THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Set in the Eisenhower 1950s and featuring a Goodness Gracious Great Bunch of Top 40 oldies, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s The Merry Wives Of Windsor takes comedic flight as the inspired vision of director Ellen Geer, who’s not afraid to alter the text if it earns laughter to do Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel proud.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
Director James Fowler and Open Fist Theatre Company discover astonishing new depth and meaning in a centuries-old classic by transposing William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from ancient Greece to the Antebellum South.
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HAMLET
Saturday, May 21st, 2022
Ramón de Ocampo’s bravura lead performance, Elizabeth Swain’s insightful direction, and a striking production design are just three reasons to celebrate Antaeus Theatre Company’s return to in-person productions with their meaty, three-hour long Hamlet.
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METAMORPHOSES
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
A Noise Within closes its 2021-2022 season with what may well be the classical theater company’s most breathtakingly gorgeous production ever, Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
All’s Well That Ends Well might be Shakespeare’s most quoted title, but it’s not often theatergoers get to see the play itself performed live on stage, just one reason A Noise Within’s Spring 2022 season opener is one that no L.A. Bardophile will want to miss.
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JULIUS CAESAR
Monday, September 6th, 2021
Adeptly trimmed to a brisk eighty minutes by Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer and filled with as much action as it is with political intrigue, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adds up to classical theater as thrillingly staged as it is easily accessible to 21st Century audiences.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century tradition at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is back for 2021, trimmed to ninety minutes and jam-packed with physical comedy and song performed by one of the finest Theatricum casts ever, most of them performing in it for the very first time.
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Saturday, March 7th, 2020Still going strong in its 98th season, Whittier Community Theater entertains loyal locals with a suspenseful, somewhat slow-paced, but mostly fine production of Agatha Christie’s mystery classic And Then There Were None.
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