Sara Lyons

On Dec. 9, 2023, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, presents This Emancipation Thing, the newest theater work from director Sara Lyons.

Current college and graduate students as well as early-career individuals and college, university, and trade tech educators are invited to register and attend Center Theatre Group's Going Pro Career Fair.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, closes out the 19th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a celebration of Los Angeles' vibrant community of artists creating new performance work, over three weekends this summer. The final week of performances takes place from September 1-3.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the 19th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a celebration of Los Angeles' vibrant community of artists creating new performance work, over three weekends this summer.

Seasons One and Two of The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles podcast series are available now!

Today, Ucross, the renowned artist residency program in northeastern Wyoming, announced its Fall 2021 Fellows. 

In the days leading up to the presidential election, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, presents a special virtual presentation of experimental theater artist Paul Outlaw's BigBlackOctoberSurprise.

In this wildly unprecedented year, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, has announced its first-ever all-streaming and virtual season of experimentation, discovery, and lively civic discourse online this fall.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's (UCLA TFT) Department of Theater announced today its upcoming theater season, which includes the production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, the opera Juana and the seminal rock musical Hair

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the 16th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a three-week celebration of Los Angeles' vibrant community of artists creating new contemporary performance work, July 25 to August 10, 2019. 

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the 16th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a three-week celebration of Los Angeles' vibrant community of artists creating new contemporary performance work, July 25 to August 10, 2019. 

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the 16th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a three-week celebration of Los Angeles' vibrant community of artists creating new contemporary performance work, July 25 to August 10, 2019. 

Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present "In The Works."  This exciting series was conceived as an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment.  It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.

Coeurage Theatre Company, LA's Pay What You Want theatre company, has announced the final production of its ninth season, Vendetta Chrome by Sylvan Oswald, directed by Sara Lyons. There will be one preview performance on Friday, November 23, at 8pm and opening is set for Saturday, November 24, at 8pm. Vendetta Chrome will play through December 15 at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.

Los Angeles Performance Practice presents its annual LAX Festival, which serves as a highly visible platform that supports hundreds of local artists each year, and reaches thousands of audience members in the greater Los Angeles area. The Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival, 6th Ed. will run for ten days from Thursday, October 11 through Sunday, October 21, 2018 at participating venues around town. With performances and events that are geographically focused in and around Downtown L.A., the festival program hosts an eclectic array of contemporary performances by Los Angeles-based artists, presented in dialogue with works by guest artists from outside the city's limits. The 2018 LAX Festival is built on an exchange with artists, curators, and organizations in Philadelphia. Festival passes are $125, individual tickets for performances and events are $20. For more information, please visit https://performancepractice.la/festival. To purchase passes or tickets, please visit https://performancepractice.la/festival/tickets.

Rootless is a new site-specific, traveling, outdoor play about home, heritage, and what it means to be caught in between the two. Rootless is currently in production for a fully-realized production in Wagner Park June 3 and 17, 2017. Performances each day are free and take place at 1 pm and 3 pm.

Written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy, Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People tracks her true-to-life adoption journey, from an accidental conception to the placement of her child with the gay couple of her dreams.

Written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy, Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People tracks her true-to-life adoption journey, from an accidental conception to the placement of her child with the gay couple of her dreams. All the while MacCarthy manages to live her life, date, and even attend the occasional orgy.

Now in it's seventh season, the Obie Award winning THE FIRE THIS TIME FESTIVAL is pleased to announce that Nicole A. Watson (Katori Hall's The Mountaintop with Kitchen Theatre Company; Johnna Adams' World Builders with CATF) will direct the 10-minute plays for the 2016 festival, which will run January 18-February 6 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

BLACKOUT03, a new play by Greenpoint resident Kate Bell, will premiere at Manhattan's HERE Arts Center for one night only tonight, May 14th, 2015 as part of the legendary Downtown Urban Theater Festival.