TABLE 17
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Audiences are invited to talk back to the exes who reunite at a trendy night spot to rehash the past and maybe, just possibly get back together in the MCC Theater production of Douglas Lyons’ raucously funny off-Broadway hit Table 17, imported to L.A. by the Geffen Playhouse precisely when stressed-out Angelinos need it most.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
CCAE Theatricals’ acclaimed production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has arrived at the Lewis Family Playhouse to dazzle audiences with a spectacular mix of thrilling storytelling, superb performances, and dazzling multimedia magic.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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CLYDE’S
Sunday, November 20th, 2022
Four sandwich-making ex-cons strive to forge new lives for themselves in Lynn Nottage’s hilarious, hard-hitting Clyde’s, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum direct from its recent run at Chicago’s Goodman Theater.
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FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME
Sunday, July 17th, 2022
Rap meets improv meets R&B meets live theater at its most magical in the Tony-winning Freestyle Love Supreme, the most entertainingly original audience-participatory show you’ll see all summer.
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SLAVE PLAY
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
A trio of interracial couples let it all hang out in group therapy as Center Theatre Group presents the Broadway production of Jeremy O. Harris’s daringly provocative, deliberately discomforting, and frequently damn funny Slave Play.
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EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the feel-fabulous West End musical hit, has arrived in Los Angeles, an across-the-pond stop in its 2022 UK tour that’s worthy of an all-out L.A. celebration.
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LINDA VISTA
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Tracy Letts could just as easily have called his latest play Train Wreck, so hot a mess is its 50-year-old protagonist that much of the pleasure of Letts’ relentlessly funny, defiantly unsentimental Linda Vista (a Steppenwolf visitor to the Mark Taper Forum) is watching its antihero (emphasis on the anti) get what he so richly deserves.
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