Jerome by Ron Lagomarsino
August 9, 2018 11:05 amLOCATION The Road on Lankershim – THEATRE 5108 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood, CA 91601 (Street parking or paid lot parking at 5125 Lankershim Blvd) Jerome Written and Directed...
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UKIMWI by Tom Coash
August 9, 2018 11:01 amLOCATION The Road on Lankershim – GALLERY 5108 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601 (Street parking or paid lot parking at 5125 Lankershim Blvd) UKIMWI By Tom Coash...
Awake by Bekah Brunstetter
August 9, 2018 10:55 amLOCATION The Road on Lankershim – GALLERY 5108 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood, CA 91601 (Street parking or paid lot parking at 5125 Lankershim Blvd) Awake By Bekah Brunsetter...
Dry Bones by James McManus
August 9, 2018 10:49 amLOCATION The Road on Lankershim – THEATRE 5108 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood, CA 91601 (Street parking or paid lot parking at 5125 Lankershim Blvd) Dry Bones By James...
Internalized Theories of Love by Vera Kiiskinen
August 8, 2018 4:51 pmLOCATION The Road on Lankershim – GALLERY 5108 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood, CA 91601 (Street parking or paid lot parking at 5125 Lankershim Blvd) Internalized Theories of Love...
Friends with Guns
August 6, 2018 2:36 pmLISTEN TO AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT STEPHANIE ALISON WALKER ON NPR! You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find...
Death House
August 6, 2018 2:35 pmOVATION RECOMMENDED! On the night a death-house chaplain must hand over the reins to the confident young pastor set to replace him, the men encounter an enigmatic...
The Rescued
August 6, 2018 2:24 pmWhat happens to a human after being abused, forgotten, and living in a cage for years? Do we find the same compassion for them, that we might find...
Summer Playwrights Festival 10 Announcement
August 3, 2018 4:22 pmThe Road’s annual Summer Playwrights Festival is the largest of its kind in the country, featuring 30+ play readings and serving more than 1,000 audience members over just 8 days.
Red Speedo
June 11, 2018 3:47 pmSet on the eve of the Olympic swim trials, pressure builds as front-runner Ray confronts the lure of fame, the perils of mixing the personal and professional, and...
Children and Art
June 23, 2026 9:17 amA 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.
Losing Face
June 23, 2026 10:45 amIt’s Christmas Eve and a white man and his younger Chinese boyfriend lover are waiting for the white man’s half-Chinese daughter to show up. What could go wrong? Losing Face deconstructs the domestic drama into a series of Groundhog Day-esque failed reconciliations. A love story grappling with race, sexuality, love and fatherhood.
We’d Rather Know If You Weren’t Coming Back
June 23, 2026 10:52 amIn a seaside town called Crichton-by-the-Sea, a young Autistic woman named Tina becomes a tour guide for Crichton-by-the-Sea Ghost Tours, run by Ethel. Along with her fellow tour guides (horror writer Vlad and the grieving Moira), she confronts the literal and metaphorical ghosts that haunt her. When a disturbingly underdiscussed string of murders (and their possibly supernatural cause) comes to light, each ghost tour guide is forced to reexamine their individual and collective mythologies.
The Emergency
June 23, 2026 10:58 amIt’s 1975. Indira Gandhi, the first female prime minister of India, is beloved by the people. Then she did the unthinkable: Overnight, she turned a democracy into a dictatorship, imprisoning political opponents, censoring the press and neutering Parliament. One American reporter spends months trying to understand why.
SHUT UP WHEN YOU TALK TO ME
June 23, 2026 11:03 amLuke has a son who wants to slay him; a wife who seems to want more; a best friend who can't survive; and a heart with lost boundaries. A play about middle aged pain, yearning, loss; and joy.
Behind the Sun
June 23, 2026 11:09 amObie Kipper has finally found the home of his dreams, but there's one problem: it's 1956 and Obie's dream for the future of his family lies outside his redlined neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood just over a mile away. With the help of a Jewish friend, fellow veteran, and co-worker, Obie puts into motion a sensational scheme to purchase the house. This may land him in jail or help chart the future for his family and all of Minneapolis.
COMPROMISED
June 23, 2026 11:45 amA celebrated journalist and his wife invite a young couple to their home to help them recover their missing car. The encounter reveals unpleasant, hidden truths that threaten to destroy both relationships. While covering the 911 attack, New York Times reporter Brian Mulcahy was exposed to the toxic smoke that has caused his breathing, 16 years later, to become compromised. The young playwright, Alan Clay Parker, is fascinated by Brian's life and situation and learns something tragic that Brian's wife has kept from him. Alan puts both of their stories into a play, which turns into a big success bound for Broadway. The problem is he never got either of their permissions. When Mulcahy hears about it he demands that the play be stopped or his wife's dark past will be revealed.
Red Devil
June 23, 2026 11:51 amTwo elderly, queer breast cancer patients find love in the chemotherapy infusion room with the help of a young influencer documenting her own treatment for the world to see.
End of the Century
June 23, 2026 11:55 amSet in 1993, just before the internet and e-commerce reshaped everything about how we work, date, shop, and dream, a family-run mail order catalog company nears extinction. Family loyalty and financial pressures collide, and the company teeters on bankruptcy as family members and co-workers shift alliances and find connections. As our queer and straight characters stumble through sex, ambition, class divides and romance, the play drops a nostalgia bomb on us -- and allows us to view the era's social mores through laughter and today’s lens with both empathy and clear-eyed hindsight - and to find hope as we see parallels in today's tech transformations and culture wars.
He Looked at Me with His Dick in Her Mouth
June 23, 2026 12:26 pmLyssa is making a podcast about Danny's new solo show; Ian is getting engaged to Tara; Ian and Danny used to be roommates; Danny and Tara are blowing up on TikTok; Danny thinks Ian is gay; Tara wants to be famous; Danny wants to be loved; Ian wants what he wants; and Lyssa wants to tell the story.
That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming
June 23, 2026 12:31 pmTwo older gentlemen, longtime associates and gamblers, meet for their regular $100/$200 cribbage match. Over this routine game, their relationship is revealed to be its own house of cards. Through everyday vernacular, That Day is Coming, Every Day is Coming explores notions of time, human purpose and how we wish it might all end.
The View From Here
June 23, 2026 12:36 pmAs Elsie prepares to leave the planet, she’s visited by two young people who are also, in their own ways, death-adjacent. Can the three of them help each other fix the terrible, lonely tilting of their lives before Ed arrives?
A Walking Shadow
June 23, 2026 12:41 pmA former stage legend, now unhoused and struggling with his mind, consumes himself in the role of King Lear to cope with life in a public park. When the city threatens eviction, he rallies a 'troupe' of fellow residents to stage the play as a protest, turning their survival into a performance. But as the bulldozers arrive, Ralph’s ability to distinguish between the stage and reality fractures, forcing him to confront the tragedy he has been acting out all along.
Orson & Walt in a Bar in Rio
June 23, 2026 12:48 pmBased on historical events, “Orson & Walt in a Bar in Rio” is a comedy that imagines a 1941 meeting between Orson Welles, in the midst of a fight with RKO over “The Magnificent Ambersons,” and Walt Disney, reeling from the strike at his Burbank HQ. Walt has an idea to solve both their problems--he'll sell his studio to Welles, allowing him to be independent. They draw, they drink, they discuss art, commerce, communism, magic, and movies, all fueled by Caipirinhas and guitar and climaxing in an arm-wrestling match. The experience leaves both men renewed, inspired, hungover, and remembering why they do what they do in the first place.
A FATAL PLACE
June 23, 2026 12:53 pmIt's the eve of the Trojan War and Iphigenia, a sheltered yet tech savvy teen, has a hopeless crush on sixteen year-old Achilles, the hottest (future) warrior of all time. She adores her powerful father, disdains her protective mother, and worships vengeful Artemis, with a chorus of girls she met on GrapeVine. But when her father pulls her through that illusory looking glass with the false promise of a fairytale wedding she finds herself in a filthy military encampment with the Greek army clamoring for her death. Face to face with her father's monstrous brutality, she races to make amends with her mother, save her baby brother, and seize a heroic moment of agency before facing the knife.
MAPP
June 23, 2026 12:58 pmAfter a bomb explodes in 1957 Cleveland, a phalanx of police officers, following an anonymous tip, bursts into the home of Dollree Mapp, a fiercely independent and wholly ahead-of-her time “Negro businesswoman.” Dollree’s demand to see a search warrant sets in motion an extraordinary — and improbable — chain of events resulting in her arrest and prosecution under Ohio’s draconian obscenity laws and, in a further twist, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case bearing her name — which ends up having nothing to do with obscenity at all. Fusing elements of comedy, docudrama, and fourth-wall breaking meta-theatre, MAPP mines the inherent theatricality of Dollree’s stranger-than-fiction odyssey through the legal system, the indefatigable spirit of the forgotten“Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment,” and the power of moral seriousness to emerge from absurd events.
The Inevitability of Falling
June 23, 2026 1:03 pmGrowing old - really old - is not for the meek and mild! “ The Inevitability of Falling” is an unlikely comedy about old age, mortality, brand loyalty and the relative health benefits of grape soda. People survive into their 80’s and 90’s with a combination of good genes, grit, steely-eyed strength and tremendous good luck. But once you get there…then what? We travel in this play through Bill’s latest “adventure”: heading into his eighties, widowed and checking into the Bloomdale Retirement Community. During the course of the play, we meet his son Jack, Bloomdale administrator Kyle and sunny waitress Lizzy as they help him navigate - and sometimes battle against - his new reality: life in assisted living.
Patriots
June 23, 2026 1:25 pmSet in the near future, two inmates, Juan and Fabienne, imprisoned in a "facility" by a fascist regime for polluting whiteness, struggle to stay alive. Their white guard, Mike, who took the job to feed his son, Daren, over time realizes the horror of what he's doing. When told that Juan and Fabienne would be executed, he desperately tries to save them, rescuing only one Juan. Juan promises to save Daren while Mike stays to do what he can to prevent mass killing. Some time later Juan's friend, Vivian, finds Daren in an alley, takes him in, and promises to fight against the regime.
The Things We Keep
June 23, 2026 1:32 pmLate at night in a self-storage facility, Adam sorts through his late husband’s belongings, trying to outrun grief he’s been avoiding for months. Nick, the young night attendant, ends up stuck on-site and almost accidentally becomes Adam’s witness and helper. They find a letter in the husband’s handwriting addressed to “Michael,” revealing the husband confided in someone else during his illness because Adam tried too hard to fix him instead of simply listening. The discovery forces Adam to confront guilt, betrayal, and love, while Nick admits he once left someone too soon out of fear. Adam finally leaves with the sense that people are like storage units—packed tight with what they can’t say, waiting for someone to open the door.
Women’s Health and Wellness
June 23, 2026 1:36 pmWhen Leila enters a "Women's Health and Wellness" clinic needing an abortion, she takes matters into her own hands.
Cereal Noir
June 23, 2026 1:39 pmWhen Lucky the Leprechaun turns up drowned in his own cereal, Detective Joe Coffee must follow the clues through the dark underbelly of Breakfastown.
At Home
June 23, 2026 1:44 pmA recently evicted couple try to occupy a living room set at a furniture store.
Dinner at Donovan’s
June 23, 2026 1:48 pmJack & Laura, long married and north of sixty, decide they need to make new friends since their pool of longtime “couple friends” is dwindling. They embark on a misguided series of dinners with potential new couple-candidates, with each over-the-top couple played by the same two actors. The play ends with a bittersweet acknowledgment of the realities of time’s passage, and Jack’s and Laura’s acceptance that you can’t make new “old” friends. But odds are good they’ll keep trying.
Taylor’s Backpack
June 23, 2026 1:52 pmA search of Taylor's backpack leads to a meeting with the principal and Taylor's panicked parents.
One Way to Reno
June 23, 2026 1:56 pmTwo strangers meet in a lonely train station. One learns the most difficult person to forgive is often ourselves.
Prayer Circle
June 24, 2026 10:31 amTBD
June 24, 2026 10:32 am
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