YWP 2026! 25 YEARS!

The Young Writers Project is BACK!

This year’s YWP performance dates will be May 9, 10, 16, 17 and we think it’s gonna be standing room only for another rousing success.

In May we want you to come and support our student writers, company members, teaching artists, guest artists in our most popular program at NOTE which makes for truly exciting and innovative theatre coming from young SoCal writing artists.

It’s YWP’s 25th anniversary and we can’t wait to share it with you!!

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JUST CLOSED!!

The Dignity Circle by Lauren Smerkanich

Our most recent mainstage production was brought to us by a favorite artist over here at NOTE, Lauren Smerkanich.

We want to thank our amazing patrons for coming out to support our exploration into women friendships, cardboard, Sacramento, pyramid schemes and crumbles vs. cakes.

We also want to thank our fantastic production team for bringing this circle to life. You are all Mega-Queens.

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March BITS !!!

BITS is back and live at Theatre of NOTE!

This month’s BITS will benefited Theatre of NOTE and the Hollywood Food Coalition.

People came on down to Theatre of NOTE on March 18th and experienced some of Los Angeles’s finest storytellers and muscians all reading and playing 10 minutes (or less) of brand-spanking-new art with the March 2026 edition of BITS!

Created by our very own Kirsten Vangsness and featuring past artists such as Tom Lenk, Joel Scher, Tamara Zook, Alex Hogy, Greenberry Lucas, Stephen Moffitt, Moira Rogers, and Phinny Kiyomura.

Doors always open at 7:00 PM and then the show launches at 7:30PM!

On a regular basis, it’s standing room only for BITS!

Get BITS tix here!

The Return of NOTEworthy!!!

April of 2025 saw the return of one of NOTE’s most popular programs. NOTEworthy!

NOTEworthy is Theatre of NOTE’s script development program, established to foster relationships with playwrights as they develop new works (with the hopes of producing these pieces on our stage).

On August 26th, NOTEworthy presented My Brother’s Keeper by Abel Marquez.

NOTEworthy presented a FREE staged reading and talkback of “My Brother’s Keeper”.

Abel explores his grief over the passing for David, his devoutly religious, gay brother, and mourning everything about his life he didn’t get to know. He discovers David’s truth through his journal that is left behind, along with letters from his lover Jono.
Keep your eyes peeled for the next NOTEworthy!

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BITS

That’s right, you’ve never seen bits like this before–because no one has!

Come to NOTE and join us to see some of Los Angeles’ finest storytellers and musicians, all reading and playing 10 minutes (or less) of brand-spanking-new art.

Feel the electricity in the air as new music and stories are born!

Created by our very own Kirsten Vangsness and featuring past artists such as Tom Lenk, Joel Scher, Tamara Zook, Alex Hogy, Asha Noel Iyer, Greenberry Lucas, Stephen Moffitt,
LaMarr Randle, and Phinny Kyomura.

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Young Writers Project

The Young Writers Project is NOTE’s 24-year-old outreach program featuring original work from young LA playwrights. Each year, five writers from five high schools are chosen to participate in a workshop-based writing experiment that culminates in the staged production of five short plays, one play representing each school.

This year’s YWP performance dates were
May 10, 11, 17, 18 @ 2pm.
Tickets are always by donation only – both cash and card will be accepted at the door. We hope you join us in supporting these young artists!

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Ongoing Live Event

NOTESlam

NOTESlam is Theatre of NOTE’s live poetry slam event, where we bring poets from all over Los Angeles to perform and compete while you laugh, cry, snap and imbibe.

Past poets at the Slam include Joseph Bricker, Piper Gourley, Amberlee Clark, Pastiche Queen, Alex Hogy, Nomad the Poet, Edward Moravscik, Jordan Stanley, Nicole Gabriella Scipione, and Tevin Simpson!

Keep your eyes peeled for the next exciting Slam coming soon to the NOTE stage!

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