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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 t … Moreheatrical award including the 1977 special Tony for theatrical excellence. It is one of America's top regional theatres and a number of the plays presented on and off-Broadway and across the country began at the Taper. Less
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 Mary Phagan, Parade recounts the press frenzy and public outrage about Frank's trial, and his wife's crusade for justice. This stirring musical explores the endurance of love and hope, with a powerful score by the award-winning composer of 13. Learn more...
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 a university professor and one of his students. Stiles reprises her role, after performing to rave reviews on London's West End. Learn more...
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 miraculous bond threatens to expose long-buried secrets and destroy the troubled family. Set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the United States and Mexico, Lydia is the deeply emotional story of a group of people dealing with loss and teetering between two worlds. Learn more...
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 captivated audiences on Broadway and continues to appeal to the young-at-heart everywhere. Learn more...
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 espionage, and secret societies. Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company Learn more...
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 popular songwriter. After a $30 million renovation, the new Mark Taper Forum begins performances with the first major production of this American classic in over twenty years. Learn more...
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 to expose previously "untold events" behind his most disastrous Broadway flop. After inadvertently casting a white actor in the Asian lead role, the author finds himself in an embarrassing, ironic and hilarious position. Learn more...
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, overstimulation or too many poisons in the environment? Starring Rita Wilson (Sleepless in Seattle, The Runaway Bride), the play explores this wild ride with offbeat humor and searing honesty. Learn more...
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 thirteen 13-year-olds as they leap from childhood into their teens: surviving classes, navigating popularity--and finding themselves! Learn more...
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 unlovable person. Redgrave utilized the tales about her grandmother as a starting point for the play and created a story about a fictitious woman whose true voice can only be heard at night, like a nightingale. Learn more...
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, nicknamed Water and Power, are on their way to take Los Angeles. Water is an ambitious state senator. Power a top-ranking police lieutenant. There can be no power without water, and no water without power. The brothers soon find themselves at opposite ends of an abuse-of-power city scandal. Who really runs the streets of LA? The police? The gangs? The politicians? It's LA, where no amount of sunlight can illuminate the shadows. Learn more...
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 teacher who brings out the best in his students, but perhaps cares too deeply about them. Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) is the only playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, the Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Learn more...
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 on that true story, is set during Jagerstatter's final day in prison, where his friends and loved ones come to plead with him to abandon his principles to save his life. This is the play's English-language American premiere; Sobol, whose plays include Ghetto and The Soul of a Jew, wrote the translation with Barry Edelstein. Learn more...
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 rapids into the fray of various other American crusades, struggling to achieve their goals with an acutely bad sense of direction. Learn more...
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 conflict in the Middle East. New York magazine describes Romance as "zany, foul-mouthed and politically utterly incorrect." Learn more...
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 Pittsburgh community facing redevelopment, a plan to propel inner city kids into the middle class, and a political drive to elect the city's first black mayor. Learn more...
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 Britain's most celebrated playwrights, has written a riveting drama about these powerful personalities and crucial events in world history. Learn more...
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 Coast premiere of this thoroughly modern tragedy at the Mark Taper Forum. Learn more...
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 Drama Critics, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle). It concerns an architect who - in the same week that he has received an international prize, won a lucrative contract and celebrated his 50th birthday - is forced to confess to his wife and son that he's involved in a relationship that may destroy his marriage, his career and his life. Learn more...
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 the affectation and pretentiousness of aristocratic Londoners of the 1770s. Tony Award-winner Brian Bedford performs in and directs this classic comedy, whose enjoyment comes as naturally as when it was first produced at London's Drury Lane theatre in 1777. Learn more...
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 apartheid, and those who returned victoriously after living in exile. Learn more...
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 life becomes romantically intertwined with her clientele, she challenges the social taboos of the age. Learn more...
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...
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 patient, the passionate Sabina. Written by Christopher Hampton, author of the play and film Dangerous Liaisons. Learn more...
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 after it opened. Learn more...
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...
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 production, which includes Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) in the talented cast. Learn more...
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...
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...
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 with magical results. Learn more...
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...
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.
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