Odyssey Theatre presents Lear Redux as part of its 2025 season

A Quantum Fantasia inspired by the play King Lear by William Shakespeare 

This world premiere production is adapted by John Farmanesh-Bocca

Acclaimed and prolific stage actor Jack Stehlin stars in Lear Redux, a bold, surprising, and whimsical adaptation of King Lear, directed and adapted by Physical Theatre impresario John Farmanesh-Bocca. Renowned for their celebrated collaborations on Farmanesh-Bocca’s REDUX series—including Tempest Redux (winner of Stage Raw’s Production of the Year and Broadway World’s Production of the Decade for LA regional theater)—Lear Redux reunites the Odyssey Theatre, The New American Theatre, and Not Man Apart – Physical Theatre Ensemble to present Shakespeare’s preeminent drama of family, power, humanity, grief, and acceptance.

Take a peek behind the curtain in the rehearsal room for LEAR REDUX…

Odyssey Theatre presents Lear Redux as part of its 2025 season A bold, surprising, and whimsical adaptation of King Lear, directed and adapted by Physical Theatre impresario John Farmanesh-Bocca and starring Jack Stehlin. Renowned for their celebrated collaborations on Farmanesh-Bocca’s REDUX series—including Tempest Redux (winner of Stage Raw’s Production of the Year and Broadway World’s Production of the Decade for LA regional theater)—Lear Redux reunites the Odyssey Theatre, The New American Theatre, and Not Man Apart – Physical Theatre Ensemble to present Shakespeare’s preeminent drama of family, power, humanity, grief, and acceptance.

From personal storytelling and upbeat acoustic strumming, Blind Chaperone is a musical diary of prismatic ballads, old-school protest anthems, and quiet love songs.

Coming June 14th as part of our Thresholds of Invention series

Have you ever told a lie? How bad was it? And how far would you go to keep it a secret?

Tom Moran brings his critically acclaimed, award-winning show Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar, to the Odyssey, after a sell out run at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2022, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023, and with the Irish National Theatre in 2024. Audiences leave quite literally booking therapy, laughing and crying, feeling way less alone; and sometimes, they even come back with their parents.

Join us at the Odyssey for his Los Angeles production – April 30th

Now in its 8th year, this 6-week Los Angeles dance festival showcases cutting-edge contemporary dance with innovative new works!

Marianna Varviani is a Greek dance-theater artist. She has worked internationally in Greece, the UK, Spain, Brazil, and the USA as a choreographer, dance theater performer, movement director, and educator. She founded Selcouth Dance Company in 2016.

MARK is showing as part of our Dance at the Odyssey Festival – June 29th at 8pm!

Randy Lowell, an original cast member, compares the 1989 and 2024 productions of Stalin’s Master Class!

Fear of Heights is the story of an Irish-American kid who took a different career path from his father and grandfather, who were both New York City ironworkers. His grandfather, Paddy Flynn, was memorialized in the iconic Charles C. Ebbets photograph, “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper”; he is the gentleman sitting on the far right of a beam high above the Manhattan skyline. Kevin was naturally expected to be among the third generation of Flynn men to be a Brooklyn ironworker; however, Kevin had a different plan. Kevin is an actor and stand-up comedian.

Let’s go behind the scenes to meet our phenomenal Box Office Manager, Heather Cunningham!

The Mexican company Punto de Inflexión directed by Stephanie García brings us a program where the feminine and deep human emotions are exposed.

downcast (2021) is a work where three beings dwell in undefined spaces at the edge of light and darkness as a metaphor for the duality that inhabits human experience.

Incandescent is a solo work created and performed by Stephanie García where embodied contradiction guides the complex imbalance life shows us from time to time.

Abrirse el Cuerpo (2022) is inspired by María Lugones’ “plurality of selves” that coexist in an individual and a continuous reflection on the ongoing creative investigation of gender violence against women and identities not aligned with the colonial project.

Join us for 3×3

January 26th – 28th, 2024