Road Shorts Film Fest 2025
September 12, 2025 12:31 amJoin us for a night an evening of short films from our members! Audience Awards will be presented… Grab a festival pass for access to all FOUR screenings...
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It’s Our Birthday!
August 7, 2025 9:47 am34 Years, $34K Match! Every gift will be matched dollar for dollar up to $34,000 for our 34th birthday. Double your impact—support The Road to great theatre
Summer Playwrights Festival 17
August 4, 2025 11:05 amSubmission details for Summer Playwrights Festival 17 will be announced right here in December 2025.Bookmark this page and check back for everything you need to know to submit...
Under Construction From Page to Stage
July 30, 2025 1:57 pmNEW PROGRAM: From Page to Stage Experience the Creative Process Firsthand! Sit in on a live workshop session with two of our talented playwrights from our Under Construction...
Hell Mouth
June 18, 2025 9:43 amTorn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List.
$5 TICKETS WITH TEEN TIX!
April 7, 2025 11:11 pmDid you know The Road is partnered with Teen Tix LA?? Tickets are always $5! To qualify you need to be 13-19 years of age and sign up...
Under Construction 6 Submissions Closed
January 8, 2025 11:52 amThe Road is proud to begin its SIXTH year of Under Construction, a playwright’s group that develops socially and politically relevant voices and thoughts to the American stage....
2024 Year End Letter!
December 16, 2024 3:03 pmDear Road friends and family: As we come to the end of 2024, we want to take the opportunity to thank all of you for your continued...
Giving Tuesday!
December 2, 2024 1:46 pmThe Road Theatre Company is the first intimate theatre in Los Angeles to fully implement a series of open captioning performances for the deaf and hard of hearing...
Otherkin
May 28, 2025 1:33 pmWORLD PREMIERE PREVIEWS: September 23rd – 25th OPENING: Friday September 26th – November 2nd Fridays & Saturdays 8pm Sundays 2pm Some Thursdays 8pm Talkback with playwright, N.T. Vandecar...
The Totality of All Things
October 3, 2024 6:08 pmWEST COAST PREMIERE The Totality of All Things is part of Reflections on Art and Democracy, a celebration of plays and lectures in Los Angeles aimed at raising awareness about the...
The Civil Twilight
September 4, 2024 7:44 pmThe Civil Twilight by Shem Bitterman 12 added performances April 5th through May 11th! Starring Taylor Gilbert & Andrew Elvis Miller
Road ShortS Film Fest
August 8, 2024 12:09 amThe Road ShortS Festival is back! So many short films we split the day in TWO See these Roadies shine on the silver screen Sep 8th, 4pm &...
In Case of Bruising Copy
July 8, 2024 7:52 pmIn Case of Bruising - Triplets Milo, Otis, and Della’s lives are very different from other kids. They’re too big for the third grade, they don’t know when they’ll have food for lunch, and they don’t go home if their father is in a bad mood. They know their Mama spends more time in the hospital than other mothers. They know she is sad again. As Daddy and Mama get worse, each child finds new ways to cope - some safer than others.
In Case of Bruising
July 11, 2024 5:10 pmIn Case of Bruising - Triplets Milo, Otis, and Della’s lives are very different from other kids. They’re too big for the third grade, they don’t know when they’ll have food for lunch, and they don’t go home if their father is in a bad mood. They know their Mama spends more time in the hospital than other mothers. They know she is sad again. As Daddy and Mama get worse, each child finds new ways to cope - some safer than others.
Crisis
June 14, 2025 1:14 amClarence, transmasc, an addict, bursts through the door. He tries to get Floyd out of the room without telling him he just stole 10,000 dollars from his ex-girlfriend. She hates him — but that's because he's a toxin who ruins lives, not the money thing. A gunshot just blew out his window but if he can get out alive then maybe... just maybe...
Hope is a Bird
June 14, 2025 1:17 amA shared obsession has led Katherine and Julius to career disaster. Katherine has lost a professorship. Julius is being hounded by animal rights activists. Now, the unlikely duo is hiding out in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, awaiting the arrival of a bird long believed to be extinct – the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
The Florida Room
June 13, 2025 11:59 pmA woman's quiet regimented life is disrupted by the return of her two grown sons and all are forced to face a tragic past of ghosts that haunt them once again with echoes of childhood trauma.
Prayer Circle
June 14, 2025 12:31 amA dark comedy about a prayer group at a small country church that discovers they have the power to kill through their prayers.
The Springvale Armadillo
June 14, 2025 12:39 amA false diagnosis forced seventeen-year-old Ruby into isolation seventy years ago. She was stripped of her identity and endured seven decades in a forgotten world. Now, in 1987, a grieving journalist arrives, seeking a story of survival, hoping Ruby’s past may hold the answers he desperately needs.
Blind Crest
June 14, 2025 12:43 amDeath Row inmate Tyrell Johnson and corrections officer Mara Hernandez share an undeniable attraction. When they decide to have a baby, will their initial spark ignite into an all-consuming flame? This thought-provoking twist on 'boy meets girl' explores legacy, identity, and race within the context of mass incarceration.
Eclipsed: The Sun, The Moon, and Gladys Atkinson Sweet
June 14, 2025 12:35 amPrayer, hope and Clarence Darrow. Was it enough to save Gladys Sweet? Charged with first-degree murder in 1925 following a mob attack on her Detroit home that left one man dead, the 24-year-old wife and mother, an educated black woman, emerges from the shadows of her time determined to be seen and heard.
RED TIDE
June 14, 2025 12:50 amHer cat went missing, and she's being haunted by a ghost. He just got out of a relationship and can't hold down a job. They're strangers, waiting out a Florida hurricane. They have board games, milk, and hope that the house can withstand the storm. A supernatural love story exploring grief, transness, and shifting currents of American politics.
KAIJU
June 14, 2025 12:53 amTwo 250-foot-tall monsters debate the morality of the destruction they just caused. A group of human theatergoers argues after the play they just watched. Destruction becomes conversation and conversation becomes destruction in this satire of monster movies, post-show talkbacks, and both the power and self-cannibalization of live theatre.
Maybe You Could Love Me
June 14, 2025 12:56 amSajida and Noor have been best friends since they were little, but is their love romantic? Could it be, since their Islamic sect prohibits homosexuality? This new play looks at freedom, love, and belonging between two women from elementary school to adulthood.
HypergaMater
June 14, 2025 1:00 amAlanna Aberdeen married for money, not love. Now she teaches other women to do the same. But when skeptic Robin Rigby joins her program, both women grow disillusioned with the lives (and men) they’ve chosen, and their carefully built worlds begin to crumble. Literally.
Tracking
June 14, 2025 1:07 amIn an NYC studio, narrator Emily and sound engineer Jack are beginning recordings for a radio play. What begins as a relationship filled with rancor, however, soon takes a turn toward a deeper connection. But what happens when the secrets you keep—whether from others or yourself—are thrust into the light?
Color Blind
June 14, 2025 1:20 amCOLOR BLIND is a fictitious reimagining of the architecture jury that was tasked with selecting an architect to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC in 2009. The jury chose six finalists, each presented a design for the site on the Washington DC Mall.
FRAGILE
June 14, 2025 1:25 amRennie is on the verge of losing his beloved comic book shop. When Alana walks in, everything starts to change. Secret identities are revealed, but it’s going to take more than super-strength to forge a new origin story.
Learn to Live
June 14, 2025 1:29 amTom and Mike meet annually in secret, sharing a brief escape from their everyday lives. When Mike reveals life-changing news, their fragile arrangement begins to crack. As emotions rise, they must confront the truth about their connection—and whether desire alone is enough to sustain it.
Liver and Onions
June 14, 2025 1:33 amTwo ex-best friends have dinner, but something weird is on the menu... Bon appetit!
Girl Knocking
June 14, 2025 1:36 amA robotics engineer discovers that a robot they purchased for their lab has started knocking on wood, a sign she’s turning human. The engineer conspires with the seller of the robot to keep their discovery secret, but the robot has plans of her own, including saving the planet.
A LONG ROAD
June 14, 2025 1:40 amA Long Road revolves around two sisters, Arah and Lule, who navigate their contrasting life choices and unresolved emotions over the course of one late night together. The sisters wrestle with the complexity of their family dynamics, personal identity, and the struggle to define one’s own happiness.
16th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival
June 12, 2025 12:26 pm10 Days! 24 plays! #SPF16 THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founding Artistic Director, together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, invite you to the 16th Annual Summer...
The Belly of The Beast
June 14, 2025 1:43 amLiving on the Oregon Coast, a family anticipates the possibility of a tsunami sweeping away their existence. This force of nature combined with surfing, grief, and family tensions, creates a story of human transformation. Facing disaster, sometimes the only thing one can do is ride the wave and hang on.
Copernicus, Darwin and Freud Walk into a Bar
June 14, 2025 12:31 pmMaude’s closing her pub for the evening, when Jack, a struggling playwright, stops by. As he’s telling Maude about his writing frustrations, Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud enter. Upon hearing of Jack’s writer’s block, they admit that it may actually be their fault, but perhaps they can offer him a solution.
Chapter Meeting
June 14, 2025 12:13 amAn all-night DSA Chapter meeting in Brooklyn turns violent when one member reveals the unthinkable: he got a job.
The Fugue
June 14, 2025 12:17 am"The Fugue" was originally produced by "The Tank Theatre" in New York, January 19 under its original name "Real." A woman reads a play about a composer writing a fugue and revisits her old instrument, questioning her life. Meanwhile, a composer dreams of a woman playing and writes a fugue, wishing to become her. Their identities blur as music weaves their stories together in a search for self.
In the Middle
June 14, 2025 12:22 amIn a post second Civil War America, the government's role is to maintain the delicate balance of echo chambers amongst the new territories. Dedicated public servants Catherine and William develop an attraction, forcing them to confront the benefits and shortcomings of the new system.
bloody noses
June 14, 2025 1:03 amWhat's the cost of winning? After the assault of one of their own, three soccer players are forced to confront the dark realities of being female college athletes in the American University System while also just trying to be young women in a world that would rather them be machines.