Opening the Curtain

A theatrical event that unfolds across 24 individual chapters scattered around downtown Los Angeles. 

A new Chekov adaptation that you don't want to miss!

Why Actors' Equity fighting it's own actors? What's at stake? More on the latest battle between the union and its actors.

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins forces us to confront our racist past both outside and inside of the theater.

Stop what you're doing, wake up your inner child, grab any other children in your life, and go buy tickets to 24th Street Theatre’s production of Man Covets Bird, a lyrical narrative about a young man who finds a bird and goes off to the big city in search of grown up adventures. There is no scary villain like the big, bad wolf. Instead, the obstacles are isolation, losing one's way, and the challenge of saying goodbye.

There may be a drought in Los Angeles, but Anthony says that the city is awash in great theater in October.

For the last decade, the Getty Villa in Malibu has welcomed a theater company to produce an ancient text in their outdoor amphitheater. This year's production -- Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles -- pairs LA playwright Luis Alfaro with Euripedes' classic text and Pasadena's Boston Court Theater.

Los Angeles playwright Luis Alfaro's new play Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles opens September 9 at the Getty Villa. Anthony Byrnes talks with Alfaro about his process, his inspiration, and the challenging balancing act between the Greeks and giving voice to his community.

Luka's Room is one of those plays where plot is key and it falls squarely in the Rogue Machine mold where a mid-play revelation turns everything you've seen on its head.

You can feel it slowly creeping towards us. Maybe it's the flurry of back to school emails, or the work projects that will finally begin "when everyone's back," or just a sense that a summer this nice can't last forever: fall is just around the corner. Before your schedule gets filled up getting back in the swing of things, I have three must-see theater picks from our presenting houses.