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Macha Theatre/Films and Odalys Nanin present Naked in the Tropics, a comedy with music. Andy a teenager falls for a gay porn star. His girlfriend is pregnant, his mother is a lesbian, immigration wants him deported and the one person that can save him is nowhere to be found. Written, Directed and Produced by Macha Producing Artistic Director and President Odalys Nanin. Learn more...

Writer-performer Diana Yanez (The Gay Mafia, Margaret Cho's The Sensuous Woman Show) brings her one-woman show about growing up Cuban and queer in America to the Macha Theatre. The winner of Macha's first-annual solo show competition, Viva La Evolucion is filled with tales of chaos, love and evolution in Miami. Learn more...

A nun and a countess have an illicit, passionate affair in 17th century Mexico in Macha Theatre's production of a drama based on the novel "Sor Juana's Second Dream" by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Odalys Nanín's powerful play features two richly-drawn, compelling lead characters. The performance is followed by a reception with Mexican appetizers and music. Learn more...

Two sassy best friends remember back to a simpler time when people spontaneously burst into musical theatre songs. Jillian Easton and Amanda Kruger perform new and classic songs form Wicked, The Last 5 Years, Cabaret, Some Like it Hot, Spring Awakening and more in this wild romp through love, sex and barhopping mishaps. Learn more...

The critically-acclaimed He Asked For It is the award-winning story about the complexities of gay relationships in the contemporary Internet-age society. Writer Erik Patterson and director Neil Weiss strike a balance between comedy and tragedy as the characters struggle to move beyond one-night stands to the difficult sacrifices of true love. Learn more...

Macha Theatre presents a Cuban cultural night in honor of the anniversary of Cuba's independence from Spain. Highlighting the evening will be a screening of Chris Hume's documentary about the unseen world of Cuba under Fidel Castro, This Is Cuba. The film is followed by a panel discussion with Cuban artists in exile and a reception with Cuban appetizers. Learn more...

Not since Naked Boys Singing!, Oh! Calcutta or Adam and Eve has there been such a celebration of the human body. Three men and three women perform naked in a hilarious new musical revue, exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance. Learn more...

Ten actors go head to head and compete for the title of Drama Queen, and their own original one-person show, at Macha Theatre -- and the audience gets to choose the winner. The MC for the evening will be comedian Sandra Valls (Showtime's Diva of Comedy and Hot Tamales). Learn more...

From the same twisted mind that created the LA Weekly Theater Award-winning play Mommie Queerest comes The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode. When budget cuts force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland, Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Jo will do anything to raise the money so she can stay. Anything. (OK, they become hookers. And they sing and dance about it.) Learn more...

This comedy by Odalys Nin is the amazing true story of Catalina de Erauso. Born in 17th-century Spain, Catalina threw off her nun's veil at age 14 and decided to dress as a man. Against the odds, this bold young girl defied her society's gender roles, yet remained committed to its service as a participant in the conquest of the Americas. Learn more...

Rosalind Productions' hit version of Proof moves to the Macha Theatre for a limited run. This contemporary play explores the relationships between parents and children, what they share and what they fear they might share. A formerly brilliant mathematician whose mind has failed dies, leaving his youngest daughter a legacy. She may be brilliant, she may be crazy--or she may be something all her own. Learn more...

Two passionate Latinas--one American and one Cuban--find themselves in a hurricane of love, lust and other devastations. Back by popular demand for its 10-year anniversary, this romantic comedy is a landmark lesbian play. Learn more...

Once considered "unmentionable," the V-word now steals the limelight in Eve Ensler's modern classic, dedicated to the humor, power, mystery and excitement of womanhood. The Vagina Monologues has been performed around the world and translated into 45 languages; now it comes to the Macha Theatre. Learn more...

Direct from Off-Broadway, the musical play All This, and Heaven Too explores the lives of middle-aged gay men who celebrate, through song, dance and laughter, the universal themes of aging, relationships and the undying kinship of true friends. It's The Boys in the Band meets The Sunshine Boys! Learn more...

In the tradition of Jersey Boys, Town Without Pity presents the songs of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Gene Pitney, performed live on stage by four of the smoothest guys in Hollywood who bring sexy back like it's 1963. Within a five-year period, Pitney wrote hits for The Crystals and Ricky Nelson, worked with The Rolling Stones, sang an Oscar-nominated movie theme and was voted Italy's #1 recording artist. Learn more...

Set in the sample room of an in-vitro fertility clinic, Sp*rm Warfare looks at how the biological clock impacts male-female relationships in role-reversing ways. As a 39-year-old overachieving wife rubs her frustrated house-husband the wrong way, a sensuous young nurse causes things to get out of hand, and the husband and wife are forced to define themselves anew. Learn more...

Chicago-playwright Hunt McDermott's The Golden Watch Chain debuts for its world premiere at the Globe Playhouse. In this political satire meets classic door-slam farce, self-help author Paige Turner contends with a blackmailer, a bitter twin, and dissatisfied employees on the eve of becoming the first ever recipient of the coveted Golden Watch Chain Award. Learn more...

Playwright and actor Michael McFall stages the world premiere of his original play, Dirty White Tuxedo Pants...and a brown plastic bag. The show chronicles a homeless veteran living on the streets of Los Angeles. The story is peppered with sarcasm and unconventional humor, and takes an intriguing look at life through the eyes of the main character. Learn more...

In this one-man, one-act drama written by Leanord Nimoy, Sam Lovett stars in the dual roles of Theo and Vincent van Gogh -- based upon the letters written by the artist to his art dealer brother. Tortured by inner demons (some called it madness), crushing poverty, the inability to sell his work, and a frustrated love life, Vincent was nonetheless capable of a remarkable output, with some 800 paintings and 800 drawings. He left behind 500 letters to his devoted brother Theo, detailing his struggle for his art. Learn more...

A doe-eyed aspiring actress who was raised on good old fashioned values and Roman Catholic guilt moves to Rome from North America with a lot of unanswered spiritual questions, not much cash, and big dreams of working in Italian Cinema. Once in Rome, she quickly learns that things in the Eternal City are not as "Holy" or as romantic as she had imagined. Learn more...

3 Guys. 37 Plays. 93 Minutes. The Loose Cannons will present their version of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) at the Globe Playhouse. This is the sweatiest Shakespeare show you'll ever see! A hilarious romp through all of Shakespeare's work, featuring a two-man Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, as a cooking show, Hamlet in a half-hour, super-speed, and backwards! These guys have brushed up on more than just their Shakespeare. Learn more...

Plays411 and Tugboat Prodctions presents Matthew Goldsby's If Only, a new musical based on a Balzac classic, at the Globe Playhouse. Learn more...

The Globe Playhouse presents a new production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, an L.A. Weekly "Pick of the Week." Learn more...

Treat the kids to a delightful, untold story of Christmas time: Sockmuffin The Elf, at the Globe Playhouse. Learn more...