Los Angeles Events Calendar
2:00–3:30pm
Theater
Ghost Songs
The Independent Shakespeare Company Studio
In 1648, as England is banning theater performances and tearing down playhouses, a confiscated trunk of playhouse “scrap” arrives at a Puritan household. Inside are banned play manuscripts—Shakespeare, Marlowe, and lost works—destined to be used as toilet paper. A sheltered…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Kaiju
Two 250-foot-tall monsters debate the morality of the destruction they just caused. A group of human theatergoers argues after a play they just watched. Destruction becomes a means of conversation and conversation becomes a means of destruction in this satire…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Winter's Bench
Can trees talk?In Olivier-Award-winning playwright Mike Kenny’s world premiere, Winter’s Bench, an old woman believes they can. She has returned, after many years, to a dilapidated, abandoned park where all the trees are logged but one. It’s ancient. And she is certain it…
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
Saint Megan
Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
What happens when honest conversation threatens everything you know?Inspired by the story of Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hyper-Calvinist sect notorious for its outrageous picketing of military funerals.When Megan defends her faith online…
2:00–4:30pm
Theater
Heartbreak House
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.” Will 20-year old Ellie Dunn fall out of love with her friend’s husband, into love with the 88-year-old Captain Shotover, or marry the mercenary Mr. Mangan…
5:00–10:00pm
Theater
WIVES
Fresh, funny, and sharply relevant, Jaclyn Backhaus’s WIVES reimagines history through the eyes of the women beside “great men.” With a South Asian cast and direction by Hypokrit Live Arts NYC co-founder Arpita Mukherjee, this whirlwind comedy travels from 16th-century France…