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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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Sunday, March 8th, 2026
Inspired direction and an all-around fabulous cast overcome community theater design limitations in You Can’t Take It With You, the latest crowd-pleaser from Santa Monica’s now 80-year-old Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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WAITING IN THE WINGS
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
The grandes dames of Whittier Community Theatre take center stage in Waiting In The Wings, Noël Coward’s charming salute to actresses of a certain age who’ve still got it in them to entertain an audience.
THE COTTAGE
Monday, February 9th, 2026
Noel Coward meets Oscar Wilde meets Hollywood screwball masters Howard Hawks and Preston Surgis in the 1920s English countryside in Sandy Rustin’s The Cottage, a guaranteed laugh-getter from Torrance Theatre Company.
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THE CLUB OF BROKEN FASTS
Sunday, January 11th, 2026
John Hughes meets William Shakespeare in Phil S. Gould’s Hollywood Fringe Festival hit The Club Of Broken Fasts, now completing its all-too-short three-performance-only reprise at the Long Beach Playhouse.
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SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY!
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
Santasia – A Holiday Comedy! is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 26th annual mash-up of madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, and it hardly matter than Santasia 2025 is pretty much the exact same production as last year’s, Version 26.0 remains the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy that combines R-rated language and the season’s spirit of warmth and good cheer.
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