THE MUSIC MAN
Saturday, August 17th, 2024
Harold Hill is back in town and aiming to bilk the citizens of River City, Iowa in Meredith Willson’s bona fide Broadway classic The Music Man, now being given an all-around splendid 67th-anniversary revival at La Crescenta’s Highlands Theater.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Saturday, August 10th, 2024
Dramatic and compelling and jam-packed with equal parts spectacle and heart, The Nocturne Theatre’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is all this and more, though not however a kids-friendly family musical like Disney’s The Little Mermaid or Beauty And The Beast.
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CREVASSE
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
Adolph Hitler’s favorite filmmaker meets the man who made animated movie stars of Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi in Tom Jacobson‘s Crevasse, a fascinating, stunningly staged co-production of Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center.
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THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD
Friday, July 5th, 2024Garrett Deagon’s chameleon-like transformation into our nation’s 16th President opposite Samantha Craton’s luminous Mary Todd Lincoln elevates Terrence L. Cranert’s The Lincolns Of Springfield into something more than the overly romanticized by-the-numbers Abraham Lincoln bio-musical it would be without their presence on the Colony Theatre stage.
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CABARET
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024
Life isn’t just a cabaret, old chum, it’s a downright dazzling circus in The Nocturne Theatre Company’s stunningly reimagined in-the-round revival of the Kander and Ebb masterpiece Cabaret.
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DURAN DURANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Saturday, June 8th, 2024
William Shakespeare meets The Troubies meet one of the 1980s’ most iconic rock bands in Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra, the latest musical-spoofy treat from Troubadour Theater Company “in cahoots with” the Colony Theatre.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Saturday, May 11th, 2024
The Nocturne Theatre makes it four hits in a row with a terrifically crowd-pleasing, family-friendly in-the-round staging of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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NORA
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
Housewives don’t get any more desperate than Nora, the up-against-the-wall protagonist of Antaeus Theatre Company’s enthralling, entertaining latest, Ingmar Bergman’s smartly streamlined take on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
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