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| | 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 |
| | NEXT LIBRARY GIRL is March 8th, 7pm.
Library Girl Presents: Catching Fire – A Celebration of the Anthology and International Women’s Day.
Featuring S.A. Griffin as MC and contributors Lin Benedek, Michelle Bitting, Laurel Ann Bogen, Susan Hayden, Suzanne Lummis, Phoebe MacAdams, Holaday Mason, K.R. Morrison, Beth Ruscio, Cathie Sandstrom, Hilda Weiss, Gail Wronsky, and Lorraine Perrotta. | 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 244th 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.
March's 244th is TBD-
Twenty-plus years in, the rules remain the same. The outcomes never are.
As featured in the Los Angeles Times. | BUY TICKETS |
| | I'm Still Not That Girl is a dark comedy that follows a young woman grappling with the loss of her mother and the complete lack of a roadmap for adulthood that comes with it. Left to navigate this thing called life, she dives headfirst into a string of questionable choices: old flings, identity crises, a fake engagement, a maybe-pregnancy, and enough therapy to make up for all the years she avoided it (basically, the millennial coming of age experience).
While her journey starts as a hilarious downward spiral, somewhere in the chaos are the values her mother instilled in her—resurfacing just when she needs them most. | BUY TICKETS |