It's Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open Louisiana's hottest new taxi
Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the "best" houses, while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this
Knocked-up and seriously broke, a successful publicist is plunged into a topsy-turvy world of welfare mothers and drug addicts, and forced to confront the family she left behind. Fabulation is a darkl
The poignant and Poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arri
This Pulitzer Prize winner tells the powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early 40's systematically preparing her own death - and the frantic and touching efforts of her mother to stop her. Thi
This Pulitzer Prize winning play is the tale of a baby-boomer's long, hard road from 60's confusion to 1990's self-assured woman...or so she hopes.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring
Presents a full-cast dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel that depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
In 1930's Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues tro
The infamous radio play that triggered a nationwide panic in 1938 is recreated by actors from Star Trek, including Gates McFadden, Leonard Nimoy, and Brent Spiner.
The classic comedy about post-honeymoon blues follows uptight Paul and free-spirited Connie as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment, as they deal with a skylight that leak
Two young brothers living with their cold and cruel grandmother watch as their Aunt Bella, a warm woman hungry for experience, searches for love and enters into the ultimate showdown with her mother.
Probes deeply into the pscyhe of a troubled man, who ruthlessly examines his traumatic past to help explain the "catastrophe" that is his current life. Performers include Anthony LaPaglia and Amy Bren
"A seriocomic look at the San Diego/Tijuana region based upon the interviews the trio conducted with more than 100 people from both sides of the border ..."--Container.
A clever lawyer breaks the composure of the paranoic Captain Queeg in the court-martial of a Navy officer. Performed by David Selby, Dan Lauria, and Josh Stamberg.
A veiled reflection of the anticommunist witch-hunts of the 1950s, this play portrays 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts as a rigid theocracy eager to ferret out real or imagined deviations from the no
A classic satire involves good girls, bad husbands, and the moral hypocrisy of British high society in the late nineteenth century. Performed by Joanna Going, Roger Rees, and Eric Stoltz.
Created as a forum for Americans to talk about what it's like to earn a living in the workaday world, this musical was based on Studs Terkel's bestselling book. Performed by Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean
Balmy evenings in rural Maryland are fraught with danger, and seductions can happen anywhere from a river bank to the front seat of a car, where a young self-conscious girl is learning to drive. To Li
Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman. Gay, debonair, and utterly so
In a play inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress. Winner of Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Performed by
Pulitzer-Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. As a respected health crusader and devoted wife and mother, Dr. Lyssa Hughes s
A group of friends enjoys an evening together, during which a seance evokes the spirit of the host's deceased wife, who returns to wreak havoc on his new marriage.
A sidesplitting musical about one of the most powerful men of the 20th Century. Learn about his secret love life, his need for personal privacy, and his obsession with knowing the private affairs of o
Told against the setting of a suburban backyard in the 1940s, this classic American play dramatizes the idealization of a father, the loss of a son, and the secrets that destroy a family. Winner of th
President Harding wants to be with his mistress. Industrialist Henry Ford wants to be President. And inventor Thomas Edison wonders how the three of them got stuck in the woods together. Inspired by a
When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made of beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visi
When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks fly as they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake. An L.A. Theatre W
Set in a South African traveling amusement park on New Year's Eve, Athol Fugard's “Playland” explores the possibilities for blacks and whites to find understanding in a racially divided world. A volat
"It's London, 1879, and the hapless members of the Explorers Club must confront their most lethal threat yet: the admission of a woman into their hermetically-sealed ranks. But the intrepid Phyllida S
Literary figures from a book thief's library come alive, offering romantic and other advice. The Incunabula is a prize book that the thief has purloined. Will he get away with his greatest theft, or
A highly -placed school official is accused of buying drugs on the street. Is he an out-of-control addict or a victim of discrimination? Voir Dire - a legal term meaning to say what is true- is the st
A series of short comic vignettes from playwright David Ives, In the title work, two houseflies try to make the most out of their brief time on earth. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featu
A deeply affecting and genuinely funny journey through the medical juggernaut of diethylstilbestrol (DES), and anti-miscarriage drug given to millions of pregnant women and later discovered to cause c
