HELL MOUTH
Sunday, April 19th, 2026There’s some fine work being done on the Road Theatre stage, but unless you’re an art connoisseur, you’re likely to find the company’s latest World Premiere, Tom Jacobson’s Hell Mouth, too intellectual and esoteric to rank among the prolific playwright’s best.
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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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STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Sunday, March 22nd, 2026
Six terrific actresses strut their comedic stuff as a sextet of Louisiana women whose delicate exteriors hide tough-as-steel cores in the Group Rep’s season-opening crowd-pleaser, Robert Harling’s Southern-fried charmer Steel Magnolias.
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LIFELINE
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
A suicide hotline center provides the backdrop for Robert Axelrod’s Lifeline, a Road Theatre Company World Premiere dramedy as compelling as it is funny as it is ultimately quite moving thanks to a terrific script, a fabulous cast, a sensational production design, and Ken Sawyer in the director’s chair.
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THE ALTRUIST
Monday, January 19th, 2026A promising if rather grim dark comedy premise yields less than satisfying results in Bill Fitzhugh’s “New Play with Music” The Altruist, a World Premiere production at North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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FROST MY LIFE
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
With a whopping 40 new Hallmark Christmas Movies debuting this holiday season (not to mention 5 more premiering on Netflix), the time could hardly be riper for Wisteria Theater Company’s off-the wall-wacky, R-rated musical parody Frost My Life.
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OUR TOWN
Saturday, November 29th, 2025The Group Rep takes us back to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire circa 1901 for a solid if not extraordinary revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town.
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