Romance, Revivals, Readings Are Among February’s New Offerings

February theater arrives with a wide canvas of offerings: revivals, one-person plays, musicals, fantasies, staged readings and traditional Valentine’s Day romance fare. Most intriguing--and strenuous-sounding--titles: “I Can Fit My Fist in My Mouth” and “The Sacrificial Kid Rides the Blazing Chariot.” The openings include:

TODAY: Tennessee Williams’ story of passion and vulnerability, “Summer and Smoke,” comes to the Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. It is being staged by Barndog Productions.

TODAY: Six strangers are trapped in a basement gym in “The Misfits Ensemble” by Gale Baker, making its world premiere at the Complex in Hollywood.

TUESDAY: Steve Goldring’s one-man musical autobiography, “And Now for My Next Life,” bows at the Zephyr Theatre in Hollywood.

TUESDAY: The “singular sensation” of Michael Bennett’s Tony-winning “A Chorus Line” makes a three-week stop at the Shubert Theatre in Century City.

WEDNESDAY: “The Virgin King,” a new musical fantasy set in Europe and Hollywood in the ‘50s, has three concert readings at the Complex. Admission is free.

THURSDAY: Carissa Channing brings her collection of characters to town in her one-woman “I Can Fit My Fist in My Mouth” at Theatre/Theater in Hollywood. Kathy Najimy, half of the Obie-winning “Kathy and Mo Show,” directs.

FRIDAY: “La Loma” (The Hill), Christopher Woods’ account of the real-life experience of an American photojournalist wrongly imprisoned in a Mexican jail, opens at Hollywood’s Second Stage.

SATURDAY: Nick Hall’s “Eat Your Heart Out,” a romantic comedy about an out-of-work New York actor-turned-waiter, opens at the Court Theatre in West Hollywood. Roxanne Rogers directs.

FEB. 12: One night only, storyteller Maylou Sullivan presents Irish folk tales at the Sculpture Gardens in Venice.

FEB. 13: In Hollywood, the Fountain Theatre’s Deaf West company offers an American Sign Language production of Willy Russell’s “Shirley Valentine,” the story of a woman’s midlife liberation.

FEB. 14: Don Most (late of TV’s “Happy Days”) and Caryn Richman (“The New Gidget”) star in Garry Michael Kluger’s new romantic comedy, “Till Death or Whatever Do Us Part,” at the Heliotrope Theatre in Hollywood.

FEB. 14: Craig Alpaugh’s “The Only Thing,” focusing on the corruption in college-level sports and America’s obsession with winning, opens at the Group Repertory Theatre in North Hollywood.

FEB. 14: “The Sacrificial Kid Rides the Blazing Chariot,” Brandon Keene’s modern-day take on the allegorical tale of Abraham and the Prodigal Son, opens at Hollywood’s Harman Avenue Theatre.

FEB. 21: A teen-age runaway upsets the lives of three adult sisters in John Lewter’s “Tennessee Jar,” premiering at the St. Genesius Theatre in Hollywood.

FEB. 21: At the Met Theatre in Hollywood, Ed Harris (“The Right Stuff”) stars in Murray Mednick’s “Scar,” the story of two friends reunited at a New Mexican mountain retreat. Darrell Larson directs.

FEB. 27: A Mexican-American family in the ‘50s weathers a conflict of Anglo and Latino values in Sol Biderman’s “When Elvis Met Che,” premiering at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.

FEB. 28: Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise on the modern single woman, “The Heidi Chronicles,” has a revival at Van Nuys’ West End Playhouse.

FEB. 29: In Venice, Beyond Baroque presents a one-night staged reading of “Solid State,” a rumination on imagination, will and insanity by David Wolpe (“Sincerely Yours, Vincent.”)