Most theaters have returned to fairly normal operations again. COVID protocols vary from venue to venue, so you may still have to show proof of vaccination, and/or wear a mask during the show, so please check with the theater to find out what their policy is before you attend an event.

The information presented in this column is the latest available at the time of printing; however, you should check with the theater to confirm before making definite plans.

Here are the shows that have announced opening dates for this month or are already running at this time:

Opening

 “Uncle Vanya” This exhilarating revival pairs one of the greatest plays ever written with the world’s most celebrated translators of Russian literature. After years of caring for their family’s crumbling estate, Vanya and his niece receive an unexpected visit from his brother-in-law and his alluring wife. When hidden passions and tumultuous frustrations come to a boil in the heat of the Russian summer, their lives threaten to come undone. Comic, cutting and true to life, this translation of “Uncle Vanya” provides an up-close, conversational-style encounter with a classic drama that every theater-lover must see.

Written by Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, it runs through June 26 at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena. For tickets, call (626) 356-7529 or visit www.pasadenaplayhouse.org.

“The Desperate Hours” tells the story of a trio of escaped bank robbers who take a suburban family and hold them hostage by turning their tranquil, secluded home into a secret hideout from the law. Father, mother, daughter and son are captive and have their mettle tested as they try to prevail over a terrifying situation.

Written by Joseph Hayes and directed by Jules Aaron, it runs June 3 through July 10 at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. For tickets, call (818) 763-5990 or visit www.thegrouprep.com.

“Harvey” Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. The trouble is Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarrassment for her family – and especially for her daughter Myrtle Mae – Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out; however, Veta is freed and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.

Written by Mary Chase and directed by Marina Tidwell, it runs June 3 through July 10 at the Theatre Palisades Pierson Playhouse in Pacific Palisades. For tickets, call (310) 454-1970 or visit www.theatrepalisades.org.

“In the Heights” tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you and which ones you leave behind.

Written by Quiara Alegría Hudes, with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and directed by Benjamin Perez, it runs June 3 through June 26 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada. For tickets, call (562) 944-9801 or visit www.lamiradatheatre.com.

“A Terminal Event” An aspiring actress who works part-time as a medical receptionist falls under the spell of a young advertising executive who insists on addressing his cancer diagnosis with alternative medicine. With regrets from their pasts and heavy defenses in place, they stumble into an unlikely chance at love.

Written by Richard Willett and directed by Maria Gobetti, it runs June 3 through July 10 at the Victory Theatre Center Big Victory Theatre in Burbank. For tickets, call (818) 841-5421 or visit www.thevictorytheatrecenter.org.

“André & Dorine” If you missed it before, here’s your chance: Spain’s celebrated Kulunka Teatro returns to the Los Angeles Theatre Center with André & Dorine, the company’s poignant depiction of love and aging disrupted by Alzheimer’s. This Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award-winning production tells the story of an elderly couple – André with his typewriter, Dorine with her cello – and how they relive and reinvent their love together as the disease becomes a permanent part of their relationship. Three actors portray more than 15 different characters, telling the story with masks, gesture and movement, with no spoken dialogue.

Written by El José Dault, Garbiñe Insausti, Iñaki Rikarte, Edu Cárcamo and Rolando San Martín, with music by Yayo Cáceres, and directed by Iñaki Rikarte, it runs June 8 through June 19 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Los Angeles. For tickets, call (213) 489-0994 or visit www.latinotheaterco.org.

“The Legend of Georgia McBride” Casey is young and broke with a baby on the way and the landlord knocking on his door. Now the owner of the bar where Casey works as an Elvis impersonator has replaced his act with a B-level drag show and Casey’s about to learn a lot about show business – and himself.

Written by Matthew Lopez and directed by Jamie Torcellini, it runs June 10 through June 28 at the International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. For tickets, call (562) 436-4610 or visit www.InternationalCityTheatre.org.

“The Merry Wives of Windsor” is reset in 1950s small-town America during the nascent period of second-wave feminism and featuring a rockin’ score of ’50s tunes. Things might seem picture perfect in “Small Town U.S.A.” … but when opportunistic schemer and womanizer John Falstaff blows into town with his gang and tries to woo two wealthy ladies at once, the town’s women gleefully plot his comeuppance.

Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Ellen Geer, it runs June 11 through Oct. 2 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets, call 310-455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” An annual season staple going back decades, Theatricum’s wooded stage morphs into the enchanted woods of Athens where mortal lovers chase and are chased, players prepare and fairies make magical mischief in Shakespeare’s most entertaining and beguiling comedy.

Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Melora Marshall, it runs June 12 through Oct. 1 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets, call (310) 455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.

“Pretty Woman: The Musical” centers around a free spirited Hollywood prostitute, Vivian Ward, who is hired by Edward Lewis, a wealthy businessman, to be his escort for several business and social functions, and their developing relationship over the course of her week-long stay with him.

Written by Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton, with music by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and directed by Jerry Mitchell, it runs June 15 through July 3 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. For tickets, call (800) 982-2782 or visit www.BroadwayInHollywood.com.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Open Fist Theatre Company presents a provocative new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” set in the Antebellum South. Intrigued by the Mechanicals’ line, “That would hang us every mother’s son,” director James Fowler has moved the action from Athens, Greece to Athens, Georgia circa 1855. There, with Shakespeare’s text unchanged, we enter a world where the magic of an enslaved people plays out in the lives of those to whom they remain invisible.

Written by William Shakespeare and directed by James Fowler, it runs June 25 through Aug. 13 at the Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village. For tickets, call (323) 882-6912 or visit www.openfist.org.

“The West Side Waltz” In the world premiere of Thompson’s newly revised, music and heart-filled comedy set during the tumultuous ’80s, Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer, her sister Melora Marshall and daughter Willow Geer take on the roles of an aging concert pianist, her violin-playing spinster neighbor and a would-be actress on New York’s Upper West Side.

Written by Ernest Thompson and directed by Mary Jo DuPrey, it runs June 25 through Oct. 1 at the Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. For tickets, call (310) 455-3723 or visit www.theatricum.com.

“A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill” On a November night in 1994, a murder was committed in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In this poignant true-crime story told completely through song, a tight-knit Jewish community gathers to recount, remember and reckon with the details of what happened in ­– and to – their town. This wholly original production asks what it does to our souls when our leaders fall from grace.

Written by Matt Schatz, with music by Matt Schatz, and directed by Mike Donahu, it runs June 30 through July 24 at the Gil Cates Theater at Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. For tickets, call (310) 208-2028 or visit www.geffenplayhouse.org.

Continuing

“Our Town” Life has begun in the fictional town of Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. Milk is being delivered. Breakfast is on the stove. We meet the town gossips, the boys who play baseball and the choirmaster with a secret sorrow. And soon, teenagers George Gibbs and Emily Webb will go from friends to puppy love to wedding day and beyond – two families forever joined together.

Written by Thornton Wilder and directed by Beth Lopes, it runs through June 4 at the South Coast Repertory Segerstrom Stage in Costa Mesa. For tickets, call (714) 708-5555 or visit www.scr.org.

“Slice” is a deep, probing, emotional conversation between father and son, man-to-man, bare knuckled, leaving no topic off the table.

Written by David Watson and directed by Joe Mellis, it runs through June 5 at the Atwater Playhouse in Atwater Village. For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets,.com.