Shari Barrett

Little Fish Theatre’s beloved short play festival Pick of the Vine has returned with a brand-new collection of seven bold, funny, moving, and surprising stories inspired by this year’s theme, An Unexpected Guest. From strangers at the door to unforeseen visitors from the past, the future, or somewhere far stranger, these original short plays explore the moments that disrupt our routines and change everything.

After losing their entire theater complex during the Pacific Palisades firestorm, Theatre Palisades has become a nomadic company sharing their productions in sites around the Westside of Los Angeles. The group is currently presenting a limited engagement of Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire from August 14 through August 30, hosted at the Odyssey Theatre, located [...]

A Noise Within moves closer to completing August Wilson’s ten-play cycle with their upcoming production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the seventh of the 10 plays in Wilson’s landmark American Century Cycle to be produced by the company. Taken as a whole, the ten plays spanning 90 years from Gem of the Ocean in 1904 to Radio Golf in 1997 are not connected in the manner of a serial story.