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.
Co-Presented with After Hours Theatre Company
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
Co-Presented with Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
Co-Produced with Rogue Artists Ensemble
Thurs-Sat 8-9:30pm, and Sun 5-6:30pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
Co-Presented with Trans Chorus of Los Angeles
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
THREE is a meditation on Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS which explores Chekhov’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.
Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays: 8 pm & Sundays: 7 pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
A showcase of ten short plays from the Brown & Out LGBT LatinXperience Playwriters Workshop.
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
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
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038
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
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
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
Streaming
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
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
