The Cripple of Inishmaan 
by Martin McDonagh; directed by Steven Robman l Friday, January 18, 8:00 p.m., at Antaeus Theatre
Tickets are $15 and available at https://qrs.ly/4e98d38

Dreams are in short supply on Inishmaan, especially for Billy Claven. So when a Hollywood filmmaker arrives on the neighboring island to make a movie, Billy goes after a part in the film, hoping to escape from the cruelty and bleakness of his life in master storyteller Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic Irish yarn.

Ragtime 
by Terrence McNally; directed by David Lee
Friday, February 15, 8:00 p.m., at Pasadena Playhouse
Tickets are $45 and available at https://qrs.ly/2b98h8h

Twenty years after its premiere, the great American musical returns to LA. Nominated for 13 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Ragtime tells the story of three families at the turn of the 20th Century in pursuit of the American dream.  The award-winning score uses ragtime rhythms to paint a portrait of the people who built this country with the hopes for a brighter tomorrow.

The Judas Kiss 
by David Hare; directed by Michael Michetti
Friday,March 1, 8:00 p.m., at Theatre @ Boston Court
Tickets are $25 and available at https://qrs.ly/c398d3d

In spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was larger than life. His masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was a hit in the West End and he was the toast of London. Yet by summer he was serving two years in prison for gross indecency. Punished for “the love that dare not speak its name,” Wilde remained devoted to his beloved, Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. The Judas Kiss revolves around two pivotal moments in his life: the day when, cajoled by Bosie into an ill-fated trial, he decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and a night when, after his release two years later, the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him again. David Hare’s masterful play pulses with the ecstasy and anguish of an enamored heart.

Othello
by William Shakespeare; directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Friday, March 29, 8:00 p.m., at A Noise Within
Tickets are $42 and available at https://qrs.ly/5g98d2t

The Bard’s most intimate of family tragedies about the terrible force of love and the breakdown of a man who has everything—power, position, and passion—only to find his world decimated through intense mind games with his ensign. Prescient in its searing social commentary of prejudice, betrayal, and thwarted ambition, Shakespeare’s thunderous drama examines who we trust and the price we pay for choosing wrong.