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Sundays. Sun, Jan 12, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. A musical comedy revue about seniors still on a romp in their Golden Years. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jan 21, 2014-Sun, May 11, 2014. The Book of Mormon is the winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The Book of Mormon features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of the landmark animated series, “South Park.” Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q. The musical is choreographed by Tony Award-winner Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker.
“The best musical of this century.” - Ben Brantley, The New York Times MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jan 24, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. The Different Shades of Hugh explores the very personal world of an artist’s creative process. Each artist is unique, but is there ever a time when that process should be altered? And does anyone have the right to try and impose that change morally, ethically, or personally? MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jan 25, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. Religion, politics and theater collide in a wildly ambitious triptych that follows three acting troupes as they stage a classical passion play at three different moments in history: Elizabethan England, Nazi Germany and Reagan-Era America. Bart DeLorenzo directs the Los Angeles premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s funny and lively excursion through centuries of religious pomp and pageantry, kicking off the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s 45th Anniversary Season. MORE >>
Daily. Wed, Jan 29, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. Regret and sibling rivalry fan the flames of laughter in this wickedly wonderful Chekhovian mash-up that equally tickles both the casual theatregoer and the ardent student of the Russian classics. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Feb 4, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. Academy Award winner William Friedkin directs a new production of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter’s most famous and enigmatic work. Two imposing strangers arrive at an English seaside boarding house – disrupting the monotony and disturbing the puzzled Stanley - a former pianist who is out of a job and maybe out of his mind. In celebration of Stanley’s birthday, a party is planned but menace arrives and mayhem ensues. Facts twist into half-truths and the night unravels into a mix of the characters' whimsical, eccentric, clownish and ultimately darkest desires. Like seeing through a broken lens or playing an instrument out of tune, this celebrated and darkly comic work mixes the familiar with the strange and the anticipated with the offbeat for an unconventional experience that is anything but expected and nothing but extraordinary. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 7, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. A compelling story of six Black U.S. soldiers' enduring incidents leading up to the tragic 1917 racially charged riot at their Camp Logan base in Houston, Texas during World War I. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 7, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. Set in rural Washington state during the first Iraq war, the world premiere of Tommy Smith’s drama explores an unthinkable love relationship. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 7, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. As rousing and relevant today as it was in 1955. Two great lawyers face off in a small-town courtroom with the eyes of an entire nation upon them. The accused? A high school teacher. His crime? Teaching evolution. Loosely based on the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial, Inherit The Wind is an edge-of-your-seat legal drama and a riveting look at the age-old conflict between science and faith. MORE >>
Sundays. Sun, Feb 9, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. 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 >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Feb 13, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. Before texting, facebooking, and tweeting became the preferred mode of communication for young people, there was writing notes. Remember passing them in high school? Remember how it felt to get caught? OMG! Meet Miss Edwards (Stephanie Zimbalist), a high school English teacher on the last day of a long teaching career. And meet Joe Marks, a basketball star whose college scholarship is suddenly in jeopardy when his attempt to pass his girlfriend a profanity-laced, sexually charged note, dripping with hormones and misplaced modifiers, is intercepted by Miss Edwards during a final exam. With nothing to lose as she bids farewell to her teaching career, Miss Edwards puts an unorthodox approach to the test, using the note to teach him a lesson in English composition, and to see if she can light an intellectual flame under one last underachiever. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Thu, Feb 13, 2014-Sat, Mar 29, 2014. Groupies, trophies and fast, beautiful cars. Is winning all there is? Terri Hanauer directs a rare revival of the celebrated Broadway drama that kick-started playwright/screenwriter John Bishop’s career. Nick Stabile (Bride of Chucky, Dennis Wilson in ABC’s award-winning The Beach Boys) heads the cast as once-great NASCAR racer Bobby Horvath in The Trip Back Down. After a near-miss crash-and-burn race on the circuit, Bobby Horvath returns home to the Midwestern factory town he left to pursue racing. Over the course of numerous flashbacks, past and present collide – with unexpected results. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Feb 13, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. Murder, mayhem and poetry. Award-winning, visionary playwright Murray Mednick brings his unique sensibility to the hair-raising, sometimes violent and often hilarious exploits of François Villon. Follow the 15th century poet and his gang of bandits, vagabond priests and swordsmen-courtiers through the treacherous forests of medieval France. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 14, 2014-Sat, Mar 22, 2014. Evan is what you would call accident-prone. Having suffered from various injuries his entire life, he's now been randomly stabbed in the shoulder. In his apartment, his sister and his fiancée are trying to help him recover while fending off a steady stream of visitors as well as a bitter neighbor with a thing for stuffed cats. Something isn't quite adding up though, as Evan's apartment becomes a buzzing hub of secrets and lies from which no one emerges unscathed. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 14, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. The early scenes deal with the embarkation of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the Earl of Cambridge and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 14, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. A quirky southern comedy that tells the story of a socially awkward English man, Charlie Baker and the events that befall him when he visits a Bed and Breakfast in rural Georgia and has to deal with local ignorance in the form of racism. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 15, 2014-Sat, Apr 19, 2014. Set in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish Community, the powerful story of a young painter’s struggle to become an artist at any cost – against the will of his parents, community and tradition — was the winner of the 2012-13 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 15, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. Forbidden passion brews in a 1938 railway station tearoom as a suburban housewife, over a series of stolen afternoons, falls madly in love with a married doctor. This ground-breaking theatrical event – ingeniously crafted with whimsical humor, dreamy romance and stunning multimedia effects – was hailed as “a first-class return to romance” (Daily Telegraph) and The New York Times wrote, “Don’t be ashamed if you feel a bit like swooning." MORE >>
Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 15, 2014-Mon, Mar 24, 2014. Enter a world where nothing can be taken at face value with this scalpel-sharp social satire from one of Germany's most notable contemporary playwrights. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Feb 19, 2014-Sat, May 24, 2014. A fox in the hen house; a rat is in the cellar; a snake is in the grass – Oh, Monsieur Tartuffe! The world’s most famous scoundrel’s story, Tartuffe is comic genius Molière’s tale of naiveté, religious hypocrisy, and the triumphant victory of good over evil – and all in rhyming couplets! MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Thu, Feb 20, 2014-Sat, Mar 22, 2014. The Ballard brothers are three of the most dysfunctional, chauvinist, volatile, unregenerate characters outside of Shakespeare. From what appears to be black comedy, Derby Day quickly shifts into serious emotional pyrotechnics rivaling anything mounted by the Grucci* family. Slightly more than an hour of increasingly abhorrent behavior and raw revelation passes in a mesmerizing blink. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 21, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. An African-American attorney’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble when she is shocked to discover she has an Iraqi half-sister who comes to the U.S. with a questionable agenda. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays. Fri, Feb 21, 2014-Sat, Mar 29, 2014. How I Learned to Drive follows a woman as she revisits the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. Through wildly absurd, unexpected and disturbing turns, she comes to terms with her past, her relationships, and how these events eventually shape her womanhood and understanding of the word. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 21, 2014-Sat, Mar 15, 2014. It is generally believed to have been one of Shakespeare's earliest works and has the smallest cast of any play by Shakespeare. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 22, 2014-Sun, Apr 20, 2014. Steppenwolf Theatre co-founder Jeff Perry (Scandal) directs the Los Angeles premiere of the Broadway sensation by Keith Huff (Mad Men, House of Cards) that will have audiences on the edge of their seats. The lifelong friendship of two Chicago cops is put to the test when a deadly error of judgment sends their lives spinning out of control. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 22, 2014-Sat, Apr 12, 2014. The second in a trilogy of three theatrical productions, Dead Men Have No Voice is a twisting turning who done it murder mystery with surprises at every turn to the very end of the show. Byron Meade, famous murder mystery novelist returns to his lake house home to retrieve his passport from his previous protégé Joshua Townsend who has found that Byron has stolen the manuscript he had been writing for his first big novel. Meanwhile, Rebecca Devlin, Christopher Devlin’s wife has begun to make her romantic relationship with Joshua (Josh) public now that her husband has been sent to prison for embezzling from Byron Meade, who by the way is now writing under an alias as he is presumed by the rest of the world to actually be dead. Surprises mount at every turn as each and every member of the cast offers valuable information that continues the story and makes the everchanging, ever twisting plots all that more entangled. Will someone die in this production? If so, who? Will it be Josh’s long-lost father, Harry Drake? Will it actually be Byron Meade? Perhaps another unsuspecting member of the cast will meet their demise. MORE >>
Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Feb 23, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. The Emperor cares about nothing in the kingdom but his wardrobe! Even as his many closets are overflowing, he insists he wants a brand new suit of clothing for his birthday. He announces to the land that any tailor who can make him the “ultimate” suit will be richly rewarded. Two swindlers beguile the Emperor with elaborate descriptions of the suit they will create, adding one important warning – the suit can only be seen by those who are trustworthy and wise. Dishonest or foolish people will see nothing at all! MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Feb 25, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. 50 Shades! The Musical opens with a ladies book club deciding to read Fifty Shades of Grey. Through their interpretation of the novel, the audience is led on a hilarious roller coaster ride of this unlikely bestseller. The show is full of dance numbers, 11 original songs and a live band backing the performance. Original songs include “They Get Nasty,” “I Don’t Make Love,” and “There’s a Hole Inside of Me.” MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Feb 27, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. In upstate New York, on the border of a small town and the local Haudenosaunee reservation, a young National Guardsman of Tuscarora heritage has to choose between upholding the oath he took to defend his country and protecting the traditional lands of his people. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 28, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. The hilarious Tony Award-winning farce takes place in the 1960s, and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn’t be happier: a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when a new, speedier Boeing jet throws off his careful planning. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 28, 2014-Sat, Apr 5, 2014. When Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering take a common flower girl off the streets and attempt to pass her off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party, the comic hi-jinks ensue in this poignant masterpiece by George Bernard Shaw that led to the smash Broadway success, "My Fair Lady." Reworked and set in the Mad Men style of 1960, this fun and funny retelling of the conversion of Eliza Doolittle from draggletailed guttersnipe to elegant lady is sure to delight. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Feb 28, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. Come cheer, laugh and holla with these newly branded cougars as three feisty friends decide to flip the script and begin to experience life dating younger men. MORE >>
Saturdays. Sat, Mar 1, 2014-Sat, Mar 15, 2014. In this zany, fantastically bizarre variety hour, Alexander Oakwood III unselfishly hosts the first-ever live “telethon” to support "Xander's Kids." Myriad performers and celebrity guest appearances will help raise funds for Alexander and his “charity.” *Disclaimer: this is not a real charity event MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 4, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop aboard as America's best loved comedy troupe zips through everything you were supposed to read in school, but probably didn't. No classic escapes the slings and arrows of outrageous satire in this captivating production. The Literary Canon explodes as the three cultural guerillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company take you on a hilarious ninety-eight minute roller-coaster ride through its compact compendium of the 83 greatest books in the history of Western Literature. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 4, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. They were the first sensational boy band: six talented young men who came together in 1920s Germany and took the world by storm with their signature blend of sophisticated close harmonies and uproarious stage antics. While the Comedian Harmonists sold millions of records, starred in a dozen films and packed the houses of the most prestigious concert halls, the group’s religious composition – a mixture of Jews and gentiles – put them on a collision course with history. Their amazing story inspired longtime collaborators, the legendary Barry Manilow and theatre veteran Bruce Sussman, to create a spectacular new musical for today: with an original score that celebrates this extraordinary group of friends and ensures their quest for true harmony in the most discordant chapter of human history will never be forgotten. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 4, 2014-Sun, Apr 20, 2014. When seventeen year-old Becky is shipped-off to her Uncle Sterling’s Costa Rican home – a sanctuary to which he escaped many years ago – the two lost souls navigate contrasting philosophies and a maze of regret. Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney returns to his old stomping grounds at Steppenwolf and brings home this intimate and elegant glimpse at two characters seeking forgiveness and finding each other. With sharp humor and authenticity, this West Coast premiere reminds us that escape is easy but redemption is hard. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Thu, Mar 6, 2014-Fri, Mar 28, 2014. Over the past three years, Poor Dog Group has investigated Greek antiquity and the mythic rites of Dionysus creating one new play every year from 2010 - 2013. This marks a single body of work centered on Greek mythology. Each play has embraced the ephemeral nature of performance by developing new designs, concepts, and narrative each year. This body of work ceaselessly evolves giving each public presentation a new identity, under a new title. The plays are: Satyr Atlas (2010 Getty), Dionysia (2011 EMPAC), and lastly Five Small Fires (2013 The Bootleg Theater). MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Mar 6, 2014-Sun, May 4, 2014. Politics get personal in the go-getting 1980s of Margaret Thatcher's England when Marlene, who has just been made managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency, discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be. An insightful commentary on bourgeois feminism, this bold and ingenious work offers an honest portrait of what it means to be a woman in the modern world. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Fri, Mar 7, 2014-Sat, Mar 15, 2014. No man can resist Carmen’s gypsy charms, but when she’s ready to move on, watch out! A riveting drama of love and jealousy, filled with famously alluring melodies and captivating dances, Carmen is one of the world’s most popular operas. With dazzling bursts of color, a thrilling production brings the sights and sounds of Seville to life, from the dusty town center to the clamor of the bullring. Bizet’s immortal score overflows with one delight after another, a music lover’s hit parade of opera’s most intoxicating melodies. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 7, 2014-Sat, Apr 26, 2014. An EMMY Award winning journalist stumbles on a plot that towers all others. Based on a true story, playwright Kathrine Bates crafts this stunning account of lust, lies, and fantasies where sex and obsession, indulged through an erotic relationship on the Internet, leads to explosive consequences, becoming a cautionary tale for the times we live in. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 7, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. CRE Outreach presents an original play created and performed by Theatre by the Blind, the country’s only theater troupe composed entirely of blind actors. Tristan and Ashley, two blind teenagers living across the street from one another, navigate the turbulent waters of their senior year. When they are both faced with life-changing decisions, the two realize how deeply they are connected. Will their love for each other withstand the current, or will the tide pull them apart? MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 8, 2014-Sun, May 11, 2014. Something wicked this way comes. In a world rife with superstition and witchcraft, the Bard’s insatiable Scottish couple leads us down a traitorous and blood-soaked road to the throne only to learn that power attained through murderous greed is enshrouded with the sleepless shriek of a guilty conscience. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 8, 2014-Sat, Apr 5, 2014. The winner of 8 2007 Tony Awards - including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score - Spring Awakening has been called "the best musical of a generation" (NY Observer). MORE >>
Saturdays. Sat, Mar 8, 2014-Sat, Apr 26, 2014. Zombie Joes Underground Theater's terrifying signature production is back, and more bad-ass than ever - diving deep into the depths of all-new inexplicable horrors, unfathomable monstrosities, and the disturbed spirits that walk among us! Produced by Zombie Joe and directed by Jana Wimer, with original musical score by Christopher Reiner. MORE >>
Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 8, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. Romance, comedy, beauty, passion, some songs. “Wild Songs and Naked Souls” features dramatic interpretations of classic musings on love and life from great writers and poets of the past few centuries, along with some songs. It’s an evening of romance and fun, a terrific evening out. Despite the title, there’s no nudity involved: only the emotions are naked here. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Mar 9, 2014-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. They revert to their childhood names—Maxie, Petie, Mitchie—these three buddies, who haven’t seen each other since their high school graduation party 20 years ago. It’s time to get wasted and relive the fun—the sunlit days of autumn leaves, moon pies and girls in lambswool sweaters. But it’s risky, trying to get in touch with—maybe even understand—their past selves. Memories aren’t always reliable, hurt runs deep and apologies come hard in this scathingly funny look at high school reunions and the complex nature of male friendship. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Mar 12, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. In this poetic play, two lost souls catch a glimpse of happiness in the moonlight. But is the newly lit fire within them strong enough to withstand a lifetime of disappointment and regret? And will it still be flickering at the break of dawn? Set in and around a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse in 1923, this great American classic follows Josie Hogan, a boisterous Irish woman with a quick tongue, a tarnished reputation and a tender heart; and Jim Tyrone, a tortured soul haunted by the loss of his mother. One of America’s master storytellers at the height of his powers, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill creates a mythic tale of old sins and the redemptive power of love. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Mar 13, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. In Pearl Cleage’s powerful historical drama set at the turn of the twentieth century, four African-American women journey west to the all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas to seek the freedom promised by the end of the Civil War — only to be challenged by the harsh and unforgiving terrain, the social climate of the time and the men who claim to be with them for love. A contemporary classic about the strength of black women and their role as pioneers in the settlement of the American West. MORE >>
Thu, Mar 13, 2014-Sun, Mar 16, 2014. Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal, Brothers & Sisters) and Gregory Harrison (Trapper John, M.D., upcoming CBS series Reckless) star in Sharr White’s gripping psychological thriller. Juliana Smithton is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped with a much older man and her own health is in jeopardy — but nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 14, 2014-Sat, Apr 19, 2014. The original Broadway production of the show, which opened in 1964, was the first musical in history to surpass 3,000 performances and held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical for almost 10 years until Grease surpassed its run. It remains Broadway's sixteenth longest-running show in history. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 14, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. After the play became a dramatic and financial success, Hampton was tried and acquitted for harassment of John Guare [the play's writer]; he felt he was due a share of the profits that he ultimately never received. MORE >>
Sat, Mar 15, 2014. Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann sings the title role of the tortured poet in the Met's acclaimed new production of Massenet's “Werther.” The performance will be transmitted live from the Met stage as part of “The Met: Live in HD” series, which now reaches 66 countries around the world. Richard Eyre, whose hit production of Bizet's “Carmen” remains the most popular broadcast since the series' inception, returns to direct the first new Met production of “Werther” in more than forty years. French mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch makes her Met debut as Charlotte, the object of Werther's unrequited love, in a cast that also includes Lisette Oropesa as Sophie, Serbian bass David Biži? in his Met debut as Albert, and Jonathan Summers as Le Bailli. Alain Altinoglu conducts. In select theaters. MORE >>
Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Mar 16, 2014-Sat, Mar 22, 2014. John Adams' opera examines Middle East politics through the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise liner. "...Adams's music refuses to let go, pulling the audience deeper and deeper into the emotional conflicts of the story...This is a masterful score and Adams at his best...It ought to be seen." - Financial Times MORE >>
Tue, Mar 18, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. It’s 1952 and you are a member of the studio audience awaiting the filming of two hilarious and oh-so-familiar I LOVE LUCY® episodes. Imagine stepping back in time onto the Desilu Playhouse soundstage where a charming host entertains and enlightens you to the behind-the-scenes filming process, the 1950s hi-fidelity technology and this brand-new thing called “television.” The episodes begin and you witness, firsthand, the side-splitting antics of that crazy redhead in the Ricardo’s New York apartment and thrill to the Cuban sounds of “The Ricky Ricardo Orchestra” at the famed Tropicana Nightclub. In-between scenes, The Crystaltone Singers perform live advertising jingles of the show’s newest sponsors in perfect 50s style harmony. Can you say “Brylcreem?!” MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Mar 18, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. An elderly writer hesitantly accepts a visit from his former mistress, leading to a confrontation of past secrets, forbidden affections and surprising confessions. Following this season’s smash-hit production of Noël Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels, Art Manke returns to The Playhouse to direct Coward’s rarely produced and final play of his illustrious career. Starring Bruce Davison, Sharon Lawrence and Roxanne Hart. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Mar 19, 2014-Sat, Apr 19, 2014. At age seventeen, Lilka Kadison flees Poland on the eve of World War II. Seventy years later in her modest North Hollywood home, she's spending the afternoon hassling her son, wrestling her caregiver, and arguing with a ghost who keeps rearranging her furniture - and her memories. This transcendent journey from present to past is told through magic illusion, toy theatre, music and imagination. It’s a story of love, loss, the creative impulse and memories that must never be denied. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Mar 20, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. Los Angeles audiences get a second chance. Those who missed Irish writer/actor Pat Kinevane’s exhilaratingly theatrical, award-winning plays in their West Coast premieres (or those who want to see them again) can catch both when Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Dublin’s Fishamble bring Kinevane back for a limited 3-week run — direct from a sold old run at Ireland’s Abbey Theatre and en route to a world tour. Silent is the touching story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Forgotten reveals the interconnecting stories of four elderly people living in retirement homes and care facilities around Ireland. Insightful and dark with startling moments of hilarity, Forgotten is a unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Thu, Mar 20, 2014-Sat, Apr 26, 2014. "The Ghost Sonata has been a seminal play that the Actors' Gang has been wanting to do for years. In recent workshops, director Brian T. Finney has presented a vision of beauty, energy, courageous spirits, and stunning theatricality that promise to create an evening that will both entertain and stir the incorporeal senses." - Tim Robbins, Artistic Director MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 21, 2014-Sun, May 4, 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 >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 21, 2014-Sun, Apr 27, 2014. A series of comedic sketches that take place in a Hollywood delicatessen giving the audience a wicked and hilarious look inside show business. The cast of outrageous, shameless, and sometimes certifiable characters includes movie and TV producers, writers, directors, actors, their wives, ex-wives, and a very patient waitress named Kathleen. Some of the events portrayed actually happened to the playwright, some to his friends, and some to people he just happened to be sitting next to at lunch. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 21, 2014-Sun, May 4, 2014. Winner of three Tony Awards, this madcap, screwball comedy takes place when a fiery-tempered, world famous opera singer goes missing just as he’s to make his debut with a local opera company. A three-ring circus of chaos ensues complete with mistaken identities and backstage shenanigans. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 21, 2014-Sun, Apr 27, 2014. This insightful, Depression-era tale of frustrated lives and spiritual emptiness is set in a gas station and lunchroom along an Arizona highway. The daughter of the station’s owner longs to go to Paris to paint. She falls in love with Alan Squier, a failed author who stops at the restaurant on his way to California and proposes elopement. Everything changes when the escaped criminal Duke Mantee arrives and holds them hostage, painting the plight of the search for values in a decadent civilization. MORE >>
Sat, Mar 22, 2014-Sun, Mar 23, 2014. A play written and directed by Robert Riemer. Two staged reading performances featuring Harvey Perr, Tina Preston, Brittany Slattery, Max Faugno and Willy Romano-Pugh. Stage Manager: Adam Neubauer. MORE >>
Sat, Mar 22, 2014. If you love musicals, Patti LuPone needs absolutely no introduction whatsoever. From her iconic, Tony-winning turns as Eva Perón in Evita and as Mama Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, Patti LuPone is synonymous with all things Broadway. MORE >>
Sat, Mar 22, 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. Thu, Mar 27, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. With a large cast and live musicians, feel the adventure of Floyd Collins's dream of fame and fortune as he is trapped in a narrow cave 200 feet below the surface. See how his goal of creating a tourist attraction becomes a reality, with him as the main attraction. This haunting musical, which won a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Obie Award when it premiered in New York, tells the transcendant tale of a true American dreamer. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 28, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. This 2008 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical changed Broadway with its focus on Washington Heights northern Manhattan's predominantly Dominican neighborhood and its blend of hip-hop, merengue, and old-school ballads. With a remarkable young cast and thrilling dancing, In the Heights is a moving, funny, and uplifting story about a community of hard-working immigrants seeking a better life and trying to find their place in a new country. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Mar 28, 2014-Sun, Apr 27, 2014. A nursing home in northern Idaho is shutting down. Only three patients remain—and one of them is lost. Gerald, 91 and suffering from Alzheimers, has wandered off, leaving his wife Etta and her friend Tom. Remaining staff includes a new 20-year-old cook and two longtime employees, women suddenly faced with a crisis of their own. In the midst of a record-breaking blizzard, the search for Gerald takes an unexpected turn—as the others find themselves powerless in the face of an uncertain future. A tender and heartbreakingly funny new work by the playwright who has risen like a meteor on the theatrical scene—author of last season’s play The Whale. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 29, 2014-Sat, May 17, 2014. At a time when the pace of American life was not so rapid, a middle-aged couple, awash in the what-ifs and drifting apart, takes in a young, vivacious college boarder, creating an explosive catalyst for change. After half a century, William Inge’s contemporary masterpiece remains compelling and deeply resonant. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 29, 2014-Sun, May 4, 2014. The mask comes off! Set during the Frank Rizzo campaign for mayor of Philadelphia and the dawn of Gay Pride, and inspired by the true story of Dr. John E. Fryer, this world premiere drama by New York-based playwright/psychiatrist Guy Fredrick Glass tackles the controversial subject of gay conversion therapy in a tale of love, liberation and opera. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 29, 2014-Sat, Apr 19, 2014. Miguel is a troubled high school student who enjoys taunting gays. When a gift from his girlfriend ends up changing his life forever, he is set off on an often comedic course of self-acceptance of his own sexuality. Going gay has never been this dysfunctional! Warning: male nudity. No one under 18 allowed. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 29, 2014-Sat, May 24, 2014. As a wife and mother of two grown daughters welcomes an uninvited Thanksgiving dinner guest, a family's life is forever challenged and changed. Is she losing her mind and body or owning them once and for all? Sovereign Body is an epic story of a family's journey to healing. MORE >>
Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 29, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. In 90 minutes of hilarious Vaudeville-style comedy, three brilliant performers (Jo Crandall, Patrick Chein & Justin Fisher) will take you through Shakespeare's entire canon. There will be wigs, sword fights, accents & cross-dressing as the stars of 2010's The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) take on the most famous works in all of literature. MORE >>
Sun, Mar 30, 2014. War Horse, the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated film and a 5 time Tony® Award-winning stage spectacle, is a remarkable tale of loyalty, courage and friendship between a boy and his horse set against the backdrop of World War I. MORE >>
Tuesdays. Tue, Apr 1, 2014-Tue, Apr 15, 2014. In his role as the anti-Tony Robbins, Tom comically dispels every major method and mantra offered by serious self-help gurus and replaces them with his own absurd (or perhaps not-so-absurd) system based on the premise that Failure Is An Option. This one-man show skewers well-known self-help concepts ranging from positive thinking and empowerment to bucket lists and spiritual enlightenment. It’s wickedly funny and surprisingly uplifting. MORE >>
Daily. Thu, Apr 3, 2014-Sun, Apr 20, 2014. Having last worked together? on the internationally acclaimed War Horse, Bristol Old Vic’s Artistic Director?Tom Morris and Cape Town’s Handspring Puppet Company reunite to begin a new journey. Trees, objects and tools all pulse and tingle with the possibility of existence in a world where — thanks to the magic of Handspring — all objects are granted the right to life. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Apr 3, 2014-Sun, May 11, 2014. Victor is a ruthless fashion designer in the 1970s at the top of his game. Esme, his glamorous protégé and muse, is pushed aside when an ordinary Midwestern woman inspires Victor to make his artistry accessible to the masses. A generation later, a woman grappling with a healthy dose of self-loathing must wrestle her own family demons to find her way through the world of fashion that won’t give a woman her size a second look. Skipping back and forth in time, Everything You Touch is a viciously funny look at the struggle to find an identity that's more than skin deep. MORE >>
Thu, Apr 3, 2014-Sun, Apr 6, 2014. With a bold theatrical vision and a potent score of remixed pop, electronica and more, Trajal Harrell concocts an intoxicating blend ?of strutting, voguing, extravagantly outré fashion and irresistible movement in the latest and largest edition of his acclaimed series of works inspired by a provocative question: What if the Harlem ball culture of the 1960s had paraded its way into downtown New York’s early postmodern dance scene? This speculation is smartly brought into a contemporary context through Harrell’s choreography for an international ensemble of virtuosic dancers. As a genre-bending exploration of race, gender, sexuality, culture and history, the resulting Antigone Sr. is much more than a fierce, all-male take on the classic tragedy. It serves up a revelatory investigation of Sophocles’ themes, set to dance music with deep bass. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 4, 2014-Sat, May 3, 2014. The most famous love story of all time gets an athletic and imaginative staging in this new adaptation that incorporates dynamic choreography and visually rich design. MORE >>
Tue, Apr 8, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. 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 >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Apr 8, 2014-Sun, May 18, 2014. A pioneer in 20th century drama, Ruth Draper was described as, “the greatest individual performer that America has ever given.” Her uncanny ability, while alone on stage, to shift between many characters brought awe to actors, royalty and throngs of crowds for decades. Now, Annette Bening makes Draper’s timeless monologues her own — highlighting their continued influence on audiences and artists alike. Meet the harried society woman, the hostess, the wife, the mistress; like Draper before her, Bening embraces and embodies these monologues in this tour-de-force premiere. MORE >>
Fri, Apr 11, 2014-Sat, Apr 12, 2014. In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker — and in LA's most famous rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the ‘80s. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 11, 2014-Sun, May 18, 2014. 1965, the mod London of Carnaby Street, Darling and “The Shrimp” – Nicky Lancaster brings his beautiful fiancée home to introduce her to his mother, narcissistic stage actress Florence, and is shocked to learn that she has taken a much younger lover. When Nicky’s fiancée runs off with Florence’s boy-toy, Nicky and Florence are forced to confront the truth about themselves. MORE >>
Sat, Apr 12, 2014-Sun, Apr 13, 2014. The true story of Kabin Thomas, a University of Arkansas music professor fired for the use of profanity in the classroom. MORE >>
Daily. Sat, Apr 12, 2014-Sun, May 25, 2014. Paul Robeson was born the son of a runaway slave and died “the most well known black man in the world.” Obie Award-winning writer and performer Daniel Beaty chronicles his remarkable life in an extraordinary theatrical biography. Embodying not only Robeson but also dozens of international personalities who crossed Robeson’s path, Beaty fills the theatre with the dreams, words and songs (American classics like Ol’ Man River) of a man who sacrificed everything in the name of liberty. MORE >>
Sun, Apr 13, 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, Apr 13, 2014-Sun, May 4, 2014. Jamie enjoys a quiet life in his small Pennsylvania town, fixing up his grandfather's old lake house and pining after Mary, his troubled coworker. When his brother comes back to town with a new girlfriend, Jamie's peaceful world is turned upside down. A tender story about those who stay and those who go away. MORE >>
Mon, Apr 14, 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, Apr 16, 2014-Sun, Apr 20, 2014. Join the celebration as 65 of Disney's unforgettable characters from 18 beloved stories come to life in Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic! You'll be captivated by the one and only Mickey Mouse, the irresistible Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio and many Disney Princesses. Be thrilled by exciting moments from The Lion King; Mulan; and Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Toy Story films; in a skating spectacular filled with magical Disney moments you'll remember forever as Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic! MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 18, 2014-Sun, May 11, 2014. The 1983 Tony Award winner for Best Musical is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, and the fourth longest-running West End musical. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Apr 19, 2014-Sat, May 31, 2014. The Lake House Chronicles comes to a close and all the questions from the prior two productions find their answers as this dramatic production reaches a climax that is truly unexpected. Evelyn Townsend reunites with her son Josh and attempts to trust Byron Meade while Becky and Chris see if there is anything left to their relationship to rebuild. But then there is Harry Mandrake who might well destroy every aspiration, dream, and desire the others have. Who will pay the ultimate price for the lives they have lead, and who will find truth for the first time in their lives. Follow these six amazing characters as they delve into the world of murder, mystery, romance, resentment, and revenge. Mandrake's End will leave you thinking, contemplating, and evaluating your own lives, as well as those of the characters. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Apr 22, 2014-Sun, Jun 1, 2014. There’s a hurricane blowing into the Ahmanson filled with glorious Gershwin melodies, rousing production numbers and one of theater’s most unforgettable and timeless love stories. The legendary Porgy and Bess, ahead of its time in 1935, has come of age in a contemporary new adaptation deservedly celebrated with the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 25, 2014-Sun, Jun 1, 2014. Neil LaBute’s award-winning, stingingly witty romance about love in the modern age of body image and peer pressure tells the story of Tom, a young career guy who hits it off with Helen, a bright, sexy woman who happens to be plus-sized. As he reluctantly finds himself falling in love, Tom's colleagues are brutal in their assessment of his new mate. LaBute probes our carb-counting, extreme makeover nation by asking tough questions. How much has our relentless pursuit of beauty turned us into an uglier species? MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 25, 2014-Sat, May 31, 2014. Bryony Lavery's powerful, poetic and provocative drama, telling the story of Ralph, a serial killer and the effects that his heinous crimes have on the two women in particular, who are left to untangle the web of destruction that he leaves in his wake. MORE >>
Fri, Apr 25, 2014-Sat, Apr 26, 2014. The award-winning Beatles concert makes its debut at the Orange County Performing Arts. In a show the Denver Post calls “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles,” Rain boasts a repertoire of nearly 200 Beatlemaniac favorites. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Apr 26, 2014-Sun, May 25, 2014. As the NBA draft approaches, two Superstar college basketball players and the controversial world of Islam collide in this face-off between life long friends. Beyond money, fame, and flesh…a look at living in America today. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Apr 26, 2014-Sun, May 25, 2014. A touching and human comedy about a formidable retired woman, Lily Harrison, who hires an acerbic dance instructor, Michael Minetti, to give her private dance lessons —one per week for six weeks— in her gulf-front condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. What begins as an mercurial relationship blossoms into an intimate friendship as these two people from very different backgrounds reveal their secrets, fears, and joys while dancing. Starring 2-time Oscar nominee Leslie Caron. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays. Fri, May 2, 2014-Sat, May 24, 2014. A new musical parody of the horror movies you loved from the 90s mashed up with hits from the Disco Queen you loved from the 70s from the creative team behind the smash sensations, "Are You There God? It's Me, Karen Carpenter" and "Prairie-oke!" MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 2, 2014-Sun, May 25, 2014. Academy-award nominee Chazz Palminteri stars in this powerful world premiere play. Gino Sicuso is a diminishing Mafioso, a forgotten brother and son, banished to Detroit by his father Carmello Sicuso, the Capo dei Capi of the third largest crime family in New York. He’s been relocated for his inability to follow orders (he can’t commit murder), and hasn’t had direct communication with any of his family members in years. His wife Rosie Sicuso has Gino on the road to redemption with the hope that he can mentally turn his life around. Having no such trouble with maiming, beating and killing is Gino’s older brother, Sal Sicuso, a brutal mobster who unexpectedly shows up at his door. What transpires is a gripping, savage and wildly humorous glimpse at the Cosa Nostra, where the fine line between loyalty and betrayal is explored and where the sacred code of Omertà is shaken to the core. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, May 4, 2014-Sun, Jun 1, 2014. After putting years and thousands of miles between them, Alice gets the call to return to her hometown, forcing her to revisit and re-examine the places, events and relationships that once defined her. Neel Keller, who helmed last season’s thriller The Nether, assembles one of the largest casts in KDT history to create an unforgettable multi-ethnic family three generations deep: complete with all the love, laughter, complications and difficult choices that come with family. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, May 8, 2014-Sun, Jun 29, 2014. The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are a gay boy in an all-boys school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team. Still, despite the odds, Tim and John fall in love and for fifteen years their relationship survives everything life throws at it - the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem love can't solve threatens to part them. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 9, 2014-Sun, Jun 8, 2014. They banned Molière's play in Paris. But that was in 1664. Three hundred years later, it would be the play to put SCR on the map. Now, celebrate the landmark 50th Season with a revival of this classic comedy about the man who gave the word “hypocrite” a bad reputation. A family watches in astonishment as the head of the household falls under Tartuffe’s spell. While they scheme to get rid of the false prophet, he does himself in, proving that when your thoughts are supposed to be turned heavenward, it’s a good idea not to reveal earthly desires, especially when someone is hiding in the closet—or under the table. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 10, 2014-Sun, May 18, 2014. Letters from Zora is an untold story about the unbridled creativity of Zora Neale Hurston: writer, anthropologist, voodoo priestess and overall Renaissance woman determined to live and die by her own mind,” stated writer Gabrielle Pina. “This production offers a passionate glimpse of history, music, and artistry intended to illuminate her life, her extraordinary career and her immeasurable contributions to the American literary canon.” MORE >>
Sat, May 10, 2014. “A tour de force that doubles as a primer on acting...,” as Tony Award® winner John Lithgow tells you not the story of his life, but the STORIES of his life. MORE >>
Sun, May 11, 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, May 12, 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 >>
Tue, May 13, 2014-Sun, May 18, 2014. The music of Green Day and the lyrics of lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong captured the zeitgeist of a generation with its Grammy® Award-winning multi-platinum album. American Idiot puts those raw emotions front and center in a highly theatrical and thoroughly satisfying rock opera that burns up the stage. MORE >>
Tue, May 13, 2014-Sun, May 18, 2014. Based on Green Day's Grammy® Award-winning multi-platinum album and featuring the smash hits “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Holiday” and “21 Guns,” American Idiot is the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Their search for meaning in a post 9/11 world leads them on the most exhilarating journey of the Broadway season. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, May 13, 2014-Sun, May 25, 2014. From the creators of South Park and winner of nine Tony Awards, The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century" and Entertainment Weekly says it's "the funniest musical of all time." MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 17, 2014-Sun, Jun 22, 2014. A new adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár’s comic masterpiece about love, fidelity, disguise and illusion. A celebrated actor, unsure of his wife's devotion, disguises himself to test her veracity, only to be beaten at his own game. MORE >>
Sun, May 18, 2014-Sat, May 24, 2014. Superstar Renée Fleming returns to Los Angeles in a role created for her extraordinary talents! Clinging desperately to a masquerade of Southern grace, Blanche DuBois moves into her sister’s cramped apartment, creating all the wrong kinds of sparks with her crude brother-in-law. When dark truths about Blanche’s past begin to emerge, her world comes apart at the seams in a spiral of violence and madness. A faithful adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, André Previn’s powerful opera evokes a highly charged New Orleans setting. Bass-baritone Ryan McKinny is the hotheaded Stanley Kowalski, with soprano Stacey Tappan as Stella and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey as Blanche’s guileless suitor Mitch. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, May 20, 2014-Sun, Jun 29, 2014. With a world of knowledge just a smart phone away, is there still such a thing as an original idea? When a young professor suspects a student of plagiarism, his inquiry sparks a chain of events affecting the lives of four people in very real terms. Drukman’s beautifully drawn characters must navigate heartbreak, blind ambition and the cutthroat competition that thrives within these ivy-covered walls. Extending beyond post-modern literature and academic rigors, this smart, funny and engrossing world premiere becomes a personal battle to decide what is right, what is wrong and what must be done. MORE >>
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 30, 2014-Sat, Jun 21, 2014. After the Restoration, the play was often revised with a happy ending for audiences who disliked its dark and depressing tone, but since the 19th century, Shakespeare's original version has been regarded as one of his supreme achievements. The tragedy is particularly noted for its probing observations on the nature of human suffering and kinship. George Bernard Shaw wrote, "No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear." MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 30, 2014-Sun, Jun 22, 2014. The Broadway production opened 12 March 1987 and ran until 18 May 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. It is the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history and was the second-longest at the time. The show was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jun 3, 2014-Sun, Jun 22, 2014. This was the first musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed publicly. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jun 3, 2014-Sun, Jun 29, 2014. Chronicled through the lens of his own silent films, Stoneface recreates some of Buster Keaton’s most memorable gags live on stage, capturing the legend of a bygone era and telling the tale of the redemption of one of Hollywood’s greatest performers. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jun 7, 2014-Sun, Jul 6, 2014. It's 1978, and a little-known country priest is crowned Pope John Paul I in an uneasy compromise. Thirty-three days later, before he can set his liberal reforms into place, “the Smiling Pope” is found dead: the very day after threatening to remove three prominent Cardinals from their posts. No investigation or autopsy is performed, and a Vatican press release about the cause of his death is later proven to be, in large part, false. The Last Confession, an unflinching and searing drama, recounts the mystery shrouding the events as told by their ultimate witness: Cardinal Benelli, who engineered John Paul’s ascent. This provocative thriller explores the machinations of power amid crises of faith and the struggle to conceal the truth at any cost. MORE >>
Sun, Jun 8, 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, Jun 9, 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, Jun 10, 2014-Sun, Jul 20, 2014. Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s pastoral comedies, Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies brings this funny and poignant world premiere – helmed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. Gathering in their Berkshire home during the Williamstown summer theater season, a family of actors wrestles with fame, art and, as always, each other. But when the events of the weekend go off-script, secrets are spilled and bonds are broken – threatening an already fragile foundation of a home brimming with old memories, new love and discarded dreams. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Jun 19, 2014-Sun, Jul 27, 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 >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jun 24, 2014-Sun, Jul 13, 2014. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Jun 27, 2014-Sun, Jul 13, 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. 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 >>
Sun, Jul 13, 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, Jul 14, 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, 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 >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Jul 22, 2014-Sun, Aug 3, 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 >>
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 >>
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. 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, 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 >>
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 >>
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. 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 >>
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. 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, 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 >>
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, 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. 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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. 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 >>
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