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BALANCING ACT Opens August 1 At Theatre 40

by A.A. Cristi — July 9, 2024

Enjoy the comedy BALANCING ACT at Theatre Forty in Beverly Hills from August 1-25, 2024.

Playwright Incubator PlayGround-LA Announces 11th Season Of New Plays

by A.A. Cristi — August 15, 2022

PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles's leading incubator for a new generation of playwrights, has shared plans for its eleventh season.

GRoW @ The Wallis Presents RECKONING – A Short Play Festival

by Stephi Wild — February 15, 2022

GRoW @ The Wallis presents The Wallis Studio Ensemble production of RECKONING – A Short Play Festival, featuring the work of ten emerging and established writers, with three World Premieres and seven L.

PlayGround-LA Announces November 8 Monday Night PlayGround

by A.A. Cristi — October 29, 2021

Following the successful opening of Season 10 earlier this month, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has recently announced the prompt for the next Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading event.

PlayGround-LA Announces Monday Night PlayGround

by Chloe Rabinowitz — October 5, 2021

On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and PlayGround's expansion to New York, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has chosen the prompt of 'rebirth' as inspiration for the opening Monday Night PlayGround of Season 10.

PlayGround-LA Celebrates Season 9 With Best Of PlayGround-LA Gala

by Chloe Rabinowitz — March 22, 2021

PlayGround-LA will cap off its ninth season on Monday evening, April 12, with Best of PlayGround-LA, a one-night gala celebration of the best playwrights and short plays selected from more than 150 submissions and 36 works developed as part of the season's Monday Night PlayGround staged reading ser

PICK OF THE VINE at Little Fish Theatre Streams Online March 5 through 31

by Shari Barrett — February 25, 2021

Founded in 2002 as an artists' ensemble, Little Fish Theatre presents classic and contemporary plays in an intimate setting on Centre Street in the Arts District of downtown San Pedro.

Towne Street Theatre Presents IN RESPONSE 2020: Sum Poetry!

by Stephi Wild — November 19, 2020

After the 1992 riots, the City of Los Angeles appealed to artists with the question Can the Arts Help Heal L.

Towne Street Theatre Presents BULLET POINTS: A Spooky Zoom Play

by Chloe Rabinowitz — October 16, 2020

Trick or Treating has been cancelled this year.

Towne Street Theatre Presents CORONA AND OTHER MALADIES

by A.A. Cristi — July 27, 2020

Towne Street Theatre (TST), Los Angeles' premier African-American theatre company, lifts at-home audiences' spirits during the strangest of times with a presentation of Corona and Other Maladies live on Zoom.

Kairos Italy Theater Announces The Finalists Of The First Round Of The KIT Intl Playwrights Series

by Stephi Wild — May 23, 2020

On May 18, Kairos Italy Theater and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò held the online event KIT Intl playwrights series 2020 dedicated to Women in Comedy.

SkyPilot Announces One Act Festival 2018

by Stephi Wild — October 19, 2018

The award-winning SkyPilot Theatre Company will premiere seven original short plays during its inaugural SkyPilot One-Act Festival this November at Oh My Ribs! Entertainment, 6468 Santa Monica Blvd.

TALL TALES Comes to Monday Night PlayGround Readings at Berkeley Repertory Theatre

by A.A. Cristi — February 7, 2018

This season over 75 California Playwrights have been invited by PlayGround to write ten-minute plays in competition for Monday Night PlayGround Readings.

42 Playwrights Are Vying to Become One of Six Scripts Performed in MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

by A.A. Cristi — November 8, 2017

PlayGround is the only theatre company in California to have Statewide, Northern, and Southern California New Play Competitions.

Announcing LA BROADS: A Staged Reading Series from Broads' Word Ensemble

by A.A. Cristi — September 25, 2017

Broads' Word Ensemble, in partnership with the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI), announces LA Broads: a staged reading festival of original 15-minute plays and short excerpts of original full-length scripts from Los Angeles based female playwrights.