COMPANY
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre is back with an entertaining mid-sized revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the University of La Verne.
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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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