SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS
Friday, February 14th, 2025
Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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L.A. NOW AND THEN
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
The longer you’ve lived in Los Angeles, the more Bruce Kimmel’s L.A. Now And Then is likely to resonate with you, but even if names like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill don’t ring a bell, you’ll likely find much to enjoy in this musical love letter to the City of Angels, now playing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood.
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A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022Inland Valley Repertory Theatre bids a bittersweet farewell to its longtime Claremont home with A Grand Night For Singing, a tuneful collection of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, from Broadway classics like “Something Wonderful,” “If I Loved You,” and “I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy” to lesser known gems like “I Know It Can Happen Again.”
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THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre returned to live programming on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 with a fabulous two-performance-only The World Goes ‘Round, an irresistible two-hour medley of over two dozen of Kander & Ebb’s most memorable songs.
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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
Monday, October 25th, 2021
A man gives three very different women plenty of reasons to sing Blues In The Night in ICT/Ebony Rep’s thrilling revival of Sheldon Epps’ Tony-nominated Broadway musical revue.
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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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WE THREE SISTERS
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Anton Chekhov’s Olga, Masha, and Irina return to life as squabbling 21-century siblings in Mina Bloom and Leland Frankel’s absorbing song cycle We Three Sisters, a Method & Madness Theatre Co. gem playing now through Sunday at Thymele Arts.
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THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Thirteen multitalented millennials, an inspired director and choreographer, and one of the most tuneful and insightful scores in years make for musical theater magic in Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s The Theory Of Relativity, now playing at NoHo’s Gray Studios.
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