A story about the absurdity of racism. STORY: With a hostile takeover of a neighborhood block party and altruistic dreams of gentrification, Penelope Lowder’s newest play, set in LA's historic "WEST ADAMS" district suggests that perhaps reshaping a newly adopted neighborhood in your image isn’t as lofty as one might ...
Skylight and QueerWise join together on February 22 to present a special community event about being treated as someone that is... "insignificant or peripheral." Donations are requested online or at the door in support of Skylight's continuing efforts to put Art In Action through community outreach and education. Supported ...
Poignant, relevant, funny and devastating... The first Australian Indigenous play to come to Los Angeles, The 7 Stages of Grieving has played nationally in Australia and internationally in London and Montreal and is hailed as “a vital masterwork." A remarkable story that talks about the issues which can both separate and ...
Skylight Theatre Company invites you to experience four short, freshly brewed plays written by rising Los Angeles playwrights. Relax and unwind with this special casual theatre event held at Angel City Brewery. THE PLAYS CHARLIE: written by Beth Polsky, directed by Victoria Pearlman A robot designer meets his match at ...
The past is prologue -- THE STORY: What happens when people from diverse backgrounds experience the firsthand accounts of ten survivors who were labeled "undesirable" and thrust into Hitler’s systematic genocide. Playwright Wendy Kout disturbingly links then and now so we may understand what breaks us apart and embrace what ...
A brand new musical -- THE STORY: The country’s going crazy; partisan politics, civil rights threatened, technology exploding. That's right, it's 1979! Somewhere in America’s heartland, with more heart than sense, Bronco Billy struggles to keep his traveling Wild West show alive. But when Billy and his ragtag troupe of ...
A queer love story about all of us -- THE STORY: New Year’s. Rotterdam, 2018. Alice has finally found the courage to come out to her parents as a lesbian. But before she has the chance, her girlfriend, FIona, reveals that she has always identified as a man, and now wants to live ...
You'll laugh while your heart is breaking. -- THE STORY: In pursuit of the American Dream, six pregnant Filipina women risk everything. Confined to a one-bedroom, one-bath unit in Hollywood the women do their best to overcome fears of jail and deportation so that their children can have a better ...
LAb Works is a festival of new plays created by the resident playwrights at Skylight Theatre Company.
