Review: ANTIGONE at Antaeus
by Evan Henerson - May 27, 2026
Andy Wolk's production transports Sophokles’s work off the pages of a high school syllabus and directly across the threshold of our comfort zone.
Photos: EXIT THE KING Opens at A Noise Within
by A.A. Cristi - May 5, 2026
A Noise Within has released production photos for EXIT THE KING by Eugène Ionesco. Directed by Michael Michetti, the play is now in previews ahead of its opening this weekend. Performances will continue through May 31.
Review: DEATH OF A SALESMAN at A Noise Within
by Evan Henerson - Apr 5, 2026
Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott delivers a production that pulses with quiet power and a moody score. An excellent cast renders Miller’s band of climbers, dreamers and ghosts with skill and sensitivity.
Photos: DEATH OF A SALESMAN At A Noise Within
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 25, 2026
Now in previews, Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork “Death of a Salesman” opens this Saturday at A Noise Within in a visceral new production directed by co-artistic director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and starring co-artistic director Geoff Elliott as Willy Loman opposite longtime ANW resident artist Deborah Strang as his wife, Linda. Check out the photos, below.
Review: RICHARD III at A Noise Within
by Evan Henerson - Feb 27, 2026
Embodied by the exciting Ann Noble and surrounded by a solid cast, Richard and his dastardly deeds are every inch at home within the world of Guillermo Cienfuegos’s sweet and seedy production of RICHARD III for A Noise Within.
Photos: RICHARD III At A Noise Within
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 9, 2026
Production photos have been released for RICHARD III, which begins performances this Saturday at A Noise Within. The production is a streamlined staging of William Shakespeare’s Richard III, reimagined in 1970s Britain and directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos.
Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at A Noise Within
by Evan Henerson - Sep 12, 2025
Staged with take-no-prisoners verve by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott, Richard Bean’s romp of a play is a joyride through a 60s England in which would-be actors ham it up gleefully, blondes are dizzy, would-be lovers are temporarily thwarted, and positively everybody is ready to cut loose to the strains of a Beatles-inspired skiffle band.
Review: A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at A Noise Within
by Evan Henerson - May 23, 2025
Featuring a cast who seamlessly transport us to a working-class Dublin community in 1964 – with music to match – ANW’s production spotlights not just its leading player, but pens a love letter to the lure of the stage
Review: JANE EYRE at A Noise Within
by Harker Jones - Apr 16, 2025
While a complicated and creative adaptation, the production ultimately suffers from a lack of energy and a tonal inconsistency that is hard to reconcile.
Interview: Geoff Elliott on Directing JANE EYRE at A Noise Within
by Shari Barrett - Apr 3, 2025
Mystery and romance abound in one of the most thrilling Gothic romance novels ever written – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The heart wrenching tale of an orphaned girl’s self-determination, adapted by Elizabeth Williamson, continues at A Noise Within in Pasadena, helmed by the theater’s artistic director Geoff Elliott. I spoke with him about his vision for the show.
Photos: JANE EYRE Opens This Weekend At A Noise Within
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 27, 2025
Adapted for the stage by Elizabeth Williamson from the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” will open this weekend at A Noise Within in a new production filled with mystery and romance. See photos of the production.
Review: THE PIANO LESSON at A Noise Within
by Evan Henerson - Oct 27, 2024
Barely six months since braving Wilson's KING HEDLEY II, the company and director Gregg T. Daniel are back an impactful - if leisurely – PIANO LESSON. Where HEDLEY was grim, this one is ghostly, rueful and full of music.
Photos: August Wilson's THE PIANO LESSON At A Noise Within This Weekend
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 15, 2024
Currently in previews, “The Piano Lesson” — the fourth play in Wilson’s extraordinary 10-play “American Century Cycle,” the second to win a Pulitzer Prize, and the fifth in A Noise Within’s commitment to stage them all — opens at A Noise Within this weekend. See photos from the production below.
Review: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at A Noise Within
by Amanda Callas - Sep 23, 2024
The Skin of Our Teeth is an astonishing production of the classic play at A Noise Within through September 29th. It is insatiably alive with sharp-fanged wit, whimsical thoughtfulness, and improbable wonder. The Skin of Our Teeth is audaciously satirical, but also earnest its incandescent meditation on the eternal human cycle of apocalypse and overindulgence.