L.A. Theatre Works

"Intelligence-Slave" tells the story of Curt Herzstark, an Austrian industrialist and WWII prisoner, who invented the hand-held calculator while in a Nazi salt mine. The play was recorded live at UCLA in 2015, part of L.A. Theatre Works' science-themed Relativity Series.

8 features George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Martin Sheen in a dramatization of the legal battle against California's Proposition 8, which revoked marriage rights for gay couples. Using court transcripts and plaintiff interviews, it recreates the historic fight for equality.

Before Marconi, wireless telegraphy was impossible. By harnessing radio waves to send long-distance signals, he turned a once unthinkable idea into a world-changing innovation.

Eunice Newton Foote's 1850s work on the greenhouse effect, showing how gases like carbon dioxide trap heat, was groundbreaking in climate science. Despite being published in a top journal, her discovery was overlooked. Now, a play by Amanda Quaid highlights her pioneering contributions.

Join actors from Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation as they recreate this classic radio thriller. The breathless pace and convincing details make it clear why the 1938 broadcast of an “eyewitness report” of an invasion from Mars caused a nationwide panic.

In the wake of increasing concern over brain trauma in professional athletes, Patrick Link has crafted a story about a retired NFL linebacker who must deal with a family tragedy and his own suffering because of the violence of his chosen sport.

A fledgling molecular scientist looking to come into her own has a difficult time owning his flawed research—the controversial idea that higher concentrations of melanin in the genetic makeup of people of color make them mentally, physically, and spiritually superior.

After Vladimir Lenin's death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin's body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it's the gulag – or worse. Based on real events, Vern Thiessen's nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin.

From his role in the atomic bomb to his controversial testimony at the investigation of the Challenger disaster, Feynman casts a long shadow across the worlds of physics & mathematics. Through playwright Arthur Giron's eyes, we see how Feynman became one of the most important scientists of our time.