THE NOTEBOOK THE MUSICAL
Friday, January 9th, 2026
Exquisitely staged and performed, the best-selling novel-turned-movie blockbuster-turned Broadway crowd-pleaser The Notebook The Musical, now visiting the Pantages, is the most unabashedly romantic musical since The Bridges Of Madison County, not coincidentally another Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-Hollywood blockbuster, and I loved every gloriously sung and heartstrings-tugging moment of it.
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SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 8th, 2025
Ebenezer Scrooge sings and dances and delights audiences of all ages in Leslie Bricusse’s Scrooge! The Musical, a holiday gift from Chance Theater so toe-tappingly tuneful, even the grinchiest grouch will be powerless to resist his crochety charms.
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THE PRINCE OF EGYPT
Monday, November 24th, 2025
Casa 0101 provides proof positive that last year’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was no fluke, the Boyle Heights theater company returning this holiday season with their impressively staged and performed take on Stephen Schwartz, Philip LaZebnik, and The Book of Exodus’s The Prince Of Egypt.
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SUFFS
Friday, November 21st, 2025Women’s History Month may not be until March but there are lessons to be learned in Suffs, Shaina Taub’s imperfect but educational and ultimately stirring double-Tony-winning musical about the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century.
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ALICE BY HEART
Sunday, November 9th, 2025
The off-Broadway critics got it right when they called Alice By Heart’s book muddled, but that didn’t bother me a bit last night, so captivated was I by the impressive production it has been given by MouthBone Theater Company.
PERFECT WORLD
Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
Barbara Follett had two novels published before she turned 15. Then, at the age of 25, she disappeared and was never heard from again. Her life now forms the basis of Perfect World, a promising new bio-musical being given the most polished of World Premieres at the El Portal Theatre.
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ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME
Saturday, October 25th, 2025A heaping helping of music video-style dance numbers and over twenty of Britney Spears’ Greatest Hits go a long way towards keeping the audience at Jaxx Theatricals entertained for two and a half hours, but minus multi-million-dollar Broadway production values, Once Upon A One More Time’s book-related shortcomings are harder to ignore in its AEA Showcase Los Angeles Premiere.
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HELLO, DOLLY!
Sunday, October 19th, 2025
Tami Tappan Damiano lights up the Musical Theatre West stage like nobody’s business as the one-and-only Dolly Levi in the record-breaking 10-Tony-Award-winning Best Musical of 1964, Hello, Dolly!, not only one of Broadway’s Golden Era’s greatest but one of MTW’s most spectacular productions in years.
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