My Lawyer Is an Angel, Jerry Mayer World Premiere, Encore Run Oct 10–18

A comedy that's been called "a world premiere serious comedy" sounds like it's playing a game with you, and My Lawyer Is an Angel is. Playwright Jerry Mayer has spent a career writing work that uses humor as a delivery mechanism for things that are genuinely difficult: in this case, abuse (spousal and legal), Girl Power, family, and what it means when someone in a position of authority, here, a lawyer, does the right thing.

The play returns for four encore performances only from October 10–18, 2026 in Los Angeles, a sign that the initial run generated enough word of mouth to justify a second go.

About the Play

The full title gives you a lot of the premise: My Lawyer Is an Angel (there really is such a thing). Jerry Mayer describes the work as fulfilling "his life-long crusade against abuse, be it spousal or legal", which signals that while the play has comic energy, it's working in service of something serious.

The "angel attorney" at its center is a character type that exists in life even when it seems impossible in fiction: the lawyer who is genuinely, constitutionally on your side, who treats the client's outcome as their own. The play builds on that premise to examine how "terribly things can go awry when we place the bottom line at the top of the list", in relationships, in law, and in the ways they intersect.

Mayer's previous work has covered similar terrain: smart comedies that use theatrical structure to make hard subjects approachable without softening them. The "serious comedy" formulation isn't contradiction, it's precision. This is comedy that knows what it's for.

Encore Run: Four Performances Only

The four-performance encore window, October 10 through October 18, means this is a tight run with no margin for procrastination. Audiences who attended the initial production have presumably spread the word. If the show builds momentum in its first encore weekend, the final performances will be difficult to ticket.

Tickets & Venue: The specific venue address was not confirmed in our source data. Visit the TheaterMania listing for the venue address, pricing, and the exact performance schedule.

Who Should See It

• Anyone who's had dealings with the legal system and felt the specific frustration of watching it optimize for the wrong things
• Theater audiences who are tired of plays that are either pure comedy or relentlessly grim, this is the harder middle ground done right
• Fans of playwright-driven solo or small-cast work that trusts language over spectacle
• Anyone who wants to see a world premiere work in a city that actually premieres serious theater

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