INTERSTATE
Sunday, June 19th, 2022
A 20something trans man and his lesbian best friend take a road trip across America (and in so doing transform the life of a transgender Kentucky teen) in East West Players’ powerful, exhilarating World Premiere musical Interstate.
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PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL
Saturday, June 18th, 2022Pretty Woman The Musical has arrived at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre for a three-week run, and if you love the 1990 movie it’s based on as much as I do, I can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy its Broadway adaptation. Just don’t expect the First National Tour’s leading lady to fill Julia Roberts’ thigh-high boots.
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COME FROM AWAY
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
The 2017 Broadway Tony winner Come From Away has returned to the Ahmanson Theatre for a two-week run, once again proving that heroism, humanity, and heart can triumph over terror. Not only that, but this supremely feel-good musical remains one of the best directed and most powerfully performed National Tours I’ve seen in many a year.
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NEWSIES
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
3-D Theatricals is back in business doing what it does best, treating audiences of all ages to Broadway-caliber productions like Newsies The Musical, now wowing audiences at the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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HADESTOWN
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Like Rent, Spring Awakening, and Hamilton before it, Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, revitalizes the genre in the most electrifyingly original of ways.
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TOOTSIE
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Michael Dorsey and his female alter ego Dorothy Michaels share the Dolby Theatre stage in Tootie, the Tony-winning 2019 Broadway adaptation of the 1982 movie smash, a musical comedy as classic in concept and construction as it is contemporary in its attitudes, casting, and execution.
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THE TOXIC AVENGER
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
A power-hungry, moneygrubbing New Jersey mayor, a beautiful, blind librarian, and a bespectacled nerd turned hulking green superhero give bad taste a good name in The Toxic Avenger, the outrageously funny (and very politically incorrect) off-Broadway musical now earning an abundance of “I can’t believe they actually said/sang that!” laughs at Santa Ana’s Grand Central Theatre.
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SOMETHING ROTTEN!
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center returns to live programming with a scaled-down but sensational staging of the 2015 Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!
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