HELL’S KITCHEN
Thursday, May 28th, 2026
Coming of age has rarely been brought to life on the musical theater stage as movingly or exhilaratingly as it is in Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen, now bringing L.A. audiences to their feet at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
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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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KIM’S CONVENIENCE
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
As hard as I fell for Kim’s Convenience when I streamed the Canadian sitcom on Netflix a couple of years back, I was unprepared for how head over heels I would be for its inspiration, Ins Choi’s 2011 feel-amazing stage gem now paying a visit to the Ahmanson.
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SIX
Friday, February 20th, 2026
Never has a sextet of triple-threats delivered more 5-star Broadway pizzazz than the 6 wives of Henry VIII do in Six The Musical, now making its 2nd appearance at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, back in 2026 for a must-see 3-week run.
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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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STEREOPHONIC
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
If you’ve ever wondered what it would have been like to be a fly on the wall when Fleetwood Mac spent seven tumultuous months recording Rumours, the next best thing to your wish has come true in David Adjmi’s multiple-Tony winning play à clef Stereophonic.
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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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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Monday, October 20th, 2025
Unique doesn’t begin to describe the out-of-the-ordinary theatrical experience that is Julia Masli’s weird and wonderful, almost entirely improvised Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, a Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Touring Production now wowing audiences at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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