Los Angeles Upcoming Events
GUAC
Next Up: Tuesday, May 12 | 7:30pm | Kirk Douglas Theatre
GUAC is a fearless, funny, and deeply moving theatrical tour-de-force about a father turned activist seven years after his son Joaquín "Guac" Oliver was killed in the Parkland school shooting. GUAC became completely sold out during its run last fall…
Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon
Next Up: Wednesday, May 13 | 8:00pm | Pasadena Playhouse
Two American travelers lose their way in the Scottish Highlands and stumble upon Brigadoon—a mysterious village that appears for just one day every hundred years. With its lush score, live orchestra, sweeping choreography, and a newly adapted book, this beloved…
Exit the King
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 7:30pm | A Noise Within
It’s King Bérenger’s last day on Earth – he just doesn’t want to admit it. In Exit the King, Eugène Ionesco delivers a savagely funny and touching look at mortality. As the king clings to power (and life), his crumbling…
The Storyteller of East LA
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 8:00pm | Latino Theater Co. at The Los Angeles Theater Center
The Storyteller of East LA explores memory loss, caregiving, family conflict, and the sustaining power of love. Developed in our Circle of Imaginistas playwriting group. This is East L.A. storytelling at its most intimate and urgent. The Storyteller of East…
Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 8:00pm | Latino Theater Co. at The Los Angeles Theater Center
Teatro Alebrijes, a one-of-a-kind LGBTQ Latinx theater ensemble from San Jose, CA, returns to The LATC with one of the highlights of Latino Theater Company’s 2024 Encuentro Festival: Carlota: Alhajero de Secretos (Carlota: Jewelry Box of Secrets). Carlota holds a…
The Physicists
Next Up: Thursday, May 14 | 8:00pm | The Actors' Gang Theater @ Ivy Substation
Set in an insane asylum that houses patients that claim to be Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, this biting 1962 German comedy is full of murder, mayhem, espionage and questions about the morality and ethics of science.
Little Shop of Horrors
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 7:00pm | Lineage Performing Arts Center
We close the season with Little Shop of Horrors—a quirky and heartfelt sci-fi musical about a timid florist’s assistant and the plant that changes everything. In true Lineage style, dance will breathe a new life into this classic story…
Flower Drum Song
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 7:30pm | JACCC's Aratani Theatre
The enchanting golden era musical Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song, directed by EWP’s Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal, will serve as the grand finale for EWP’s Diamond Legacy season.This captivating tale will receive a newly updated book for 202…
Hell Mouth
Next Up: Friday, May 15 | 8:00pm | The Road Theatre Company
Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List.
Jack and The Beanstalk
Next Up: Saturday, May 16 | 1:00pm | Theatre West
Limonade Tous les Jours: A Paris Love Story
Next Up: Friday, May 22 | 8:00pm | City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
Obie Award winning playwright Charles L. Mee creates a magical love story in the city of light. YaYa, a vivacious young Parisian cabaret singer, and Andrew, a reserved American in his 50s, are both recovering from ruined relationships. When they…
…BUT YOU COULD’VE HELD MY HAND
Next Up: Friday, June 5 | 8:00pm | Atwater Village Theatre
This bold new work is a tender poetic exploration of identity, connection, and the spaces people carve out for one another written by JuCoby Johnson and directed by H. Adam Harris. …but you could’ve held my hand is a time-hopping portrait of four…
Romeo and Juliet
Next Up: Saturday, June 6 | 7:30pm | Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
The Gilded Age in New York City: a moment of explosive industrial growth, staggering inequality, and rigid social division. It is within this landscape of class hatred and social imbalance that Romeo and Juliet find each other, two teenagers who…
L’Chaim America
Next Up: Sunday, June 7 | 2:30pm | Skirball Cultural Center
L’Chaim America brings true Jewish stories to the stage—funny, complicated, emotional, and sometimes unexpected. Performed by professional Los Angeles-based actors, these are real moments about Jewish identity, family, and what it means to belong in America today. Presented by The Braid…
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Next Up: Sunday, June 7 | 3:30pm | Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
Theatricum returns with its signature production! The most magical outdoor setting in Los Angeles becomes an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers, both fairy and human. Shakespeare conjures a world of wonder, magic, and romance, where comical misunderstandings and the pain…
Treasure Island
Next Up: Saturday, June 20 | 7:30pm | Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
Robert Lewis Stevenson’s swashbuckling adventure story sails off the page and onto the wooded outdoor stage of Theatricum Botanicum. A young man’s romantic dream of pirates on the high seas becomes a harrowing reality, where he is tested at every…
Mexodus
Next Up: Wednesday, July 8 | 8:00pm | Pasadena Playhouse
Mexodus – the New York Times Critic’s Pick new musical created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson – comes straight from New York to the Playhouse stage this summer. This electrifying experience explores a hidden chapter of…
Waiting in the Wings
Next Up: Saturday, July 11 | 7:30pm | Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
“The Wings” is a charitable home for retired actresses, women who once lived at the very center of applause and public admiration, and who must now learn how to live together when the curtain has long since fallen. Coward’s signature…
The People of Pompeii
Next Up: Saturday, August 1 | 7:30pm | Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
Fires have come before. More will come again. And still, people stay, for love of place, for their children, for the idea of community. Bernardo Cubría’s dark and incisive new comedy, set in the aftermath of the 2025 fires in…