Set Designer

Reporting live from Fresno! Ella Olesen stars as a California weather girl who struggles to deliver forecasts about our climate-stricken planet with unflinching optimism. Beneath her sunshiny veneer lurks something fantastically primal, something that may be the key to saving us all. This blistering dark comedy by Brian Watkins was named one of The New York Times’ Best Plays of 2025.

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Weather Girl

GableStage

This bilingual musical and The New York Times Critic’s Pick by Mando Alvarado, Tommy Newman, and Jaime Lozano, returns in a reimagined production! Click your heels together tres veces and take a transformative journey with this salsa, merengue, and Mexican folk-infused musical inspired by The Wizard of Oz. As her fifteenth birthday approaches, Dora, a contemporary Latiné teenager, struggles with her family’s ideas about tradition and dreads her impending quinceañera! But, when Dora gets swept away to a strange new land, she learns how to celebrate her unique rhythm and embrace her cultural identity.

El Otro Oz

Kirk Douglas Theatre

In El Otro Oz, this bilingual musical and New York Times Critic’s Pick by Mando Alvarado, Tommy Newman, and Jaime Lozano, returns in a reimagined production! Click your heels together tres veces and take a transformative journey with this salsa, merengue, and Mexican folk-infused musical inspired by The Wizard of Oz. As her fifteenth birthday approaches, Dora, a contemporary Latiné teenager, struggles with her family’s ideas about tradition and dreads her impending quinceañera! But, when Dora gets swept away to a strange new land, she learns how to celebrate her unique rhythm and embrace her cultural identity.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts

She knows that the army often drops small warning bombs on residential buildings in Gaza, giving tenants 5-15 minutes to evacuate before a rocket demolishes their home. So, she decides to train for the possibility of this “Knock on the Roof”, frantically (and often comically) practicing how far she can run in five minutes, and what she can carry to safety.

A Knock on the Roof

Traverse Theatre

n this hallucination of a one-person show, a genderqueer teen who goes missing and their gay detective father come face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara, the real-life vamp and silent film star of the 1910s. On Set with Theda Bara is part gothic coming-of-age story and part campy melodrama about identity consumption and the horror of not knowing who you are.

On Set with Theda Bara

The Brick

This iconic musical wraps up the summer mainstage season. Come see Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical retelling of the “La Bohème” story…relocated to AIDS-era East Village, New York. A penniless songwriter’s love for a young woman grows even as illness begins to consume her. The poet Rodolfo is now punk rocker Roger. Tubercular Mimi is now an AIDS-infected dancer at an S&M nightclub. Painter Marcello is now aspiring filmmaker Mark Cohen, and so forth. The ending is transformed from the opera, but the theme of love striving to endure beyond all obstacles remains. Songs include “Seasons of Love,” “Without You,” “Out Tonight,” “One Song Glory,” “I’ll Cover You” and “Santa Fe.”

Rent

Hurst Theatre

Deception, champagne, and Michelangelos collide in this suspensefully sharp comedy. When a wide-eyed art history major lands a job at a prominent museum, she is pulled into a fast-moving game of ambition, treachery, and lies. Decadent, depraved, and wickedly funny, this new work by Jessica Provenz arrives just in time for Art Basel.

True Art

Joshua shares a singular bond with his luminous grandmother, the woman who introduced him to Medea, Mapplethorpe, and Broadway, and set him on the path to becoming a playwright. In this deeply funny and moving love letter to complicated families, Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Prayer for the French Republic) unravels thirty years of family history, with a little Rashomon-style assistance from his mother.

We Had a World

In a time-bending exploration of freedom and womanhood, a daughter exploring her mother’s legacy, investigates the unfinished fight for women’s rights. Fresh from its acclaimed Broadway run, this irreverent and intensely relevant tour-de-force by Bess Wohl won the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play.

Liberation

Blending poetry, live music, and ritual, Rudi Goblen’s Miami-rooted work shatters through the fourth wall. This electrifying tale of brotherhood and belonging follows two Nicaraguan-born brothers whose competing visions of identity and the American Dream set them on a collision course with fate.

Set Designer

Frank J. Oliva

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 20 - Dec 20, 2026

True Art · GableStage

Jan 22 - Feb 14, 2027

We Had a World · GableStage

Mar 19 - Apr 18, 2027

Liberation · GableStage

May 14 - Jun 13, 2027

littleboy/littleman · GableStage

Past events

Sep 30 - Oct 18, 2026

Weather Girl · GableStage

Mar 29 - Apr 13, 2025

El Otro Oz · Center Theatre Group

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