MASCOGOS
Saturday, November 1st, 2025Memorable performances and a stunning production design go a long way towards overcoming a tangled storyline and the absence of supertitles in Latino Theater Company’s thrillingly acted and visually stunning World Premiere drama Mascogos, now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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PARANORMAL INSIDE
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Ghostbusting duo Max and Delia are back for more creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky thrills in Paranormal Inside, Prince Gomolivas’s just-in-time-for-Halloween follow-up to his 2022 East West Players hit The Brothers Paranormal.
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anthropolgy
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
What if an algorithm could bring back someone you’d lost, or a near-perfect facsimile of that person? What if that algorithm could then investigate their disappearance and come up with answers even the police couldn’t find? This is the heady premise of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, the latest slam dunk for Rogue Machine Theatre.
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JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
Monday, October 6th, 2025
The double-Tony-winning Broadway hit Jaja’s African Hair Braiding has arrived at the Mark Taper Forum, the nationally touring production treating L.A. audiences to Jocelyn Bioh’s potent mix of hilarity, humanity, and heart.
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FLY ME TO THE SUN
Saturday, September 20th, 2025Recent Carnegie Mellon grad Gerardo Navarro gives a charismatic, moving, star-making performance in Brian Quijada’s Fly Me To The Sun, but at the very least this Fountain Theatre West Coast Premiere could use some major pruning.
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ADOLESCENT SALVATION
Friday, September 19th, 2025
A Tequila-fueled game of Truth or Dare yields unpredictable and life-changing consequences for the teenage protagonists of Adolescent Salvation, Tim Venable’s latest bit of play-writing brilliance on Rogue Machine’s ultra-intimate Henry Murray Stage.
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& JULIET
Saturday, August 16th, 2025
Romeo’s teenage bride gets a new lease on life in the West End-to-Broadway smash & Juliet, quite possibly the most hit-packed musical in Broadway history and one that now tops my list of favorite shows of the past ten years right up there with The Prom, Come From Away, and Dear Evan Hansen.
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SOME LIKE IT HOT
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Not everybody things hot, but it’s hard to imagine any Broadway musical lover not being smitten by the quadruple-Tony-winning stage adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie classic Some Like It Hot now playing at the Hollywood Pantages, a song-and-dance-and-laugh-packed entertainment bonanza with an updated sensibility where race and gender are concerned.
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