UNRIVALED
Sunday, March 26th, 2023I was often tickled but only occasionally engaged by the madcap antics and contemporary speak of the trio of 11th-century Japanese women whose friendship/enmity (frenmity?) Rosie Narasaki writes about in Unrivaled, now getting its World Premiere as a Boston Court Pasadena-Playwrights’ Arena co-production.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Monday, February 20th, 2023
Stephen Sondheim’s most personal musical, Sunday In The Park With George, finally gets what L.A. Sondheim lovers have long prayed for, a superbly performed, stunningly designed, rarer-than-rare big-stage revival that had its Pasadena Playhouse opening night audience swooning with joy.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
A newly liberated Sicily provides a fresh new WWII-era time and place for American GI Benedick and Italian ragazza Beatrice to fall in love at not-quite-first sight in A Noise Within’s sparkling 2023 revival of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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AUGUST WILSON’S RADIO GOLF
Monday, October 24th, 2022
A Noise Within follows the absolutely fabulous Animal Farm with August Wilson’s most accessible play since Fences, the powerful, gripping, and often unexpectedly comedic Radio Golf.
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SANCTUARY CITY
Monday, September 19th, 2022
Martyna Majok puts a personal face on the plight of undocumented Americanized teens in Sanctuary City, a riveting, thought-provoking Los Angeles Premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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ANIMAL FARM
Monday, September 5th, 2022
A superlative cast, inspired direction, and designs that are the epitome of imaginative top the list of reasons not to miss Peter Hall’s musical adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm at A Noise Within.
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FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME
Sunday, July 17th, 2022
Rap meets improv meets R&B meets live theater at its most magical in the Tony-winning Freestyle Love Supreme, the most entertainingly original audience-participatory show you’ll see all summer.
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METAMORPHOSES
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
A Noise Within closes its 2021-2022 season with what may well be the classical theater company’s most breathtakingly gorgeous production ever, Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.
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