Pasadena Playhouse

A young artist leaves South Central LA chasing something real and finds it somewhere in the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of a cross-continental search for himself. Twenty years after its premiere, Stew's Tony-winning musical finally makes its LA debut, directed by 2026 Tony nominee Zhailon Levingston with a score that runs on raw feeling and volume.

In 1987 Boyle Heights, Ana Garcia is pulled between her own ambitions, her family's expectations, and the community of women who raised her. Based on Josefina Lopez's play (first staged here at the Playhouse in 2015), this warm, funny adaptation carries a Tony-nominated score by Grammy winner Joy Huerta and a book co-written by Nell Benjamin of Mean Girls.

On a sweltering night at the family's Southern estate, the Pollitts gather for Big Daddy's birthday and slowly come apart as buried truths surface. Alfred Molina stars in Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, directed by Jessica Kubzansky and back at the Playhouse after his runs in The Father and Inherit the Wind.