DAMES AT SEA
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
It’s the 1930s and the height of the Great Depression. A pretty young would-be hoofer arrives in New York City with dreams of starring on the Great White Way. When a temperamental Broadway diva becomes indisposed, our sweet young thing is the only chorus girl able to take on the star’s leading role at a moment’s notice. Recognize the plot? It’s 42nd Street, right?
Wrong!
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TWO GENTLEMEN OF CHICAGO
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
The Troubadour Theater Company is back for more inspired silliness as they take on William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen Of Verona, retitled here Two Gentlemen Of Chicago, the better to feature a dozen or so Greatest Hits by the leading U.S. singles-charting group of the 1970s.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Audience members become residents of the Russian village of Anatevka as Glendale Centre Theatre now presents the 1964 Broadway classic Fiddler On The Roof … in the round.
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PRIVATE LIVES
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Noël Coward’s Private Lives is back for its third L.A.-area production in a scant six months, but only the first to present Coward’s still-fresh-at-72 romcom classic up close and personal—adroitly directed by Jules Aaron and spiffily acted by a topnotch cast of five at Burbank’s 98-seat Grove Theatre Center.
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LITTLE WOMEN
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
One of the largely unsung Broadway musical treasures of the early 2000s now provides ten of the most talented L.A.-based performers to shine as Musical Theatre Guild presents its concert staged reading of Little Women, with just one performance remaining.
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DISSONANCE
Monday, February 13th, 2012
You might expect a look at the behind-the-scenes interactions of a string quartet to provide little food for drama, let alone be the source of not one but two distinct plays world premiering within a year and a half of each other. You’d be wrong.
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OLD WICKED SONGS
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
No L.A.-area theater has a better track record with two-character “odd couple” plays that Burbank’s The Colony, which over the past half decade has won acclaim—along with numerous awards—for its popular two-handers, including Rounding Third, Trying, Educating Rita, Visiting Mr. Green, and Grace And Glorie. To this list can now be added the Colony’s nigh-on perfect revival of Jon Marans’ 1996 Pulitzer Prize-nominated Old Wicked Songs.
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A CHRISTMAS WESTSIDE STORY
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Take the storyline of a classic holiday flick, add the music of a revolutionary Broadway musical, stir in the iconic dance moves of that musical smash, and sprinkle with the zaniness that has become the trademark of Troubadour Theater Company, and you have A Christmas Westside Story, possibly the most sensational Troubies show yet.
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