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We are thrilled to announce the five productions and nearly 15 special events that will comprise our 2023-24 performing arts season. The line-up includes reimagined classics, campy true crime comedy, and a musical from Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown—all co-produced with local theatre companies.

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Frozen Fluid

In a Mythic Antarctica (but one resonant with our current climate crisis), two scientists study glaciers and whales. When a third phytoplankton scientist arrives—Tay, who identifies as nonbinary—Herman and Terra begin to confront their own ideas of gender and their control of the natural world. As things unravel for all three of them, a new world begins to take shape—one where gender, identity, religion, climate, and time itself become new, expansive, and free of human interference.

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Coming Up
The MisMatch Game: I’ll Be Homo For Christmas Edition

The MisMatch Game: I’ll Be Homo For Christmas Edition

Secure your spot on Santa’s Naughty List with a peppermint-scented evening of gleeful celebrity skewering and R-rated game show insanity. Join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.’s most uncorked comic minds as they bestow upon the world the gift of laughter, which is way better than frankincense and myrrh.

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

2024
The MisMatch Game: Heartbreak Feels Good In A Place Like This Edition

The MisMatch Game: Heartbreak Feels Good In A Place Like This Edition

Join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.s most love-starved comic minds for an evening of heart-centered celebrity skewering and R-rated game show insanity. Whether you’re pleasantly partnered, sexy and single or a throuple looking for a fourth, The MisMatch Game is guaranteed to make you swoon.

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Three

Three

THREE is a meditation on Chekov’s THREE SISTERS which explores Chekov’s themes of longing, love and the meaning of life. Through an American and Queer prism, THREE offers a snapshot of the Prozorov family and their loved ones on four different days in four different eras in a fictional army base town in the far north of the upper Midwest.

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Out Loud

Out Loud

The LGBTQI+ community and its allies are filled with Jewish people and their unique experiences. Join us for a night of theater that explores the beauty, heartbreak, and homecoming of being queer and Jewish through a collection of powerful stories and songs you can’t miss.

8:00 pm – 9:15 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Brown & Out LGBT LatinXperience Plays

Brown & Out LGBT LatinXperience Plays

A showcase of ten short plays from the Brown & Out LGBT LatinXperience Playwriters Workshop.

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Songs for a New World

Songs for a New World

A diverse, queer spin on Jason Robert Brown’s affecting musical – an anthology of vignettes that explores the complexities of intersectionality, history, fighting fear, and celebrating the power of the human spirit.

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

The MisMatch Game: Taste the Rainbow Edition

The MisMatch Game: Taste the Rainbow Edition

The long-running comedy hit returns with an evening of Pride-themed game show insanity and questionable wig choices. Let your freak flag fly as host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.s most twisted comedy minds declare, “We’re here! We’re queer! We’ve got fresh Sharpees!”

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Past Events

October 2023
Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet

Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet

Justin Elizabeth Sayre, a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, has written a hilarious, scintillatingly campy play full of axe murders, sexual depravity and the installation of a toilet. Based on the infamous murder case of Lizzie Borden: Lottie, an unsuspecting spinster, stands accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother. As the case unfolds, Lottie must confront the truth of what happened that fateful day and what, if any, part she had to play in it. But did Lottie Plachett actually take up a hatchet? Could a woman actually be capable of such a heinous crime? That's for the audience and the jury to decide as this camp comedy unfolds.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

The MisMatch Game: Ghouls Night Out Edition

The MisMatch Game: Ghouls Night Out Edition

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Renberg…The MisMatch Game is back to scare, shock and tickle you silly. Join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.s sickest comic minds for a spooktacular night of jump scares, fright wigs and R-rated game show insanity.

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet

Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet LIVE STREAM

Justin Elizabeth Sayre, a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, has written a hilarious, scintillatingly campy play full of axe murders, sexual depravity and the installation of a toilet. Based on the infamous murder case of Lizzie Borden: Lottie, an unsuspecting spinster, stands accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother. As the case unfolds, Lottie must confront the truth of what happened that fateful day and what, if any, part she had to play in it. But did Lottie Plachett actually take up a hatchet? Could a woman actually be capable of such a heinous crime? That's for the audience and the jury to decide as this camp comedy unfolds.

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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The Cowards

The Cowards

The Cowards is Ryan O’Connor’s completely fresh adaptation of Nöel Coward’s classic play “Hay Fever.” In this unapologetically queer version, the four members of a dysfunctional chosen family unit (The Cowards) have each invited a surprise guest to their Provincetown, Massachusetts home for the weekend. What ensues is a biting, wicked comedy in which a batch of wildly unpleasant people make for uproarious entertainment.

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

In October 1998, Matthew Shephard, a college student at the U of Wyoming was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence and left to die. His crime? Being gay. Kaufman, Fondakowski and members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half. This play is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. We see a town caught in the cross-hairs of a hate crime and media frenzy.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza – Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038

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