In a rundown house in Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the reclusive, frightened Philip and the violent pickpocket thief, Treat. Into this savage and ferociously funny world enters Harold, a shadowy underworld figure of power and influence who irrevocably changes the precious balance between the two brothers. A Steppenwolf Theatre Company Production. Starring Kevin Anderson, Terry Kinney, and John Mahoney Written by Lyle Kessler
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Kevin Anderson, Terry Kinney and John Mahoney.
In this outrageous new comedy, playwright David Mamet skewers everything from sexuality to the justice system to world peace. In a world where nothing is as it seems, prepare to be offended! Fred Willard and Ed Begley Jr. star in this over-the-top comedy.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Gordon Clapp, Noah Bean, Steven Goldstein, Rod McLachlan and Rob Nagle.
Santos & Santos centers around a morally ambivalent Mexican-American law firm that subsidized its well-meaning political battles with drug money. A chain reaction of tragedy ensues when the youngest and well-meaning “good brother” betrays his older siblings.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Andrew Carrillo, Anthony Diaz-Perez, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Kristina Harrison, Sandra Marquez, Gustavo Mellado, Tony Ramos, Kristen Runfeldt, John C. Seda, Cecilia Suarez, Edward F. Torres, Fred Wellisch and Richard Wharton.
A delightful comedy from the wonderful world of Wodehouse! The perpetually misguided Bertie finds himself embroiled in a madcap adventure sparked by the abrupt departure of his beloved Jeeves. Featuring ‘Hizzoner’ Richard Riordan as blustering American millionaire J. Washburn Stoker.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Alastair Duncan, Dominic Keating, Richard Riordan, Guy Siner, Simon Templeman, Jennifer Tilly and Paxton Whitehead.
A Tony Award-winning play based on the novel Washington Square by Henry James - one of James’ most complex and satisfying portraits of the American character. Set in New York City in 1850, the play centers on the painfully shy Catherine and her austere father. When Catherine falls in love with a handsome suitor, her father threatens to disinherit her, convinced that the young man could only be interested in Catherine’s fortune.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Amy Irving, George Gaynes, Chris Noth, Jane Beard, Helen Hedman, Maureen Kerrigan, Marty Lodge and Halo Wines.
Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg.
Directed by Shaun McLoughlin. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in June, 1992.
Dostoyevsky’s monumental novel The Idiot, adapted into a spellbinding full-cast drama by playwright David Fishelson.
In The Idiot, meet the kindly, childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful, sought-after women in the town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Angela Bettis, Arye Gross, John Kapelos, Robert Machray, Jon Matthews, Johanna McKay, Paul Mercier, Laurel Moglen, Michael Rivkin, Peggy Roeder and Douglas Weston.
Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he’s hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he’s confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry’s search for the “the real thing” in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort in the end.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Andrea Bowen as Debbie
Matt Gaydos as Brodie and TV Director
Carolyn Seymour as Charlotte
Simon Templeman as Henry
Douglas Weston as Max
Joanne Whalley as Annie
Matthew Wolf as Billy
Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a gem," The Ruby Sunrise begins when a 1920s tomboy feverishly works to develop her latest invention - a little something called "television." Twenty-five years later, her daughter will stop at nothing to bring her mother's incredible story to life during TV's Golden Age. But will it get the truth it deserves? "A finely tuned portrait of television's early days. [Groff] has managed to skillfully blend past and present." (Providence Journal)
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Asher Book, Katharine Leonard, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Ritter, Kate Steele and Henry Winkler.
The Ruby Sunrise is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
A raucous comedy from one of America's most outrageous playwrights! New York dilettante Marjorie Taub, a middle-aged doctor's wife, is hooked on culture - mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA, evenings at BAM. Plunged into a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions, she's shaken out of her lethargy by the reappearance of a fascinating childhood friend. The New York Times says, "The Allergist’s Wife earns its wall-to-wall laughs."
Includes an interview with playwright Charles Busch.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Amy Aquino, Estelle Harris, Richard Kind, Dileep Rao and Jobeth Williams.
On November 24, 1947, the most powerful men in American film met in New York’s plush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to decide how to address the Communist witch-hunt being carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Twenty-four hours later they emerged having created the Hollywood Blacklist. The Waldorf Conference dramatically speculates on what went on in that room.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Shelley Berman, Charles Durning, David Ellenstein, John Kapelos, Bill Macy, Richard Masur, George Murdock, John Randolph, Ron Rifkin, William Schallert and John Schuck.
Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband. Based on an actual murder case reported by Glaspell for the Des Moines News, the play represented an early exploration of gender relationships in a time when women often were considered to be mere trifles. A groundbreaking feminist play, Trifles is often included in anthologies of drama and literature.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring (in alphabetical order):
Jeanie Hackett as Mrs. Peters;
Amy Madigan as Mrs. Hale;
Sam McMurray as the Sheriff;
Steven Vinovich as Mr. Hale;
Steven Weber as the County Attorney.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
