BRIGHT STAR
Friday, February 28th, 2020Glendale Centre Theatre treats audiences to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, not only a heady mix of love, betrayal, hope, and redemption but a masterful example of how to convert a great big Broadway show from its multimillion-dollar proscenium roots to a mini-budgeted in-the-round retooling with zero loss of emotional impact.
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THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020International City Theatre’s 35th season gets off to a nostalgically tuneful, breezily comedic start with The Andrews Brothers, Roger Bean’s seniors-targeted journey back to the 1940s, engagingly directed and choreographed for ICT by Jamie Torcellini..
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THE BOOK OF MORMON
Thursday, February 20th, 2020It’s taken eight years of touring the U.S. for The Book Of Mormon to pay its first visit to the Ahmanson, but the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner’s distinctive mix of raunch, romance, hilarity, and heart make it a show worth waiting for as it continues to pack them in NYC.
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KINKY BOOTS
Sunday, February 16th, 2020Things are getting kinky over in Cerritos as 3-D Theatricals treats SoCal audiences to a sensational first L.A. regional staging of the crowd-pleasing, transformative, emotional-punch-packing 2013 Tony–winning Best Musical Kinky Boots.
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HAMLET THE ROCK MUSICAL
Saturday, February 15th, 2020Like a long-lost rock-opera cousin to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet The Rock Musical has arrived at North Hollywood’s El Portal, and if the show’s original Broadway incarnation flopped big way back in 1976, its 2020 revival is anything but that a bomb. Instead, it’s one of the most excitingly staged, hummably hook-blessed, and thrillingly performed rock musicals I’ve seen in a good long while.
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FUN HOME
Sunday, February 9th, 2020Chance Theater’s expansive yet intimate Cripe Stage proves the ideal setting for Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical saga of a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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ROCK OF AGES
Thursday, February 6th, 2020The international megahit Rock Of Ages makes a thrillingly immersive return to L.A. just blocks from where its 2005 World Premiere first knocked ‘80s lovers’ socks off on Hollywood Blvd. U.S.A.
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