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| | Library Girl Presents: You Walked In and My Life Began Again — a pre-Valentine's Day show
Featuring: bridgette bianca, Michael C Ford. Jeff Greenstein, Stephen Kalinich, Nora Macintire, Steven Reigns, and Nancy Spiller. Featuring music by Abby Posner.
Sunday night, February 8th at 7pm | BUY TICKETS |
| | Our Grand Opening production on the Kaplan Stage will be Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour — a sharp, deeply human examination of love, betrayal, and the fragile agreements that hold marriages together. With wit and emotional precision, the play explores the personal cost of truth and the reverberations of a single, life-altering choice.
Directed by Max Mayer, a founding member of New York Stage and Film. Max previously worked on the workshop of Honour, making this production an especially exciting homecoming for the play and a meaningful way to inaugurate the Kaplan Stage.
The production stars Marcia Cross, Matt Letscher, Ariana Afradi, and Jude Mayer. | BUY TICKETS |
| | L.A. Café Plays
Now at our new home at 2800 Airport Ave
L.A. Café Plays is the Ruskin’s long-running, signature theatrical experiment—now entering its 243rd installment.
Founded in 2003, the series invites playwrights, directors, and actors into a high-wire creative process: five original short plays are written in the morning from a single theme, rehearsed that afternoon, and performed for an audience the very same night. Every play takes place in a café. Everything else is discovered in real time.
What normally takes weeks is compressed into hours, creating an atmosphere where instinct replaces overthinking and collaboration becomes survival. As the Los Angeles Times observed, “There’s an ingenuity that arises… everyone’s creativity is on high alert.”
For more than two decades, L.A. Café Plays has served as a proving ground for artists and a monthly ritual for audiences—celebrating risk, immediacy, and the thrill of live creation.
February’s 243rd installment explores the theme Love Stings—an evening of plays that dive into desire, disappointment, connection, betrayal, and the moments when love surprises us most. Tender, funny, painful, and unpredictable—just like the process itself.
Twenty-plus years in, the rules remain the same. The outcomes never are.
As featured in the Los Angeles Times. | BUY TICKETS |