Los Angeles Upcoming Events
The Visit
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | 7:30pm | Pasadena Playhouse
A DESPERATE TOWN. A DETERMINED WOMAN. AN IMPOSSIBLE OFFER. When the richest woman in the world returns to her struggling hometown, she’s ready and willing to rescue it from ruin… on one condition. In this haunting, twisted, and truly grotesque comedy…
The Feel Good Story America Needs Right Now
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | 8:00pm | Theatre West
A Case for the Existence of God
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | 8:00pm | Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
Rogue Machine has a longstanding relationship with the work of Samuel D. Hunter, having previously produced the West Coast premieres of A Bright New Boise, A Permanent Image, and Pocatello, as well as the Southern California premiere of A Great…
Kaiju
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | 8:00pm | The Road Theatre Company
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…
Treasure Island
Next Up: Saturday, October 3 | 3:30pm | 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…
Waiting in the Wings
Next Up: Saturday, October 3 | 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…
Winter's Bench
Next Up: Saturday, October 3 | 8:00pm | 24th STreet Theatre
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…
Saint Megan
Next Up: Sunday, October 4 | 2:00pm | 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…
The People of Pompeii
Next Up: Sunday, October 4 | 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…
WIVES
Next Up: Thursday, October 8 | 8:00pm | The David Henry Hwang Theatre
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…
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Next Up: Saturday, October 10 | 7:30pm | 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…
Heartbreak House
Next Up: Sunday, October 11 | 2:00pm | Antaeus Theatre Company
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…
Ghost Songs
Next Up: Saturday, October 17 | 7:30pm | 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…
at the very bottom of a body of water
Next Up: Thursday, October 22 | 7:30pm | Boston Court Pasadena
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…
Passing Strange
Next Up: Wednesday, November 4 | 7:30pm | Pasadena Playhouse
A YOUNG REBEL. A WILD RIDE. A STORY THAT ROCKS.A young artist is searching for the real but he can’t seem to find it at home in South Central LA. He sets out on a cross-continental journey of self-discovery full…
Destiny of Desire
Next Up: Wednesday, November 11 | 7:30pm | Mark Taper Forum
On a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born—one into outlandish wealth, and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a ruthless ex-beauty queen, the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes…
4211 km
Next Up: Tuesday, December 1 | 7:30pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 4211 km tells the story of an Iranian family forced to flee their country after the 1979 revolution and settle in France. It focuses on Mina and Fereydoun, the parents, who originally believed their exile would be temporary, but…
THEATRE | A Christmas Carol
Next Up: Saturday, December 12 | 11:00am | Sierra Madre Playhouse
Adapted from the beloved novella by Charles Dickens, Will & Company’s A Christmas Carol delivers a warm, non-denominational holiday experience centered on themes of generosity, transformation, and community. In this lively and interactive production, children and adults alike are drawn…
Little Shop of Horrors
Next Up: Thursday, January 28 | 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…
Le Dictionnaire amoureux de l’inutile
Next Up: Thursday, February 4 | 8:00pm | Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
🇺🇸 After co-writing a playful and witty book together, François Morel, the father, and Valentin, the son, come together on stage for a two-voice reading of the finest pages from a dictionary unlike any other. François is known for his…
Catarina
Next Up: Friday, February 5 | 8:00pm | Freud Playhouse
A young woman must carry out a deadly family tradition in Catarina, a play by Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues
Tick, Tick . . . Boom!
Next Up: Friday, May 14 | 7:00pm | Lineage Performing Arts Center
For Lineage, this production is both a celebration and a homecoming. Our 2017 production of Tick, Tick… Boom! helped launch our journey into producing musical theater, and nearly a decade later we return to the work as we honor the…