CTG season includes HERE LIES LOVE, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, and more

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 1:37pm

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-06/center-theatre-group-2025-2026-season-schedule-here-lies-love-paranormal-activity

Here are the six major productions in the 2025-26 CTG schedule (in chronological order) announced by Desai, managing director and chief executive Meghan Pressman and producing director Douglas C. Baker.

A seventh production will be announced at a later date.

“& Juliet”
Book by David West Read
Music by Max Martin & Friends
Directed By Luke Sheppard
Ahmanson Theatre
Aug. 13-Sept. 7

“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”
Mark Taper Forum
Oct. 1-Nov. 9

“Paranormal Activity”
Based on the “Paranormal Activity” films from Blumhouse and Solana Films, adapted here by arrangement with Paramount Pictures and Melting Pot
Written by Levi Holloway
Directed by Felix Barrett
Co-production with American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C.
Ahmanson Theatre
Nov. 13-Dec. 7

“Here Lies Love”
Mark Taper Forum
Feb. 11-March 22

“Primary Trust”
Mark Taper Forum
May 20-June 28, 2026

“Mamma Mia!”
Music and lyrics by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Book by Catherine Johnson
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Ahmanson Theatre
June 23-July 19, 2026

The company’s “CTG:FWD” programming includes three shows at the Kirk Douglas: “Puppet Up! — Uncensored,” an audience-driven affair featuring creations from the Jim Henson Co., running July 16-27; “Guac,” writer and star Manuel Oliver’s one-man show, from the father of a son who was killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., running Oct. 14-Nov. 2; and “The Enormous Crocodile,” a musical based on the work of Roald Dahl, Dec. 5-Jan. 4. “Like It Like Harlem,” a production in partnership with Muse/ique, is scheduled for Aug. 8-10 at the Taper.

[SmokeyLady]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 1:42pm

Awful.  No interest in any of it. 

[emo_geek]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 1:54pm

The worst season I've seen. I believe I'll be canceling my subscription. To follow 2:22 A Ghost Story with Paranormal Activity is so odd. Also, Mama Mia was at the Pantages just a few years ago.

I could have sworn that &Juliet was part of this season? I guess I'll just have to buy a single ticket for next. 

[KarenValentine'sheadband]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 1:56pm

I thought & Juliet was announced as last season? Meaning the last show of that season? 

 

I will see HLL. Didn't see it when it was on Broadway. Said goodbye to MM when a production played the Hollywood Bowl 7 year years ago? That was the 6th time seeing it. That's enough. 

Updated On: 5/6/25 at 01:56 PM

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 4:06pm

Will be curious to see how extensive they are with Here Lies Love, might be worth making a trip out for depending on how they do it.  I'm a little curious about Paranormal Activity too just to see how they make horror work on stage and Holloway's Grey House was intriguing enough (though I assume it'll play in SF, Chicago, and DC as well)

[inception]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 5:45pm

I've been debating a March 2026 trip to LA (it's between that and either Cabo or PVR earlier in the winter).  But I would like to also know what' is scheduled for the Pasadena Playhouse.  Geffen Playhouse will have Sara Porkalob in her play Dragon Mama that month.

[Sammy232]

Posted: 5/6/25 at 6:23pm

chrishuyen said: "Will be curious to see how extensive they are with Here Lies Love, might be worth making a trip out for depending on how they do it. I'm a little curious about Paranormal Activity too just to see how they make horror work on stage and Holloway's Grey House was intriguing enough (though I assume it'll play in SF, Chicago, and DC as well)"

Prob out of my budget to fly out there just for Here Lies Love, but I'm very curious to see what they do with it.

 

[Jack Hughes]

Posted: 5/7/25 at 2:52pm

Very happy with this season.  To each his own, but I'm not particularly looking forward to anything scheduled for next year.

[thatdarnzach]

Posted: 5/7/25 at 3:18pm

JAJA's is extraordinary, everything else feels like a *blows raspberry*.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/7/25 at 3:37pm

Feels like a cash grab season. Will see Paranormal in Chicago I assume.