Outdoor Shakespearean Theatre
 
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Repertory Season

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Ellen Geer

Out of a winter plagued by jealousy and torment emerges the glorious rebirth of spring in high humour of the countryside. One of the Bard’s final plays, The Winter’s Tale is a romance that concludes in one of the most extraordinarily written scenes of magical redemption in which Time ensures that the past is only prologue to the reconciled future.

Pay What You Will ticket pricing is available at the 7:30 performance on July 19th and September 30th. A prologue discussion with the cast will take place at 6:30pm before the performance on August 10th.

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Willow Geer

Theatricum returns with its signature production that infuses Shakespeare’s beautiful language with music and song to heighten the pleasure. The most magical outdoor setting in Los Angeles becomes an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers both fairy and human. Shakespeare conjures a world of wonder, magic, and romance where comical misunderstandings and the pain of unrequited love are resolved. All is reconciled through midsummer night revelries and the enduring power of nature.

A prologue discussion with the cast will take place at 6:30pm before the performance on August 29th. Pay What You Will ticket pricing is available at the 7:30 performance on September 23rd.

A Retelling by Ellen Geer of the Play by J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie’s beloved fairytale of a boy who never wanted to grow up was written one hundred and twenty years ago. Like the stories of Shakespeare, the adventures in Neverland are ingrained in the vocabulary and hearts of our culture. Ellen Geer’s pondering frames the original script through the eyes of Wendy and her children, encouraging the next generation to never lose the innocence of belief in other worlds and other ways.

A prologue discussion with the cast will take place at 6:30pm before the performance on July 21st. Pay What You Will ticket pricing is available at the 7:30 performance on July 26th.

Translated and Adapted by Freyda Thomas from the Original French by Molière

Directed by Melora Marshall

How do you stop an invasive cultish worm who uses lies of biblical proportion to wind his way into your family life, your town, your city, your country? Through the brilliant storytelling of Molière and Freyda Thomas’ clever adaptation in rhyming couplets, we watch a southern family in the 1980s begin to recognize a taker in their midst in the form of televangelist, Tartuffe. Hilarious mayhem ensues as they recognize the danger, rise up, and remove the culprit.

A prologue discussion with the cast will take place at 6:30pm before the performance on August 11th. Pay What You Will ticket pricing is available at the 7:30 performance on August 30th and September 9th.

By Bernardo Cubría

Directed by Bernardo Cubría and Willow Geer

University Professor Paola Aguilar desperately needs money for…well, she’ll tell you. So when THE Political Party offers her a substantial paycheck to help them understand the Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote, she reluctantly takes the job. Can she help these political strategists understand all of the nuances of her community to save the election? Or will her own journey ultimately be more important than who controls the White House?

Pay What You Will ticket pricing is available at the 7:30 performance on September 16th and October 3rd. A prologue discussion with the cast will take place at 6:30pm before the performance on October 12th. 

2024 Performance dates

The Winter’s Tale

Saturday, June 1 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 8 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 15 at 7:30pm

Sunday, June 23 at 7:30pm

Sunday, June 30 at 7:30pm

Sunday, July 7 at 7:30pm

Sunday, July 14 at 3:30pm

Friday, July 19 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)

Sunday, July 28 at 7:30pm

Friday, August 2 at 7:30pm

Saturday, August 10 at 7:30pm (Prologue Discussion at 6:30)

Friday, August 16 at 7:30pm

Saturday, August 24 at 3:30pm

Saturday, September 7 at 3:30pm

Sunday, September 15 at 3:30pm

Monday, September 30 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Sunday, June 2 at 3:30pm

Sunday, June 9 at 3:30pm

Sunday, June 16 at 3:30pm

Sunday, June 23 at 3:30pm

Sunday, June 30 at 3:30pm

Sunday, July 7 at 3:30pm

Thursday, August 1 at 7:30pm

Thursday, August 8 at 7:30pm

Thursday, August 15 at 7:30pm

Thursday, August 29 at 7:30pm (Prologue Discussion at 6:30)

Monday, September 2 at 7:00pm

Sunday, September 8 at 3:30pm

Monday, September 23 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)


Wendy’s Peter Pan

Saturday, June 22 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 29 at 7:30pm

Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm

Sunday, July 14 at 7:30pm

Sunday, July 21 at 8:00pm 

Friday, July 26 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will, Prologue Discussion at 6:30pm)

Friday, August 9 at 7:30pm

Sunday, August 18 at 7:30pm

Sunday, August 25 at 7:30pm

Sunday, September 1 at 7:30pm

Sunday, September 8 at 7:30pm

Saturday, September 14 at 7:30pm

Saturday, September 21 at 7:30pm

Saturday, September 28 at 7:30pm

Friday, October 4 at 7:30pm

 

Tartuffe: Born Again

Saturday, July 13 at 7:30pm

Saturday, July 20 at 7:30pm

Saturday, July 27 at 7:30pm

Sunday, August 4 at 7:30pm

Sunday, August 11 at 7:30pm (Prologue Discussion at 6:30pm)

Sunday August 18 at 3:30pm

Sunday, August 25 at 3:30pm

Friday, August 30 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)

Monday, September 9 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)

Sunday, September 15 at 7:30pm

Sunday, September 22 at 3:30pm

Sunday, September 29 at 7:30pm

Saturday, October 5 at 7:30pm

Sunday, October 13 at 7:30pm

 

The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote

Saturday, August 24 at 7:30pm

Saturday, August 31 at 7:30pm

Monday, September 2 at 3:00pm

Saturday, September 7 at 7:30pm

Saturday, September 14 at 3:30pm

Monday, September 16 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)

Sunday, September 22 at 7:30pm

Sunday, September 29 at 3:30pm

Thursday, October 3 at 7:30pm (Pay What You Will)

Sunday, October 6 at 7:30pm

Saturday, October 12 at 7:30pm (Prologue Discussion at 6:30pm)

Saturday, October 20 at 7:30pm