Sundays. The show features armed robbery, big-wave surfing, car chases, explosions, and no less than two extended skydiving sequences. Best of all, the starring role of Keanu will be selected at random from the audience each night, with the lucky winner reading their entire script off of cue-cards. This method manages to capture the rawness of a Keanu Reeves performance even from those who generally think themselves incapable of acting.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 21, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. Where did the passion go? That's the question Roger, the dreamer, is asking after 20 years with his activist wife, Sherry. In his quest for an answer, he and Sherry embark on a series of hilarious sexual encounters, that come just as close to tearing them apart, as to sparking the flames like never before. The result is a humorous and thought provoking roller coaster ride in an American marriage.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Mar 27, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. Combines East Coast Broadway theatrics with the style and spectacle of Los Angeles to take audiences on a musical journey through 25 years of pulse pounding movie magic. This retrospective highlights hit Tarantino directed films including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Four Rooms, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.
The cast will feature Rumer Willis, celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the film her father starred in, Pulp Fiction as well as Tarantino's Death Proof star Tracie Thoms, Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars), Lindsay Pearce (Glee), Lindsey Gort (Carrie Diaries), Ginifer King (Nickelodeon's Haunted Hathaways) and more.
MORE >>Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 24, 2014-Mon, Aug 4, 2014. The Los Angeles Premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s play charts the intersection of two lives, the manipulations of their relationship, and the cumulative damage of wounds inflicted. Intimacy may never have looked so familiar, funny, and frightening.
MORE >>Wednesdays. The apprehension of going on a blind date is suddenly compounded when a group of people – you the audience – gather to witness an improvised meeting between two complete strangers in a karaoke bar. The premise is simple – or so it seems. A woman sits alone waiting for her date to arrive. That date is a different performer every night. The catch? The actress, AFI award winner Bojana Novakovic, has no idea who she is about to meet. Guided only by text messages and phone calls and interspersed with random songs, each performance promises to be as unpredictable as it is dangerous. The daringly devised encounters are devoid of scripts or rehearsals and no two shows are ever the same. Things may turn out to be humiliating, tender or totally hot.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jun 5, 2014-Sun, Sep 14, 2014. The Los Angeles premiere of the second play in Tarell Alvin McCraney's acclaimed “Brother/Sister Plays” trilogy stands alone – you don’t need any knowledge of the first (In the Red and Brown Water) or third (Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet) to enjoy The Brothers Size. Recently paroled Oshoosi Size seeks to jumpstart his life. Working in an auto repair shop for his brother Ogun, however, was not what he had in mind. When his old friend Elegba rolls up, offering a different direction, Oshoosi quickly finds himself torn between his brother, his loyalties and his dreams. It’s an exuberantly theatrical drama that weaves together the pulsing rhythms of the Louisiana bayou with African Yoruba mythology to create a stylized story of love and heartache.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jun 7, 2014-Sun, Sep 28, 2014. Unlike most theaters in the Los Angeles area that stage continuous runs of a single play, the Theatricum, using a company of actors, performs each play on a rotating basis so that it's possible to see both plays in a single summer weekend. This summer's productions are A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, Equivocation and Lear.
MORE >>Sundays. Sun, Jun 8, 2014-Sun, Dec 14, 2014. Every second Sunday features a mixed-genre literary series featuring poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists, monologists, and singer-songwriters. It has something for everyone. Reception before and after every show.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jun 12, 2014-Sat, Aug 16, 2014. This year's plays are Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. They’ll perform for 4 weeks at Point Fermin Park before commencing a multi-city tour throughout Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties for a total of 10 weeks of free Shakespeare.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jun 14, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. Let the games begin! With a nod to reality TV and homage paid to the Greeks, four suitors and a woman keep this snarling modern day black comedy on the verge of seduction. A journey through atonement and redemption, allegorically rich with subtext…as only Enda Walsh could write it.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jun 19, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. In this irreverent remix of Chekhov's The Seagull, an aspiring young director rails against the art created by his mother’s generation, a nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist, and everyone discovers just how disappointing life, art, and growing up can be. Chekhov’s characters still ruminate on love, revolution and the pursuit of happiness, but this time with a lot more snark as the subtext bubbles to the surface. With music, meta-theatricality, and mad humor, writer Aaron Posner beats The Seagull to a bloody f*cking pulp.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jun 20, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 2014. Based on actual events, in Flim Flam during the summer of 1922, Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle team to investigate psychic mediums for the Scientific American committee. Their friendship is challenged when Conan Doyle champions a beautiful and seductive psychic as authentic. Houdini is determined to prove that she is a phony, until she appears to make contact with Houdini’s beloved dead mother, and he must confront his own beliefs about life-after-death.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jun 26, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. This year's lineup is Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew.
MORE >>Fridays. Fri, Jun 27, 2014-Fri, Aug 15, 2014. Denise Devin's directs Shakespeare's hilarious, sexy and mischievous moonlit-romp, filled with feuding fairies, star-crossed lovers, and wanna-be actors - all trying to resolve their troubles before the Duke's wedding day!
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jun 27, 2014-Sat, Aug 2, 2014. From the brilliantly twisted mind of Mel Brooks comes this insanely funny adventure that won 12 Tonys. A down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant concoct a get-rich scheme to bilk their investors out of millions by producing the most notorious flop in history.
MORE >>Thursdays. Thu, Jul 3, 2014-Thu, Oct 2, 2014. Without Annette is a risky, funny, fast-paced comedy set in an improv workshop. The richly-drawn cast of characters play, laugh, have affairs, uncover secrets and become a hilarious ensemble performing their own improvised finale. With a script by celebrated character actor and improv coach Jeff Doucette (Desperate Housewives, Scandal) and Hope Juber (It's The Housewives!,A Very Brady Musical), each show is a unique hybrid of scripted and improv performance, featuring a cast of accomplished performers culled from the Groundlings, Second City, iO West, Upright Citizens Brigade, the Spolin Players, and Shplotz!, among others.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 4, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 2014. Chrissy arrives in late 1960's Philadelphia with dreams of achieving stardom as a dancer. As she struggles to understand her place in the world, what her true purpose is, and why she is really here, she seeks guidance from those around her any in way she can. But walls are thin and words are deceiving, as no one she meets is quite who they seem. Her childhood of poverty and abuse haunts her subconscious, as she follows her stars, trying to unveil memories lost and secrets kept. A job at a go-go club called Big Tom's Boom Boom Room leads her through encounters with twisted and troubled characters as she deals with love, sex, racism, domestic abuse, homophobia, obsession and mental illness. David Rabe's brutal tale of self-exploration entertains the misunderstood individual, the ways in which we misguide one another and how fate and self-control seem inevitably so far apart.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Jul 6, 2014-Sat, Aug 16, 2014. How many have you slept with? Everyman Hal is about to discover all the baggage this answer will entail. With fierce humor and candor, The Sexual Life of Savages follows the lives of a group of young people thrust into a new sexual era and forced to come to terms with its shifting definitions of tolerance, empathy, and morality.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jul 8, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. The hilarious show starring Dixie Longate which turned Off-Broadway into a Tupperware-mania celebration and garnered the prestigious 2008 Drama Desk Award Nomination. Longate stars as the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, who has packed up her catalogues, and left her children in an Alabama trailer park to journey across America. Critics and audiences have howled with laughter as Dixie throws a good ol' fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage!
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Jul 9, 2014-Sun, Aug 17, 2014. Playwright Jonathan Tolins (Twilight of the Golds) and actor Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) team up for a fabulously fictitious imagining of what might transpire when an underemployed Hollywood actor finds the ultimate retail gig: sole sales clerk (and eventual confidant) to a mega-star in her subterranean sanctum sanctorum teeming with treasured mementos, career collectibles and a frozen yogurt machine.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Jul 9, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. Buddy Holly’s short yet spectacular career is told through classic songs we all love including “That’ll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Not Fade Away,” The Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace,” Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba,” and many more.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jul 10, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 2014. Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Man of La Mancha tells the story of the "mad" knight, Don Quixote, as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. The original 1965 Broadway Production ran for 2,328 performances and the musical has since been revived four times on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring works of musical theater and the principal song, "The Impossible Dream" became a standard.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 11, 2014-Sun, Aug 17, 2014. The trio of police academy dropouts fighting crime with glamour, attitude and high heels for the latest episode of their outrageous live show, a Latina drag queen parody of '70s classic Charlie's Angels. In Love Boat Chicas, the girls are hired by actress/comedian/flamenco guitarist Charo after an attempt is made on her life. Follow the misadventures of Kay Sedia, Chita Parol and Frieda Laye as they go undercover aboard the world's most famous cruise ship, where their stellar detective work leads them to find that, in fact, most of the passengers have a motive for killing Charo.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 11, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. This is the love story of Peter Legacy and Sarah Dulane. Sarah, a recently widowed woman from the south, and once famed queen of the Broadway stage, has found a way to reunite with her son Billy Dulane by moving to Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood to a townhouse next to a great director she has wanted to work with for a long time, Peter Legacy. Here she convinces Peter to write a musical production for her to star in, as well as help her son Billy find his dream by becoming a motion picture star. Peter enlists the assistance of his friend Gillian Morrow, a well-known talent agent to assist young Billy, who falls madly in love with him. Unfortunately, Billy Dulane finds himself far more attracted to Peter’s daughter Christine, a feeling that is more than returned.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 11, 2014-Sun, Aug 17, 2014. Ovation Award Nominated Playwright & HBO Audience Award Winning Screenwriter Marja-Lewis Ryan brings to life a dysfunctional family drama that explores the effects of gun violence in one American family. Six years ago, a ten-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his little brother. Now, we meet his whole family.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 11, 2014-Sat, Aug 16, 2014. A post-apocalyptic "Mad Max" dystopia telling of Shakespeare's dynamic tale of the famous war hero's fall from grace. The people of Rome are starving, and threats of mutiny abound as a foreign army threatens to invade. The elder statesmen seek to appease the populace through political maneuvering while calling upon their greatest war hero to defend against the enemy army. Caius Marcius Coriolanus wins the battle on the field, but finds that winning the people's affection is a much more difficult task, and the world of politics can be deadlier than the world of war.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 11, 2014-Sat, Aug 16, 2014. The black comedy about white trash centers on a colorful family from a small Texas town who must come to grips with the accidental death of the elderly family matriarch during her clandestine meeting in a seedy motel room with a much younger, married neighbor. The woman’s family must deal with their own demons while preparing for what could be an embarrassing funeral.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 11, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. Dinner With Friends meets La Cage aux Folles in this wacky comedy about two couples — a pair of ex-spouses and their new mates. When the four get together for the first time in years, it blows up in a delightful mess of romantic complications.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jul 12, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then your parents move in. Larry is a New Age Jewish Buddhist. Diane is a narcissistic Auntie Mame wannabe. They have been divorced since forever. When they lose their second spouses and most of their finances, both move in with their daughter and son-in-law. What could possibly go wrong? A captivating exploration of the comedy and the drama that ensue when relatives are packed into the same small space and actually forced to behave like a functional family.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jul 12, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. A curse lies upon the land of Thebes and its ill-fated rulers Oedipus the King, Jocasta the Queen and Creon the high counselor—a curse that reiterates generation upon generation. The suffering of the people provides a battleground against which Apollo and Dionysus contend for power over the mortal realm. Playwright Kenneth Cavander, director Casey Stangl and the actors of Antaeus Company have distilled the legends of three generations into a single evening of drama, telling the story of a land and people caught in a web of pride and self-destruction.
MORE >>Sundays. Sun, Jul 13, 2014-Sun, Sep 28, 2014. The play takes you front and center to a natural hair meetup where women share how their hair journeys have shaped who they are today. If you haven’t heard, women of color around the world are meeting and talking about natural hair. They are doing it fabulously in droves through hair workshops, hair makeover experiences, hair lectures, hair product testings, and so much more. You name it and women are coming together to celebrate their natural hair. When they meet, they bare themselves by sharing their stories and exchanging information. Simply Google “natural hair meetup” and your search engine’s results will be explosive.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jul 15, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Once is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, Once tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jul 15, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. It’s the thunderous roar of revolution with the blockbuster hits of the legendary Queen driving its epic story. In the future, computer-generated music reigns, live rock is outlawed, and conformity is brutally enforced. Until a pair of young renegades, Galileo and Scaramouche, dare to break free and search for a long-buried electric guitar. Before Another One Bites the Dust, you can be sure our heroes will find Somebody to Love.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jul 17, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. In a Dark Dark House started life as a short story called Swallowing Bicycles, before it was adapted into a play and premiered in New York. The story follows 38 year-old security guard Terry and his relationship with his younger brother Drew. In a Dark Dark House is a thought-provoking and challenging piece of theatre which explores the darker facets of human relationships and the covert, unwritten bonds that tie families together has been detained in a psychiatric institution.
MORE >>Fridays. Fri, Jul 18, 2014-Fri, Aug 8, 2014. Directed by Zombie Joe, Mia Morte's dark, sexy and sinister burlesque side-show-spectacular, features Mia Morte, Rynie Das Wreckless, Vincent Wolf, Darin Malfi, Joey Dynomite, Zachariah and MaliciouSid...The Greatest Show Unearthed!
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 18, 2014-Sat, Aug 16, 2014. When the patriarch of an Italian family is in his last days, relatives gather in Tuscany to celebrate life, love, and to rediscover the bonds that hold them together. Among the crowd is Luigi’s young American niece, Anna, who soon discovers that her uncle is the key to a world of freethinking and a familial relationship that she has always longed to have. Woven with poetry and memories, the reunion unveils the intergenerational connection of family.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 18, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. Marilyn shares her secrets with the audience as if confiding in her best friend, going to the hidden corners of her tumultuous existence to surreptitiously reveal her darkest mysteries, and a few personal sex goddess tips!
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays. Fri, Jul 18, 2014-Sat, Aug 9, 2014. A relentless snowstorm strands father and son with only their RV for protection. Food runs out, temperatures drop, and their bodies waste away. Both cannot survive. In their final days together, at last the son will meet his father, and the father his paternality.
MORE >>Fridays. Fri, Jul 18, 2014-Fri, Aug 8, 2014. Eye-popping, honest, and funny, The Vagina Talk Show, is an unprecedented look at female anatomy that titillates the senses and satisfies lifelong curiosities, as three exposed (yet anonymous) women recline onstage and let their vaginas do the talking. Sparked by the desire of co-producer Paula Richer to allow female genitalia to share experiences without the complication of cultural judgment directed at personal identities, The Vagina Talk Show is her answer to ongoing public curiosity, speculation, and scrutiny of female sexuality, combined with education and humor, around one of nature’s most intriguing private parts. Writer, theater veteran, and co-producer Ronnie Larsen will host the show, encouraging audience members to ask their burning questions, and Mother Nature, in rare and authentic form, will answer.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Thu, Jul 24, 2014-Sat, Aug 30, 2014. The "play within a play" from Act V, Scene I, Pyramus and Thisbe, was performed by The Beatles in 1964 for a British television special.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jul 24, 2014-Sun, Aug 17, 2014. ‘Sacred Elephant’ takes you on a powerful journey told by a timeless figure The Other; both Shaman and Fool, a prophet in the wilderness, a soul part human, part animal. In a performance of Shakespearian dimensions, award-winning British actor Jeremy Crutchley creates an experience that is poignant, darkly comedic, harrowing and haunting. To truly unearth the nature of Man, he immerses himself and thus the audience in an encounter with all things Elephant. There is simply no other drama quite like it.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jul 24, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. The musical celebrates the true story of JB Murray and his calling at age 70 to create vivid abstract artistic masterpieces on anything he could find: adding machine tape, old planks, corrugated tin, televisions, and finally paper. Murray - a rural subsistence farmer from Glascock County, GA - had the first of what he called his 'visions from the Holy Spirit' in 1978. Over a period of 10 years, Murrays' visions would capture the imagination of his friends, his neighbors, and ultimately an international community of collectors, museums, and academics. The musical is a spirited look at a close-knit rural community that must come to terms with the passion, the vision, and the art of this enigmatic eccentric in their midst.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 25, 2014-Sun, Sep 7, 2014. Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play for Drama in 1948 opened on Broadway in 1947. The Broadway production was directed by future Oscar winner Elia Kazan and starred future Oscar winners Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 25, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. Set smack in the middle of New York’s mean streets, this Broadway hit is exhilarating, hilarious—and totally irreverent. Recently sprung from prison, Jackie has an AA sponsor and is back with Veronica, the love of his life since eighth grade. The problem is, Veronica can’t shake her drug habit, and she refuses to answer when he asks about “the man hat that-ain’t-my-hat” on their bedside table. But Jackie is a survivor, and if he sometimes loses sight of his goal, he never loses his decency, in this surprising examination of acceptance, loyalty and love.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 25, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 2014. A magical and realistic play where belief raises up the spirits written and directed by Mario Zapién. Spanish performances only.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jul 29, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. The musical features an original pop score from multiple Grammy Award-winners Dave Stewart, one half of the 80s pop duo the Eurythmics, and Glen Ballard, co-writer with Alanis Morissette on the multi-platinum album Jagged Little Pill, among many other notable credits and collaborations. Adapted from the hit film by its Academy Award-winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost the Musical follows Sam and Molly, a young couple whose connection takes a shocking turn after Sam's untimely death. Trapped between two worlds, Sam refuses to leave Molly when he learns she is in grave danger. Desperate to communicate with her, he turns to a storefront psychic who helps him protect Molly and avenge his death.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jul 29, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. Neil LaBute’s provocative drama about our modern obsession with physical beauty, directed by the playwright. Thomas Sadoski (current Emmy® nominee for HBO's The Newsroom) reprises his Tony®-nominated role as Greg, joined by Emmy® nominated Jenna Fischer (The Office), who takes on the role of Steph – a role she recently played on Broadway in Reasons to Be Happy, the sequel to this play that revisits the characters 10 years later. In this hard-edged comedy, the stars are crossed as two couples in flux struggle to find fulfillment – begging an answer to the question, what is “pretty”?
MORE >>Wed, Jul 30, 2014-Thu, Jul 31, 2014. This comically tragic anti-love story tells the tale of Luke and Ash, two best friends who have been roommates for six years. All their friends and family are convinced they’re secretly a couple, even though neither man is gay. Or at least, they’re pretty sure they’re not gay. There’s only one way to find out…
MORE >>Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 2014. In this hysterical musical reimagining of the classic Greek tragedy Agamemnon, the sordid story of seduction and scheming is mixed with the sweet Swedish sounds of the Seventies. In this irreverent Dancing Queen-filled romp, the Ovation Award-winning Troubadour Theater Company brings the noise, the funk, and the dysfunctional-family vibe to this masterwork of the Greek canon. Why does Cassandra's S.O.S. plea to Take a Chance on Me fall on the deaf ears of the Elder Chorus? Will Clytemnestra's plan to kill Agamemnon come to fruition and will The Winner Take All? Will the Watchman ever get to sleep and say I Have a Dream? Will Aegisthus be able to pronounce his own name at Waterloo? Bloody and bold, fierce and funny, this production by the masters of mayhem is sure to entertain and enlighten.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. Roger Guenveur Smith returns with his internationally acclaimed solo performance. This show brings to life the work of the pioneering abolitionist, feminist and statesman Frederick Douglass. After the continued success of Smith’s critically acclaimed, Rodney King, (which was developed and work-shopped at Bootleg Theater), Smith returns with an earlier solo work about another historic figure who moved the American psyche.
MORE >>Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 2014. The winner of the Best Musical Revival 2009 Tony Award is back in L.A. and features an extraordinary cast and dozens of unforgettable songs, including “Aquarius,” “Let the Sun Shine In,” "Good Morning, Starshine" and “Easy To Be Hard.”
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. Our lives can change in an instant. One moment you're getting engaged, and a few surreal moments later you're sitting among a group of strangers in an intensive care waiting room, praying your fiancé will survive a ruptured brain aneurysm. I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a moving and darkly humorous look at life outside the waiting room, when you try your hand at living again.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. Experience Lennon's timeless musical genius as Tim Piper takes you through John's life from tumultuous childhood to worldwide pop music superstar to groundbreaking social icon that influenced generations. You'll share a unique perspective on John's life, the stories behind the songs, and revealing insights about the birth of the Beatles, the pressures of super-stardom, and John's relationships with his loves and fellow Beatles. A musician, actor and songwriter Tim Piper has traveled the world performing music made famous by The Beatles and has distinguished himself as the preeminent John Lennon with roles in the CBS production The Linda McCartney Story, E! Channel’s John Lennon Story, Beatle Wives and as the singing voice of Lennon for the NBC TV movie of the week, In His Life -The John Lennon Story.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Sep 21, 2014. A catty, young, gay male casting assistant welcomes four actresses who will be testing for a lead role in a new network sitcom pilot. Soon their competitive edge takes over and the four women pull out all stops to get the part.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. See six new plays by hot, award-winning American playwrights — all in a single evening.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 1, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. It’s 1936; the golden age of Hollywood, and two rival movie studios are in a heated battle for survival when their opposing leading men fall in love. Reminiscent of screwball comedies of the past, this new musical takes place in a world of artifice, backstabbing, lavender weddings, double-crossing starlets, and a moral crusader from the Legion of Rectitude, making it increasingly more difficult for the leading men to hold on to the one real thing each has ever found. It’s funny, charming, romantic, happily nostalgic, and very tuneful.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Aug 2, 2014-Sun, Sep 21, 2014. Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical play, set in the years following World War II, finds Eugene and his older brother Stanley trying to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers while coping with their parents break-up. When their material is aired on the radio for the first time, the family is upset to hear a thinly-veiled portrait of themselves played for laughs. A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Broadway Bound cracks open the facade to reveal the hurt and pain behind even the most unassuming comedy. Directed by Jason Alexander.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Aug 2, 2014-Sun, Sep 14, 2014. In this madcap farce that bowled over Broadway audiences and critics alike, Charlotte and George Hay, a once-famed acting couple, are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac (the "revised, one nostril version") and Noel Coward's Private Lives. Fate has given these fading stars one more shot at the big time: starring roles in a motion picture epic – if they’re up to it. But here’s the rub! Will George be sober enough to play? Will Charlotte appear or run off with her agent? Hilarious misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures in this popular comedy by one of America’s premiere playwrights, Ken Ludwig.
MORE >>Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Aug 2, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. Every summer, theatre professionals and enthusiastic audiences from Southern California participate in the development of new plays for the American theatre at the acclaimed Ojai Playwrights Conference. From hundreds of submissions, just eight established and emerging playwrights from across the nation are selected annually to participate in an intensive two-week, in-residence workshop that nurtures creative freedom and experimentation. This workshop culminates in OPC's popular public performances known as the Summer New Works Festival.
MORE >>Sun, Aug 3, 2014. Based upon her own fascinating story onstage and off, veteran Broadway, television, and film actress Annie Abbott's one woman show is a wild ride of emotions. Her irreverent humor and passionate observations reveal her indomitable spirit - this is the coming of age tale of a funny woman unstoppable in the face of life's surprises.
MORE >>Mondays, Sundays. Sun, Aug 3, 2014-Mon, Aug 25, 2014. It Happened in Roswell tells the story of hard-nosed reporter Scoop who thinks he's just chasing a story to save his sagging career. But when the alien turns out to be a wide-eyed sexy girl whom the Army wants to capture and dissect in the laboratory, well, Scoop discovers he’s in a big pickle: get the story, or get the girl?
MORE >>Thu, Aug 7, 2014-Sun, Aug 10, 2014. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first play with an African-American director (Lloyd Richards) on Broadway. The New York Drama Critics' Circle named it the best play of 1959.
MORE >>Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Aug 7, 2014-Sun, Aug 17, 2014. A funny depiction of Chekhov’s famous short stories depicting life in Russia at the turn of the 20th Century. Each vignette is humorous and poignant, and all are spun together as the musings of an author who shares the trials and tribulations of his literary art with audience.
MORE >>Sun, Aug 10, 2014. A place where actors get to read new TV and film scripts, writers get to hear their work out loud, and producers and directors get introduced to a new script.
MORE >>Mon, Aug 11, 2014. 2 opposing writers. 2 opposing ideas. 7 minutes apiece. Audience picks a winner. Writers compete for cash going to a charity of their choosing. The world's only philanthropic competitive reading series, it has raised thousands of dollars for worthy charitable organizations throughout the world, all the while having a rollicking good time doing it. The second Monday of the month.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Aug 13, 2014-Sun, Aug 24, 2014. This fast-moving production honors the Motown legends that brought the world to its dancing feet. With the music of the Four Tops, Supremes, Temptations, Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Isley Brothers, Mary Wells and many more.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Aug 19, 2014-Sun, Aug 31, 2014. Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Once is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, Once tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Aug 21, 2014-Sun, Sep 14, 2014. A poignant, poetic and powerful story, inspired by the real-life experiences of the playwright, about the friendship forged between 81-year-old Francis Biddle, U.S. Attorney General under President Roosevelt and Chief Judge at the Nuremburg trials; and a tenacious 25-year-old woman from the Canadian plains – one of a string of secretaries Biddle's wife has hired to help him put his affairs in order at the end of his long and illustrious career.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 22, 2014-Sun, Oct 12, 2014. With the kids away at camp, three married couples get together for an evening of relaxation and laughs. But as the liquor flows, games are played, secrets are revealed, trust is tested, boundaries are broken and reality gets swapped for fantasy.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 22, 2014-Sun, Sep 28, 2014. This modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth about the "original" princess is a stylistic musical hybrid of post-modernism and rock. A theatrical fever dream where the human princess Psyche and the god Eros fall wildly in love, but Aphrodite and Psyche’s evil sisters may have other plans. When Psyche is spurned from her home, she is thrust into a netherworld where she is faced with challenge after daunting challenge in order to find her place in the world and of course, true love. But will she survive? Will she go the distance to overcome the wrath of Aphrodite to take her place in the universe as a true hero who will change the world and the very nature of love forever?
MORE >>Sun, Aug 24, 2014. First published by Playboy in 1979 and originally staged in 1989 at Lincoln Center, The Devil & Billy Markham by Shel Silverstein is a one-act play that studies the nature of good and evil in man. This epic poem tells the improbable story of down-on-his-luck singer/songwriter Billy Markham. Told in classic Silverstein pentameter and set on Nashville's famed Music Row, the six chapter tome details Markham's odyssey from the legendary Linebaugh's sandwich shop, to Hell, to Heaven and then back again. His constant flirtation with the dark side of life, his appetite for games of chance, his problematic prodigious libido and his willingness gamble away the very souls of those who love him most are all explored.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Aug 27, 2014-Sun, Sep 21, 2014. Brad Zimmerman waited tables for 29 years while chasing a career in acting and comedy, so waiting until his mid-50s to perform on stage seems so logical. If you’ve ever longed for something; if you ever desired it with all your heart; if you were willing to wait tables for 29 years to pursue your dream, My Son the Waiter will give meaning to your life! This hybrid play weaves a bittersweet tale of one man's lengthy – and we do mean lengthy – struggle in New York. His send-ups on his family, career, childhood and misbegotten lovelife are as warm and poignant as they are hysterical. “What makes audiences connect with this story is that it’s true,” the 58-year-old Zimmerman said. “I really had to struggle as a waiter until I was in my mid-50s. My life began to change when I wrote a play about my life staring in 2005.” For Zimmerman, it’s been worth the wait as the show is being seen by audiences nationwide. His career now includes opening for the late George Carlin and being Joan Rivers’ opening act going on eight years.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Aug 27, 2014-Sun, Oct 5, 2014. Using only their wits and audience suggestions, Impro Theatre saddles up and rides headlong into the dangerous high chaparral of places like Tombstone and Deadwood to create a new-fangled full-length play in the style of the great film westerns of John Ford and Howard Hawks. Complete with cattle barons, desperadoes, saloon girls, frontier women and slick no account side-winders, Impro Theatre manifests destiny every show!
MORE >>Thu, Aug 28, 2014. The Hebrew Hillbilly, written and performed by singer songwriter Shelley Fisher, is a musical one woman show which chronicles Ms Fisher's Hollywood odyssey that begins in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll, Blues and Bar-b-cue. Growing up Jewish in the deep South with a flamboyant mother who frowned on her dating the local redneck boys, the Hebrew Hillbilly begins singing as a little girl and never stops.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Aug 29, 2014-Sun, Sep 28, 2014. Transformed onstage into a travelling tent show, this is The Tempest unlike anything you—or the Bard—ever envisioned! As the wizard Prospero plots revenge on the enemies who banished him, the exuberant epic takes on a new life—thanks to the music (haunting ballads by the inimitable Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan), the magic (by Teller, of the legendary Penn and Teller duo) and the movement (by Pilobolus, the dance troupe Newsday called “mind-blowing…wildly creative…and physically daring”).
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Sep 4, 2014-Sun, Oct 12, 2014. Renowned director Andrei Belgrader re-examines this Samuel Beckett classic, newly relevant to a generation burdened by climate change and environmental doom. Brooke Adams plays Winnie, a woman buried up to her bosom in a mound of dirt with nothing to pass the time but the ragged contents of her bag, her nimble wit, and her husband Willie lurking somewhere behind her. This droll, existential allegory demonstrates the vitality of the human spirit in the face of a deteriorating world.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Thu, Sep 4, 2014-Sat, Oct 25, 2014. This fast paced comedy is a mash up of Louisa May Alcott’s classic, ‘Little Women,’ and HBO’s critically acclaimed ‘Girls.’
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Sep 6, 2014-Sun, Oct 5, 2014. In 1973, a rapidly changing Atlanta elected its first African-American mayor and looked ahead to an exhilarating but uncertain future. In the midst of social change, the key players in the winning campaign wrestle their most formidable opponent to date ? Love. And as fate and feminism would have it, love truly does conquer all. Innocence, wisdom, and the dawning of a new day are lessons well learned.
MORE >>Mon, Sep 8, 2014. 2 opposing writers. 2 opposing ideas. 7 minutes apiece. Audience picks a winner. Writers compete for cash going to a charity of their choosing. The world's only philanthropic competitive reading series, it has raised thousands of dollars for worthy charitable organizations throughout the world, all the while having a rollicking good time doing it. The second Monday of the month.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Sep 10, 2014-Sun, Oct 19, 2014. What if it were possible to bring your dearly departed back in the form of a computer-generated simulation that you had to “program” by sharing your memories of the person you lost? What would you say? What would you leave out? This profound new drama moves into uncharted theatrical territory when Marjorie is visited by her daughter, son-in-law and the Prime.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Sep 11, 2014-Sun, Oct 5, 2014. Phylicia Rashad (then known as Phylicia Ayers-Allen) was a member of the original musical's company. Rashad was also Sheryl Lee Ralph's understudy for the role of Deena. When Ralph left the production, Rashad was not offered her role, and subsequently left the cast.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Sep 12, 2014-Sun, Oct 19, 2014. Hollywood; 1928. Aspiring actors and long time friends, Alberto Samaniego & Rodrigo Altamirano are invited (so they think) to a fabulous Hollywood party for the premiere of Fred Niblo's latest movie, "The Mysterious Lady" staring Greta Garbo. At the party, Alberto and Rodrigo discover that two guests are there to murder someone. While trying to unmask the culprits, they have to deal with lights, cameras, press, a parade of movie stars from Greta Garbo to Joan Crawford, jewel thieves, cross dressers and a snooping butler.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Sep 13, 2014-Sun, Sep 28, 2014. Plácido Domingo returns in one of his newest signature roles, as a father determined to do the right thing in one of opera’s greatest romances, in Marta Domingo’s dazzlingly updated Art Deco-inspired production. Nino Machaidze, one of LA Opera’s favorite leading ladies, returns as Violetta, with Arturo Chacón-Cruz as her handsome Alfredo.
MORE >>Sun, Sep 14, 2014. A place where actors get to read new TV and film scripts, writers get to hear their work out loud, and producers and directors get introduced to a new script.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Sep 16, 2014-Sun, Oct 26, 2014. At the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, a young black man knows what is expected of him. Work hard, fall in line and if you’ve got the voice for it, use it to praise God in the school choir. Within these walls, Pharus Young, with the voice of an angel and a keen mind, should be a star. But in the face of Drew’s time-honored traditions, can music overcome silence? Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney navigates expectation, alienation and the overwhelming desire to be heard.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Sep 16, 2014-Sun, Oct 12, 2014. The Pasadena Playhouse production will view the work through a new lens, - using the wonderful material of this celebrated production to showcase the trailblazing African- American touring troupes of the early 20th century. Those "groups of traveling players" that brought the work of the Bard not just to New York City, but to theatres all over the country. Many of the most famous actors of our time owe much to those pioneers, who included such as Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson, Earle Hyman, Jane White, and Dorothy Van Eangle. Those brave actors such as those brought literal "color" to great classical roles, opened doors for others, and represent the high style and theatricality that have always been embodied in Porter's masterpiece.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Sep 16, 2014-Sun, Sep 28, 2014. Menopause The Musical® has evolved as a "grassroots" movement of women who deal with life adjustments after 40 by embracing each other and the road ahead. Set in a department store, four women meet by chance while shopping for a black lace bra at a lingerie sale. After noticing unmistakable similarities among one another, the all-female cast jokes about their woeful hot flashes, mood swings, wrinkles, weight gain and much more. These women form a sisterhood and unique bond with the entire audience as they rejoice in celebrating that menopause is no longer "The Silent Passage."
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Sep 19, 2014-Sun, Oct 12, 2014. In South Boston, this month's paycheck covers last month's bills, bingo is a night on the town, and sharp-tongued single mom Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Scrambling to make ends meet, she looks up an old flame, hoping he'll help her make a fresh start in this humor-filled drama from Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire about how twists of fate determine our path.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Sep 19, 2014-Sun, Oct 26, 2014. Four homeless women living on the mean streets of LA's Skid Row are combat veterans of Iraq/Afghanistan, and trust each other because of shared experiences in the military. None of them are equipped to handle what awaits them away from the security of the service and the quasi-security of the private encampment they've nicknamed "The Taj Mahal." When one of the women befriends a young runaway, she breaks the group's most basic rule: no one allowed in camp but ex-military.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Oct 1, 2014-Sun, Oct 19, 2014. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
MORE >>Thu, Oct 2, 2014. Tim Rice (“Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Evita”) makes his long-awaited return to the musical spotlight as Fathom Events and Omniverse Vision present the legendary lyricist’s stage adaptation of “From Here to Eternity.” This will mark the first time that Fathom Events and Omniverse vision have partnered to capture a stage production, which took place in spring 2014 at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. This three-day special presentation will be shown in select U.S. cinemas on Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, October 5 at 12:55 p.m. and Tuesday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m., all local time. The acclaimed production will be making its Broadway debut in 2015, but theater aficionados won’t want to miss their chance to catch this magnificent musical in a larger-than-life, big screen experience first. The three fall showings of “From Here to Eternity” will also feature approximately 20 minutes of behind-the-scenes and making-of footage.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Oct 2, 2014-Sun, Nov 2, 2014. The original 1979 Broadway production won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Frances Sternhagen and won Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Actor in a Play (Tom Aldredge), Outstanding Actress in a Play (Sternhagen), Outstanding Costume Design and Outstanding Set Design. The 2005 revival won Tonys for Best Revival of a Play and for Best Actor in a Play (James Earl Jones).
MORE >>Fri, Oct 3, 2014-Sat, Oct 4, 2014. Do you remember the Emmy Award-winning 1970's Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs? Schoolhouse Rock is now instructing a whole new generation to "Unpack Your Adjectives," "Do The Circulation!"
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Oct 5, 2014-Sun, Oct 26, 2014. Auditions are over for the day, and Thomas still hasn’t found the perfect actress for his adaptation of a 19th century erotic novel. [Thunder clap!] Vanda stumbles into the bare rehearsal studio, soaking wet and hours late. Before he can stop her, Vanda strips down to saucy lingerie, wiggles into a white period dress, and mysteriously—hilariously—becomes the elusive leading lady. But the battle for sexual dominance that follows is not limited to the script in what The New York Times called “90 minutes of good, kinky fun.”
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Oct 7, 2014-Sun, Nov 16, 2014. Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy find themselves locked in a room together, and life, art, religion and politics get vigorously debated as if their souls depend on it. Because they do. This provocative and funny world premiere play is a fascinating insight into the spiritual lives of three of the greatest minds that ever lived. And, if these great men get second thoughts about their lives, what hope have the rest of us?
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Oct 8, 2014-Sun, Nov 2, 2014. Based on Joan Didion’s National Book Award winning memoir, this remarkable story of loss, journey, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit is a tribute to an extraordinary marriage and a love letter to Didion’s daughter who passed away. Starring stage and screen actor Linda Purl and directed by Jenny Sullivan. The New York Times calls the play “moving and elegiac.”
MORE >>Sun, Oct 12, 2014. A place where actors get to read new TV and film scripts, writers get to hear their work out loud, and producers and directors get introduced to a new script.
MORE >>Mon, Oct 13, 2014. 2 opposing writers. 2 opposing ideas. 7 minutes apiece. Audience picks a winner. Writers compete for cash going to a charity of their choosing. The world's only philanthropic competitive reading series, it has raised thousands of dollars for worthy charitable organizations throughout the world, all the while having a rollicking good time doing it. The second Monday of the month.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Oct 17, 2014-Sun, Nov 16, 2014. Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The British consul pours tea for the American undersecretary of state, avoiding her questions—with answers to ones she hasn’t even asked. In the street below, a group of Saudi women set in motion a carefully-planned protest. The results are devastating enough to ignite a battle of wills and wits—now that a life hangs in the balance. A riveting story by a prolific Broadway veteran and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
MORE >>Sat, Oct 18, 2014. The longest running solo play in Broadway history is a hilarious comedy rooted in the way men and women fight, laugh and flirt. The Chicago Sun Times calls it an “outrageously funny and surprisingly sweet exploration of the gender gap,” and the Washington Post raves that “Caveman is a Blockbuster!”
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Oct 21, 2014-Sun, Nov 9, 2014. Ben Vereen and Patina Miller won Tony Awards for their portrayals of the Leading Player in the original Broadway production and the revival, respectively, making them the first two actors of different genders to win a Tony for the same role.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Oct 24, 2014-Sun, Nov 16, 2014. The convent needs a new roof, so the order has decided that Sister (with her extensive gambling experience running the Church Bingo for the last 25 years) will organize a Las Vegas night! Sister will tackle topics ranging from Magicians and Show Girls to live animal acts and the dangers of drive-through marriage chapels. Don’t forget: “What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas,” but God sees everything!
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Oct 25, 2014-Sat, Nov 15, 2014. A riveting pairing of one-act masterpieces, written more than two centuries apart, explores the fine line between devotion and obsession. In Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, an intimately scaled tragedy, a queen falls prey to the machinations of a formidable enemy, losing her heart to a man who abruptly abandons her. In Bartók’s suspenseful orchestral showpiece Bluebeard's Castle, an impulsive young bride turns her back on her family, only to uncover increasingly dark truths about her new husband.
MORE >>Thu, Oct 30, 2014-Sat, Nov 1, 2014. Orson Welles' famous radio version of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Performed live, with live sound effects and music.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Nov 4, 2014-Sun, Nov 30, 2014. A poignant and comedic play about the moments, both sudden and slow, in which one's life can change irrevocably. After meeting, two women, Callie and Sara, gradually and unexpectedly fall in love. Their first kiss provokes a violent attack that forces them to stop and re-evaluate their choices in life in ways they could never anticipate.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Nov 8, 2014-Sun, Dec 14, 2014. Magic can happen in the unlikeliest places ? like Christmas Eve in a seedy motel, where fate and bizarre circumstances bring together a young Israeli woman who has little command of English, and a young American man with little command of romance. Is their love an accident? Pure coincidence? Or is it destiny that’s been generations in the making? It’s a wonderful new play about love, communication, fate, and the importance of GPS-enabled tracking devices.
MORE >>Sun, Nov 9, 2014. A place where actors get to read new TV and film scripts, writers get to hear their work out loud, and producers and directors get introduced to a new script.
MORE >>Mon, Nov 10, 2014. 2 opposing writers. 2 opposing ideas. 7 minutes apiece. Audience picks a winner. Writers compete for cash going to a charity of their choosing. The world's only philanthropic competitive reading series, it has raised thousands of dollars for worthy charitable organizations throughout the world, all the while having a rollicking good time doing it. The second Monday of the month.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Nov 11, 2014-Sun, Dec 21, 2014. Hershey Felder brings to life the remarkable story of Irving Berlin, “America’s Composer.” From the depths of anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia, to New York’s Lower East Side, and ultimately all of America and the world, Berlin’s story epitomizes capturing the American dream. Featuring the composer’s most popular and enduring songs from "God Bless America,” to "White Christmas” and beyond, Hershey Felder’s masterful creation of character and musical performance makes this evening with Irving Berlin an unforgettable journey.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Nov 11, 2014-Sun, Nov 30, 2014. The production earned a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, including Best Musical and Best Score for Cyndi Lauper in her first outing as a Broadway songwriter, making her the first woman to win alone in that category.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Nov 11, 2014-Sun, Nov 23, 2014. Ben Vereen and Patina Miller won Tony Awards for their portrayals of the Leading Player in the original Broadway production and the revival, respectively, making them the first two actors of different genders to win a Tony for the same role.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Nov 12, 2014-Sun, Dec 21, 2014. This classic comic masterpiece has all the ingredients of a thoroughly enjoyable romp: manic action, twisting plotlines, mistaken identities, slamming doors, disappearing clothes, and, above all, Joe Orton’s subversive wit, breakneck dialogue and outrageous lack of appropriateness. Decried as scandalous in 1969 for its character’s raging libidos and rampant mockery of morality, What the Butler Saw is a timeless tale of sex and repression in a culture gone mad (it takes place in a mental hospital, after all), never slowing down long enough to let you catch your breath from laughter.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Nov 14, 2014-Sun, Nov 23, 2014. Memphis is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. It played on Broadway from October 19, 2009 to August 5, 2012 and won four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
MORE >>Fri, Nov 14, 2014-Sat, Nov 15, 2014. Legendary theater maker Robert Wilson returns to the Center with a brand-new theatrical production The Old Woman, based on a story by Russian author Daniil Kharms. A brilliant, slyly political story written in the 1930s, The Old Woman stars world-renowned dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov and film star Willem Dafoe. With echoes of Beckett in its deadpan narrative and humor, The Old Woman is one of the great works of the Russian avant-garde and tells the story of a struggling young writer.
MORE >>Tue, Nov 18, 2014-Wed, Nov 19, 2014. This classic musical love story is filled with unforgettable characters, lavish sets and costumes, and dazzling production numbers including “Be Our Guest” and the beloved title song.
MORE >>Wed, Nov 19, 2014-Sun, Nov 23, 2014. Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner explores the life of one of America’s best-loved presidents and the events and decisions that shaped a nation. This powerful one-man play follows the iconic president as he reflects on his years in office, from the Inauguration to the trials of World War II.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Nov 20, 2014-Sun, Dec 21, 2014. The musical, whose famous motto is "Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death," has starred such acting legends as Rosalind Russell, Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Celeste Holm, Elaine Stritch, Edie Adams, Christine Ebersole, Christine Baranski and Lucille Ball with Lansbury and Arthur both winning Tonys.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Nov 22, 2014-Sat, Dec 20, 2014. A steamboat passage through the fabled rainforest becomes a mystical voyage of discovery, each passenger harboring secret hopes of what the trip will bring. Among them, a famous prima donna hopes to recapture the great love of her life. Reality and fantasy intertwine as the dangerous splendors of the Amazon test the travelers’ preconceptions of their hopes and dreams. The sensational Chilean soprano Verónica Villarroel returns as Florencia, her record-breaking seventh leading role at LA Opera, joined by a stellar cast. An exquisite score by Daniel Catán, the beloved composer of Il Postino, shimmers with passionate melodies and sumptuous orchestrations reminiscent of Puccini and Debussy. Inspired by the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, Florencia en el Amazonas paints an intoxicating portrait of the transformative nature of love.
MORE >>Tue, Nov 25, 2014-Wed, Nov 26, 2014. Winner of three 2012 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical revival, this saucy and splendid production of Cole Porter’s first-class comedy features some of musical theater’s most memorable songs.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Nov 29, 2014-Fri, Dec 26, 2014. Nineteenth-century London comes to life with all the familiar Dickens characters.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Dec 3, 2014-Sun, Dec 28, 2014. This Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Choice concert-with-a-story is quickly becoming a holiday classic. Combining pop-rock, musical comedy and an old-fashioned uplift with a 21st century sensibility, Striking 12 weaves Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable, “The Little Match Girl,” with a modern-day New Year’s Eve twist.
MORE >>Mon, Dec 8, 2014. 2 opposing writers. 2 opposing ideas. 7 minutes apiece. Audience picks a winner. Writers compete for cash going to a charity of their choosing. The world's only philanthropic competitive reading series, it has raised thousands of dollars for worthy charitable organizations throughout the world, all the while having a rollicking good time doing it. The second Monday of the month.
MORE >>Wed, Dec 10, 2014-Sun, Dec 14, 2014. In the first week of December 2006, the musical topped the Broadway Box Office grosses, putting an end to Wicked's top-grossing streak that had lasted 100 weeks.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Dec 10, 2014-Sun, Jan 4, 2015. An updated version of the classic story, in the style of the traditional British family Panto, Lythgoe Family Productions will present a new holiday version of the classic tale featuring family-friendly magic, a comedic twist and contemporary music with interactive style and humor that appeals to fairy tale fans of all ages.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Dec 10, 2014-Sun, Feb 1, 2015. Since its 2003 debut, Wicked has broken box office records around the world, currently holding weekly-gross-takings records in Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and London. In the week ending January 2, 2011, the London, Broadway, and both North American touring productions simultaneously broke their respective records for the highest weekly gross. In the final week of 2013, the Broadway production broke this record again, earning $3.2 million.
MORE >>Sun, Dec 14, 2014. A place where actors get to read new TV and film scripts, writers get to hear their work out loud, and producers and directors get introduced to a new script.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Jan 4, 2015-Sun, Jan 25, 2015. The Civil War has ended, leaving destruction in its wake. As a raging storm illuminates what’s left of a once majestic plantation home, three Jewish men prepare for Passover—the owner’s son, and his family’s former slaves. Only one of them, Simon, remains strong in his faith, but it is threatened with truths about what happened in this house—and in their lives—during its antebellum days. Stage and television star Charlie Robinson plays Simon in this Obie Award-winning drama The New York Times proclaimed “haunting and powerful.”
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Jan 7, 2015-Sun, Feb 8, 2015. Called “the greatest songwriter that has ever lived,” by George Gershwin, Berlin is known for innumerable American classics such as “White Christmas,” “God Bless America,” “Anything You Can Do,” and “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.” Jerome Kern said it all: “Irving Berlin…is American music.”
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jan 16, 2015-Sun, Feb 8, 2015. See for yourself why it won ten 2009 Tony Awards® including Best Musical.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jan 23, 2015-Sun, Feb 8, 2015. It was a Tony winner for Best Musical, Best Book Of A Musical, Best Original Score, Best Lyrics and Best Revival plus the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Revival.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jan 23, 2015-Sun, Feb 22, 2015. A cabaret band plays high above the stage as this classic myth about star-crossed lovers unfolds. King Mark is victorious in battle, and Yseult is destined to be his bride. But when he sends Tristan to bring her back, trouble begins. It’s played out with wild exuberance—and a touch of Tarantino—by Kneehigh, the English company that thrilled audiences with productions like The Wild Bride and Brief Encounter. This is the play that wowed critics (The Huffington Post: “Utterly timeless, delightful and engrossing”) and catapulted Kneehigh into the international spotlight.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jan 27, 2015-Sun, Feb 22, 2015. The original critically acclaimed production starred Henry Fonda, and in her own Broadway debut, Anne Bancroft. In Two for the Seesaw, Jerry Ryan is a lawyer from Nebraska who has recently separated from his wife. To get away from it all, he has moved to a shabby apartment in New York. At a party he meets Gittel Mosca, a struggling dancer. They instantly get along, and begin to fall in love. But the relationship is hampered by their differences in background and temperament in this unforgettable play.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Feb 3, 2015-Sun, Feb 15, 2015. In a meta twist, the musical is based on the movie which starred Broadway veteran - and pre-Law & Order stalwart - Jerry Orbach.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Feb 3, 2015-Sun, Mar 15, 2015. Tommy owes more than he earns. When he is unexpectedly compelled to help Aimee, a young woman with much harder luck than his own, the taste of turmoil he suffers becomes a full-blown meal. With his trademark humor and humanity, Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) makes Phoenix Park, Dublin a place where anyone can rise from the ashes.
MORE >>Wed, Feb 4, 2015-Thu, Feb 5, 2015. This smash-hit musical that combines ABBA's greatest hits, including "Dancing Queen," "S.O.S.," "Super Trouper," "Take A Chance on Me" and "The Winner Takes It All," with an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 7, 2015-Sun, Mar 1, 2015. Trapped in the spirit world, the ghost of Marie Antoinette bitterly reflects on her final suffering. Her favorite playwright tries to entertain the melancholy queen with the continuing adventures of his beloved characters from The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. But sneaky Figaro refuses to play by the script, breaking free from the opera-within-the-opera in a surprise bid for a better life. LA Opera proudly presents the first full-scale production in this century of John Corigliano’s grand opera buffa, one of the most acclaimed operas of our time. Extravagantly scaled, gloriously tuneful, supremely touching and yet uproariously entertaining, The Ghosts of Versailles turns history on its head as love attempts to alter the course of destiny.
MORE >>Fri, Feb 13, 2015-Sat, Feb 14, 2015. Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Memphis features a Tony-winning book by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) and a Tony-winning original score with music by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 14, 2015-Sun, Mar 15, 2015. One hundred fifty years later, who knew that the final actions of General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War could relate to the feelings of a modern-day couple facing their own challenges? Lee's final retreat is brilliantly woven together with the parallel story of a present-day couple following his trail. Both parties, past and present, have their own important decisions to make that will determine forever the future of a general, a marriage, an army, and a nation.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 28, 2015-Sun, Mar 22, 2015. Dashing Count Almaviva has lost his heart to the spunky Rosina, whose doddering guardian is determined to marry her himself. It’s Figaro to the rescue, as the resourceful barber conjures up wacky schemes and strategies to unite the young lovers. A topnotch cast sails through the score’s bel canto glories, thrilling the audience as characters that are just as vivid today as when they first took the stage. Rossini’s razor-sharp musical wit glints through every scene of this delicious comedy, one of the most playful and popular in the entire operatic repertoire.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 3, 2015-Sun, Apr 12, 2015. Patricia Highsmith, master of the macabre, is racing to finish her novel when an attractive young man arrives representing her impatient publisher. Anxious to be rid of him and return to self-imposed exile, she attempts to terrorize him into fleeing. But he has a dark agenda of his own and will not leave until the final chapter is written. In this new Geffen Playhouse commission, Joanna Murray-Smith (The Female of the Species), with her unique brand of humor and mystery, brings to life this literary giant best known for Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Mar 12, 2015-Sun, Apr 5, 2015. A misfit at school, terrorized by her holier-than-thou mother at home, 17 year old Carrie White, nonetheless, has a secret. And when a prank at the high school prom goes horribly wrong, they'll all find out just how scary a secret can be...Outrageous, controversial and completely thrilling, Carrie comes to LA in a blazing new immersive production sure to be the theatrical event of the year.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 17, 2015-Sun, Apr 12, 2015. This poignant masterpiece by George Bernard Shaw that led to the smash Broadway success, "My Fair Lady."
MORE >>Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 21, 2015-Sun, Apr 12, 2015. Change is in the air and Figaro’s world is turning upside down. On the eve of the wily barber’s marriage to Susanna, Count Almaviva’s wandering eye has landed on the lovely bride-to-be. Servant and master go head to head, and even the Countess herself must spring into battle when she learns of her husband’s plans. Or is she embroiled in a liaison of her own? From the breathless opening notes of the overture to the touching final curtain, Mozart’s comic masterpiece brilliantly bucks the conventions of his time to deliver an ageless message of love and forgiveness.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 24, 2015-Sun, Apr 19, 2015. Based on the 1992 film Newsies, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 27, 2015-Sun, Apr 26, 2015. Legendary novelist Mick Stockton left his three daughters a house in Cape Cod, control over his books, and a whole lot of issues. Years later, the men in their lives struggle to be part of this elusive family's legacy. It’s not always easy keeping up with the whip smart and very funny Stockton Sisters, especially during a weekend filled with dramatic confrontations and surprising confessions. But good scotch helps. And, in the end, what matters most is family in this new play by the writer whose work Time Out New York called “zesty, muscular and quick-witted.”
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Apr 7, 2015-Sun, May 17, 2015. Charlie Duff’s nightly newscast makes him a voice to be heard, so why isn’t his teen-age son listening? When an on-air prayer for his father goes viral, Duff finds himself at the center of a firestorm over God’s place in the newsroom. When his prayers turn prophetic, Duff suddenly has the power to reach everyone- except his own son. Stephen Belber’s sharp new play asks is there is anything more vital than the faith we have in one another?
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Apr 12, 2015-Sun, May 3, 2015. Theresa is 17 years old, and she can map out the solar system. She understands the universe—how and why it came to be. She has a man named Mr. Wolf to thank for that. Now the only life she has ever known is coming to an end. She’s being taken away—turned over to people who are strangers to her. They can’t possibly understand her needs, when they seem to be lost, too. And they’re all asking the same questions: What is home? Where do I belong?
MORE >>Tue, Apr 14, 2015-Sun, Apr 19, 2015. Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, because of writer Abe Burrows' troubles with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection, and no Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 17, 2015-Sun, May 10, 2015. In this musical, the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy comes to life when Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra revisit "First Impressions," an earlier version of the beloved novel. As Austen makes changes, the Austen sisters must learn to see both the story and each other in a new light.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 17, 2015-Sun, Apr 26, 2015. Combining the best of the original stories by P.L. Travers and the beloved Walt Disney film, the Tony® Award-winning Mary Poppins is everything you'd hope for in a Broadway musical.
MORE >>Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Apr 18, 2015-Sun, May 17, 2015. Meet the man behind the lyrics you love. With “Fascinating Rhythm,” “ ‘S Wonderful,” “The Man That Got Away,” “Long Ago And Far Away,” “A Foggy Day,” “I Got Rhythm,” and many more, the other half of the famous Gershwin duo guides us on a trip through some of the greatest American songs ever written. Insights and tales about his legendary collaborations all frame this fascinating and inspiring evening of music and theatre.
MORE >>Sun, Apr 19, 2015. A few days after the death of little known painter Vincent Van Gogh, rumors are flying in Paris. Some say he was a penniless madman, a frequenter of prostitutes, a derelict and soon to be forgotten artist of trifling quality. Others denounce him as a wayward priest and unwelcome foreigner. Many whisper he took his own life in a moment of insanity. His brother Theo, Vincent's confidante and lifelong supporter, is enraged. Tonight, he hopes to set the record straight.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Apr 22, 2015-Sun, May 17, 2015. One actor investigates the crime… one actor plays all the suspects… and they both play the piano! A zany blend of classic musical comedy and madcap mystery, Murder for Two is a 90-minute “hilarious musical whodunit”(NY Observer). Winner of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical and named one of the “8 Best Off-Broadway Shows” by NewYork.com.
MORE >>Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Apr 23, 2015-Sun, Apr 26, 2015. Buckle your seatbelts for LA Opera's most offbeat presentation ever! Hercules vs. Vampires combines opera and midcentury pop culture, synchronizing live music with cult fantasy film Hercules in the Haunted World, a 1961 sword-and-sandal epic starring three-time Mr. Universe Reg Park. When the actors projected on the silver screen open their mouths to speak, the audience will hear their lines sung by their cast of singers from the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, accompanied by a 26-piece orchestra.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Apr 28, 2015-Sun, Jun 7, 2015. The story revolves around the early days of Motown and Berry Gordy's romance with Diana Ross and received four Tony Award nominations in 2013.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 8, 2015-Sun, Jun 7, 2015. Before Peter was Pan, he was just a boy. But when this orphan climbs aboard the good ship Neverland, he whisks us away on an exhilarating adventure to answer the century-old question: How did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Never Grew Up? In this innovative and imaginative musical play based on the best-selling Disney-Hyperion novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, a company of wildly talented actors play more than a hundred unforgettable characters in the epic origin story of popular culture’s most enduring and beloved hero.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, May 13, 2015-Sun, May 24, 2015. Sarah Jessica Parker played Annie in one of its runs while Alyssa Milano and Molly Ringwald played orphans in various productions.
MORE >>Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 29, 2015-Sun, Jun 21, 2015. Astonishing over seven million people worldwide with its pure Broadway magic, Mary Poppins is one of the biggest stage musical successes in recent years to come out of London and New York. The consummate Disney production features the irresistible story and unforgettable songs from one of the most popular Disney films of all time, plus brand-new breathtaking dance numbers and astonishing stage-craft to make it everything you could ever want in a hit Broadway show.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jun 9, 2015-Sun, Jul 19, 2015. In the Feygenbaum family, Daphna is the most devout. Just ask her. But her cousin Liam has the rights of the first-born grandchild. Just ask him. When their grandfather dies leaving a treasured family heirloom, a battle ignites escalating to Old Testament proportions. Hailed as one of the funniest plays of the year, Bad Jews can’t resist pointing out the worst in all of us.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Jun 10, 2015-Sun, Jul 26, 2015. It won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on February, 11 2012, the first production ever to do so.
MORE >>Thu, Jun 11, 2015-Sun, Jun 14, 2015. A deeply unsettling 2012 work that blends classical vocalism with dark heavy metal influences. In the aftermath of an unimaginable catastrophe, a family struggles to keep together. The teenage daughter clings to hope, unwilling to accept her dire situation, until a stranger shows up at the doorstep, a reminder of just how bad things have gotten. Based on a powerful short story by Judy Budnitz, and hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “one of the most exciting new operas of recent years” Dog Days is a shocking reminder of contemporary opera's raw power. "It's only a matter of time before this riveting show is confirmed as a groundbreaking American classic." (New York Times)
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jun 16, 2015-Sun, Jun 28, 2015. The story revolves around the early days of Motown and Berry Gordy's romance with Diana Ross and received four Tony Award nominations in 2013.
MORE >>Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jul 17, 2015-Sun, Jul 26, 2015. This was the first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein whose productions would go on to win thirty-four Tony Awards, fifteen Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and two Grammy Awards in their careers.
MORE >>Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Jul 29, 2015-Sun, Aug 9, 2015. It is, by over 3,000 performances, the longest-running show in Broadway history.
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