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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RENT
Monday, October 31st, 2022
Jonathan Larson’s Rent surrounds the audience quite literally in Coeurage Ensemble’s stunningly groundbreaking, entirely sold-out reinvention of the much-revived 1996 Broadway classic.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, October 29th, 2022
Master director Ken Sawyer and some tremendously talented USC student performers and designers join creative forces to give audiences a highly inventive new take on the 20th-century musical theater masterpiece Into The Woods.
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ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
Friday, October 21st, 2022USC’s all-student Musical Theatre Repertory opens its 2022-2023 season to engaging effect with Once On This Island, Lynn Ahrens’ and Stephen Flaherty’s magical musical tale of star-crossed island lovers.
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TO THE BONE
Sunday, October 9th, 2022
Pay no mind to its frustratingly cryptic and even off-putting title. Catherine Butterfield’s alternately sidesplitting/heartstrings-tugging To The Bone is not only one of the year’s best new plays, like David Lindsay-Abaire’s similarly set Good People, the Open Fist Theatre Company World Premiere will keep you guessing—and keep surprising you—from its hilarious start to its unexpected, laughter-through-tears finish.
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CARRIE: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, October 8th, 2022
Director extraordinaire Kari Hayter strips Carrie: The Musical down to basics to better reveal the heart and soul of the Broadway adaptation of the Brian De Palma horror classic, and the results, performed by an all-student cast at USC’s McClintock Theatre, are nothing short of spectacular, even minus the spectacle that’s been a hallmark of previous productions.
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A GREAT WILDERNESS
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
Idaho playwright Samuel D. Hunter tackles gay conversion therapy in his expectations-defying, cliché-free 2014 drama A Great Wilderness, the riveting latest from Rogue Machine Theatre.
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