theatre

You remember the battles - now remember the sex. On the fabled White Island, through laughter and tears, three mourners recount their lives with world’s greatest hero: Achilles. This funny and touching story uses dance, mask, song, poetry, and martial arts to honor as many of the Muses as they can.

Love. Life. and Laughs. A variety of our life stories, yet one thread connects us all—our heart strings. A series of solo plays, with very different stories, but one similar heartbeat, that is the desire to love and know love.

After recent events in Japan, a journalist asks Katya and her family about the accident 25 years ago. An interactive and educational story of a young girl struggling with her changing world. Profits go to Chernobyl Children International.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, John Patrick Shanley's second play, is a fairy tale for the damned set in a Bronx bar with two battered, bruised, and violent, lonely souls yearning for a connection. Written by : John Patrick Shanley Starring: Alison Quinn & Tyler Brooks Directed By: Kevin Quinn

Meet Carla indoors since 9/11 'til the Station Fire forces her out to meet her neighbors. A modern noire bipolar, stoner, agoraphobic sign twirler. It’s the upside of delusion. By Clara York 6/12@ 7:30; 6/18@ 10:30; 6/19@ 6; 6/24@ 10:30: Artworks Theater-Studio A; 6567 Santa Monica Blvd. $12

You loved them as kids! Now join the cast of the hit TV show "Pancakes, ah YES!" for their 10-Year Reunion, a fun-filled weekend of nostalgia, one-upmanship, relapses, and maybe even redemption. Growing up is hard!

Written by Cynthia Glucksman and directed by Vincent Tula, CODA is a "dramatic album" of seven short plays, embodying the jagged journey of love, moving from first love to loss and co-dependency. The evening will include drama, music, dance, and a sparkling ensemble of talented performers.

Former "looper" John Druska takes the audience on a tour of his ten year career as a private golf club caddie, from his greatest paydays to his most dastardly clients. A true story of growing up too fast that spans millennia. 6/11,5P;6/22,9:30P $7 @Fringe Central Mainstage

Honor & Fidelity" is a multi-character solo show with music about a woman's journey to find her cultural identity by unraveling the history of her family's past. A Puerto Rican tale filled with humor & pathos, all set at JFK boarding gate & mixed with live music & recorded boleros by Gelin Colon.

For nearly a decade the award-winning gangbusters theatre company has been attacking Los Angeles stages with their signature speed & violence. Their 21st presentation, Orson Welles' adaptation of Julius Caesar is a brisk and bloody 75 minutes.

No matter who you are, for one night you get to be African American in this touching, thoughtful, and hysterically funny look at the state of Blackness in America. Am I Black Enough, Yet? takes a bite into Blackness without puncturing, posturing, or preaching.

This production of Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter" is a haunting depiction of classism that will examine the inability of humans to communicate with each other, the claustrophobia resulting from a lack of social mobility, and man's inhumanity to man.

A game of chess between a lonely writer and a woman of mystery leads to a surprising endgame and an unexpected mate.

When a gangbanger partycrasher hides behind the shower curtain to dodge cops, wackiness ensues. Adult language, themes, situations, violence, substance abuse. Bleeding slice of young life. Large cast.

Cavale kidnaps Slim, dreaming of making him the Rock and Roll Savior, but something is stopping him. Is it his family? Himself? The Lobster Man? This Sam Shepard one-act that borders on rock opera asks: can we really be everything we are all at once, or are our stage personas the whole package?