Applause is the Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The musical is based on the 1950 film All About Eve. An earnest, respectful understudy, endears herself to a Broadway actress and then engineers a way to go on in place of the star and steal all the thunder. The musical adaptation team is top flight: Strouse (wrote Annie) with Adams wrote Bye Bye Birdie. Comden and Green also wrote many hits for stage and screen including the classic Singin' in the Rain. Great story, wonderful score. APPLAUSE Based on the 1950 film All About Eve Book by Comden & Green Lyrics by Lee Adams Music by Charles Strouse.
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Be Our Guest at Disney's 30th Anniversary production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the breathtaking musical filled with the romance and grandeur audiences know and love. This enchanting and timeless tale has been brought to life like never before, with spectacular new sets and dazzling costumes. The show boasts the Oscar-winning and Tony Award-nominated score, including the classic songs "Be Our Guest" and "Beauty and the Beast."
Actress, singer and writer Eleanora Owen channels the “little sparrow,” sharing her life story and repertoire with the audience. Tim Byron Owen directs this original solo play with music that highlights Piaf’s joie de vivre, resilience, and triumph over a life of abject poverty and despair.
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Candlelight Concerts in LA turn an ordinary night out into something warm and memorable, pairing live music with the soft glow of hundreds of candles for an atmosphere that feels both upscale and totally unpretentious. Produced by Fever, these shows typically feature talented local musicians—often a string ensemble—bringing everything from classical favorites to pop hits and themed tributes to life in an intimate setting.
After two dozen tours to England, Alaska and Japan, after delighting more than a quarter of a million audience members to date, CINDERELLA is still the single most requested Playhouse Musical Matinee on three continents and this delightful make-over offers added delights: playful period costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes, magical special effects by James Cooper and the heart-warming romance that blooms with the assistance of a glass slipper, a magic wand, and the audience's eager intervention.
Experience the passion and terror of Dracula: The Musical, a spellbinding theatrical production based on Bram Stoker’s legendary novel. This mesmerizing adaptation combines Gothic romance and suspenseful drama to tell the tale of a timeless battle between darkness and light.
Ru hasn’t left his bedroom in years. Mick can’t stop paying for affection. Julianne mourns the person she never became and the dreams she once had. And Dylan will sell himself to anyone if the price is right. In this dark comedy of love and loneliness, four F**king Strangers are about to discover they’re connected in more ways than they realize.
Set on a chilly Wyoming night shortly after the 2016 presidential election, four young Catholic alumni gather at a backyard reunion to celebrate the inauguration of their beloved mentor as college president. As midnight approaches, their spirited reunion devolves into a passionate, fiercely articulated debate over tradition, morality, and spiritual survival in a turning world.
Before it became a 5-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical sensation, Kimberly Akimbo took the theater world by storm as a celebrated, award-winning play. Set in New Jersey, the story follows Kimberly, a sixteen-year-old girl with a rare genetic condition that causes her body to age four and a half times faster than normal. Trapped in the physical form of an elderly woman, Kim is forced to navigate the ultimate obstacle course of adolescence: severe family dysfunction, her very first teenage crush... and potential felony charges. Yet, against all odds, Kim remains the ultimate optimist. Determined to find happiness and embark on a great adventure, she faces life's chaos head-on. Kimberly Akimbo is a brilliantly heartwarming and hilarious play that explores what it truly means to grow up, grow old, and cherish every single moment we are given.
Ever get the feeling you’ve lost your moxie? Retirees Christina and Robert were feeling that way when they met at a wedding a few weeks ago. During the reception, their intoxicated selves concocted an idea to help them get over their respective anxieties. Renting a lakefront cabin seemed like a great idea at the time---but now that they’re sober, they have to go through with it. They have rented a lakefront cabin together to see if spending a night or two together, to test the intimacy waters, can help them find their mojo again. What could go wrong?
Theatricum returns with its signature production! The most magical outdoor setting in Los Angeles becomes an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers both fairy and human. Shakespeare conjures a world of wonder, magic, and romance where comical misunderstandings and the pain of unrequited love are resolved. All is reconciled through midsummer night revelries and the enduring power of nature.
My Lawyer is an Angel, a dramedy about ambulance chasers, those predators whose faces leer down at us from every billboard in town, and one fearless attorney who’s on a mission to chase them down.
Eddie Cappiello is trapped, living out his life in the Out With A Bang Senior Living Community. His ex-wife Betty – recently widowed from her second husband – arrives at his door one day and asks him to help her get revenge on a neighbor who has made her life intolerable. Eddie, longing to reawaken the love that the two of them once had, makes the fateful decision to assist in the endeavor. He enlists his good friend and next-door neighbor, a former Israeli accountant and professional mourner, Daniel. The three of them devise a dangerous and blatantly illegal plot to deal with her recalcitrant neighbor.
Fires have come before. More will come again. And still, people stay, for love of place, for their children, for the idea of community. Bernardo Cubría’s dark and incisive new comedy, set in the aftermath of the 2025 fires in Los Angeles, does not romanticize that choice, but interrogates it, exposing the privilege embedded in even being able to choose. Fast, biting, and wickedly observant, The People of Pompeii asks what “home” really means—and whether we are willing to do the work it takes to build it together, before the next fire comes.
Based on the classic novel Le Fantôme de L'Opera by Gaston Leroux, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it. He falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine, and devotes himself to creating a new star by nurturing her extraordinary talents and by employing all of the devious methods at his command.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum resets William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in New York City during the tumultuous Gilded Age, a period marked by stark social inequality and rampant industrialization. Through this lens, the famous love story becomes not just a tragedy, but a powerful warning about the costs of division, hatred and fear and the importance of compassion and human connection. There's no better way to experience Shakespeare than by spending a summer afternoon or evening at Theatricum's spectacular outdoor amphitheater, carved into a rustic hillside in Topanga.
The Russia-Ukraine War began in 2014, with Russia launching a full-scale invasion in 2022. It is estimated that total casualties (including the dead, wounded, and missing) across both militaries surpass two million. Roughly 10 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes. All with remarkably little accomplished on either side. Slava Ukraini! (or Waiting for Elon) is the story of three soldiers, two Ukrainian and one Russian, trapped in the bombed-out Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant in Mariupol, Ukraine days before the siege ends. All coincidentally, lovers of Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings. All desperately trying to survive. All trying to find some meaning for their actions, and the actions of their countries. Vitaly, the younger Ukrainian soldier, is convinced that Elon Musk will come to save them.
A dark, razor-sharp tale of vengeance, love, and meat pies, this Tony Award-winning masterpiece will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first chilling note to the final twist of fate. Set in 19th century London, the story follows Benjamin Barker as he returns home from being unjustly exiled, to seek revenge from the man who framed him and ravaged his young wife. Assuming the identity of Sweeney Todd, he teams up with Mrs. Lovett, the pie shop owner, and unleashes his revenge
In a suburban basement, a formerly close-knit gang meet on the night of their friend's funeral, to fulfill his posthumous request: finish the Tomb Quest, a role-playing campaign they abandoned after high school. Romantic tensions, a bitter grudge, bad role-play, and the fact that nobody quite remembers how the game works will put the journey into peril before the first die is cast.
Robert Lewis Stevenson's swashbuckling adventure story sails off the page and onto the wooded outdoor stage of Theatricum Botanicum. A young man's romantic dream of pirates on the high seas becomes a harrowing reality, where he is tested at every turn. He must face these challenges with courage, trusting a moral compass strong enough to triumph and discover the true treasure found in a life lived with integrity and purpose. Reimagined by Ellen Geer from the Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
An exploration of gender roles, misogyny, and power, in which desire twists and turns in on itself, Venus in Fur is a witty, unsettling look at the art of acting, onstage and off. In this dark comedy, Thomas is casting the role of "Vanda" for a stage adaptation of the infamous S&M novel Venus In Fur, when an actress bearing the character's name shows up to audition. As they work through the script, they enter into an increasingly serious game of submission and domination that only one can win.
“The Wings” is a charitable home for retired actresses, women who once lived at the very center of applause and public admiration, and who must now learn how to live together when the curtain has long since fallen. Coward’s signature wit is radical in its insistence that these women are not relics of a bygone era, but fully realized human beings who are sharp, funny, generous, and full of life. With poignant humor, Waiting in the Wings reminds us that if we are to live fully, we must continue to grow and recognize that a life well led is measured not by applause, but by connection.
Called "a hilarious and painfully affecting blend of oddball dialogue, beautifully observed family dynamics, and a preoccupation with the weird ways of the body" by The New Yorker, You Got Older is centered on 32-year-old Mae, who has moved home to care for her father who has cancer. As her childhood house becomes both a refuge and a trap, Mae takes a look at her life, her body and her self. She struggles, like so many Millennials, to find her footing in the limbo between where you are and where you thought you’d be.