MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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COMPANY
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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PETER PAN
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
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CHESS THE MUSICAL
Friday, June 28th, 2024
Jaxx Theatricals treats audiences to a fully-staged production of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s rarely revived Chess The Musical, sensationally performed in the company’s spiffy East Hollywood digs.
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DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD
Friday, June 14th, 2024
A teenage Charlie Brown confronts life’s mysteries and challenges in Bert V. Royal’s, hilarious, thought-provoking, ultimately transformative Dog Sees God: Confessions Of A Teenage Blockhead, now getting a fabulous 19th-anniversary revival at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre.
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE
Thursday, June 13th, 2024
America’s favorite nanny is back in business as triple-threat dynamo Rob McClure lights up the Pantages in his Tony-nominated performance in Mrs. Doubtfire, one of the most crowd-pleasing, feel-good, and family-friendly Broadway musicals in years.
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THE ALTRUISTS
Sunday, June 9th, 2024A talented bunch of recent AAMDA grads have joined creative forces at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival to bring audiences The Altruists, Nicky Silver’s outrageously funny skewering of liberal causes gone berserk.
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GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
Friday, May 17th, 2024
A quintessentially Irish playwright and a quintessentially American music legend recall the bleakest days of the Great Depression in the most transcendent of new musicals, Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan’s Tony-winning Girl From The North Country, now touring the U.S. with a three-week stop at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater.
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