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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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Monday, September 8th, 2025
The Swinging Sixties have rarely if ever swung as wildly and wackily as they do in the physical-comedy-packed screwball funfest that is the West End-to-Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, A Noise Within’s couldn’t-be-more-fabulous 2025-2026 season opener.
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MÉNAGE À QUATRE
Sunday, July 27th, 2025
What would you do if you found out that your spouse and your longtime best friend were having an affair? What if so happened that your spouse’s illicit lover was her own bff as well? These questions and more are posed and answered to terrifically entertaining effect in Peter Lefcourt’s Ménage À Quatre, the prolific L.A. playwright’s best new comedy since 2015’s Café Society.
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has rarely been as quirkily charming as he is in his tangy Irish comedy Outside Mullingar, now in the final weekend of a scrumdiddlyumptious The 6th Act revival at the Matrix.
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FOSTERED
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
A soap opera’s worth of family secrets and lies come to hilarious life in Chaya Doswell’s Fostered, the Ken Ludwig-worthy farce now tickling audiences’ funny bones at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
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THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
The stakes are sky-high when an about-to-be-published young novelist discovers that the inspiration for his debut opus may not be The Angel Next Door he’s imagined her to be in the Los Angeles Premiere of Paul Slade Smith’s latest comedic bonbon, a surefire late-spring hit for International City Theatre.
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HARVEY
Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic about a man and an invisible six-foot-one-and-a-half-inch-tall rabbit called Harvey returns 81 years after its Broadway debut to close out Whittier Community Theatre’s 101st season on a delightfully (and thought-provokingly) winning note.
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