A visionary classic from 1923 that warns of, and satirizes, the future we find ourselves currently living in.
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Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared, adapted for the stage by Dietrich Smith from the novel by Franz Kafka. Arriving in New York City on a steamer, 17-year-old Karl Rossmann strives to make his own way, even as he encounters a series of increasingly strange and bewildering experiences that turn his world upside-down.
Step into a world where light and dance intertwine in this breathtaking retelling of Sleeping Beauty. As dancers glide across the stage, their illuminated costumes create a dazzling display of color and light, making every twirl and leap feel otherworldly. This isn’t just a ballet show—it’s a magical experience that brings a beloved classic to life in a way you’ve never seen before. Get your tickets now for Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in a Sparkling Show in Los Angeles!
An evocative new Southern Gothic comedy comes to life on stage as award-winners Gigi Bermingham and Mamie Gummer team up for the world premiere of The Baptist Witches of Shelbyville, a sharply rendered new full-length play by Julie Shavers. Directed by Daniel O’Brien, and debuting in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 28th at the Whitefire Theatre, this limited run promises a compelling blend of wit and theatrical virtuosity.
The world premiere of The Best Boarding House in Delaware, a new play by acclaimed writer Marja-Lewis Ryan. The production marks the long-awaited return to the stage of beloved actress Leigh Taylor-Young. Inspired by the chilling true story of Dorothea Puente—who ran a social security scam out of her boarding house for seniors—the play explores themes of trust, vulnerability, and survival. Ryan brings her signature emotional depth to a story that is as haunting as it is compelling. This play sheds light on loneliness and aging in America while centering the emotional lives of its characters.
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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.
Pulitzer Prize winning Death of a Salesman is a poignant exploration of the American Dream and its unraveling. The play follows aging salesman Willy Loman as he grapples with disappointment, disillusionment, and the growing gap between his dreams and reality. As Willy's world unravels, so does his sense of identity, leading to heartbreaking confrontations with his family and himself. Through memory, conflict, and fractured hope, Miller crafts a powerful portrait of a man chasing success in a society that defines worth by achievement. Death of a Salesman remains a timeless and deeply human story about ambition, family, and self-worth.
Broadway star Sara Porkalob returns to the Geffen Playhouse for the second installment of “The Dragon Cycle.” In this next chapter, Maria Porkalob, Jr. dreams of a bigger, gayer life beyond Bremerton, WA. But when an unexpected chance to escape arises, she faces an impossible choice—stay with her struggling family or chase freedom in the wilds of Alaska. Packed with ghosts, Filipino gangsters, and a killer ’90s R&B soundtrack, this award-winning, high-octane solo show is a raw, hilarious, and deeply moving story of resilience, queer love, and what it takes to break free and find home.
A comedian takes five shots of whiskey in a row and tries to perform an improvised play with five sober comedians. What could go wrong?! Drunk Theatre is the entirely improvised, unpredictable, and crazy comedy show that’ll kick your weekend into overdrive. Come see what iHeartRadio, SF Chronicle, CBS, LA Times, SF Weekly, SFGate, Thrillist, DoLA, TimeOut, and WeLikeLA have all been talking about. Grab your tickets now before it sells out! The cast: Sahil Desai, Ittai Geiger, Cassie Grilley, Rodd Naimi, Oleg Trofimov, & 5 Shots of whiskey.
"Few are the standout gems-those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room. English is one such gem." (Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast). Straight off their critically acclaimed Broadway run.
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma's birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can't be bothered to help, her husband doesn't seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place.
Storybook Theatre's award-winning "Jack and the Beanstalk" is a rollicking interactive version of the famous story. There are plenty of songs and lots of audience participation to delight the whole family. There is a rapping giant, a talking goose and chases up and down the beanstalk as members of the audience try to hide Jack from the giant on his adventure.
The Nocturne Theatre's 2026 production of Jesus Christ Superstar presents the seminal rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice with a visceral, immersive experience that reverberates with contemporary social relevance. The production highlights the story's enduring examination of power, protest, and moral ambiguity -- inviting audiences to see echoes of modern struggles for justice and identity in the fractured relationships between Jesus, Judas, and their followers.
This award-winning comedy drama, which inspired the Netflix hit, is a hilarious, feel-good story about a Korean family-run corner store. Mr. Kim works hard to support his wife and children with his Toronto convenience store. As he evaluates his future, he faces both a changing neighborhood landscape and the gap between his values and those of his Canadian-born children. Playwright Ins Choi, who will also star in the production as the titular character, calls Kim's Convenience his "love letter to his parents and to all first-generation immigrants who call Canada their home."
Experience a journey of love and lost connection in The Last Five Years. Written by three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County), this contemporary musical masterpiece explores what it means to fall in and out of love in the whirlwind of New York City life.
Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere of Level Up!, a visually stunning, emotionally resonant, family-friendly new play that unfolds across everyday reality as well as in a vividly imagined virtual realm. Desi López, a trans tween, is afraid to come out to her family. In her oversized hoodie, Desi is seen as a boy IRL (in real life). But inside The Proxy, a richly imagined virtual world within the play's digital realm, Desi discovers the freedom to exist as her true self: a powerful female warrior with enormous butterfly wings who embarks on an epic quest to save her dying dog and reunite with her mother.
Based on real events in both our past and much more recent history, The Messenger brings together the voices of four women across generations, each wrestling with prejudice, survival, and the choice to raise their voices against hate. At the heart of the play is Georgia Gabor, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor whose verbatim testimony demands that history not be forgotten. Her story resonates alongside imagined women from 1969, 1993, and 2020, all based in Pasadena, as each faces their own battles with injustice.
With ferocious wit and fearless honesty, Kasper careens through a chaotic childhood, addiction in all its disguises, the intoxicating highs of stand-up comedy and show business, and the brutal lows of self-doubt and loss. The piece crackles with comedy while exposing the compulsions that keep her chasing "more"-more laughs, more love, more anything-until nothing is ever enough-except a human connection.
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.
Experience Edgar Allan Poe in total darkness. LA's newest immersive theatrical experience: blindfolded in a dark space, buried by sound, as the unseen becomes unforgettable.
In Arthur Miller’s 1968 tour de force masterwork, THE PRICE, two brothers reunite in the attic of a New York brownstone to sort through their late father’s possessions. What begins as a long overdue reunion becomes an intense exploration comparing the price of professional success to the cost of personal integrity, as four indelible characters struggle to make sense of the past and create a future.
Stanley Wilson is a hopelessly introverted typeface designer who's spent decades honing his craft without much of a career to show for it. He's finally landed the first big contract of his career: revamping the typeface for IKEA. However, despite draft after draft, he's told that his letters lack "love." Now Stanley will have to reach out in a way he never has before to stop his dreams from slipping through his fingers.
Veteran director Jack Heller is at the helm of Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter, an evening of two rarely staged Pinter one-acts—both darkly comic, both unmistakably unsettling—in this visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre.
SPAMALOT, which first galloped onto Broadway in 2005, features a book & lyrics by Eric Idle and music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle. The original Broadway production was nominated for fourteen Tony Awards and won three, including Best Musical. The musical comedy lovingly ripped off from the film classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has everything that makes a great knight at the theatre, from flying cows to killer rabbits, British royalty to French taunters, dancing girls, rubbery shrubbery, and of course, the Lady of the Lake. SPAMALOT features well-known song titles such as “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” “The Song That Goes Like This,” “Find Your Grail” and more that have become beloved classics in the musical theatre canon.
At Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Feb 17 - Feb 22
At Pantages Theatre from Mar 24 - April 12
Heartfelt, humorous, and moving, this sharp comedy celebrates the unbreakable bond of friendship and the search for family; not necessarily by blood. Set in a small-town Louisiana beauty salon, six strong, witty Southern women navigate life’s triumphs and tragedies with humor, sarcasm, support and grace.
Scilla Claroe, an African American woman, is a writer. She is interviewing Renton Downey, a Death Row inmate and the subject of her next book, Downey awaits execution because he murdered multiple people in a mass shooting. As their discussions continue, Scilla is brought to the chilling realization that Downey is somehow linked to her biracial son, Jason Abernathy.
Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. But the woman’s dazed confession is anything but convincing, and the unexpected guest decides to help. Remarkably, the police clues point to a man who dies two years previously, but as the ghosts of a past wrong begin to emerge, a tangled web of lies reveals family secrets and chilling motives, where the real murderer turns out to be the greatest mystery of all.
Covering difficult topics from the advent of AI to politics, "When The Water Dies" explores a new world through two families: one that chooses to progress into the future, and one that stays back, frozen in 1950. A Thanksgiving dinner becomes a volatile clash of technology, tradition, and buried resentment. As generations collide over race, gender, faith, and power, both families are forced to confront whether staying the same is any safer than moving forward.