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MARK TAPER FORUM

135 N Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Hamlet
Hamlet
5/28 - 7/6/2025


“So...once more... tell me about this Ghost.” That’s how the legendary story begins. But ghosts are tricky things. Especially in a world of madness, murder, ...


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Review Roundup: Deaf West's AMERICAN IDIOT - Critics Sound Off


by Joshua Wright - October 11, 2024

Green Day's American Idiot, produced by Center Theatre Group in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre, officially opened Wednesday, October 9 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles - and the reviews are coming in. Our editors have rounded up the top critic's reviews....

Center Theatre Group Awarded Grant From S. Mark Taper Foundation


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 09, 2024

Center Theatre Group received a grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation to support its community engagement and educational programs, enhancing access to the arts in Los Angeles. Learn more!...

Center Theatre Group to Present 2nd Taper Legacy Reading THIS BRIGHT WILDERNESS


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 04, 2024

Center Theatre Group will present the second Taper Legacy Reading with THIS BRIGHT WILDERNESS, continuing to celebrate classic and contemporary works in their ongoing series. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Mark Taper Forum Expected To Announce New Season in Coming Weeks


by Joshua Wright - April 01, 2024

Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum, which suspended all programming last summer amid an unsustainable producing model, is expected to announce a new season of programming in the coming weeks....

Lea Salonga & More to Join CTG: THE GALA 2024 at the Mark Taper Forum


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 19, 2024

Learn who is taking part in CTG: The Gala 2024, featuring Lea Salonga and more. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Alex Edelman's JUST FOR US Adds Final Cities For North American Tour


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2024

Award-winning comedian Alex Edelman's acclaimed solo show 'JUST FOR US' announces final dates of North American tour with stops in Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and more, along with a one-night-only return to NYC at the Beacon Theatre on March 14, 2024....

Center Theatre Group Announces 2024 Gala Featuring Matthew Bourne & Lea Salonga


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2024

Center Theatre Group announces 'CTG: THE GALA 2024' featuring Matthew Bourne and Lea Salonga. Sir Matthew Bourne will be the inaugural artistic honoree at the gala event on Sunday, April 28, 2024....

Sheryl Lee Ralph Joins MUSIC FOR LOVERS AND STRANGERS at the Mark Taper Forum


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 06, 2024

As part of his Center Theatre Group residency and the new CTG:FWD initiative, Feinstein’s at the Taper will return with “Michael Feinstein in Lovers and Strangers” where he will be joined by special guest artist, Sheryl Lee Ralph. Learn how to purchase tickets!...

Center Theatre Group Announces Spring 2024 Programming For CTG:FWD


by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2024

Center Theatre Group announces its Spring 2024 CTG:FWD programming, featuring special events, community gatherings, and artist residency programs at the Mark Taper Forum, the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and throughout the greater Los Angeles area....

Review: ALEX EDELMAN'S JUST FOR US at Mark Taper Forum


by Amanda Callas - November 14, 2023

Just For Us is a brilliant, award-winning, one-man comedy show by Alex Edelman at the Mark Taper Forum downtown, coming after sold-out hit runs on Broadway, and in London, Edinburgh, and Melbourne. This is must-see, hilarious stand up tackling identity and antisemitism, and it is hard to think of a ...

Past Shows

Green Day's American Idiot
Green Day's American Idiot
10/2 - 11/10/2024


*__Produced in Collaboration with Deaf West Theatre.__* Slinging razor guitars, thundering drums, and an anti-hero named Johnny. Not the prelude of typical entries in the ...

Feinstein's at the Taper - Music for Lovers & Strangers


This February, Michael Feinstein is writing a love letter to the Mark Taper Forum. After a festive and spectacular debut over the holidays, Feinstein’s at ...

Alex Edelman's Just for Us
Alex Edelman's Just for Us
11/10 - 11/26/2023


Expertly crafted by one of comedy’s most distinctive voices, this singular theatrical experience is an exploration of identity and our collective capacity for empathy—and it’s ...

Fake It Until You Make It
Fake It Until You Make It
8/2 - 9/3/2023


A bold World premiere comedy from Los Angeles-based playwright, Larissa FastHorse, about being whoever you want to be, even when it’s not who you are. ...

A Transparent Musical
A Transparent Musical
5/20 - 6/25/2023


From the very first note, this genre-bending new musical comedy follows a trail of family secrets to unearth a story of self-discovery, acceptance, and celebration. ...

Buyer & Cellar
Buyer & Cellar
7/9 - 8/31/2014


Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., Alex takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. ...

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
4/24 - 6/9/2013


IT’S AUGUST 1911 as the Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha Holly’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost ...

Tribes
Tribes
2/27 - 4/14/2013


BILLY IS IN LOVE. For the first time in his entire life as a deaf person, he has found someone who listens to him. Now ...

Other Desert Cities
Other Desert Cities
11/28 - 1/6/2013


It’s Christmas Eve in Palm Springs when Brooke presents her Reagan-adjacent parents with a tell-all confessional novel that turbo-charges the holidays and the Wyeth family ...

Other Desert Cities
11/20 - 12/30/2012


"The most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many a season. Seriously satisfying. As directed by Joe Mantello, who ...

OTHER DESERT CITIES
11/23 - 12/30/2012


Set in Palm Springs on Christmas Eve Brooke Wyeth releases a tell-all confessional novel painting her Reagan-adjacent parents in a less-than-flattering light. Directed by Tony ...

November
9/26 - 11/4/2012


“You want to rile people up, you’ve got to give them something to like better than the things they like OR something to HATE better ...

NOVEMBER
9/28 - 10/4/2012


President Charles Smith is desperate to be re-elected and hes not afraid to beg, bargain or sacrifice to get there....

Red
8/1 - 9/9/2012


“Look at these pictures. Look at them! You see the dark rectangle, like a doorway, an aperture, yes, but it’s also a gaping mouth letting ...

Los Otros
5/23 - 7/1/2012


“Right this minute, what matters most is that bean, pork and cheese burrito they’re making for me. Little North Hollywood all-night outdoor Mexican food stand, ...

Waiting for Godot
3/14 - 4/22/2012


Waiting near a tree on a barren stretch of road are two seemingly homeless men. They wait for someone, or something, in this play 'Waiting ...

Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park
1/11 - 2/26/2012


2011 Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award Winner 'Clybourne Park' is a dark comedy set in a north Chicago Home, where two vastly different generations explore ...

VIGIL
VIGIL
11/3 - 12/18/2011


Academy Award-Winnder Olympia Dukakis is Grace, the woman of few works and the aunt of Kemp, who - after 30 years - has traveled cross-country ...

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