Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum offers eight pay-what-you-will performances and eleven Q&As with the actors throughout its 2024 Repertory Season.
Our next pay-what-you-will performance in the series is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Monday, September 23, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to arrive by 6:30pm to participate in a 30-minute pre-performance Q&A with cast members.
These performances and audience engagement activities are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Parking: $10 to park in the Theatricum lot. Parking fee waived for vehicles with disabled person placards.
Upcoming Events
$5 – $10
The Acadmy Museum presents the Film Series Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, extreme wildfires, historic floods, and a truly unprecedented “hurriquake,” we find the perilous realities of climate change increasingly impacting our daily lives. This screening series considers natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—and seeks to highlight key moments in the history of the disaster film genre as a source of entertainment and portrayal of science, and…
1853, and it is the end of the world. Commodore Matthew C. Perry intends to open the gates of isolationist Japan. When Samurai Kayama and America-loving fisherman Manjiro are tasked with meeting the American gunboat docked on the coast of Kanagawa, little could they know that they would irreversibly change the “Floating Kingdom.” Check the website for ticket prices.
Check the website for ticket prices
As Vladimir and Estragon wait and wait for the arrival of the elusive Godot, a cast of mysterious misfits interrupt their endless vigil in Samuel Beckett’s tragi-comic masterpiece that has captivated audiences for decades. Timeless and multi-layered, Waiting for Godot changed the course of contemporary drama and remains as resonant and riveting as ever. Tuesdays – Fridays, 8:00 p.m. Saturdays, 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sundays, 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.
$20 – $30
Native Voices is staging the World Premiere of Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni. In this timely retelling of a Greek classic, a Nez Perce family is caught between the pressures of the outside world—where a Nationalist Party threatens to silence their history. Antíkoni must defend eternal truths, Kreon rides the waves of changing politics, and a Chorus of Aunties delivers raucous and wise traditional stories to guide them Adults – $30, Students, Seniors, Members, Military – $20 Thursdays and Fridays,…
Free
The Crazy Superhero Vacation is a production by Ms. Neate’s class at Vena Avenue Elementary. Animation and editing are by Pieter Hardeman of Toy Story Lab. Southland Sings is a creative organization using the arts to unlock creative potential through live opera, musical theatre production, education assemblies, and music composition for all ages.
