MJ THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 23rd, 2023No matter what your personal feelings are about Michael Jackson (and mine are decidedly conflicted), there’s little denying that MJ the Musical, now playing at Hollywood’s Pantages, is skillfully crafted, sensationally sung and danced, and spectacularly designed, no matter how frustratingly uncritical it is of its subject.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Monday, November 20th, 2023Whether you love the entirety of the Porters of Hellgate’s All’s Well That Ends Well, or enjoy some parts of it more than others, will likely depend on how much of a William Shakespeare fan you are where this “problem comedy” is concerned.
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A FAMILY BUSINESS
Saturday, November 18th, 2023
All hell breaks loose when a dating couple and two sets of parents get together for the first time in A Family Business, Matt Chait’s thoroughly entertaining follow-up to Bearings, which won the playwright a 2022-2023 Best Of The Year Scenie.
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LIFE SUCKS
Sunday, October 8th, 2023
Uncle Vanya has probably never made audiences laugh as loudly and as often as he and his fellow Chekhovians do in Aaron Posner’s Life Sucks, the Stupid F***ing Bird playwright’s contemporary take on a 124-year-old Russian classic, now getting a fabulous Interact Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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ALADDIN
Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
A guaranteed entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, Disney’s Aladdin is not only late summer’s most all-around entertaining theatrical extravaganza, it may well be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Pantages Theatre stage.
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THE RED SUITCASE
Sunday, August 13th, 2023
Growing up gay in the Deep South is no picnic for the protagonist of Jiggs Burgess’s laugh-out-loud funny, get-out-the-Kleenex moving The Red Suitcase, a P3 Theatre Company World Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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LES MISÉRABLES
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Les Miz is back, and more gorgeous to listen to and look at than ever, as the Pantages welcomes the latest U.S. tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s legendary musical juggernaut Les Misérables.
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PIPELINE
Friday, August 4th, 2023
The son of an African-American inner-city high school teacher struggles to fit into the posh private academy his divorced parents have sent him to in Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, a critically acclaimed Lincoln Center hit whose gripping Los Angeles Premiere marks a major coup for the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company at The Art Of Acting Studio in Hollywood.
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