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La Jolla Playhouse Reveals Projects for 2024 Latinx New Play Festival

La Jolla Playhouse has revealed the projects for the 2024 Latinx New Play Festival. Learn more about the plays and see how to purchase tickets.
Review: GHOST WALTZ at Latino Theatre Company At LATC

A moody dramatic dive into the life of a violinist whose celebrated waltz got him mistaken for Strauss. As lovely as Alberto Barboza’s production looks on stage at the Los Angeles Theatre Center – and as melodic as it often sounds – GHOST WALTZ’s impact is as fleeting as the spirits who populate it.
Photos: Latino Company Presents GHOST WALTZ By Oliver Mayer

Latino Theater Company opens its Spring 2024 season this weekend with the world premiere of an innovative and daring new play with music. See photos from the production!
Latino Theater Company Opens Spring 2024 Season With GHOST WALTZ Next Month

Latino Theater Company will open its Spring 2024 season with the world premiere of an innovative and daring new play with music. 
Latino Theater Company Reveals 2024 Spring Season Featuring Two World Premieres

L.A.’s Latino Theater Company has unveiled its 2024 Spring Season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.
Getty Villa Theater Lab Presents LETTERS FROM THE BLACK SEA This Weekend

Getty Villa Theater Lab presents Letters from the Black Sea, a play dedicated to the exiles of the world, past and present, and to the eternal flame of their hopes of returning.  
Latino Theater Company Announces In-Person Season For 2022

L.A.’s Latino Theater Company returns to in-person performance with a vengeance in 2022, offering four world premieres and a West Coast premiere; the presentation of a guest company from Spain; and the 20th annual presentation of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin Christmas pageant spectacular. Earlier this year, the company announced its new “IMPACT” community engagement initiative that sees the company partnering with the Los Angeles Community College District to provide students district-wide with a world-class education in dramatic arts and to bring students into the company’s home at The Los Angeles Theatre Center.
Son Of Semele Leaves Home Of 18 Years

Award-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble is announcing its departure from their Silver Lake home of 18 years. Led by Founding Artistic Director Matthew McCray since 2000, the company has been in residence at 3301 Beverly Boulevard in a black box theatre they created in 2003. 
Latino Theater Company Announces 'Circle Of Imaginistas' Playwriting Commission

The Latino Theater Company has been awarded a WarnerMedia Arts and Culture grant funded by the AT&T Foundation to support the first year of Circle of Imaginistas, a new playwright commissioning initiative that pairs established Latinx playwrights with early/mid-career Latinx playwrights to create a 30-play canon of new work over the course of five years.
Greenway Court Theatre Celebrates 20th Anniversary With IF I SHOULD WAKE

Greenway Arts Alliance announced today that Greenway Court Theatre is celebrating its 20th Anniversary Season. The award-winning and critically-acclaimed theatre will present the World Premiere of IF I SHOULD WAKE, a collection of eight monologues by an intrepid ensemble of contemporary playwrights representing the wide diversity of Greenway Court Theatre's many communities.
3 PADEREWSKIS to Premiere At The Kennedy Center

Following performances in Los Angeles, California and Poznań, Poland, Jenni Brandon and Oliver Mayer's '3 Paderewskis' will have its official world premiere on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater.
Pasadena's Free Reading Festival Returns July 26-28!

A Noise Within (ANW) is proud to announce the return of its Words Within Resident Artist Reading Festival from July 26 through July 28, 2019. ANW will partner with three Los Angeles-based theatre companies, Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, East West Players, and Latino Theater Company, for the free reading festival, titled inVision. A Noise Within and its festival partners will produce eight staged readings over the course of three days at ANW's East Pasadena campus. This is the second reading festival ANW has produced. ANW's first reading festival, The American Dream, launched the classic repertory theatre company's 25th anniversary season when it premiered in summer 2016. The festival is an extension of ANW's popular Words Within reading series, which began over 10 years ago and to date has produced 46 staged reading performances by the company's resident artists.
Brittany Ishibashi And More Cast In Hero Theatre's TEA

Hero Theatre announced the full cast of their upcoming staged reading of Tea by Velina Hasu Houston which is part of their anticipated Future Classics Series.
Latino Theater Company Premieres Get Simultaneous Runs at The LATC

What do a couple of a petty criminals planning a kidnapping in a seedy Barstow motel and a gay, Latino, world champion boxer in 1980s New York at the start of the AIDS epidemic have in common?
Hero Theatre Season Includes Live Performance Of GIRLFIGHT

Hero Theatre announced that their 2018/2019 season will include a special pairing of Blade to the Heat by Oliver Mayer and a live performance of Sundance Film Festival Award-Winner, Girlfight.
Greenway Arts Alliance & Urban Theatre Movement present YERMA IN THE DESERT

Greenway Arts Alliance (Whitney Weston and Pierson Blaetz, Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors) and Urban Theatre Movement (Paul Tully, Artistic Director and Gisla Stringer, Company Manager) present the world premiere of YERMA IN THE DESERT by Oliver Mayer (Off-Broadway's Blade to the Heat at The Public Theater) and co-directed by Marlene Forte and Edgar Landa. Urban Theatre Movement is the first Los Angeles theatre company recipient of Greenway Arts Alliance's Greenway Residency Program, created in celebration of GAA's 20th Anniversary Celebration. YERMA IN THE DESERT will open to the press at Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles) on Friday, November 17 and play through December 16, 2017.
Greenway Arts Alliance & Urban Theatre Movement present YERMA IN THE DESERT

Greenway Arts Alliance (Whitney Weston and Pierson Blaetz, Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors) and Urban Theatre Movement (Paul Tully, Artistic Director and Gisla Stringer, Company Manager) present the world premiere of YERMA IN THE DESERT by Oliver Mayer (Off-Broadway's Blade to the Heat at The Public Theater) and co-directed by Marlene Forte and Edgar Landa. Urban Theatre Movement is the first Los Angeles theatre company recipient of Greenway Arts Alliance's Greenway Residency Program, created in celebration of GAA's 20th Anniversary Celebration. YERMA IN THE DESERT will open to the press at Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles) today, November 17 and play through December 16, 2017.
Greenway Arts Alliance & Urban Theatre Movement present YERMA IN THE DESERT

Greenway Arts Alliance (Whitney Weston and Pierson Blaetz, Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors) and Urban Theatre Movement (Paul Tully, Artistic Director and Gisla Stringer, Company Manager) present the world premiere of YERMA IN THE DESERT by Oliver Mayer (Off-Broadway's Blade to the Heat at The Public Theater) and co-directed by Marlene Forte and Edgar Landa. Urban Theatre Movement is the first Los Angeles theatre company recipient of Greenway Arts Alliance's Greenway Residency Program, created in celebration of GAA's 20th Anniversary Celebration. YERMA IN THE DESERT will open to the press at Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles) on Friday, November 17 and play through December 16, 2017.
Photo Flash: THIS LAND Tells Multi-Cultural/Generational L.A. story

A deep, painful, joyful story about one extended California family with roots in different parts of the world, who make their home on the same plot of Southern California land over 150 years

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Oliver Mayer has written 1 shows including Blade to the Heat (Playwright).

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