RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
A pivotal episode in the sci-fi series The X-Files that may or may not have actually aired in the mid-1990s becomes a metaphor for childhood trauma in Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’s Recent Alien Abductions, a West Coast Premiere that sets a high bar for Sacred Fools Theatre’s 30th season.
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THE WHO’S TOMMY
Friday, October 30th, 2026
Not everything works to perfection in the National Tour of the 2024 Broadway revival of The Who’s Tommy, but a spectacular production design, mesmerizing choreography, and soaring vocals add up to a thrilling theatrical extravaganza at the Hollywood Pantages.
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FOREVER IN THERE OR F*CK AROUND AND FIND OUT
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Forever in There or F*ck Around and Find Out. The title may be easily forgotten, but not the gripping Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that Kill Shelter’s Ashley Rose Wellman has written about two Americans at long last freed from captivity in an unspecified foreign danger zone.
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THE FEEL GOOD STORY AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW
Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
Things get wild and crazy when six Americans held hostage by a band of Sudanese terrorists are reunited in New York for a 60 Minutes-style TV newsmagazine feature in The Feel Good Story America Needs Right Now, Mark Wilding’s latest World Premiere adventure in comedic mayhem at Theatre West.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Death-defying aerial performances and breathtaking acrobatic feats, stunning animal puppetry, and love at its most forbidden, Water For Elephants, now dazzling Pantages Theatre audiences, has them all.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
Next To Normal has arrived at the Hudson Backstage for an all-too-short 4-performance run that more than does justice to the powerful, deeply moving multiple Tony Award winner.
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HOW HIGH THE MOON
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026
If you think the 1950s were all The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver, then you haven’t met the the Butlers and Thompsons of Van Nuys, whose hornet’s nest of secrets and lies come to light over the course of an explosively entertaining Fourth Of July weekend in Barbara Nell Beery’s How High The Moon.
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CLOWN SH*T
Monday, July 27th, 2026
Absurdist theater meets romantic comedy meets a meditation on life and death and what comes in-between in Clown Sh*t, Hope Lauren’s exhilarating, thought-provoking roller coaster ride of a World Premiere two-hander.
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