Founded in 1985, PRT is an oasis for actors, directors, playwrights and designers with extensive Broadway and regional theater careers. Our 18 mainstage seasons have produced plays of extraordinary artistic range. Our productions have set a standard of excellence in Los Angeles, having received more than 60 Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Awards, the prestigious Margaret Hatford Award for Continuous Achievement in Theater and two Special Polly Warfield Awards for Oustanding Overall Season.

Conceived as a company with two distinct venues, we created a cooperative, experimental, black-box space in addition to our two mainstages – the PRT Co-op. Since 1985 the Co-op has produced over 200 workshop productions, many of them, new works by playwrights in residence. In 1992, we established the “Next Stage”, a program to support multicultural plays, playwrights and actors. That same season we hosted our first foreign exchange program with The Theatre on Red Square in Moscow.

The year 1996 saw the renovation and move into our second Mainstage Theater at 703 Venice. One year later we transferred our highly successful production of”The Quick-Change Room” to New York. In addition, we developed an ongoing relationship with New York’s American Place Theater and their “Literature to Life” program, created to give high school students free access to modem novels brought to life onstage.