Matrix Theatre

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Michigan Awards; NEWSIES THE MUSICAL Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - Dec 1, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Michigan Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Team StarKid Will Have First West End Season With THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS
by Stephi Wild - Nov 17, 2025

The American cult-favourite theatre company, StarKid, is headed to the West End with The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, playing its first ever London season at the Apollo Theatre.

Review: ANTHROPOLOGY at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
by Evan Henerson - Oct 17, 2025

No form of artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the experience of sitting through Lauren Gunderson’s ANTHROPOLOGY, and specifically what Rogue Machine Theatre’s John Perrin Flynn has accomplished with it for the play’s North American premiere at the Matrix Theatre.

Rogue Machine's ANTHROPOLOGY Comes to The Matrix Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Oct 1, 2025

The North American Premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, directed by John Perrin Flynn, will launch Rogue Machine’s new season on their mainstage. Learn more here!

Review: ADOLESCENT SALVATION at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - Sep 25, 2025

Adolescent Salvation is the kind of play that is challenging to review because I absolutely hate it, while loving what Rogue Machine does with it.

The 6th Act's Production Of OUTSIDE MULLINGAR to Return This Fall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 22, 2025

The 6th Act is bringing back their production of John Patrick Shanley's modern classic OUTSIDE MULLINGAR! Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Interview: Playwright Tim Venable of ADOLESCENT SALVATION at Rogue Machine
by Shari Barrett - Sep 6, 2025

The world premiere of Tim Venable’s play Adolescent Salvation is taking place at Rogue Machine in the intimate upstairs Henry Murray Stage at the Matrix Theatre.

Review: REEL TO REEL at Rogue Machine At Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - Aug 8, 2025

Reel to Reel is the Los Angeles premiere of an exquisitely evocative new play at Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre on Melrose through August 23rd.  Reel to Reel is a stunning anatomy of sound. 

Rogue Machine Theatre Reveals FAIRVIEW and More for Season 18 Lineup
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 5, 2025

Rogue Machine Theatre will open Season 18 on October 4, 2025, with four L.A. premieres including Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview. The season also features Fringe participation and the Playwright’s Roundtable Festival.

Review: NICE GIRL at Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - Jun 24, 2025

Nice Girl is the West Coast premiere of a must-see new drama at Rogue Machine on Melrose through July 20th.  This is a quietly thoughtful, intimately compelling slice-of-life four person play I found incredibly poignant and moving.

Review: FOSTERED at Pacific Resident Theatre
by Amanda Callas - May 15, 2025

Fostered is a must-see world premiere comedy at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice.  The spirit of silliness and fun is bubbly and infectious.  How often do we get to enjoy something sexy, smart, funny and effervescent, like a classic, delicious Woody Allen sex comedy?  The roars of audience laughter and applause never let up, and personally, I laughed so hard, I almost fell out of my chair.

OUTSIDE MULLINGAR By John Patrick Shanley To Open At The Matrix Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2025

The 6th Act will present John Patrick Shanley's hilarious and heartfelt modern classic OUTSIDE MULLINGAR directed by Co-Artistic Director Matthew Leavitt. Learn more!

Review: CORKTOWN '39 at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - Apr 28, 2025

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.

Rogue Machine's CORKTOWN '39 Opens In April At The Matrix Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 12, 2025

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.

Stage Raw to Present its 2025 Stage Raw Awards Party
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 11, 2025

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!

Review: BACON at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - Feb 16, 2025

Bacon is the West Coast premiere of a simmering new drama at Rogue Machine on Melrose running through March 30th.  Brawny, raw, savagely intimate, Bacon is a spare two-person play by Sophie Swithinbank that grabs us hard and never lets us go, even for a second.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Company Celebrates DEVISE Magazine This Month
by Stephi Wild - Feb 12, 2025

Unusual Suspects Theatre Company will celebrate the latest edition of their youth-led theatre magazine, DEVISE, with an intimate event at The Matrix Theatre.

Review: EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - Feb 7, 2025

A smash hit at Rogue Machine already, many performances are already sold out.  Evanston Salt Costs Climbing is a strange, satirical, darkly funny meditation on loss, anxiety, and depression.  Among other things, it touches on our universal creeping feeling of dread, the vastness of the problems facing humanity such as climate change and environmental devastation, our struggle with our own bitter destructive natures, our fear of closeness and our desperate need for it.

Rogue Machine Production to be Featured on Newest Episode of BOB BARTH'S ONE NIGHT STAND
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 6, 2025

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, the production at Rogue Machine in Hollywood's Matrix Theatre, takes center stage on tonight's episode of Bob Barth's One Night Stand on WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room Stream. Learn how to tune in.

GROUNDED Comes to the Matrix Theatre Company
by Stephi Wild - Nov 5, 2024

Matrix Theatre Company will present Grounded, a powerful one-woman show written by George Brant, starring CJ Williams and directed by Emily Lange. This production features an all-women creative team and will be performed at Matrix Theatre Company.