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ODYSSEY THEATRE

2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Stalin's Master Class
Stalin's Master Class
4/6 - 5/26/2024


In this wildly comic, music-filled drama, “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet cultural minister Andrei Zhdanov summon composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich ...


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Photos: STALIN'S MASTER CLASS Begins This Saturday At The Odyssey Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2024

Politics collide with art when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet cultural minister Andrei Zhdanov summon composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich to the Kremlin for a vodka-fueled “music lesson” in “Stalin’s Master Class.” The wildly comic, music-filled ride by British playwr...

Interview: Ron Sossi of STALIN'S MASTER CLASS at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble


by Andrew Child - April 12, 2024

When director Ron Sossi elected to present Stalin’s Master Class at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble for the second time, he was aware that audiences might respond differently to the production than they did to the previous staging 37 years ago....

Photos: Go Inside DINNER WITH FRIENDS Opening Night Celebration At The Zephyr Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - April 09, 2024

Adriano Aragon/Foursome Productions and Peter Allas, in association with Michael Donovan, present the 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning play DINNER WITH FRIENDS by Donald Margulies. Peter Allas (The Odyssey Theatre's God of Carnage, Off-Broadway's Danny & The Deep Blue Sea) directs this humorous drama on ...

Interview: John Perrin Flynn on Directing the MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA & the Artists of L.A. Theatre


by Gil Kaan - April 07, 2024

Currently at Rogue Machine, the Los Angeles Premiere of Christian St. Croix’ Monsters of the American Cinema, which just opened April 6, 2024, at the Matrix Theatre. Rogue Machine’s producing artistic director John Perrin Flynn directs the cast of Kevin Daniels and Logan Leonardo Arditty. John took ...

DINNER WITH FRIENDS Begins Performances At The Zephyr Theatre In April


by A.A. Cristi - March 15, 2024

DINNER WITH FRIENDS at the Zephyr Theatre, directed by Peter Allas, will run from April 4 to 28....

DINNER WITH FRIENDS To Be Presented At The Zephyr Theatre This April


by A.A. Cristi - March 15, 2024

DINNER WITH FRIENDS, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Donald Margulies, will be presented by Adriano Aragon and Foursome Productions at the Zephyr Theatre. ...

KING Comes to The Odyssey Theatre Next Month


by Stephi Wild - March 06, 2024

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble will welcome back Olivier Award-winning Irish trio Fishamble: The New Play Company, writer/performer Pat Kinevane, and director Jim Culleton with the West Coast premiere of King. ...

Odyssey Theatre Hosts STALIN'S MASTER CLASS Next Month


by Stephi Wild - March 01, 2024

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble founding artistic director Ron Sossi will direct Stalin’s Master Class, a wildly comic, music-filled ride by British playwright David Pownall. ...

FEAR OF HEIGHTS Comes to Odyssey Theatre in April


by Stephi Wild - February 29, 2024

Following a critically acclaimed, crowd-pleasing run last fall, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble brings back Kevin Flynn’s heartwarming and hilarious Fear of Heights, the story of an Irish American kid's phobias, family life and the meaning of success....

Comedy Night at the Odyssey Continues Monthly


by Stephi Wild - February 29, 2024

See some of the best comics in the country drop by and perform at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s“Comedy Night at the Odyssey” series, curated by writer, actor, and comedian Kevin Flynn, on the third Thursday of every month....

Past Shows

Brushstroke
Brushstroke
1/23 - 3/3/2024


The Lower East Side, 1956. Marvin (Malcom Barrett), a young art patron with a secret, meets Ted (James Urbaniak), a middle-aged painter with a secret. ...

Birds of North America
Birds of North America
9/22 - 11/19/2023


Birding connects a father and daughter whose relationship is strained by different views of the world in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble ’s Los Angeles premiere of ...

A Slight Ache
"A Slight Ache"
8/26 - 10/1/2023


Harold Pinter fans can enjoy 72 minutes of quintessential Pinter in the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's rarely-produced early work. Written in 1958, this tragicomedy of manners ...

A Slight Ache
A Slight Ache
8/26 - 10/1/2023


Harold Pinter fans can enjoy 72 minutes of quintessential Pinter in the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s rarely-produced early work . Pinter’s tragicomedy of manners is a ...

Elephant Shavings
Elephant Shavings
8/26 - 10/1/2023


A lazy person‘s guide to enlightenment. The stage is set for drama, humor and absurdity when one member of a theater’s acting ensemble finds herself ...

The Dreamer Examines His Pillow


A visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre. Written by John Patrick Shanley. Directed by Anne Kathryn Parma. Produced by PLP Productions.  Tommy has isolated himself ...

Ghosts
Ghosts
9/8 - 10/23/2022


Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents acclaimed British director Richard Eyres stunning new adaptation of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. Eyre illuminates Ibsens masterpiece, seen as a scandalous ...

Wakings!
Wakings!
4/23 - 6/5/2022


Sleep, awakeness, psychosis, enlightenment, coma. How thin is the veil that separates them? The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble explores some of the many states of human ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
5/12 - 5/29/2022


Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Foursome Productions presents the first L.A. revival of Yasmina Rezas scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning comedy of manners ...

‘A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney’


Magic. Joy. Happiness. Walt Disneys creations have given us all of these feelings and more. Working Barn Productions presents the West Coast premiere of what ...

it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
2/19 - 3/20/2022


The world premiere of its alive, ITS ALIVE!, an outrageous musical satire that reflects on our national panic in the face of the pandemic, conceived ...

The Serpent
The Serpent
10/23 - 12/12/2021


Go ahead take the apple. The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble re-envisions the groundbreaking, Obie award-winning The Serpent by Jean-Claude van Itallie, a unique ceremony/celebration/exploration that delights ...

it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
9/18 - 10/9/2021


An entertaining and provoking cabaret-style special event-in-progress with live music, conceived and performed by legendary performance artist John Fleck (Blacktop Highway, Mad Women, NEA Four). ...

The Serpen t
The Serpen t
3/4 - 5/3/2020


Go ahead take the apple. A work of experimental theater that explores the biblical Book of Genesis while comparing it to the modern experience, The ...

Orphée
Orphée
3/8 - 4/5/2020


Orpheus, Eurydice, a trouble-making horse and Death herself converge in this very funny and irreverent reimagining of the Greek myth by surrealist poet, playwright and ...

The Christopher Boy’s Communion


Pulitzer Prize; NY Drama Critics Circle; OBIE Award Recipient David Mamet directs his new play in Los Angeles, scheduled for 11 performances only. A guest ...

La Vie En Rose
La Vie En Rose
11/2 - 12/14/2019


Grammy-winning chanteuse Julia Migenes travels back to the Paris of Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway in this evening of nostalgic French chansons by ...

Before
Before
11/14 - 12/8/2019


A new play with much music, influenced by the golden era of Hollywood musicals, from Irish writer/performer Pat Kinevane and the team that previously brought ...

In Circles
In Circles
9/14 - 11/10/2019


Papa Dozes, Mama Blows Her Noses. Thats just one of the delightfully quirky musical numbers from this Obie award-winning musical romp adapted by composer Al ...

Loot
Loot
6/8 - 8/10/2019


A bank heist, a corpse and a crazy cast of characters. Joe Ortons darkly comic masterpiece continues to shock and delight over five decades later. ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
5/23 - 7/7/2019


In the sultry streets of New Orleans, passions flare and cultures collide in Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Blanche DuBois, a fading relic of the ...

Faith Healer
Faith Healer
3/23 - 5/12/2019


Brian Friels mysterious, humorous and unforgettable work about the life and times of an itinerant Irish healer. Is Fantastic Francis Hardy a miracle worker or ...

Too Much Sun
Too Much Sun
2/28 - 4/21/2019


The West Coast premiere of the acclaimed off-Broadway hit by Nicky Silver (Broadways The Lyons). Celebrated actress Audrey Langham reaches her breaking point while rehearsing ...

Hir
Hir
1/19 - 3/17/2019


A darkly funny, shockingly absurd and endlessly surprising vision of a world in transition by MacArthur genius Taylor Mac. Somewhere in the suburbs, Isaac has ...

Paradise
Paradise
1/24 - 2/17/2019


Viola Davis and Julius Tennons JuVee Productions and American Oasis present the West Coast premiere of Laura Maria Censabellas moving, funny and thought-provoking drama, Paradise. ...

Steambath
Steambath
10/20 - 12/16/2018


What if God turned out to be a Puerto Rican steam bath attendant, assisted by a butler named Gottlieb? Renowned stand up comedian and actor ...

Radiant Vermin
Radiant Vermin
10/18 - 11/18/2018


The Los Angeles premiere of an outrageous comedy with a killer heart by acclaimed British playwright and provocateur Philip Ridley. In this viciously funny satire ...

Old Clown Wanted
Old Clown Wanted
9/22 - 11/4/2018


Three aging clowns compete for a job in an absurdly comic look at man’s fear of uselessness in society. Inspired by a 1970 Federico Fellini ...

Side by Side by Sondheim
Side by Side by Sondheim
7/21 - 9/16/2018


The sophistication, wit, insight, heart and genius of Broadway's most innovative and influential artist is at the center of this tribute to composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim. ...

The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne


The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne tells the story of an American tragedy from the point of view of the victim – a ...

Lysistrata Unbound
Lysistrata Unbound
6/9 - 8/4/2018


In this newly imagined, dramatic version of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata by acclaimed playwright Eduardo Machado, an aristocratic Athenian matron is crushed by fateful events and gradually ...

Bad Jews
Bad Jews
4/21 - 6/17/2018


A savagely hilarious comedy about family, faith and legacy. A beloved grandfather has died and a treasured family heirloom with religious significance is up for ...

Bearing Witness
Bearing Witness
6/1 - 6/17/2018


A moving father-son story of Vietnman veteran Thomas Bird’s relationship with his World War II veteran dad and their mutual healing from the traumas of ...

Two Fisted Love
Two Fisted Love
2/1 - 3/11/2018


Range of Light presents the world premiere of David Sessions’ dark comedy Two Fisted Love, a visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre. Opens February 3. ...

Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to Ashes
12/7 - 1/14/2018


The Athena Cats, a collective of Southern California female playwrights and directors, presents a madcap romantic comedy that’s a perfect escape for the holidays. Liberal ...

The Red Dress
The Red Dress
10/26 - 11/19/2017


Set in Berlin and inspired by a true story, Tania Wisbar’s romantic drama explores the intersection of politics and art during the years between the ...

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally


This funny, sad, lyrical and highly original coming of age story from emerging playwright Kevin Armento features an unconventional narrator — the cell phone belonging ...

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris


A powerful and bold theatrical experience that was an overwhelming success off-Broadway, this revue of Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel’s songs pays tribute to his unique ...

Rding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes


Billy Hayes recounts the true story of his arrest in 1970 at the Istanbul Airport with two kilos of hashish taped to his body, his ...

Farragut North
Farragut North
4/15 - 5/21/2017


A taut and plot-twisting story of political, emotional, and sexual intrigue, penned by the creator of Netflix's House of Cards. During a hotly contested presidential primary campaign a wunderkind ...

HILLARY AND MONICA
HILLARY AND MONICA
5/20 - 6/12/2016


Directed by Joel Zwick...

Hillary and Monica
Hillary and Monica
5/27 - 6/12/2016


Directed by Joel Zwick...

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