TABLE 17
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Audiences are invited to talk back to the exes who reunite at a trendy night spot to rehash the past and maybe, just possibly get back together in the MCC Theater production of Douglas Lyons’ raucously funny off-Broadway hit Table 17, imported to L.A. by the Geffen Playhouse precisely when stressed-out Angelinos need it most.
नेहा & NEEL (NEHA & NEEL)
Monday, November 10th, 2025
A divorced Indian mother and her USA-born-and-raised teenage son embark on the year’s most entertaining and heartwarming road trip in Ankita Raturi’s नेहा & Neel (Neha & Neel), now guaranteeing audiences an abundance of laughs and more than a few cross-cultural insights at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
LE SWITCH
Saturday, November 8th, 2025
It’s love at first sight (but will there be a happily ever after?) for marriage-phobic David and the irresistible Quebecois he meets on a bachelor party trip to Montreal in Philip Dawkins’ very funny and very romantic Le Switch, now charming audiences at the Broadwater Blackbox.
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PETER PAN GOES WRONG
Sunday, November 2nd, 2025
If you thought The Play That Goes Wrong set a laugh record at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, that record has now been broken by the even wilder, even wackier, even funnier Peter Pan Goes Wrong.
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MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON–APT. 2B
Monday, October 27th, 2025Even the finest theaters can be permitted a major misfire from time to time, and such is the case with International Theatre Company’s 2025 season closer, Kate Hammill’s Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson–Apt. 2B.
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JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
Monday, October 6th, 2025
The double-Tony-winning Broadway hit Jaja’s African Hair Braiding has arrived at the Mark Taper Forum, the nationally touring production treating L.A. audiences to Jocelyn Bioh’s potent mix of hilarity, humanity, and heart.
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JUST ANOTHER DAY
Monday, September 22nd, 2025Unlike the characters they play in Just Another Day, The Bad Seed Oscar nominee Patty McCormack and The Wonder Years star Dan Lauria are still sharp as tacks, but sadly I can’t add my voice to those who have raved about Lauria’s overly wordy Alzheimer’s-themed comedy, now wrapping up its run at the Odyssey.
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EUREKA DAY
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Vaccination advocates and their opponents find themselves at each other’s throats to hysterically funny and deadly accurate effect in Jonathan Spector’s Tony-winning comedy Eureka Day, Pasadena Playhouse’s Broadway-caliber 2025-2026 season opener.
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