Los Angeles Events Calendar
2:00–4:00pm
Theater
at the very bottom of a body of water
In the wake of profound change, Marina’s quiet, cyclical life implodes when her usual fishmonger suddenly vanishes. Poignant, surprising, and darkly unconventional, this poetic new play explores how we navigate life after tragedy—is the unraveling of Marina’s comfort a curse…
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
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…