Top Rated Plays In LA - Theatre In LA

Scintilla

Michael and Nora travel to visit his mother Marianne, a reclusive artist who lives at the edge of the woods in California's Wine Country. As a raging wildfire approaches, Michael must deal with Marianne's stubborn refusal to leave, and the arrival of two unexpected visitors. The rising tension exposes a complicated family history erupting into a larger question about our very survival on this planet.

Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended

A Soldier's Play

Ahmanson Theatre

A Soldier's Play, the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning thriller by Charles Fuller, has rocketed back into the spotlight, thanks to this 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival from Roundabout Theatre Company. "This is a play that deserves to be staged regularly all over America-though it's hard to imagine that it will ever be done better than this. It keeps you guessing all the way to the final curtain" (The Wall Street Journal). In 1944, on a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is murdered and a series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. Broadway's Norm Lewis leads a powerhouse cast in the show Variety calls "a knock-your-socks-off-drama," directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon.

Santa Monica Mirror- Highly Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Peoples World- Highly Recommended
Its Not About Me- Highly Recommended
Indulge Magazine- Highly Recommended
The Hollywood Times- Somewhat Recommended

The Book of Will

A Noise Within

The year is 1619, three years since the death of William Shakespeare. His closest friends are struck with the epiphany that most of his plays exist only in the fragile memories of aging actors, and become passionately determined to immortalize his work in what becomes the first printed collection of his plays. Lauren Gundersen's love letter to The Bard and the world of theatre revels in a comically outlandish but true story of love, loss, and laughter.

LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended
Showmag- Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Hains His Way- Recommended
Its Not About Me- Highly Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended

can i touch it?

The Matrix

hay Solomon is many things - but there's one thing she's definitely not: a pawn in the bank's efforts to buy up foreclosed real estate. can i touch it? examines Black hair politics, the racial inequities faced by Black-owned businesses and the fantastical place women of color have to recede into when they get asked stupid ass questions.

On Stage Los Angeles- Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Discover Hollywood- Highly Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended

Blue

Rogue Machine at The Matrix

His story keeps changing. Disturbing revelations push the detective to make a decision on whether or not to protect one of her own or to pursue a formal investigation that could upend her life. Blue touches on the inextricable links between power, violence, and the conflict between guardianship and enforcement. Ultimately, the play asks, "What happens when those granted the power to protect us see us as the enemy?

Broadway World- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Hollywood Progressive- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Discover Hollywood- Highly Recommended
Glamgical- Recommended

A New Brain

Los Angeles LGBT Center

A timely revival of the Finn & Lapine show about second chances and the urgency of art, Celebration Theatre brings us into the world of this queer musical of "captivating eccentricity" (New York Times) with an intimate experience of pathos, humor, and just a little bit of magic-to bring us back to life.

Stage and Cinema- Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Recommended

No Place Like Gandersheim

Skylight Theatre

Roz is a nun and a newbie playwright in medieval Germany whose love of God is exceeded only by her passion for the theater. With the help of her fellow nuns, Roz presents her brazen feminist comedy for her most important critic, the Holy Roman Emperor. His rejection of her work catapults Roz on a time-warping journey through contemporary Hollywood and into the unknown. From "me too" to "times up" to the metaverse and beyond, Roz discovers that home is where the art is.

LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Somewhat Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Glamgical- Recommended

The Bottoming Process

IAMA Theatre Company at Los Angeles LGBT Center

Lucille Lortel Award-winning, multiple Drama Desk Award nominated actor George Salazar (Be More Chill, The Lightning Thief, NBC's Superstore) and Rick Cosnett (The Flash) star in the world premiere of a dark comedy about two writers who meet at a shared co-working space and fall in love - or something like it. One is a famed novelist, and the other is fledgling writer who's mostly funny on Twitter. One is nearing middle age, and the other is flailing through their twenties. One is white, and the other is definitely not. As they mate, date and cohabitate, they grapple with issues of race, sex, power and the model minority myth, all to find out who's really on top.

Stage and Cinema- Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Somewhat Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended
The Hollywood Times- Somewhat Recommended

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