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Alex Edelman's Just for Us

Alex Edelman's Just for Us

Expertly crafted by one of comedy's most distinctive voices, this singular theatrical experience is an exploration of identity and our collective capacity for empathy-and it's also "belly-laugh funny!" (The New York Times). In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic rhetoric pointed in his direction online, standup comic Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically, Queens, where he covertly attends a meeting of White Nationalists and comes face-to-face with the people behind the keyboards. What happens next forms the backbone of the shockingly relevant, utterly hilarious, and only moderately perspirant stories that comprise Just for Us.

The Allstore

The Allstore

Petra works at a big-box store to pay for college, day-dreaming of poetry and pining after Andrea, her older cage fighter co-worker. When working conditions deteriorate, Petra attempts to organize the employees against their corrupt management, sparking a confrontation of momentous consequence.

The Bespoke Overcoat

The Bespoke Overcoat

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.

The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe

The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe

Rogue Machine at

The Matrix

In 2014 the Geffen Playhouse decided to produce Harold Pinter's first great play The Birthday Party. They assembled a star studded cast and an Oscar winning director. Ticket sales were through the roof. Expectation for the production was high. What ended up happening is unbelievable, outrageous - and totally true. You may think you know the whole story...but you don't. Hear all the backstage secrets from an actor who was part of that cast - and a witness to the entire theatrical disaster.

Cinderella

Cinderella

Storybook Theatre at

Theatre West

Storybook Theatre's joyful Cinderella is a funny version specifically created to appeal to young children and the whole family. Complete with a loopy Fairy Godmother and puppets as the stepsisters, kids get the chance to dance with the Prince, try on the glass slipper, and join in the fun.

Faithless

Faithless

FAITHLESS is about an aging atheist named Gus, recovering from cancer, who is forced to deal with two grown stepchildren: a Presbyterian minister who is suffering from a crisis of faith, and a young woman who seems to have had a glimpse of the afterlife after a head injury. He is also dismayed by his adopted child, a teenager who suddenly decides she'd like to be a nun.

Fat Ham

Fat Ham

Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family's BBQ wedding reception demanding his murder be avenged, does the poetic and sensitive Juicy have it in him to do the deed, or will he "to thine own self be true?" See what the New York Times calls "a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy," in this Pulitzer Prize-winning take on Hamlet, direct from Broadway to L.A.

Fatherland

Fatherland

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.

A Froggy Becomes

A Froggy Becomes

Open Fist Theatre at

Atwater Village Theatre

Middle School is Hell. Especially for a seventh-grade girl somewhere in the 1980s whose 'friends' tease her relentlessly, whose father is an ogre, who desperately wants her mother to run away with their priest, and whose stupid science project is due, and she can find NO ONE to help her with it! A Froggy Becomes is a tale for grownups, written from the perspective of Bumpy Diggs (Sandra Kate Burck), a scrappy little weirdo struggling to survive the troubles at home and the horrors of seventh grade. It is a memory play steeped in magical realism. Replete with an ogre (Peter Breitmayer), flying priests, Satan worshippers, beer, Dorito's bags, and of course, Madonna.

Hat Box

Hat Box

What happens when boredom turns into rage? When four polygamist sister-wives learn their Prophet (and shared husband) is opening a beautiful embassy to greet visitors from the East, all hell breaks loose in their gilded cage. He needs a hostess, and it will go to his favorite wife… whoever that may be. There can be only one. There will be blood. God help them.

Into the Breeches!

Into the Breeches!

Into the Breeches! is set during World War Two. Oberon Play House's director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. Determined to press on, the director's wife sets out to produce an all-female version of Shakespeare's Henriad, assembling an increasingly unexpected team united in desire, if not actual theatre experience. Together they deliver a delightful celebration of collaboration and persistence when the show must go on!

One Of The Good Ones

One Of The Good Ones

The ultimate family showdown is on in the world premiere of this new comedy commissioned by Pasadena Playhouse. When the "perfect" Latina daughter brings her boyfriend home to meet the parents, her family's biases and preconceptions are put on full display. As tensions run high and hilarity ensues, everyone must navigate the ins and outs of family dynamics and the boundaries of acceptance - all while tackling the age-old question: what does it truly mean to be an American? Meet your new favorite family in this laugh-out-loud, heartfelt story from Gloria Calderón Kellett, the co-creator and showrunner of Netflix's One Day at a Time.

Power and Light

Power and Light

Power and Light is the story of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and how the battle for the development of electricity between these two great minds created sparks of tension as they illuminated the world.

The Revolutionists

The Revolutionists

Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Saw: The Musical The Unauthorized Parody of Saw

Saw: The Musical The Unauthorized Parody of Saw

One of the most thought-provoking horror films of all time now is...a musical. SAW The Musical hilariously captures the events of the first movie parodying the Saw that started it all following from where Lawrence Gordon and Adam Stanheight find each other for the first time in the bathroom trap. Will they follow "the rules" as they discover each other's secrets? Will they escape the game in time and saw right through? A love story with fluidity (and lots more fluids), SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw is Little Shop of Horrors meets Avenue Q, pushing the boundary on sexuality and how to love. SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw premieres Off-Broadway Fall 2023 in New York after its smash out-of-town tryout in Philadelphia last year!