XANADU
Saturday, July 12th, 2025
Wisteria Theater Company makes it five hits in a row with their zestfully entertaining take on Douglas Carter Beane’s 2005 Broadway treat Xanadu, itself a textbook example of how to turn a movie lemon into multiple Tony-nominated lemonade.
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PARADE
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
Michael Arden’s brilliant Tony-winning direction revitalizes Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade, topping the reasons why Broadway’s 2013 Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical is an absolute must-see at the Ahmanson.
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Monday, June 9th, 2025
Los Angeles musical theater doesn’t get any more exciting, tuneful, or sensationally performed than the 100%-local revival of The Wedding Singer now bringing Colony Theatre audiences to their feet with its blend of music, comedy, unabashed romantic and 1980s nostalgia.
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FROZEN
Sunday, June 8th, 2025
Eight years after its Broadway debut, Disney’s Frozen has at long last arrived at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, where it is treating audiences of all ages to two hours of spectacle, laughter, and heart.
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SHREK THE MUSICAL
Saturday, June 7th, 2025
The giant green ogre that everyone goes gaga for has arrived in Glendale and surrounded on all sides by his adoring fans in The Nocturne Theatre’s terrifically entertaining in-the-round production of the multiple Tony-nominated Broadway hit Shrek The Musical.
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FLASHES OF LIGHT
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025It takes chutzpah to juxtapose Greek mythology with 20th-century American history, but this is precisely what the creators of the tuneful World Premiere musical Flashes Of Light have done on the Sierra Madre Playhouse stage, albeit more successfully in the show’s delightful first act than in its more far-out second half.
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RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
Sunday, May 25th, 2025
Delightful performances, clever direction, and Douglas Carter Beane’s fresh new book are three big reasons why Wisteria Theater’s scaled-down take on the 2013 Broadway revival of the 1950s live TV classic known as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella makes it four winners in a row for the new North Hollywood company.
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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Kasey Mahaffy delivers an exhilarating, emotion-packed, career-redefining performance as Dublin bus conductor Alfie Byrne in A Noise Within’s stirring revival of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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