LITTLE THEATRE
Sunday, December 18th, 2022
Justin Tanner’s ’90s-nostalgia-filled autobiographical gem Little Theatre once again showcases the prolific playwright’s gift for out-of-left-field laughs, especially when delivered by a couldn’t-be-better trio of Rogue Machine stars.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The Temptations give those Jersey Boys some pretty stiff competition for all-time best Broadway bio-musical in Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now making a triumphant return to the Ahmanson following its Tony-winning New York run.
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ANNIE
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Even the grimmest of economic times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats. Case in point, the Broadway musical smash Annie, now spreading Christmastime tidings of hope and joy at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS: PART 2
Sunday, November 27th, 2022
Casa 0101 Theater’s Remembering Boyle Heights: Part 2 continues playwrights Josefina López and Corky Dominguez’s eye-opening look at events that helped shape the L.A. neighborhood’s identity as a center of Chicano-American culture.
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THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL
Monday, November 21st, 2022
You don’t have to believe in ghosts to succumb to the spell of Prince Gomolvilas’s entertainingly spooky supernatural thriller The Brothers Paranormal, now getting its long-awaited Los Angeles Premiere at East West Players.
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CLYDE’S
Sunday, November 20th, 2022
Four sandwich-making ex-cons strive to forge new lives for themselves in Lynn Nottage’s hilarious, hard-hitting Clyde’s, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum direct from its recent run at Chicago’s Goodman Theater.
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SMILE
Monday, November 14th, 2022A guidance counselor and a 17-year-old student find their lives intertwined to explosive effect in Melissa Jane Osborne’s Smile, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere as compelling as it is exasperating.
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2:22 – A GHOST STORY
Saturday, November 5th, 2022
October may be over, but it’s still Halloween season at the Ahmanson as Center Theatre Group treats theatrical thrill seekers to the U.S. premiere of the West End phenomenon that is Danny Robins’ scrumptiously scare-packed haunted house chiller 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
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