THE BOY FROM OZ
Saturday, April 30th, 2016
Australian entertainment legend Peter Allen lives again as Celebration Theatre treats SoCal audiences to the long-awaited West Coast Premiere of the 2003 Broadway smash The Boy From Oz, the most all-around sensational L.A. intimate-theater musical I’ve seen since the Celebration’s award-sweeping The Color Purple four years back.
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A SINGULAR THEY
Monday, March 28th, 2016
Lily Nicksay gives one of this year’s most unforgettable performances as intersex teen Burbank, né Christine, in Aliza Goldstein’s engaging, conversation-starting A Singular They, now World Premiering at The Blank on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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tick, tick… BOOM!
Saturday, March 26th, 2016
Jonathan Larson’s years as a starving artist (before Rent went on to become a 5,124-performance Broadway megasmash) get brought to tuneful, emotionally potent life in After Hours Theatre’s electrifying revival of Larson’s tick, tick … BOOM!
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THE UNDERSTUDY
Sunday, March 20th, 2016
The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck’s love letter-slash-poison pen missive to Broadway, Hollywood, and the craft/vocation/affliction of acting, makes for a terrifically acted Southern California Premiere showcase for a trio of L.A. up-and-comers.
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35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION
Saturday, March 19th, 2016
Six fabulous performers, a dozen-and-a-half gorgeously eclectic songs, some terrifically inventive staging, and a sizzling live band make The Unknown Artists’ Los Angeles Professional Premiere of Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM: A Musical Exhibition something quite special indeed.
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DUSK RINGS A BELL
Sunday, March 6th, 2016
Stephen Belber’s dramatic, romantic, heartbreaking Dusk Rings A Bell provides a compelling acting showcase for two of the finest young talents in town, Brea Bee and Wes McGee.
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SUMMER AND SMOKE
Sunday, March 6th, 2016
Hollywood’s increasingly risk-taking Christian-based Actors Co-op takes a walk on the wild(er) side with its terrifically acted revival of Tennessee Williams’ Summer And Smoke, one that provides a surprising number of laughs along the way to the dramatic second act you might expect from the man who heated things up with A Streetcar Named Desire and Suddenly Last Summer.
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