Odyssey’s Thresholds of Invention presents
 ‘Robert Heide: In Search of Lost American Playwrights’

Saturday, May 30 at 2 p.m.

WHAT:
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s Thresholds of Invention series will introduce L.A. audiences to daring playwright and Warhol collaborator Robert Heide with Robert Heide: In Search of Lost American Playwrights. When Heide died on December 17, 2025, the theater community in downtown Manhattan paid tribute by recognizing his extraordinary achievement as one of the pioneer playwrights of the Off-Off Broadway era. Yet, although Heide’s plays had been performed in such legendary theaters as Cafe Cino, LaMama and Theater For The New City among others, his work was never produced in Los Angeles. An afternoon of readings from some of Heide’s short plays that capture his style — poignant, sometimes brutally authentic depictions of ordinary people mired in loneliness, their dreams delayed, their stammering pronounced, suddenly bursting into a dark but oddly hopeful poetry — will right that wrong. Selections (subject to change) include Mother Suck, The Bed and Remember (preceded by an excerpt from Tropical in Key West).

WHO:
• Featuring Jacque Lynn Colton, Gera Hermann, Paul Lieber, Harvey Perr, Mark Simon
• Thresholds of Invention series curated by Tony Abatemarco
• Produced for Odyssey Theatre Ensemble by Beth Hogan and Tony Abatemarco

WHEN:
Saturday, May 30 at 2 p.m.

WHERE:
Odyssey Theatre
2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90025

PARKING:
Free in on-site parking lot

TICKETS:
$25
(A $3 fee will be added to each ticket if purchasing with a credit card.)

HOW:
OdysseyTheatre.com
(310) 477-2055 ext. 2

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