Los Angeles Upcoming Events
The Comedy of Errors Free
Next Up: Wednesday, August 12 | 7:00pm | Griffith Park - The Old Zoo
Two small-town pals find themselves lost and fumbling through a bustling Mediterranean port city. Surrounded by a medley of languages, cultures, and unfamiliar rules, the duo stumbles through mishaps, mayhem, and mistaken identities, only to run into the last people…
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Next Up: Wednesday, August 12 | 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…
Romeo and Juliet
Next Up: Thursday, August 13 | 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…
The Punchline
Next Up: Friday, August 14 | 7:30pm | Davidson/Valentini Theatre - Los Angeles LGBT Center
Most people build altars after someone dies. The Punchline urges us to build the altars now, to our own lives and the moments that touch and change us, while we’re still alive. This theatrical event reminds us to live in the present and celebrate it as…
Waiting in the Wings
Next Up: Friday, August 14 | 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…
How High the Moon
Next Up: Friday, August 14 | 8:00pm | Theatre West
A young housewife questions her marriage, and an estranged son returns home. How High the Moon is a play about sibling conflict and family secrets during the housing boom in the San Fernando Valley.
TWO GENTLEBOTS OF VERONA
Next Up: Saturday, August 15 | 11:00am | Culver City Media Park | Burbank’s Buena Vista Branch Library
Two Gentlebots of Verona, our 50-minute adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Two Gentlemen of Verona, brings love, laughter, and invaluable life lessons to the stage. When two best friends, Val and Proteus, travel to Culver City, their bond is put…
The People of Pompeii
Next Up: Saturday, August 15 | 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…
Treasure Island
Next Up: Sunday, August 16 | 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…
Pericles
Next Up: Thursday, August 20 | 7:30pm | Boston Court Pasadena
Lost at sea, found by fate.When Prince Pericles uncovers a deadly royal secret, he flees for his life—only to be cast into a world of storms, shipwrecks, riddles, and loss. Told by people escaping a storm, this re-conceptualization of Shakespeare’s…
Green Corridors by Natalka Vorozhbyt
Next Up: Friday, August 21 | 8:00pm | City Garage @ Bergamot Station Arts Center
The west coast premiere of the critically acclaimed play by one of Ukraine’s most esteemed playwrights and screenwriters. Green Corridors explores the human cost of war, examining the harrowing yet darkly humorous realities of four Ukrainian women who have fled…
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Next Up: Sunday, August 23 | 2:00pm | A Noise Within
As part of our commitment to presenting August Wilson’s work, we bring you our seventh production of his American Century Cycle: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by Gregg T. Daniel. Set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927, August Wilson’s…
Winter's Bench
Next Up: Saturday, August 29 | 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…
A Case for the Existence of God
Next Up: Sunday, August 30 | 5:00pm | 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…
Broadway Gamble Ramble 2026
Next Up: Thursday, September 3 | 7:00pm | The Gamble House
In this interactive experience, guests will journey through the house in small groups, encountering a curated series of live performances that weave together dance, theatre, and narrative. Along the way, you’ll be invited to reflect not only on the evolution…
The Visit
Next Up: Wednesday, September 9 | 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…
Kaiju
Next Up: Tuesday, September 22 | 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…
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…
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…
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…