2025/2026 SEASON

Lope de Vega

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Diversifying the Classics

April 30, May 1 & 2 @ 7pm

Join us for the West Coast Premier of this wonderful Commedia!

Lope de Vega’s The Beast of Hungary (1617) takes the audience on a wild journey, from the forests of Hungary to the courts of kings. With humor and pathos, the play explores eternal questions about justice, loyalty, and what makes us “human”—in all our frailty and nobility. A virtuous queen is forced into the wilderness by her power-hungry sister. As revenge, she steals her niece and raises her as a feral girl, who then encounters human society for the first time when she grows up and falls in love. The extremes of the human heart are on display, from murderous jealousy to the first buddings of young love, making us question what truly separates man from beast.

Three Bags Full

by Jerome Chodorov

March 5, 6 & 7 @ 7:00pm

A bright French farce about a greedy merchant who finds himself snookered into being a matchmaker for two daughters, one the child of his wife and the other the maid's offspring. Rebellious young ladies, a comely new maid, pregnant ladies and mistaken identities lead to explosive hilarity. A larcenous employee who has embezzled half a million dollars even offers to return it for a managerial position and the daughter's hand. Half of the loot is in diamonds and half in cash the stashes in separate but identical bags. A third identical bag contains the maid's skivvies.

Dead Man's Cell Phone

by Sarah Ruhl

February 5, 6 & 7 @ 7:00pm

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough of it. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. Dead Man's Cell Phone is a work about how we remember the dead – and how that memorialization changes us. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her understanding about morality, redemption, and human connection in a technologically obsessed society.

Sarah Ruhl’s dramedy-satire takes off when a quiet, isolated woman named Jean picks up a dead man’s cell phone, getting entangled in his strange life. As Jean answers his calls she must deal with his family, his mistress, trips to the afterlife, and the black market in Johannesburg? It’s all a little surreal!

They Promised Her the Moon

by Laurel Ollstein

November 6, 7 & 8 @ 7:00pm

The first American woman to test for space flight, Jerrie Cobb, steps into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours as her memories unfold before her, from learning to fly a plane as a child in Oklahoma to testifying in Congressional hearings about the under-the-radar all-female Mercury 13 space program. They Promised Her the Moon is a compelling drama about the challenges of sisterhood and fighting for the greater good, based on a true story.

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JOIN US FOR OUR 19TH ANNUAL LOHS THEATRE HAUNT!

THIS YEAR'S THEME IS:

FOLKLORE - TERRORS OF THE WORLD!

Do you enjoy getting scared and watching your friends shriek and laugh in terror and joy? Then make plans to attend our annual HAUNT. This is a brand new maze for 2025 with over 15,000 square feet of scares to enjoy!

The story:

The Institute is a secret, privately funded organization that houses and studies creatures of folklore and myth from around the world. Unfortunately, something has gone terribly wrong and the creatures are loose! Can you and your friends survive to get to the end of the maze and restore the safeguards to safely confine the creatures once again? Join us on October 9, 10 or 11 from 7:30 - 10:00pm to see!