Welcome to the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
We’re launching our 2026 season with a variety of performance experiences that demonstrate the Odyssey’s dogged commitment to aesthetically daring dynamic work that is also unfailingly intimate. Join us for what’s sure to be a groundbreaking start to the year:
- We’re expanding our adventurous contemporary dance festival, this year featuring extraordinary performers and choreographers unfolding across two of our three theater spaces over six inspiring weeks. Music at the Odyssey continues to delight audiences in our ongoing concert series with curator/bass player John Snow opening the season on February 21 featuring the works of John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell and Patti Smith.
- New work is rising, too. Our Thresholds of Invention series brings bold voices to the stage through work-in-progress premieres that test new forms and theatrical ideas. Our January/February series include Los Angeles based jazz vocalist and songwriter Susan Kreb and The Local Outfit share an evening of her unique approach to jazz and curated standards. February 1 stage actress Tina Preston, known for Padua Playwrights productions, L.A. Weekly acting honors and rave reviews will present her play in progress, her first! And on March 29 actor/director Darrel Larson performs and directs works of Rainer Maria Rilke.
- R&B rhythms, boxing and rounds of scotch uncover shared histories and hidden wounds in Hymn, directed by award-winning director Gregg T. Daniel, in a much-anticipated co-production with the Lower Depth Theatre company. Opens May 2, 2026
- Fresh from a recent 5-star review from the Edinburgh Fringe, British actor Peter Tate takes us into the psyche of one of the most famous artists of the 20th century in Picasso Le Monstre Sacré. Opens May 8, 2026
- Odyssey veteran Bart DeLorenzo adapts and directs a blistering new adaptation of Ibsen’s 19th century powerhouse An Enemy of the People, setting its story of power, politics and family in 2026. Opens August 2026
- Daniel Passer, the inspired lead clown from Cirque du Soleil, masterminds a delirious new atmosphere for French farceur Georges Feydeau’s vaudevillian look at domestic guerrilla warfare. Opens October 3, 2026