FUN HOME
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre took its subscribers and donors on a memorable three-performance-only journey back to the 1970s and ’80s with Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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DEADLY
Sunday, September 15th, 2019
The Demon Doctor of West 63rd Street is bumping off victim after victim at the Broadwater Theatre in Vanessa Claire Stewart and Ryan Thomas Johnson’s deliciously horrorific Deadly, or as I like to call it, Murder Castle, the H.H. Holmes Musical.
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THE BODYGUARD
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Daebreon Poiema is once again spectacular as pop diva Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, the ’90s movie smash recreated live on stage at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre under John LaLonde’s able direction.
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ANNIE
Friday, August 16th, 2019
A nation in the midst of its gravest economic crisis. Out-of-work Americans on the streets. Underage orphans forced into backbreaking labor. And a perky little redhead with an unquenchable hope for a better “Tomorrow.” Annie The Musical is back at Glendale Centre Theatre, proving that even the grimmest of times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats.
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SHREK THE MUSICAL
Sunday, August 11th, 2019
The big green ogre made famous by Dreamworks Animation is back on stage as 3-D Theatricals revives its 2013 smash, the irresistibly crowd-pleasing Shrek The Musical.
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THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Saturday, August 10th, 2019
Hot on the heels of their sensational A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, The Drowsy Chaperone makes it two big winners in a row for Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi with performances to rival those of the original Broadway and touring casts.
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FIREBRINGER
Monday, July 29th, 2019Though only an occasional song or scene or joke hits the mark, a hard-working young cast have fun playing cave people in Brian Holden, Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Meredith Stepien, and Mark Swiderski’s Firebringer: A New Stone Age Musical.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Saturday, July 27th, 2019
Inspired direction and innovative choreography reign supreme as 5-Star Theatricals revives and reinvigorates West Side Story, the 1957 Broadway classic about a boy and girl from rival teen gangs (one white, one Puerto Rican) who fall hopelessly in love on the mean streets of New York.
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