THEATRE 40

              Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a thrilling tale of greed, blackmail and murder most foul. This ingenious 1926 novel cemented ...

Staged reading of a play. Written by Jason Robert Downs. Directed by Aliah Whitmore. Presented by Theatre 40. Judith Child was a complicated woman who came from ...

You’ve seen Stephen Tobolowsky before. He’s appeared in 100 movies and over 200 TV shows including Ned in Groundhog Day, Mississippi Burning, Thelma and Luise, ...

Staged reading of a play. When Woodrow Wilson arrived at the train station the day before his Inauguration in 1913, he found almost no people to greet ...

Staged reading of a play. When Woodrow Wilson arrived at the train station the day before his Inauguration in 1913, he found almost no people to greet ...

Jane Austen in 89 Minutes  is a comedy in which a cast of madcap ladies and gents bring all six of Jane Austen’s beloved novels ...

Staged reading of a play.  Opa has lived with a secret since World War II. Sometimes secrets can eat you from the inside, but sometimes ...

Balancing Act  is about an accountant who plans to escape with a large amount of embezzled money, but is visited at his New York apartment on ...

Starring Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield. Wriitten by A.R. Gurney. Directed by Jules Aaron. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to spell out love. In Love ...

Written and directed by Syrie James. Costumed staged reading of a play. A cast of madcap ladies and gents bring all of Jane Austen’s beloved ...

Play reading. All of the deceased characters in Hamlet meet up in purgatory. There, they must all figure out how to get to Heaven. But ...

Play reading. Written by Mark Hein. directed by Melanie MacQueen. When Emma Jung realizes her famous psychoanalyst husband, Carl Jung, may be on the brink ...

London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female ...

Power & Light dramatizes the titanic clash of genius between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as they battle to electrify the world. It is an ...

Power and Light is the story of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and how the battle for the development of electricity between these two great ...

Into the Breeches! is set during World War Two. Oberon Play House’s director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. Determined to ...

Staged reading of a new play written and direted by David Datz. Showtime at 1 p.m. In a town dominated by one chemical company, the ...

Play reading. Written by A.R. Gurney. Starring Dan Leslie and Melanie MacQueen. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to spell out love. In Love Letters , we ...

Play reading.Written by William Douglas Home. Starring Mariko Van Kampen and John Combs. Cecil, a seventy -ear-old successful novelist living comfortably with his fussy old ...

Written by Craig Warner. Based on the book by Patricia Highsmith. Directed by Jules Aaron. Two young men meet on a train; one an ambitious ...

There will be a staged reading of the new play Johnson/Johnson: Two Presidents, Same Problem, written and directed by Melanie MacQueen , on Saturday, February ...

A real Christmas crowd-pleaser with lots of laughs and nostalgia, this fun musical parodies the hit film Die Hard on the 35th anniversary of that ...

Written by Monica Wood. Directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky. A drama with warmth and humor. After an intriguing encounter with a psychic, a college secretary ...

Staged reading of a play, written and directed by Randy Lubas. When Willy and Catherine rediscover love after each of them have lost their spouses, ...

Theatre 40 announces the Fall 2023 season of its popular Monday Night Theatre Appreciation Seminars. David Hunt Stafford is curator. There will be play readings ...

  Theatre 40 will be producing a special two-night 60th Anniversary Commemorative staged reading of Oswald – the Actual Interrogation by Dennis Richard on October ...

When a house party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife Audrey and ...

Written by Norm Foster. Directed by Warren Davis. Retired prison guard Doris Mooney has just moved to Paradise Village, a retirement home in Canmore, Alberta. ...

  Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, ...

Staged reading of a play. Written by Andrew Davies. Directed by Jules Aaron. Presented by Theatre 40. Starring Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield. The egocentric ...

Written by Terrence McNally. Directed by Larry Eisenberg. Produced for Theatre 40 by David Hunt Stafford. It's the opening night of  The Golden Egg  on ...

Written by Terrence McNally. Directed by Larry Eisenberg. Produced for Theatre 40 by David Hunt Stafford. It's the opening night of  The Golden Egg  on ...

Reading of a play by Dennis Richard. Directed by Louis Fantasia. Presented by Theatre 40.   It’s 1953, and soon after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ...

The play tells the story of the O'Sheas, a cash-challenged, Irish-Catholic family just trying to get through 1973. Linda O'Shea, our 19-year old narrator, is ...

A progressive white couple’s proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her Black fiancé home to meet them in this ...

Theatre Forty once again presents Theatre Appreciation Seminars on Monday nights at 7:00 p.m. The series of rehearsed play-readings will be presented on Zoom, with ...

The story is based on true happenings.  In December of 1914 during World War One, peace broke out between the British and the German lines. ...

In Basement Folly, a couple ponders what to do when they discover that an unknown person is living in their basement. A normal couple would ...

A Clean Brush tells the story of two house painters, Dick and Mello, who land a job painting a room in the basement of recently-widowed ...

Written by David Ives. Based on La Metromanie by Alexis Piron. Directed by Marjorie Hayes. Produced by David Hunt Stafford for Theatre Forty.Metromaniacs arent people ...

Staged reading of a play by Gary Kaskel, starring Hal Linden, Ruta Lee and Donte Ashon Green. A benefit for Theatre 40.The play: Another Gin ...

In The Plays the Thing, a playwright named Sandor Turai comes up with a plan to save the engagement between his nephew Albert and an ...

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isnt allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. ...

Staged reading of a play on April 10 at 7 p.m.All nominees for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court must face confirmation hearings. Such ...

Theatre 40 will present the staged reading of a new play, Basement Follies, on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. The play is written ...

Death, with Benefits is a dark comedy inspired by the terribly true story of the infamous Killer Grannies of Santa Monica, also known as the ...

Theatre 40 will present the staged reading of a new play, Basement Follies, on Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. The play is written ...

Theatre 40 will present a staged reading of a new play, Disrupting the Box, on Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. The play is ...

Margie is a woman from the working-class neighborhood of South Boston. Shes a single mom caring for a grown, severely autistic daughter. Margie has recently ...

Virtual staged reading of a play. Written by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Melanie MacQueen. Beasleys Christmas Party is set in the Midwestern town of Wainwright, ...

The Fall session of Theatre 40s popular series of Monday Night Seminars will be conducted on Zoom this fall. Each date of the series will ...

Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s ...

Three female screenwriters, frustrated with the sexism and glass ceilings they encounter in Hollywood, decide to collaborate on a commercially surefire macho action epic screenplay ...

Taming the Lion is suggested by true events.William Haines acted in 50 films between 1922 and 1934 and was the number one box-office draw at ...

Staged reading of a new play by Gary Kaskel. Starring Ed Asner, Ruta Lee and Dont Ashon Green. "Another Gin Game" is a witty, sharp-tongued ...

Theatre 40 is presenting a Zoom reading of the play Holmes & Watson.Dr. Watson is summoned to a lunatic asylum on a remote Scottish island. ...

Theatre Forty will present a Zoom reading of a new play, Mr. Simpson by Stephen Maitland-Lewis on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. PDT.The ...

Theatre 40 will present a Zoom reading of a play, Freedom, Texas, written and directed by Michael Halperin. Los Angeles college student Steve Weisbart drops ...

Theatre 40 presents a Zoom reading of a play by Ken Urban, The Correspondent.A grieving husband hires a dying woman to deliver a message to ...

Theatre 40 will present a play reading on YouTube of a new work by John Strysik, Power & Light. Thomas Edison and Nikolai Tesla: The ...

Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour 35 years ago. Dancing backwards ...

Zoom reading of a new play.A group of stockbrokers meet nightly after work at a local bar. They conspire to pin the murder of a ...

Three Headliners of Magic and Mystery:Three magicians of the famed Magic Castle will perform dazzling feats of magic in a one-night-only event via Zoom sponsored ...

Zoom reading of a play by Sharon L. Graine. Presented by Theatre 40.In celebration of Womens History Month, Theatre 40 is presenting a Zoom reading ...

This is a Zoom reading of a play by Leda Siskind.Ms. Siskind describes her play as a modern re-telling of Oedipus the King- if Oedipus ...

Theatre 40 presents a reading of the play Camping with Henry and Tom via Zoom on Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7:00 PST. In 1921, ...

Theatre 40 is doing a virtual presentation of two short comedies at 7:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday, February 24 under the umbrella title of A ...

Theatre Forty will present a play-reading via Zoom of the historical drama Ben Butler by Richard Strand on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. ...

Theatre Forty will present a play-reading via Zoom of the historical drama Ben Butler by Richard Strand on Wednesday, FEBRUARY 17, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. ...

Theatre Forty will present a reading on Zoom of a new comedy by Michael Halperin, Major Rewrite.The narrative is based on true events. In 1956 ...

Theatre 40 will present a play reading via Zoom on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. PST. The new play is Person in the ...

Play-reading on Zoom of a new comedy by Nancy Beverly. Presented by Theatre 40.7:00 p.m. PST.Elliot, a professional actor suffering the usual slings and arrows ...

DECEMBER 16Theatre Forty presents a reading of a new comedy on Zoom, Doris and Ivy in the Home, by Theatre Fortys favorite playwright, Canadas Norm ...

This is a virtual event, via Zoom. Reading of a new comedy by Michael Halperin, presented by Theatre Forty.The cast includes Landon Beatty, Alison Blanchard, ...

Theatre 40 is launching a shortened season of its long standing Adult Education Theatre Appreciation Seminars this month. This Semesters theme is THE OTHER: plays ...

Theatre 40 Joel Drake Johnson...

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. ...

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The play tells the story of the O'Sheas, a cash-challenged, Irish-Catholic family just trying to get through 1973. Linda O'Shea, our 19-year old narrator, is ...

Taming the Lion is suggested by true events.William Haines acted in 50 films between 1922 and 1934 and was the number one box-office draw at ...

Join us for ninety minutes of musical theatre Heaven as the great vocal talents of the performing artists of Theatre 40 sing the great songs ...

Michael Matera, a young priest in the Chicago Archdiocese, returns to his parents home in the Bronx after his grandfather dies. The Matera clan is ...

Theatre Forty will present a reading of a new comedy by Michael Halperin, Major Rewrite, on Wednesday, FEBRUARY 10, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. PST via ...

Chicago, June, 1920. The Republican National Convention is in full swing. Warren G.Harding is overwhelmed by the prospect of being the nominee of the Republican ...

A young couple (new in town) decide to host a dinner party so they can make friends and promote their business. They invite a couple ...

Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny Vermont hamlet of Beaver ...

This lighthearted, joyfully farcical comedy concerns a lovable and zany family with a penchant for taking in all the stray animals--and people--whose paths cross theirs...

Homeward L.A. 2019 is a program consisting of eleven monologues based on stories of people whove experienced homelessness. Actors of Theatre 40 will perform the ...

Charles Norbury is a wildly successful author of childrens books. He hates children, and pretty much anyone else, too. Hes petty, cruel, vindictive, and treats ...

Hanks Bar is a roadside joint on a desolate highway in the middle of nowhere. Hank the barkeep (played by Kurtis Bedford) passes the time ...

Rod Serlings Stories from the Zone consists of stage adaptations of two classic episodes of his best-loved TV series.Mr. Garrity and the Graves: In the ...

Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills welcomes Remy O’Brien’s hilariously heartwarming one-woman show “Down to My Last Egg”, which premiered at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. ...

26 Pebbles is set in Newtown, Connecticut in June 2013, six months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which 20 children ...

The title Screwball Comedy refers to an American genre of story-telling which had its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. The elements included a male ...

Bucket List Theatre presents Bucket List Cabaret, an evening of funny show tunes and comedy songs. It’s a program loaded with laughs and terrific singing, ...

David Datz directs a staged reading of his new play Hackers and Lovers. It’s the story of a group of close friends, all but one ...

This delightful comedy tells of what happens when appealing Mr. Pim, who has much trouble with names, drops in one day. Mr. Pim announces that ...

As Holocaust survivor and the world’s most renowned hunter of Nazi war criminals Simon Wiesenthal is about to retire, he recounts for an audience the ...

Lost & Found:A Guilt Trip Through Show Business is the show business memoir of Steven Shaw. Steven grew up in Brooklyn. Turning to show business ...

England, 1897. Charlotte Payne-Townshend, wealthy Irish heiress, meets George Bernard Shaw, the financially challenged but famous Irish playwright and political activist (He’s a Fabian Socialist). ...

The Last Wife moves the story of King Henry VIII and his final wife, the wealthy widow Katherine Parr, to the 21st Century in this ...

England’s greatest actress and national treasure Lillie Langtry is the target of blackmail in a sex scandal that threatens to bring down the British monarchy. ...

Vino Veritas. The play takes its title from the Latin proverb, which literally translated: "in wine, the truth," suggests that people reveal their truest feelings ...

Theo has been named Time Magazine’s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years, he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin ...