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A Froggy Becomes
A Froggy Becomes
3/2 - 4/13/2024


Middle School is Hell. Especially for a seventh-grade girl somewhere in the 1980s whose ‘friends’ tease her relentlessly, whose father is an ogre, who desperately ...


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A FROGGY BECOMES Comes to Atwater Village Theatre Next Month


by Stephi Wild - February 13, 2024

Open Fist Theatre Company will present the world premiere of A Froggy Becomes, written by Becky Wahlstrom and directed by Pat Towne, opening March 9 and running through April 13 at Atwater Village Theatre....

Interview: Playwright Catya McMullen on the World Premiere of ARROWHEAD produced by IAMA Theatre Company


by Shari Barrett - February 09, 2024

Catya McMullen (pictured), a native New Yorker, now finds herself at home in Los Angeles. While working in film and television, her life-long love of theater inspired her to write plays. The world premiere of Arrowhead is her first being presented here, produced by IAMA at Atwater Village Theatre, d...

Photos: First Look at ARROWHEAD at IAMA Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 07, 2024

“Arrowhead” by Catya McMullen opens Thursday night at Atwater Village Theatre. Check out photos! ...

Review: RADICAL OR, ARE YOU GONNA MISS ME? at IAMA At Atwater Village Theatre


by Evan Henerson - November 26, 2023

hot through with equal parts rancor and compassion, Jess McLeod’s production of this, IAMA’s first commissioned play, is effective despite some narrative speedbumps....

BLOOD AT THE ROOT Extends At Open Fist


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2023

Open Fist's hit production of Dominique Morisseau's ‘Blood at the Root' adds four performances through November 6....

Photos: Open Fist Theatre Company's Joyous Revival Of STARMITES Opens This Weekend At Atwater Village Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - June 02, 2023

Open Fist Theatre Company’s joyous revival of sci-fi musical adventure ‘Starmites’ opens this weekend at Atwater Village Theatre.. See photos from the production! ...

Free Staged Reading of FOR WANT OF A HORSE to be Presented at Echo Theater Company in June


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2023

The Echo Theater Company will present a staged reading of a new play, For Want of a Horse by Olivia Dufault, on Thursday, June 15 at 8 p.m. at Atwater Village Theatre....

STARMITES Comes to Open Fist Theatre Company


by Stephi Wild - May 09, 2023

Time: 1989; Place: Earth and Inner Space. Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical that's a comic book come to life. With music and lyrics by Barry Keating; book by Stuart Ross and Keating; direction by Scott Peterman; and music dire...

Review: THE THIN PLACE at Atwater Village Theatre


by Harker Jones - March 22, 2023

Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath’s THE THIN PLACE is an eerie meditation on grief, regret and the need for closure, though it is undermined by the lack of a satisfying conclusion despite phenomenal performances....

Photos: First Look At Echo Theater Company's THE THIN PLACE By Lucas Hnath, Beginning Previews Tonight


by A.A. Cristi - March 16, 2023

Linda can speak with the dead. Hilda wants to. Previews begin tonight for The Echo Theater Company’s California premiere of The Thin Place, the spine-tingling new play by Lucas Hnath. Opening night is this Saturday, March 18. Check out first look production photos. ...

Past Shows

Arrowhead
Arrowhead
2/8 - 3/4/2024


IAMA Theatre Company presents a new comedy about love, sex, identity… and found family. Gen is unexpectedly pregnant. Gen is also a lesbian. Yeah, it’s ...

Radical or, are you gonna miss me?


What do you do when the people you call family are the ones who hurt you the most? After being bailed out of jail by ...

Blood at the Root
Blood at the Root
9/9 - 10/28/2023


Racial tensions erupt in an explosive ensemble drama based on a real-life incident at a Louisiana high school. Open Fist Theatre Company presents Blood at ...

Certain Death and Other Considerations


Direct from a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this ensemble-devised, “eco-anxious” dark comedy combines Greek tragic structure, realism and physical theater to explore ...

Certain Death and Other Considerations


Direct from a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this ensemble-devised, “eco-anxious” dark comedy combines Greek tragic structure, realism and physical theater to explore ...

Crabs in a Bucket
Crabs in a Bucket
7/14 - 8/21/2023


“If I can’t have it — neither can you!” The Echo Theater Company presents an outrageous, smart and very funny satire about the impact of ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites , the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

Starmites
Starmites
6/2 - 7/8/2023


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a new production of Starmites, the joyous, 1989 Tony-nominated sci-fi fantasy musical adventure that’s a comic book come-to-life. Shy teenager ...

The Thin Place
The Thin Place
3/17 - 4/24/2023


Linda can speak with the dead. Hilda wants to. The Echo Theater Company presents a spine-tingling new play that questions the things we don’t know ...

And If I Don't Behave Then What


If I resist, if I cross that line, if I don’t conform …what then? Open Fist Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of the ...

Do You Feel Anger?
Do You Feel Anger?
1/21 - 2/25/2023


The #MeToo movement meets cancel culture in this truly outrageous comedy that The New York Times calls “ingenious,” “inspired” and “flat-out hilarious.” When Sofia is ...

Anatomy of Gray
Anatomy of Gray
11/19 - 1/21/2023


Set at the end of the 19th century in the small town of Gray, Indiana, The Wizard of Oz meets Our Town in the Open ...

To The Bone
To The Bone
10/1 - 11/5/2022


Sometimes you get thrown a curveball. Open Fist Theatre Company presents the world premiere of a darkly funny comedy about family, baseball, genetics and the ...

Mother Sisters
Mother Sisters
10/5 - 10/27/2022


The Echo Theater Company presents a docu-play curated and constructed by Makaela Vogel based on interviews she conducted with her eight aunts. Looking back over ...

Babe
Babe
9/14 - 10/24/2022


Old habits die hard. The Echo Theater Company presents a dark comedy about cultural evolution and the selves we thought we knew. Abby has been ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6/17 - 8/13/2022


Open Fist Theatre Company presents a provocative new production of A Midsummer Nights Dream set in the Antebellum South. Intrigued by the Mechanicals line That ...

Untitled Baby Play
Untitled Baby Play
5/27 - 6/27/2022


Six women find themselves trapped on an email chain as they plan their friend's baby shower when IAMA Theatre Company presents the world premiere of ...

In the Next Room, or the vibrator play


Sarah Ruhls effervescent comedy about sex, intimacy and equality set in the 1880s when enthusiasm for the electric light bulb gave rise to a handy ...

Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies


The Los Angeles premiere of an irreverent, darkly funny coming-of-age story that explores racial identity, privilege and pop culture with insight, passion and biting humor. ...

The World Premiere of Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Solo Flight


Dreamer. Rebel. Outcast.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird.Banished to the Far Cliffs by his flock for daring to break with tradition, Jonathan spends his ...

The Soldier Dreams & Never Swim Alone


Open Fist Theatre Company returns to live, in-person performance with concurrent runs of two plays by celebrated Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor. The Soldier Dreams is ...

Poor Clare
Poor Clare
10/22 - 11/29/2021


The world premiere of Chiara Atiks powerful and very funny modern spin on the medieval story of Saint Clare of Assisi opens the Echo Theater ...

Ascension
Ascension
10/5 - 11/18/2021


Do you know about it? The Second Sun? Its real. Its going to take us home! The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of ...

Stand Up If You're Here Tonight


VS. THEATRE COMPANY & CIRCLE X THEATRE CO. announce thatTHE WEST COAST PREMIERE OFSTAND UP IF YOURE HERE TONIGHTWritten and Directed by John Kolvenbach Is ...

Poor Clare
Poor Clare
3/11 - 4/20/2020


Poor Clare is a very funny modern spin on the Middle Ages that couldnt feel more timely. Clare is just a regular noblewoman living in ...

Rorschach Fest
Rorschach Fest
2/10 - 4/5/2020


Perception is everything. Open Fist Theatre Company opens its 30th anniversary season with three programs of short works, performed in rotating repertory, by playwrights renowned ...

Handjob
Handjob
9/4 - 10/21/2019


When a gay writer hires a man to work as a shirtless cleaner, homophobia, racism and issues of consent bubble to the surface. This outrageous ...

Pass Over
Pass Over
7/10 - 8/19/2019


Antoinette Nwandus provocative mashup of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga is a rare piece of politically charged theater by a bold new American ...

Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa
7/6 - 8/18/2019


The beautiful, rolling hills of Ireland hold many stories and secrets. Set in the summer of 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, Brian ...

Pass Over
7/13 - 8/18/2019


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Mama Metal
Mama Metal
5/17 - 6/23/2019


This joyfully irreverent black comedy entwines issues of identity with pop culture icons to tell a truly unique mother-daughter story. Sterling Milburns mother is dying ...

Anna in the Tropics
Anna in the Tropics
4/27 - 6/8/2019


Nilo Cruzs poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars were still rolled by hand and lectors were ...

Moving On: The One-Acts 2019
Moving On: The One-Acts 2019
4/27 - 5/26/2019


Moving On: The 2019 One Acts features a mix of established playwrights and exciting, emerging younger talent. Heres the program:Rock Logic. Written by Sophia Lewis. ...

The Wolves
The Wolves
3/13 - 4/22/2019


Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, these 16- and 17-year-olds navigate ...

What Matters Now?/! (Another Political Pop-Up of the Theatrical Kind)


Open Fists annual political pop-up features a rotating roster of short plays by writers from across the country that explore our nation's current social and ...

Last Call
Last Call
1/11 - 2/23/2019


In this semi-autobiographical dramedy by writer/producer Anne Kenney (Outlander, Switched at Birth, L.A. Law), the Vaughn familys go-to defense mechanism of sarcasm and mordant humor ...

All Night Long
All Night Long
9/8 - 10/21/2018


The thin line between waking and dreaming, the conscious and subconscious, is exposed in playwright John O’Keefe’s outrageously funny, surreal sit-com about 18 hours in ...

Gloria
Gloria
9/12 - 10/21/2018


A razor-sharp, darkly comic drama about ambition, office warfare and pecking orders by MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. For the 20-somethings working at a ...

Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood
7/20 - 8/25/2018


Intensely beautiful, poignant and sublimely funny, this “play for voices” by the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recounts the dreams, gossip and waking hours of ...

What Happened When
What Happened When
7/25 - 8/23/2018


On a snowy night in a rural farmhouse, three siblings huddle together in the dark with a flashlight, while the audience (unseen by them) gathers ...

Cult of Love
Cult of Love
5/18 - 6/24/2018


IAMA concludes its 10th anniversary with the final installment in Leslye Headland’s “Seven Deadly Plays” cycle — a black comedy that explores the final sin ...

Forever Bound
Forever Bound
5/9 - 6/16/2018


Are we all savages? A rare book dealer's desperate scheme to avoid bankruptcy goes shockingly awry in this darkly funny literary thriller with a surprise ...

What Happened When
What Happened When
4/11 - 4/26/2018


On a snowy night in a rural farmhouse, three siblings huddle together in the dark with a flashlight, while the audience (unseen by them) gathers ...

An Undivided Heart
An Undivided Heart
3/14 - 4/22/2018


Echo Theater Company and Circle X Theatre Co. join forces to present Yusuf Toropov’s new play that is part thriller and part spiritual mystery. How ...

One Year Later
One Year Later
2/16 - 3/3/2018


A three-week only political pop-up in a speakeasy setting, Open Fist’s ‘One Year Later’ gives voice to playwrights across the U.S. Fourteen short plays explore ...

deLEARious
deLEARious
11/3 - 12/16/2017


Tragedy meets hilarity and King Lear gets a happy ending in a madcap musical romp à la Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Open Fist Theatre ...

Welcome to Your Alternative Reality


Take the edge off your week with a bracing tonic of laughter and lunacy! Highlights in this evening of interwoven one-acts and sketches include a ...

2017 EST/LA PLAYWRIGHTS ONE ACT FESTIVAL


Newly produced works of one-act treasures, written by some of L.A.’s top playwrights, will be presented this summer throughout June and July. EST/LA is curating ...

Woody's Order!
Woody's Order!
3/25 - 4/22/2017


When Woody, a nonverbal, highly intelligent, cerebral palsied 8 year old realizes that something might one day happened to his parents, he “orders” backup. Woody always plans ...

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