GUYS AND DOLLS
Friday, October 18th, 2024
Damon Runyon’s picturesque band of New York denizens continue to delight audiences almost seventy-five years after their Broadway debut in Altadena Music Theatre’s lively outdoor revival of the 1950 Broadway classic Guys And Dolls.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Saturday, September 14th, 2024
It’s hard to imagine a finer revival of Thornton Wilder’s 20th-century American classic The Skin Of Our Teeth than the one now enrapturing audiences at A Noise Within.
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
The translation’s the thing, but far from the only thing that makes Pasadena Playhouse’s dazzling staging of Martin Crimp’s “free adaptation” of Edmond Rostand’s French classic Cyrano de Bergerac the latest Pasadena Playhouse winner.
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THE 39 STEPS
Monday, August 19th, 2024
South Pasadena Theatre Workshop treats audiences to 75 minutes of virtually nonstop laughter in their somewhat abridged take on Patrick Barlow’s masterful four-actor stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version of John Buchan’s spy classic The 39 Steps.
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HAY FEVER
Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
A weekend in the country has rarely proven as delightfully, deliciously madcap as the one L.A. theatergoers can now spend with the ever so eccentric Bliss family in South Pasadena Theatre Workshop’s ever so effervescent revival of Noël Coward’s 1924 comedic gem Hay Fever.
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JELLY’S LAST JAM
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
A year after its record-breaking Sondheim Celebration, Pasadena Playhouse gives Jelly Roll’s Jam as spectacularly staged and phenomenally performed a 33rd-anniversary revival as any lover of rarely produced musicals could wish for.
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MISALLIANCE
Monday, May 20th, 2024
George Bernard Shaw fans won’t find a more sparklingly performed or exquisitely designed production of Misalliance than the one now playing at A Noise Within, and even if like me you find Shaw plays overly long and talky, this one’s suddenly zippy second act will have you singing its praises.
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ONE OF THE GOOD ONES
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
Fireworks ignite when a well-to-do Hispanic-American couple’s 22-year-old daughter brings home the man of her dreams in Gloria Calderón Kellett’s One Of The Good Ones, a laugh-packed, conversation-starting 21st-century Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner now getting the classiest and crowd-pleasingest of World Premieres at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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