Five self-absorbed customers find themselves trapped together in Starbucks in the latest off-beat comedy from Emmy Award-winning writer Peter Lefcourt.

Playwright Annie Baker’s acclaimed translation of ‘Uncle Vanya’ gets West Coast premiere at Antaeus.

A gleefully boundary-flouting riff on religion, piety and the limits of belief by William Missouri Downs.’

Rubicon Theatre Company presents the gender-bending romantic comedy Twelfth Night or What You Will, performed by the students of the Education Department’s Fearless Shakespeare Intensive, adapted and directed by Rubicon’s first company member and critically acclaimed actor Joseph Fuqua.

Caryl Churchill’s hilarious, Obie Award-winning play, a modern classic, fractures the conventional comedy in a wickedly funny, take-no-prisoners carnal romp. Antaeus Theatre Company presents a fully partner-cast production.

The West Coast premiere of a theatrical re-imagination of the history of the Weather Underground, developed and devised by New York City theater collective The Assembly and members of the cast. June 9-July 3 at the Odyssey Theatre.

Raucous comedy,touching dramatic film.Malibu Playhouse presents a unique 1 night benefit with stars,Ed Asner & Mark Rydell.Includes pre-show picnic,post-show dinner, career reels,“Good Men,”“OXYMORONS” + Q&A. Brian Connors, wrote and directed the play and film.Tickets:malibuplayhouse.org

Amy Madigan directs West Coast premiere of ‘Off the King’s Road’ by Neil Koenigsberg. Tom Bower stars in guest production at Odyssey Theatre.

When the Marquis de Sade, an inmate of the Asylum of Charenton, chooses to stage a theatrical production based on the murder of Jean-Paul Marat, the lines between reality and art blur and eventually disappear completely.

By Patrick Hurley, Dir. Casey Kringlen. From Ancient Greece to present-day NYC, a man soars across time and space as untold gay histories collide. Weathering the tragic winds of yesterday, he arrives on the cusp of a better tomorrow. Part of The New Play Festival; Dec. 1-3, 8 pm; Sat., Dec. 3, 2 pm.

L.A.’s Australian Theatre Company offers a mini Australian theater festival, including a ‘Double Feature’ of two celebrated Australian plays that were made into movies and ATC’s second annual free reading series — all over the course of 3-1/2 weeks.

‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’: Theatricum's signature production is back! June 6-Sept. 25.

African-American college graduate Warren is hired by the 2008 Obama campaign, and lands in the streets of East Cleveland. Between knocking on doors, fending off cops, and questioning his own racial and sexual identity, he learns working in the spotlight of “Hope” isn’t as easy as he imagined.

With Seven Sorceries PaduaLab presents a series of edgy, poetic new plays examining American life in the second decade of the 21st century.

This critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies by David Ives combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun! FRI/SAT at 8pm, SUN at 2pm The Flight Theatre at The Complex 6472 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038 TICKETS: www.bucketlisttheatre.com