LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE THEATRE ARTS
Bringing professional theatre training and productions to Los Angeles's Northeast Valley since 2015
2026-27 LA Mission Theatre
Spring 2027 in Theatre Arts
SPRING FORWARD INTO THEATRE IN 2027
We have a slate of classes, shows, and opportunities coming up in Spring 2027 that build on the success of the past five years and push us into the future.
Students can get practical hands-on experience working on our two shows this coming semester. The inaugural LAMC Stage Lab production will be William Inge's one-act thriller, The Power of Silence, directed by Dorothy Hoover. Our mainstage show will be The River Bride by Marisela Treviño Orta, directed by Robert Cucuzza.
Classes include Introduction to Theatre and Intermediate/Advanced Acting taught by Robert Cucuzza. We are also offering Introduction to Lighting Design with longtime faculty member Bri Pattillo and Introduction to Scenic Design with Dorothy Hoover. We are also so proud to announce our newest faculty member, Xochitl Romero, will be teaching Introduction to Acting.
Spring will also bring a new volume of Vox Pop, our student-centered performance series, mentored and hosted by Brian Tichnell.
November 13-21, 2026
WAITING FOR LEFTY: A SYLMAR SONATA
When Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty debuted in 1935, it pierced the heart of the capitalist greed that fueled the Great Depression, inspiring audiences into action. Seven scenes unfold, revealing the intersecting lives of working class characters and their experiences with exploitation, corruption, and social injustice. The LA Mission Theatre production takes this one step further, interlacing Waiting for Lefty with the script of Salt of the Earth, a 1954 film about a New Mexico mining strike, and stories from our student community about working conditions in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.
Tickets are on sale now through the link above.
Auditions for Spring 2027 shows
AUDITIONS TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 16
LA Mission College Theatre will be holding auditions for both Spring 2027 shows on Wednesday, December 16.
The inaugural LAMC Stage Lab production will be William Inge’s tense one-act thriller, The Power of Silence, directed by LA Mission faculty member Dorothy Hoover. Our Mainstage production will be Marisela Treviño Orta’s heartrending modern classic, The River Bride, directed by Robert Cucuzza. In a small Brazilian fishing village, three days before a wedding, an alluring and mysterious man with no past is fished from the Amazon River. His arrival splinters two sisters apart, as they face their futures and struggle to be true to each other and to their hearts.
Audition information is at the link below. Interviews for all student design and tech interviews will be held in the second week of the Spring 2027 semester.
New opportunities for students
INTRODUCING THE LAMC STAGE LAB
LA Mission College Theatre Arts is proud to announce the launch of the LAMC Stage Lab, or “The Lab.” The Lab is intended to provide additional opportunities for student actors, designers, and technicians in our alternate performance space, AMP120. Lab shows will be short but ambitious, with set, lighting, costume, and sound design, but in an intimate “black box” theatre space. Directed and produced by faculty members, these productions will maintain the level of creativity and thoughtfulness as our mainstage shows, while providing more opportunities for our students.
The inaugural LAMC Stage Lab production will be William Inge’s tense one-act thriller, The Power of Silence, directed by LA Mission faculty member Dorothy Hoover. The Power of Silence will play April 16-17, 2027 in AMP120.
Improv workshop —December 4
JORDAN BLACK TO LEAD IMPROV WORKSHOP
From Saturday Night Live's writers’ room to the Groundlings stage, Jordan Black is coming to LA Mission College!
Current and former LA Mission students are invited to join Jordan Black for a free improiv workshop on Friday, December 4 at 10:00 am. Black has written for Saturday Night Live, The Last O.G., Last Man Standing and the Peabody Award winning reboot of The Wonder Years. He also wrote and directed both the viral webseries Go Go Boy Interrupted, as well as the webseries Shaded for WitTV. Jordan has also acted in over a hundred films and tv shows most notably in his recurring role as the evil Dean Spreck on Community. Jordan is also an alum of the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles where he has performed, written and directed dozens of shows over the years and where he created the hit all Black improv show The Black Version.
LA Mission College, Arts, Media & Performance AMP120
Friday, December 4 — 10:00-1:00
Watch LA Mission Theatre Arts productions
STREAM OUR ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS FOR $10
Through our streaming partner, AnywhereSeat, you can now watch several original LA Mission College Theatre productions online for only $10.
Macbeth — Our 90-minute original adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale of murderous ambition, presented at the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Glendale, CA.
Mr. Grieves and The Vampires — An original production, collaging together the 1915 silent film serial, Les Vampires, and the classic Pixies album, "Doolittle," into a lightening-fast punk-inspired sordid tale.
She Who Was No More — An original stage adaptation of the 1954 French thriller novel of the same name, where six actors play dozens of roles on a minimalist set, evoking a lurid world of murder, deception, and madness.
El Carne King of Vallarta—An original comic adaptation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's classic play, Life is a Dream, transported to the stockroom of a Vallarta Supermarket.
