FALSETTOS
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
Conundrum Theatre Company hits a bullseye with Falsettos, William Finn and James Lapine’s richly rewarding look back at a freshly out gay New Yorker’s life in the years before and just after the AIDS epidemic began to wreak havoc on his city.
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WIVES
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
I wish I could say I enjoyed Jaclyn Backhaus’s time-hopping feminist comedy Wives as much as I did the delightful performances and dazzing designs on display in its Southern California Premiere at East West Players.
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COME FROM AWAY
Sunday, October 11th, 2026
Excitingly reconceived staging and a fresh new design turn the Broadway smash Come From Away’s true-life tale of heroism, humanity, and heart triumphing over terror into one of the most thrilling A Noise Within musicals ever.
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FOREVER IN THERE OR F*CK AROUND AND FIND OUT
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Forever in There or F*ck Around and Find Out. The title may be easily forgotten, but not the gripping Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that Kill Shelter’s Ashley Rose Wellman has written about two Americans at long last freed from captivity in an unspecified foreign danger zone.
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SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
It takes talent, ingenuity, and a whole lot of chutzpah to trim an original Broadway cast of 26 down to a mere 11 performers and deliver a Sweeney Todd with the entertainment goods of a production more than twice its size, but that’s exactly what Ophelia’s Jump has done on a matchbook-sized stage over in Upland.
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THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD
Monday, October 5th, 2026
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang combines fact, fiction, and Chinese Opera in The Dance And The Railroad, a strikingly acted, designed, and danced Artists At Play and Latino Theater Company revival of Hwang’s poignant 1981 one-act.
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THE FEEL GOOD STORY AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW
Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
Things get wild and crazy when six Americans held hostage by a band of Sudanese terrorists are reunited in New York for a 60 Minutes-style TV newsmagazine feature in The Feel Good Story America Needs Right Now, Mark Wilding’s latest World Premiere adventure in comedic mayhem at Theatre West.
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THE PETERSON SHOW
Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
The laughs come fast and furious amidst resurrected childhood traumas when five Cosby Show-style sitcom siblings find themselves reunited decades later in Janine Nabers’ The Peterson Show, the latest World Premiere Echo Theater Company must-see.
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