MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS
Monday, May 4th, 2026There is so much talent on the Colony Theatre stage that it’s a shame they’re not starring in a better show than Nico Juber’s deceptively titled and almost certainly not New York-bound Millennials Are Killing Musicals.
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FLOWER DRUM SONG
Friday, April 24th, 2026
A hundred million miracles may be happening every day, but none are more miraculous where musical theater is concerned than the one that has transformed Flower Drum Song, splendiferously revived at Little Tokyo’s Aratani Theatre, from a show filled with antiquated stereotypes to one that can now take its place among Rodgers and Hammerstein’s finest.
DOGFIGHT
Monday, April 20th, 2026The production has its flaws, but Stella Mulroney and Zachary Santolaya deliver such rich and powerful performances as Rose and Eddie in Mouth Bone Productions’ Dogfight that I couldn’t help once again falling for the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012.
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MEAN GIRLS
Monday, April 13th, 2026
It’s taken eight years for Mean Girls to make it from Broadway to La Mirada for its Southern California Regional Premiere, and McCoy Rigby Entertainment has pulled out all the stops to deliver not only a fabulously directed, choreographed, and performed crowd-pleaser but a freshly designed one as well.
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REEFER MADNESS
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
Women cry for it, men die for it, and the audience goes wild for it in Wisteria Theater Company’s wickedly entertaining take on Reefer Madness The Musical, Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney’s tuneful stage adaptation of what is surely one of the worst movies ever made.
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SOMEBODY TO LOVE
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Four college besties set off on a decades-long journey through life at the Rubicon Theatre in Somebody To Love, a crowd-pleasing World Premiere jukebox musical that with some script tweaking could have legs on the regional theater circuit.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Saturday, March 28th, 2026A charismatic Sean Yves Lessard as best-selling novelist Jamie Wellerstein cannot overcome a miscast “Shiksa Goddess,” lackluster direction, and poor sound mixing in Chalomot Productions’ well-intentioned but largely unsuccessful revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Hudson Backstage.
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MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Monty Python’s Spamalot is back, and the Hollywood Pantages has got it, guaranteeing L.A. audiences not only the wildest, wackiest, and winningest of musical comedy rides but a spectacular new scenic design and even more flashy dancing than the 2005 Broadway original.
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