Design and Production program create episode one of a multipart narrative virtual reality game for the Oculus platform.

If you're under the age of 26, and you're writing for musical theatre, New Musicals Inc. would love to hear from you.

HERE WE GO is back again with their second ever 24 hour ZOOM festival! This now monthly series kicked off earlier in May and showcased the work of 23 emerging artists. The first edition featured 5 plays that were written, conceptualized and performed all within 24 hours by creative teams that only met at the start of the short time period. Each creative team had to produce a piece that was site-specific for the ZOOM platform following in HERE WE GO's signature site-specific festival format.

If you're under the age of 26, and you're writing for musical theatre, New Musicals Inc. would love to hear from you.

If you're under the age of 26, and you're writing for musical theatre, New Musicals Inc. would love to hear from you.

Stage Raw and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts' GRoW @ The Wallis: A Space for Arts Education are joining forces in a program to offer young journalists professional mentorships. This initiative expands upon The Wallis' previous Student Arts Reporters program which has been offered for the past four seasons through GRoW @ The Wallis.

Fresh off showcasing at the prestigious ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, acclaimed composer Michael Gordon Shapiro's captivating, award-winning musical THE BULLY PROBLEM is thrilling Fringe audiences with its sweet, poignant, and action-packed musical about bullying, standing up for yourself…and robots. Performed by an ensemble of actors who know how to truly support each other and work together from moment-to-moment, there is no doubt in my mind the production will be one of the biggest Fringe hits this month.

The Bully Problem opens this Friday, June 14 , 2019 at the The Broadwater - Main Stage. In this award-winning musical from Michael Gordon Shapiro, impassioned nerds face a slew of school bullies head on, with the help of a mostly-functional android.