FOUND
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Audiences in search of something excitingly original where musical comedies are concerned need look no further than Found, the latest from IAMA Theatre Company.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
It’s taken eight years of touring the U.S. for The Book Of Mormon to pay its first visit to the Ahmanson, but the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner’s distinctive mix of raunch, romance, hilarity, and heart make it a show worth waiting for as it continues to pack them in NYC.
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NEVER BEEN KISSED: THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
1990s teen romcom fans in particular won’t want to miss Rockwell Table & Stage’s latest musical-comedy romp, Never Been Kissed: The Unauthorized Musical.
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THIS SIDE OF CRAZY
Saturday, February 1st, 2020
No one writes about the sordid lives of Southern Baptist women with more vinegar-laced love and affection than Del Shores, once again delighting Zephyr Theatre audiences with his latest dramedic treat, a rib-tickling, tear-jerking Kentucky-fried feast appropriately dubbed This Side Of Crazy.
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THE WATER TRIBE
Saturday, January 25th, 2020Playwright Don Cummings could well have titled his strange-but-never-boring new play Trainwreck rather than The Water Tribe because like an accident about to happen, you simply can’t take your eyes away from its hot mess of a female protagonist or Hannah Prichard’s tornado of a lead performance.
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DOGFIGHT
Friday, January 24th, 2020
USC freshman Lily Castle is pure perfection opposite sophomore Terry Mullany in young River Phoenix mode in Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012 and the latest example of Musical Theatre Repertory at its student-directed, student-performed, student-designed best.
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THE LAST SHIP
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Sting celebrates his working-class Northern English roots in The Last Ship, the pop superstar’s gloriously scored-and-sung new(ish) musical, now bringing Ahmanson audiences to their feet.
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RED INK
Monday, January 20th, 2020
What’s been happening to print journalism since the Internet took control could drive a newspaper person crazy, or so a certain alternative press reporter discovers quite literally in Steven Leigh Morris’s brand new play Red Ink, the exciting, adventurous latest from Playwrights’ Arena.
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