DUEL REALITY
Friday, September 13th, 2024
The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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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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MRS. DOUBTFIRE
Thursday, June 13th, 2024
America’s favorite nanny is back in business as triple-threat dynamo Rob McClure lights up the Pantages in his Tony-nominated performance in Mrs. Doubtfire, one of the most crowd-pleasing, feel-good, and family-friendly Broadway musicals in years.
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GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
Friday, May 17th, 2024
A quintessentially Irish playwright and a quintessentially American music legend recall the bleakest days of the Great Depression in the most transcendent of new musicals, Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan’s Tony-winning Girl From The North Country, now touring the U.S. with a three-week stop at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater.
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FUNNY GIRL
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Thursday, February 8th, 2024
Sting’s hauntingly beautiful songs, Kate Prince’s electrifying choreography, a troupe of the world’s most spectacular dancers, and an absolutely stunning production design combine to bring Pantages audiences the West End phenomenon that is Message From A Bottle.
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MJ THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 23rd, 2023No matter what your personal feelings are about Michael Jackson (and mine are decidedly conflicted), there’s little denying that MJ the Musical, now playing at Hollywood’s Pantages, is skillfully crafted, sensationally sung and danced, and spectacularly designed, no matter how frustratingly uncritical it is of its subject.
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DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Kids’ shows don’t get any more adult-friendly than Dog Man: The Musical, which is why whether or not you have school-age children who want to tag along, the off-Broadway hit’s new National Tour, now playing at the Kirk Douglas, just might be the most fun you’ll have at a theater this entire holiday season.
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