INTO THE WOODS
Monday, July 22nd, 2024
There’s something particularly magical about Knot Free Productions’ intimate revival of Into The Woods at the Greenway Court Theatre, and as someone who’s seen 22 different live productions of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, I know what I’m talking about.
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SWEENEY TODD
Sunday, July 21st, 2024Late 18th-century London is a living nightmare in Chance Theater’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and while the scaled-down revival’s pitch-black tone and bare-minimum number of players do not make it the best introduction to this Stephen Sondheim classic, there’s still a lot for Sondheim aficionados to applaud.
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PETER PAN
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
Whether you’ve seen The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee umpteen times or it’s your first time at the Bee, I guarantee you will fall head over heels for the dazzlingly fresh reinterpretation it’s being given at Santa Ana’s The Wayward Artist.
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NEWSIES
Monday, July 15th, 2024
With Dillon Klena reprising his signature role to sensational effect and director-choreographer Jeffry Denman giving the production a fresh new look and feel, Musical Theatre West treats audiences to one of the best Newsies ever.
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ANNIE
Saturday, July 6th, 2024That little orphan named Annie is back, reminding audiences at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center that the sun will indeed come out tomorrow in Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s entertaining community theater revival of the Broadway musical smash.
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THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD
Friday, July 5th, 2024Garrett Deagon’s chameleon-like transformation into our nation’s 16th President opposite Samantha Craton’s luminous Mary Todd Lincoln elevates Terrence L. Cranert’s The Lincolns Of Springfield into something more than the overly romanticized by-the-numbers Abraham Lincoln bio-musical it would be without their presence on the Colony Theatre stage.
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CHESS THE MUSICAL
Friday, June 28th, 2024
Jaxx Theatricals treats audiences to a fully-staged production of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s rarely revived Chess The Musical, sensationally performed in the company’s spiffy East Hollywood digs.
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