Here are some of the shows running in our local theaters this month:

“Attack of the Second Bananas” Who killed beloved stage stars Ruby Moss and Andrea Hammond? Find out as the LAPD detective on the case pieces together the clues. “Attack of the Second Bananas” is a comedy noir about the ultimate price of fame.

Written by Gina Torrecilla and directed by Ryan Bergmann, it runs through March 31 at the Zephyr Theatre in West Hollywood. For tickets, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets,.com.

“Fifty Words” Adam and Jan are alone together for the first time in almost 10 years. Without the buffer of their 9-year-old son (who is away at his first-ever sleepover), this smoothly scripted multi-layered play reveals how closely love and hate can be linked in marriage.

Written by Michael Weller and directed by Shane Stevens, it runs through April 7 at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. For tickets, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.fiftywords.brownpapertickets,.com.

“Hamlet” as we’ve never seen it before: Five actors of different races, genders and ages will all play Hamlet for one act each in this new production that explores the universal nature of this singular character that still haunts and resonates within us all.

Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Matthew Leavitt, it runs March  through March 31 at the New American Theatre in Hollywood. For tickets, visit www.hamletla.eventbrite.com.

“Home” Desperately seeking approval from her Chinese Toisan immigrant family, Nancy journeys away from her home in New York City’s Chinatown in search of the American dream – only to learn that you can only find “home” when you accept where you come from.

Written by Nancy Ma and directed by Geoffrey Rivas, it runs through March 24 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Los Angeles. For tickets, call (866) 811-4111 or visit www.thelatc.org.

“The Old Man and the Old Moon” is a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience. It is the touching tale of a man charged with the task of keeping the moon shining brightly. A mysterious disappearance sends him on an epic adventure over land, sea and sky and ultimately reminds him – and us – of the unwavering power of love.

Written by PigPen Theatre Co., with music by PigPen Theatre Co., and directed by Stuart Carden, it runs through March 17 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. For tickets, call (310) 746-4000 or visit www.TheWallis.org/OldMan.

“Too Much Sun” Celebrated actress Audrey Langham reaches her breaking point while rehearsing Medea in Chicago – walking off the stage, out of the production and into her married daughter’s summer house in Cape Cod, where her unexpected and unwelcome arrival sets off a chain of events alternately hilarious and harrowing.

Written by Nicky Silver and directed by Bart DeLorenzo, it runs through April 21 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. For tickets, call (310) 477-2055 Ext. 2 or visit www.OdysseyTheatre.com.

“Photograph 51” The story follows Franklin, a British science pioneer, whose groundbreaking role in the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure in the 1950s is still often overlooked.

Written by Anna Ziegler and directed by Kimberly Senior, it runs through March 24 at the South Coast Repertory’s Julianne Argyros Stage in Costa Mesa. For tickets, call (714) 708-5555 or visit www.scr.org.

“My Big Gay Italian Wedding” Anthony Pinnunziato loves Andrew Polinski and has proposed to him. Anthony’s very traditional Italian mother, Angela, insists that they have a Catholic wedding with Father Rosalia presiding. Given the Vatican’s position on same-sex marriages, this presents a challenge. Angela also insists that Andrew’s mother fly in from Florida to attend the wedding, set to take place in the fanciest Italian restaurant. But Andrew’s mother still refuses to talk to her gay son. The biggest challenge of all may come from Gregorio, Andrew’s spurned ex-lover. He threatens to scuttle the proceedings by revealing a nasty secret about Andrew. Will a large, loving Italian family come together, despite multiple obstacles, to celebrate the marriage of two men deeply in love?

Written by Anthony Wilkinson and directed by Gianfranco Terrin, it runs March 8 through March 31 at the Hudson Theatre Main Stage in Hollywood. For tickets, call (323) 481-6890 or visit www.italiancomedyclub.com/mbgiw.

“Black Super Hero Magic Mama” When Sabrina loses her 14-year-old son Tramarion to a police shooting, she is unable to face the ensuing flurry of media attention. Crippled by grief, she retreats into a fantasy world of superheroes and arch villains that inhabit the comic book created by her son before his death.

Written by Inda Craig-Galván and directed by Robert O’Hara, it runs March 13 through April 14 at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. For tickets, call (310) 208-5454 or visit www.geffenplayhouse.org.

“The Sound of Murder” Charles Norbury is a wildly successful author of children’s books. He hates children, and pretty much anyone else, too. He’s petty, cruel, vindictive and treats his unloved wife like a slave. He also refuses to have children with her. Anne, the wife, has found some solace in the arms of her handsome lover, Peter. Anne and Peter deduce that the only way they will ever be to be together forever is if they kill Charles.

Written by William Fairchild and directed by Adrian Neil, it runs March 14 through April 14 at the Theatre Forty, in the Reuben Cordova Theatre in Beverly Hills. For tickets, call (310) 364-0535 or visit www.theatre40.org.

“Friends with Guns” You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse, but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns? This new dark comedy explores the complicated issue of gun proliferation when two young liberal couples are forced to confront their assumptions about who should own a gun and why.

Written by Stephanie Alison Walker and directed by Randee Trabitz, it runs March 15 through May 5 at the Road on Magnolia in North Hollywood. For tickets, call (818) 761-8838 or visit www.roadtheatre.org.

“Sunday in the Park with George” The plot revolves around the creation of his masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” George, an intense and passionate artist, struggles to not only create his paintings but to also maintain a relationship with his longtime mistress, Dot. The second act connects to the first while focusing on another George, Seurat and Dot’s great grandson, also struggling to find meaning in art and the need to connect to the past, present and future.

Written by James Lapine, with music by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Susan Goldman Weisbarth, it runs March 15 through April 20 at the Westchester Playhouse in Westchester. For tickets, call (310) 645-5156 or visit www.kentwoodplayers.org.

“The Wolves” Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girl’s indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, these 16- and 17-year-olds navigate big questions and wage tiny battles with the ferociousness of a pack of adolescent warriors.

Written by Sarah DeLappe and directed by Alana Dietze, it runs March 16 through April 22 at the Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village. For tickets, call (310) 307-3753 or visit www.EchoTheaterCompany.com.

“The Elephant Man” Based upon the life of a man so physically deformed that he became known as the “Elephant Man.” With very few options open to him, John Merrick is forced to display himself to the public in travelling sideshows.

Written by Bernard Pomerance and directed by Robyn Cohen, it runs March 21 through April 14 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. For tickets, call (818) 508-4200 or visit www.ElPortalTheatre.com.

“Bar Mitzvah Boy” Joey Brant is a Jewish divorce lawyer in his 60s. He has never had a bar mitzvah ceremony. He feels the need to get one now, before his grandson has his bar mitzvah.

Written by Mark Leiren-Young and directed by Howard Teichman, it runs March 23 through May 12 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. For tickets, call (323) 821-2449 or visit www.wcjt.org.

“Canyon” In a backyard deep within a canyon during Labor Day weekend 2016 – before everything in America changed – we meet a newlywed couple and a Mexican father and son as they all try their best to find a better view. An immersive staging of this driving new play takes a look at what happens when two families are rocked by an unpredictable accident that changes their lives forever. A look at gender, citizenship and the costs of trying to live a conventional American life.

Written by Jonathan Caren and directed by Whitney White, it runs through March 24 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Los Angeles. For tickets, call (866) 811-4111 or visit www.thelatc.org.

“How We’re Different from Animals” Over three years in the making, ÉLAN Ensemble’s inaugural production is the culmination of the company’s work, adapting Miranda July’s book of short stories “No One Belongs Here More Than You.” The show breathes life into July’s quirky, lonely, odd, lovable characters in an oddly hilarious tapestry that reflects the complexity, isolation and unexpected connectivity of life in Los Angeles.

Written by Miranda July and directed by Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx, it runs through March 24 at the Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village. For tickets, call (310) 990-2023 or visit www.elanensemble.com.

“1=0” An unemployed divorced theoretical physicist has an online relationship with a man claiming to be a Syrian refugee. When the relationship goes offline, it paradoxically becomes less real.

Written by Joshua Fardon and directed by James R. Carey, it runs through March 30 at the Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood. For tickets, call (323) 856-8611 or visit www.theatreofnote.com.

Enjoy life more – see a show tonight!