Los Angeles Theatre Newsroom

On the heels of back-to-back award-winning productions LOVE CHICKEN and Annex playwright Maddox Pennington joins director Elisawon Etidorhpa to create an intergenerational community for trans and nonbinary folks at the Zephyr Theater for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. 

The Brookside Project is producing Am I Blue by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Beth Henley as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, directed by Brookside founder Noah Todd.

Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID opens tonight at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. Check out production photos here!

For theatre majors specifically, integrity is what will set you apart. Of course you need to maintain academic integrity; you can’t go about rewriting Shakespeare. When performing, your own integrity, as an actor, is just as important.

Rejection is never easy. You might think that after a while, it will sting less. Wrong. It will always hurt because you will always mourn the possibilities. After a thousand no's, “no” #1001 will still be hard: hard on your heart, your morale, and your passion.

Siren Song a solo show written and performed by Dylan Jones, co-created with Allan Wasserman will premiere at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2024 on June 9th at the Stephanie Feury Studio Mainstage.

UPLINE offers a unique theatrical experience that blurs the line between performance and opportunity, inviting audiences to engage in an innovative and interactive way.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum opens its 2024 summer repertory season in rustic Topanga Canyon this weekend with “The Winter’s Tale,” William Shakespeare’s sweeping romance of passion and forgiveness. Check out the photos, below.

The Boyle Heights Youth Festival returns as a free in-person event, showcasing the work of young individuals aged 13-24.

Mission Opera will present a unique 1980s-themed version of THE MERRY WIDOW at the OPERA America National Conference and World Opera Forum in Los Angeles. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Wonkybot Entertainment released the first episode of TARA TREMENDOUS Season 5, picking up after the dramatic cliffhanger of Season 4. Listen now!

Holocaust Museum LA is partnering with Barnes & Noble at The Grove for June book talks, featuring author discussions and a percentage of sales benefiting the museum. Learn how to attend!

Producers Christopher Allen and Kevin Duda have announced an industry reading of Fetching Water - A New Musical.

 Anaheim’s official resident theater company has announced its participation in the impACT Anaheim Giving Day, a community-wide event dedicated to supporting local nonprofits and their impactful initiatives.

Laguna Playhouse is now presenting HOLMES & WATSON, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Laguna Playhouse artistic director David Ellenstein. Check out all new photos here!

 'This Is Very Important,' a solo performance directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson and starring the remarkable Rahvaunia Johnson, is set to captivate audiences at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

A disillusioned birthday party princess faces an existential crisis during a performance in PARTY PRINCESS, a darkly hilarious one-woman show by Skylar Siben, starring Amanda Kuo at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

The latest play by The Actors’ Gang, written and directed by founder/Artistic Director Tim Robbins, is a melancholy reckoning over the early days of the covid pandemic...The gods are around for TOPSY TURVY, but they’re contemplative, grouchy and decidedly critical of the poor blighters who have disturbed them

Experience unhinged improvised comedy with 'Podcast: The Show' at Jaxx Theatre during the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Join Caroline Cotter, Crosby Fitzgerald, and DJ Corin Liall Douieb for a night of laughter.

Experience a unique Filipino-American family party with Krystle Tugadi's solo show at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival, exploring love, longing, and self-discovery at Madnani Theater in Los Angeles. Learn how to purchase tickets.

ArtsUP! LA and Returning Soldiers Speak will collaborate to bring Across Time: Love and Humanity During War to Los Angeles this June. 

Following a sold-out reunion concert in NYC, The California Dreams Band is getting back together again for two Los Angeles concerts on Friday, July 12 & Sunday, July 14 at Backbeat On Sunset @ Hotel Ziggy, 8462 W. Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, California. 

Explore Winfred Rembert's 'Hard Times' exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, presented in collaboration with Fort Gansevoort. Opening tonight, May 30th, the show delves into powerful narratives.

Experience the joy of live classical music in the great outdoors with Pacific Symphony’s Symphony on the Go! This summer, the orchestra is bringing free outdoor chamber music concerts to communities across Orange County. From Mission Viejo to Costa Mesa, Laguna Beach, and beyond, the Symphony’s mobile community concert experience promises to delight audiences of all ages.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Robinson Family Fund for the Arts have announced that Bay Area actors Steven Anthony Jones and Joy Carlin are recipients of the 2024 Charles Dean Award.