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Top Rated Plays List - The Highest Rated Shows In LA

The "Theatre In LA Top Rated Plays List" is a list of the top rated plays now running in the LA area based on what the current reviews are saying. To see all of the play reviews go to Review Round-Up.

Fatherland

Fatherland

Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of Fatherland, a riveting true story. A 19-year-old faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court after informing the FBI of his father's involvement in the Jan 6 attack on Capitol. Fast-moving, powerful, and theatrical, Fatherland erupts verbatim from official court transcripts, case evidence, and public statements.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended
Night Tinted Glasses- Somewhat Recommended
Showmag- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended
The Hollywood Times- Highly Recommended
2UrbanGirls- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
Fatherland
Stalin's Master Class

Stalin's Master Class

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

British playwright David Pownall imagines a chilling encounter in which composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich are subjected to the rants and bullying of Josef Stalin and Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin's self-important cultural commissar. Stalin and Zhdanov, reveal anti-democratic, formalist musical tendencies, alien to the Soviet people and their artistic tastes. Music that could make a whole population sick! Should one start writing music in the style ordered by the Master, or should one continue to do as one pleases, and risk death? It is January 1948, somewhere in the Kremlin. There is a piano, vodka of course, and peanuts...

LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
Stalin's Master Class
The Bespoke Overcoat

The Bespoke Overcoat

Pacific Resident Theatre

Inspired by Nicolai Gogol's famous short story, Wolf Mankowitz's The Bespoke Overcoat is by turns a deeply comic and unforgettably poignant reimagining of Gogol's most famous classic tale, The Overcoat. Reset by Mankowitz into the Jewish East End of London, this story about an old clerk who can't afford a new overcoat is a tale of love and resilience told with dignity and humor. Immediately hailed as one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights when the play opened in London in 1953, Mankowitz adapted it into a film that won the Oscar at the 29th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject Film in 1957. The son of a Jewish bookseller in London's East End, Mankowitz was a prolific dramatist, novelist, and screenwriter often know for depicting acts of humanity in a flawed but facinating world.

Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
The Bespoke Overcoat
Monsters of the American Cinema

Monsters of the American Cinema

Rogue Machine at The Matrix

Poster web.jpgWhen his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself to be the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband's straight, white teenage son, Pup. United by their love of classic American monster movies, the two have developed a warm and caring familial chemistry - but their relationship fractures when Remy discovers that Pup and his friends have been bullying a gay teen at his school. Told through dueting monologue and playful dialogue, this haunting and humorous tale is about fathers and sons, ghosts and monsters, discovery and resilience while being transported to worlds beyond through the American cinema.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Not Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended
Monsters of the American Cinema

To see the LA Theatre Reviews of all plays go to the Theatre In LA Review Round-Up.