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NO, NO, NANETTE
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Roaring Twenties Broadway lives again in Candlelight Pavilion’s bubbly revival of the musical comedy chestnut No, No, Nanette, a nostalgic change of pace from the season-opening stunner that was Titanic, a sweet bit of fluff before the upcoming dramatic fireworks of 2016’s Bright Star, and a tuneful reminder that where songs are concerned, they don’t write’em like they used to.
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FOR THE LOVE OF (OR, THE ROLLER DERBY PLAY)
Monday, March 11th, 2019With director Rhonda Kohl choreographing like you’ve never seen a play choreographed before, it’s perhaps no wonder CTG picked Theatre Of NOTE’s For The Love Of (Or, The Roller Derby Play) to open year’s Block Party at the Kirk Douglas despite its overly familiar coming-of-age love story and a two-and-a-half-hour running time that could stand some significant snips.
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HAMLET
Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Five extraordinary actors of assorted ethnicity, gender, race, accent, and age make theatrical history by divvying up The Prince Of Denmark in The 6th Act’s brilliantly conceived, superbly performed Hamlet.
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ALADDIN
Friday, March 8th, 2019
A tale as old as A Thousand And One Arabian Nights, not only is Disney’s Aladdin an entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, it just might be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Segerstrom Center For The Arts stage.
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AMERICA ADJACENT
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
The United States proves far from paradise for six Filipino women seeking a brighter future for their unborn (or recently born) infants in Boni B. Alvarez’s captivating and compelling hot-button-issue dramedy America Adjacent, a Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere.
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NEWSIES
Monday, March 4th, 2019Newsies makes its entertaining community theater debut at Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center as Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi premieres its enthusiastically performed, proudly pro-labor 2019 season opener.
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
Director Geoff Elliott reinvigorates a 20th-century classic to stunning effect in A Noise Within’s 2019 revival of Tennessee Williams’ 1944 chef-d’oeuvre The Glass Menagerie.
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ATTACK OF THE SECOND BANANAS
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019Dueling divas get double-murdered in Gina Torrecilla’s Attack Of The Second Bananas, a World Premiere backstage comedy whodunnit that despite occasional bright moments mostly falls flat.
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