WENDY’S PETER PAN


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum treats audiences to their most kids-friendly show in memory with Wendy’s Peter Pan, Ellen Geer’s reimagining of the J.M. Barrie classic as told by a now grown-up Wendy Darling to her three precocious offspring.
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HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR

The stunts, the puppetry, and the multimedia effects are indeed spectacular, but Lisa Sanaye Dring and Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular ends up biting off more than it can chew in combining all of the above with the doomed love story of two gay stuntmen, one proudly out, one deeply closeted, in an industry where being heterosexual is a must.
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MIX-MIX: THE FILIPINO ADVENTURES OF A GERMAN JEWISH BOY


Prolific Filipino-American playwright Boni B. Alvarez takes audiences on the most thrilling and danger-packed of WWII escapes in Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy, a fact-based action-adventure epic as vividly cinematic as it is imaginatively theatrical.
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BATTLESONG OF BOUDICA


Fans of those sword-and-sandal epics that made bodybuilders like Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott action-movie stars in the late-1950s and early-1960s won’t want to miss Christopher Williams Johnson’s Battlesong of Boudica, now thrilling audiences with Jen Albert’s almost nonstop fight choreography at Hollywood’s Hudson Backstage Theatre.
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DEFENDERS

A trio of WWII GIs stranded on a storm-tossed island off the north Icelandic coast learn the hard way that it’s not just the Nazis who are out to get them in Cailin Maureen Harrison’s supernatural-tinged action-adventure thriller Defenders, a World Premiere guest production at Hollywood’s Broadwater Blackbox.
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FRUITION

If dystopian thrillers are your thing, you may buy into the post-apocalyptic world imagined by Alexis DeLaRosa in Fruition, a Theatre Of NOTE World Premiere. If not, you’ll likely find yourself less enthralled by what DeLaRosa imagines in store for the USA as we know it.
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MOBY DICK – REHEARSED


With metatheatrical stage adaptations of literary classics almost as commonplace today as cell phones and email, Orson Welles’ Moby Dick — Rehearsed feels like it could have been written last week and not way back in 1955. It’s also as thrilling a production as I’ve seen at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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ARGONAUTIKA

Jason’s mythical quest for the Golden Fleece becomes the most thrillingly imaginative action-adventure swashbuckler of this or any L.A. theater year as A Noise Within treats audiences of all ages to Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika: The Voyage Of Jason And The Argonauts.
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