Top Rated Plays In LA - Theatre In LA

Fat Ham

Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family's BBQ wedding reception demanding his murder be avenged, does the poetic and sensitive Juicy have it in him to do the deed, or will he "to thine own self be true?" See what the New York Times calls "a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy," in this Pulitzer Prize-winning take on Hamlet, direct from Broadway to L.A.

Los Angeles Times- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended

Freud on Cocaine

Whitefire Theatre

Trust me, I�m a doctor.� Jonathan Slavin (Santa Clarita Diet, Dr. Ken, Better Off Ted) stars in Freud on Cocaine, an outrageous new comedy based on the documented letters, notes, dreams, and recollections of neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud that attest to his decade-long use of cocaine, both in his practice and personal life.

Broadway World- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended
Night Tinted Glasses- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended
The Hollywood Times- Recommended
2UrbanGirls- Recommended

Fatherland

Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of Fatherland, a riveting true story. A 19-year-old faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court after informing the FBI of his father's involvement in the Jan 6 attack on Capitol. Fast-moving, powerful, and theatrical, Fatherland erupts verbatim from official court transcripts, case evidence, and public statements.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended
Night Tinted Glasses- Somewhat Recommended
Showmag- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended
The Hollywood Times- Highly Recommended
2UrbanGirls- Highly Recommended

The Witness Room

Whitefire Theatre

This life and death drama detonates within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court as four hardened New York City Police Officers led by a calculating Prosecutor battle each other over charges of corruption, racism, morality, loyalties, and the blue wall of silence.

Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended

Stalin's Master Class

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

British playwright David Pownall imagines a chilling encounter in which composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich are subjected to the rants and bullying of Josef Stalin and Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin's self-important cultural commissar. Stalin and Zhdanov, reveal anti-democratic, formalist musical tendencies, alien to the Soviet people and their artistic tastes. Music that could make a whole population sick! Should one start writing music in the style ordered by the Master, or should one continue to do as one pleases, and risk death? It is January 1948, somewhere in the Kremlin. There is a piano, vodka of course, and peanuts...

Broadway World- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended

King Hedley II

A Noise Within

King Hedley II continues the stories of characters first introduced in Seven Guitars and shows the tragic realities for Black men in 1980's, Reagan-era Pittsburgh. After seven years in prison, King attempts to rebuild his life, peddling stolen refrigerators to get the money to buy a video store. But his self-worth is built on self-delusion, and he plants seeds where nothing will grow.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
Night Tinted Glasses- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
Glamgical- Highly Recommended

Funny Girl

Ahmanson Theatre

The sensational Broadway revival dazzles with celebrated classic songs, including "Don't Rain On My Parade," "I'm the Greatest Star," and "People." This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she'd never be a star, but then something funny happened-she became one of the most beloved performers in history, shining brighter than the brightest lights of Broadway.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
Broadway World- Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
Its Not About Me- Highly Recommended
Indulge Magazine- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended

Could I Have This Dance?

Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre

This award-winning comedy-drama looks at modern love, complicated relationships, working-from-home and a family that is actually functional. Poetic and - at times - starting, this play was voted by the American National Critics Association as the Best Regional Play of 1992. What starts as a delicious, fast-paced romantic comedy, pivots as a medical crisis forces the family members to ask serious questions and not everyone wants to know the answers. This play was actually developed at The Group Rep, premiered at The Colony, and has since traveled the world. This revival promises to be as engaging as it was before the turn of the (last) century.

LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Glamgical- Recommended

Monsters of the American Cinema

Rogue Machine at The Matrix

Poster web.jpgWhen his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself to be the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband's straight, white teenage son, Pup. United by their love of classic American monster movies, the two have developed a warm and caring familial chemistry - but their relationship fractures when Remy discovers that Pup and his friends have been bullying a gay teen at his school. Told through dueting monologue and playful dialogue, this haunting and humorous tale is about fathers and sons, ghosts and monsters, discovery and resilience while being transported to worlds beyond through the American cinema.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Not Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended

Ophelia

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

"Ophelia" is an existential dramedy dealing with time-shifting, finding one's destiny and the quest to fix a "broken life."

Broadway World- Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
LA Splash- Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Not Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended

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