EXIT THE KING
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026Unless you are a huge fan of existentialist theater, you’ll probably find A Noise Within’s revival of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist comedy Exit The King a very long hour and forty-five minutes.
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FALLEN ANGELS
Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Non-traditional casting adds a contemporary sensibility to Little Fish Theatre’s effervescent, sparklingly performed revival of Noël Coward’s 1925 comedy gem Fallen Angels.
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THE BAPTIST WITCHES OF SHELBYVILLE
Saturday, April 4th, 2026A trio of Tennessee sisters in their early 40s reunite for an entertaining albeit largely uneventful 4th Of July weekend back home in Julie Shavers’ World Premiere Southern Gothic comedy The Baptist Witches of Shelbyville, now playing once a weekend at the Whitefire Theatre.
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KIM’S CONVENIENCE
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
As hard as I fell for Kim’s Convenience when I streamed the Canadian sitcom on Netflix a couple of years back, I was unprepared for how head over heels I would be for its inspiration, Ins Choi’s 2011 feel-amazing stage gem now paying a visit to the Ahmanson.
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Sunday, March 22nd, 2026
Six terrific actresses strut their comedic stuff as a sextet of Louisiana women whose delicate exteriors hide tough-as-steel cores in the Group Rep’s season-opening crowd-pleaser, Robert Harling’s Southern-fried charmer Steel Magnolias.
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GUILTY PLEASURES
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Noël Coward meets Neil Simon in Ken Levine’s sexy new romcom romp Guilty Pleasures, now getting a laugh-packed West Coast Premiere at the LAX-adjacent Kentwood Players.
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FAIRVIEW
Monday, March 16th, 2026It’s taken eight years for Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview to make it from New York to L.A., and though I have mixed feelings about her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the production Rogue Machine Theatre has mounted of it could not be more sensationally acted, directed, or designed.
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THE BEST BOARDING HOUSE IN DELAWARE
Friday, March 13th, 2026
Playwright Marja-Lewis Ryan is back, and reunited with her One In The Chamber star Heidi Sulzman in The Best Boarding House In Delaware, not only the year’s most deliciously dark comedy but one that marks the return to the stage of the exquisite Leigh Taylor-Young.
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