THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Monday, May 5th, 2025
Dazzling star turns, inspired direction, and an exquisite production design add up to as magnificent an Antaeus Theatre Company revival of the 20th-century classic The Glass Menagerie as any Tennessee Williams lover could possibly wish for.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025A number of brilliant directorial choices make the first act of Nocturne Theatre’s West Side Story so thrillingly innovative that it comes as a disappointment that some less inspired ones in Act Two end up diminishing the overall impact of this otherwise impressive in-the-round revival of the 1957 Broadway classic.
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FOUR WOMEN IN RED
Sunday, February 23rd, 2025The missing and murdered Indigenous women Laura Shamas writes about in Four Women In Red deserve a better play and production than the latest Victory Theatre World Premiere.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Sunday, January 19th, 2025Panic! Productions’ midsize revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman fails to live up to Salesman’s reputation as the playwright’s greatest achievement due to a combination of inappropriate casting, ineffective direction, and snail-slow pacing on the Colony Theatre stage.
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MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
The Troubies are back with one of their most entertaining holiday shows ever, Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, a Troubadour Theater Company mash-up of the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a pint-sized star and the album that helped establish the Beatles as arguably the most ground-breaking band in pop music history.
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