A CAROL CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
A bossy, workaholic fashion mogul makes major life changes thanks to a trio of late-night visitors in The Group Rep’s World Premiere holiday musical A Carol Christmas, a tuneful Charles Dickens-inspired crowd-pleaser that with some astute revisions could well end up a regional December delight.
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THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Thirteen multitalented millennials, an inspired director and choreographer, and one of the most tuneful and insightful scores in years make for musical theater magic in Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s The Theory Of Relativity, now playing at NoHo’s Gray Studios.
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STROKE OF LUCK
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Farley Cadena, whose scene-stealing performances as Singin’ In The Rain’s Miss Dinsmore, The Producers’ Hold-Me-Touch-Me, and Bye Bye Birdie’s Doris MacAfee have made her a SoCal musical theater treasure now gets the center-stage star vehicle that has long been her due in Stroke Of Luck (or how my brain broke & I crawled my way back), her inspired, inspiring one-woman show.
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THE RESCUED
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Abuse survivors living in a group home would seem unlikely to inspire a comedy as sweet and touching and funny as Julie Marie Myatt’s The Rescued, but the Road Theatre Company’s latest World Premiere proves an utterly charming if still-a-bit-in-need-of-a polish gem.
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DREAMGIRLS
Saturday, August 11th, 2018
With its dazzling costumes, pizzazzy lighting, and above all its sensational talent both on stage and off, Cupcake Theater’s Dreamgirls more than holds its own against its multimillion-dollar predecessors.
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AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL
Saturday, June 9th, 2018
Harold Pinter’s backwards-moving Betrayal and an abridged Othello told from finish to start add up to An Evening Of Betrayal that proves one of late spring’s most exciting theatrical surprises.
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RED SPEEDO
Monday, May 28th, 2018
Obie-winning Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath (The Christians, A Doll’s House, Part 2) takes on Sex, Drugs, and Olympic Sports in Red Speedo, the theatrical equivalent of a Raging Waters thrill ride now getting a gold-medal Southern California Premiere at the Road on Magnolia.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Director-choreographer-designer Madeleine Heil reinvents Broadway’s Best Musical Tony winner Spring Awakening so sensationally at NoHo’s Cupcake Theater, it’s easily one of the two or three finest of the dozen productions I’ve seen so far.
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