A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Musical Theatre West is back, and gloriously so, with A Grand Night For Singing, a grand showcase for the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the five triple-threats who light up the MTW stage.
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CLOSELY RELATED KEYS
Sunday, August 29th, 2021A hotshot young corporate lawyer discovers she has an Iraqi half-sister from her father’s long ago extramarital relationship in Wendy Graf’s Closely Related Keys, an International City Theatre production every bit as topical as it was in its 2014 World Premiere, though ultimately not as effective as it was the first time round.
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THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
International City Theatre’s 35th season gets off to a nostalgically tuneful, breezily comedic start with The Andrews Brothers, Roger Bean’s seniors-targeted journey back to the 1940s, engagingly directed and choreographed for ICT by Jamie Torcellini..
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HOLIDAY INN
Saturday, December 7th, 2019
Long Beach is the place be for Golden Era Hollywood-style holiday entertainment this week and next as Musical Theatre West offers L.A. audiences their very first look at the 2016 Broadway crowd-pleaser Holiday Inn.
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EMBRIDGE
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Take a hearty dollop of Jane Austen romance, sprinkle in a dash of Oscar Wilde wit, and you’ve got Kathryn Farren’s Embridge, now captivating L.A. theatergoers in its World Premiere engagement at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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SOMETHING ROTTEN!
Monday, October 21st, 2019
There’s no more entertaining big-stage musical in town than Musical Theatre West’s regional premiere of Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!, a musical theater buff’s dream come true and just as much fun for those who couldn’t put a last name to Chita, Patti, or Bernadette if their lives depended on it.
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THE LONESOME WEST
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Irish playwright Martin McDonagh once again plumbs the depths of human depravity to hilarious and horrifying effect in his pitch-black 1997 comedy The Lonesome West, one of Little Fish Theatre’s best productions ever.
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BEAST ON THE MOON
Saturday, August 24th, 2019Richard Kalinsoki’s Beast On The Moon may have been performed in over twenty countries and translated into nineteen languages, but its latest incarnation at International City Theatre reveals flaws both in the play itself and in the production now on stage in Long Beach.
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