THE DIGNITY CIRCLE
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
If someone offered you the chance to get rich quick and improve your self-esteem in the bargain, would you take it? That’s the question posed by playwright Lauren Smerkanich in The Dignity Circle, the provocative, entertaining latest from Theatre of NOTE.
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SIX
Friday, February 20th, 2026
Never has a sextet of triple-threats delivered more 5-star Broadway pizzazz than the 6 wives of Henry VIII do in Six The Musical, now making its 2nd appearance at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, back in 2026 for a must-see 3-week run.
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THE TYPIST
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
A jaded novelist and the cockeyed optimist he hires to type his latest opus try hard not to fall hard for each other in 1961 Greenwich Village in Shem Bitterman’s edgy and entertaining World Premiere two-hander The Typist, now playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre.
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THE NOTEBOOK THE MUSICAL
Friday, January 9th, 2026
Exquisitely staged and performed, the best-selling novel-turned-movie blockbuster-turned Broadway crowd-pleaser The Notebook The Musical, now visiting the Pantages, is the most unabashedly romantic musical since The Bridges Of Madison County, not coincidentally another Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-Hollywood blockbuster, and I loved every gloriously sung and heartstrings-tugging moment of it.
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A VERY DIE HARD CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 22nd, 2025The tenth incarnation of Theatre Unleashed’s A Very Die Hard Christmas, Josh Carson’s deliciously clever spoof of the Bruce Willis megasmash as seen through a Saturday Night Live lens (with puppets and songs thrown in for hilarious measure), may lack the production design pluses of its earlier North Hollywood incarnations, but the laughs keep coming fast and furious at Hollywood’s Hobgoblin Playhouse as part of this year’s Frosty Fest.
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WHO’S HOLIDAY
Friday, December 12th, 2025
Cindy Lou Who is all grown up and peppering her rhyming couplets with enough 4-letter words to make a sailor blush as Anica Petrovic delivers the most dazzling of solo star turns in Matthew Lombardo’s Who’s Holiday at Hollywood’s Hobgoblin Playhouse.
STEREOPHONIC
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
If you’ve ever wondered what it would have been like to be a fly on the wall when Fleetwood Mac spent seven tumultuous months recording Rumours, the next best thing to your wish has come true in David Adjmi’s multiple-Tony winning play à clef Stereophonic.
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SUFFS
Friday, November 21st, 2025Women’s History Month may not be until March but there are lessons to be learned in Suffs, Shaina Taub’s imperfect but educational and ultimately stirring double-Tony-winning musical about the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century.
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