This unique combination of artists—Chris Dave, Marcus King, Cory Henry, and DJ Ginyard—represents an exciting, genre-blending super-collective, known primarily for their intimate live performances rather than studio albums. The group brings together four masters from distinct musical realms to create a raw, improvisational fusion. Chris Dave, often hailed as "the most dangerous drummer alive," provides […]
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE MUSICAL DIRECTION BY JOSH BARTLEY DIRECTED BY JAMES ESPOSITO Passion is a one act musical adapted from Ettore Scola’s film Passione d’Amore, itself adapted from the novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. Set in Risorgimento-era Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by his obsessive love […]
This play was suggested by a true incident. A professor accuses a student of cheating. Suddenly, the professor finds himself being investigated for discrimination. His reputation and livelihood are on the line. What will the investigation’s findings be? The cast includes: Nina Bell, Rasha Elabaji, Andree Mulia, Morry Schorr, Aziz Tazi, Sammie Wayne IV, and […]
WRITTEN BY ZACHARY BONES DIRECTED BY CARLY DW BONES The Aaron Play picks up right where Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, leaves off: with its self-proclaimed villain, Aaron the Moor, buried up to his chest in earth, sentenced to death by starvation. Watched by two Roman guards and visited by spirits of the wronged dead, Aaron plots […]
STRIPPED ~ a new wave ballet is an original work created and choreographed by Kelleia Sheerin. STRIPPED is described as a heroine's journey that serves as a love letter to Los Angeles and its people. It follows the main character, Vivi, a "warrior-child" who is on a quest to find her true self in a […]
Open Fist Theatre Company is thrilled to present the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's first novel. The story begins with 17-year-old Karl Rossmann's arrival in New York City on a steamer, only to immediately be plunged into a sequence of increasingly strange and bewildering experiences that shatter his reality as […]
The play Bias, written and directed by Art Shulman, is a contemporary drama inspired by a true incident. The story focuses on a professor who accuses one of his students of cheating. Immediately following this accusation, the professor finds himself under investigation for discrimination. The plot revolves around his desperate struggle to defend his professional […]
Radha Bharadwaj’s powerful, critically acclaimed masterpiece has been performed all over the world. This tense psychological thriller revolves around the arrest and interrogation of an author who is suspected of communicating subversive messages through her children’s stories. Her captor wields his cat-and-mouse games to discover the truth hidden inside Closet Land. Bharadwaj is able to […]
Autry Museum and Greenway Arts Alliance present the Native Voices National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma). Ash and Aaron have been dead for twenty years, and the Indigenous siblings pass their time dancing to Britney Spears, haunting the families that try to move into their house, and […]
Adapted from Ettore Scola’s 1981 film Passione d’Amore, Passion is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most emotional works. Intimate, raw, erotic and dark, it explores universal, yet often unspoken, truths. At a remote military outpost in 1863 Italy, a handsome army captain, Giorgio, separated from his beautiful – but married – mistress, Clara, is forced to […]
To find closure after losing her sister, Merril, a gifted programer, uses AI to retrace her sister’s last moments.
