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Mark Taper Forum

135 North Grand Ave. 135 North Grand Ave. Los Angeles CA 90012
Phone:
213-628-2772
Website:
http://www.centertheatregroup.org/theatres/mtf/
Capacity:
735

Events at this venue were rated 4.1 by 3114 members.

The Mark Taper Forum, since it opened in 1967, has been honored for its development of new plays and voices for the theatre and for its continuing commitment to serve the broadest possible audience. The theatre, which is under the artistic direction of Michael Ritchie and is located at the Performing Arts Center (formerly The Music Center) in downtown Los Angeles, has received virtually every tMore

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Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Clybournepark
4.2 by 133 members
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Bruce Norris' 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama puts a new spin on Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in the Sun. The play cleverly examines both real estate and race relations in a northwest... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Vigil-102011
3.6 by 74 members
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Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias) comes to the stage at the Mark Taper Forum as Grace in Vigil. Written and directed by Morris Panych (Girl in the Goldfish Bowl), this dark,... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Poor-behavior-091511-v1
3.9 by 113 members
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In Poor Behavior, a drunken late night argument careens out of control, leaving two marriages and four lives in its wake. Set over the course of two demented days in a lovely country house, this crisp,... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Burnthis-032711-v1
3.1 by 66 members
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Considered by many to be an American masterpiece, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson's Burn This centers around the accidental death of a gay artist and how it impacts the lives of his... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Lithgow
4.4 by 85 members
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Tony Award-winning actor John Lithgow presents his acclaimed solo show Stories By Heart at the Mark Taper Forum. In this tour de force, Lithgow presents dramatic readings of classic stories by P.G. Wodehouse... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Harpsandangels
4.3 by 125 members
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Katey Sagal (Futurama, Married...With Children), Michael McKean (Best in Show, Spinal Tap) and an all-star cast join this world premiere musical featuring the songbook of Oscar-winner Randy Newman. Conceived... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Glassmenagerie-091310-v2
4.7 by 26 members
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The Glass Menagerie was Williams' first major playwriting success and is considered one of the great American plays of all time. The semi-autobiographical drama centers on a family struggling to find... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Lieutentant-061610
4.5 by 77 members
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From Olivier Award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) comes this dramatic and unabashedly bloody dark comedy about IRA terrorists. Chris Pine (who played a young Captain Kirk in 2009's Star... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Tiger-051009
4.4 by 52 members
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Two homesick American soldiers, a tormented Iraqi and a displaced tiger collide on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War. Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo premiered at the Kirk Douglas Theatre last... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Roses-021910
3.9 by 31 members
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In The Subject Was Roses, a young man's return from World War II becomes a catalyst for an emotional tug-of-war. Martin Sheen returns to the play that earned him a Tony Award nomination in 1964; now as the... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Pnm596x480
4.3 by 64 members
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Culture Clash, L.A.'s premiere Chicano performance group, returns with a play about America's constantly shifting political landscape exploring loss, identity and the notion of occupied homelands. Palestine... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Parade
3.3 by 3 members
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T.R. Knight (George from Grey's Anatomy) stars in the Tony Award-winning musical Parade at the Mark Taper Forum. Based on the true story of Leo Frank, convicted for the 1913 murder of Atlanta's 13-year-old... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Oleanna-052209
4.0 by 60 members
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Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Broadway's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity series) star in David Mamet's gripping drama of a power struggle between... Learn More.

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Lydia-d4th-022709
4.4 by 37 members
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The Flores family welcomes Lydia, an undocumented maid, into their El Paso home to care for a daughter who was tragically disabled three days before her quinceanera. The two women's mysterious and nearly... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Pippin-121908
4.1 by 156 members
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Pippin is the lively coming of age story of King Charlemagne's oldest son. Featuring music from the award-winning composer of Wicked and Godspell, this dazzlingly colorful and imaginative tale first... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Mtf-son-72d-488x240
3.6 by 19 members
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Center Theatre Group presents Peter Whelan's tense drama The School of Night. Set in 1593, the play presents the murder of the playwright Christopher Marlowe -- an event surrounded by scandal, political... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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Mtf_hbl_72d_488x240
3.5 by 138 members
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The Pope's 1965 visit to New York City brings the hope of answered prayers and a few unexpected guests to an apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, where Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper, pines for a new life as a... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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512582yellow_face
4.2 by 142 members
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Yellow Face, the biting new comedy from David Henry Hwang, Tony Award-winning author of M. Butterfly, comes to the Mark Taper Forum. Hwang writes himself into this world premiere, blurring truth and fiction... Learn More.

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1102825dis_488x240
3.9 by 172 members
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Jesse is eight and easily distracted. But so are his parents, the neighbors and the doctors! In this fractured, fast-paced world, has Jesse been correctly diagnosed with ADD--or is it bad parenting,... Learn More.

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18453113
4.4 by 133 members
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It's quite possibly the most magical, bittersweet age anyone's every been: thirteen. In 100 song-filled minutes, with songs by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown, 13 tells the provoking, engaging story of... Learn More.

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231706night184
4.1 by 100 members
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Nightingale is a play that was written by Lynn Redgrave. She will also perform it. It was inspired by her grandmother, a woman who died more than four decades ago and was by all accounts a chilly and... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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130754water_and_power
4.4 by 78 members
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The famed players of Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza) in a dramatic tour-de-force: Water and Power is a story of power and politics told with a pulsing city beat. Twin brothers... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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4.2 by 110 members
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Tony Award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne (the Matrix films, What's Love Got to Do With It) stars in the Mark Taper Forum's production of Alfred Uhry's Without Walls. Fishburne plays an idealistic drama... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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1013858iwit_176x167
4.0 by 87 members
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In 1943, an Austrian farmer named Franz Jagerstatter was executed for refusing to wear a Nazi uniform and serve in the army of the Third Reich. Noted Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol's drama, iWitness, based... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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300335lewisandclark
3.2 by 45 members
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In Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, America's most famous advance team gets a little lost. Through time and space-bending twists and comic turns, Lewis and Clark find themselves hurtling down river... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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23183656romance
3.7 by 153 members
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Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's new play Romance is an outrageous farce set in a New York courtroom, where a trial on an unrelated case leads to the defendant and counsel devising a plan to solve the... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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4.4 by 77 members
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Radio Golf is a powerful, contemporary play that completes Pulitzer Prize-winner and Tony Award-winner August Wilson's 10-play 20th century cycle of the African-American experience. Radio Golf focuses on a... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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316450stuff
4.5 by 163 members
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The Mark Taper Forum presents this compelling new play about the war in Iraq and the parts played in that conflict by world political leaders, particularly President George W. Bush. Sir David Hare, one of... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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2819253elec
4.2 by 77 members
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Based on Sophocles' Electra, Luis Alfaro's Electricidad crackles with intensity and sly humor as it transforms a 2400-year-old text into a vibrant and unforgettable myth for the modern age. See the West... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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4.2 by 190 members
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Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee's most daring and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat won four major awards for best play of the year in 2002 (Tony, New York... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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6181013school
4.3 by 119 members
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan's enchanting play The School for Scandal brilliantly displays his mastery of stage comedy, his flair for witty dialogue and devilish cleverness, and his obvious delight in skewering... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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24153140truth176x167
4.6 by 63 members
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See the West Coast premiere of John Kani's Nothing but the Truth, a searing exploration of the dynamic between the blacks that remained in South Africa and risked their lives to lead the struggle against... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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517157intimate
4.4 by 70 members
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Set in 1905 New York City, Lynn Nottage's new drama Intimate Apparel features a talented African-American seamstress who creates intimate apparel for New York society ladies and prostitutes alike. When her... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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31144449stones176x167
3.9 by 35 members
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The Mark Taper Forum presents Marie Jones' Olivier Award-winning London/Broadway hit, the magical, poignant and very funny play Stones In His Pockets. Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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12163516talking
4.0 by 7 members
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See the American stage premiere of The Talking Cure, the seductive story of the birth of psychoanalysis. This captivating true story explores the turbulent relationships between Freud, Jung, and their first... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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17204952topdog176x167
4.7 by 10 members
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The Mark Taper Forum proudly presents this funny and thrilling award-winning Broadway play by Suzan-Lori Parks. Topdog/Underdog set fire to the Broadway stage and grabbed last year's Pulitzer Prize the day... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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1104317like_jazz
4.8 by 5 members
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From the creators of City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies and Tootsie comes a new kind of musical: Like Jazz at the Mark Taper Forum. Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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4.3 by 6 members
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes Homebody/Kabul, a stunning politically-charged drama set in Afghanistan. At the Mark Taper Forum. Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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19162327gem176x167new
4.2 by 6 members
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Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean is a unique and moving drama that explores the African-American experience in 1904 Pittsburgh. Marion McClinton directs this world premiere... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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4.3 by 3 members
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Come see the West Coast Premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's play Ten Unknowns starring Stacy Keach. Ten Unknowns is an incisive and seductive drama about what lies within the heart of art and artistry. Learn More.

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9233233livingout
5.0 by 2 members
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See the world premiere of this moving play from Lisa Loomer, the award-winning playwright (The Waiting Room, Expecting Isabel and Broken Hearts) and screenwriter (Girl Interrupted). Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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8233512bigriver
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This is a musical the whole family will enjoy. Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a brilliant theatrical journey to freedom, where the beauty of sign language and the splendor of sound combine... Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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4.0 by 1 member
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Joan Holden's Nickel and Dimed is a thought-provoking, entertaining and funny play based on the best selling book by Barbara Ehrenreich about social injustice. Learn More.

Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)

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1001810alba
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A hothouse of erotic intrigues and exquisite longings, The House of Bernarda Alba makes for a high-charged evening of theater with strong performances by its all-female cast. Learn More.

Map and Directions

The Mark Taper Forum is located at the Music Center on North Grand Avenue at Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles. The Music Center is a large two-city-block complex bordered by Temple St., North Grand Avenue, First Street and Hope Street.

Self-Parking is available in the Music Center Garage for $8 at the Grand Avenue entrance.

Valet parking is available for $19 at the Music Center's Hope Street entrance.

Handicap Information

Handicapped seating at the Mark Taper Forum is extremely limited and may not be available for all performances.

Handicap seating may be available.

Please contact us before buying tickets to make arrangements.