ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Illicit passions set a Florida cigar factory aflame in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, the dramatic latest from A Noise Within.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
All’s Well That Ends Well might be Shakespeare’s most quoted title, but it’s not often theatergoers get to see the play itself performed live on stage, just one reason A Noise Within’s Spring 2022 season opener is one that no L.A. Bardophile will want to miss.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Saturday, December 11th, 2021
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at A Noise Within. The annual tradition is back for 2021 in a production that captures all the magic and the mystery of the classic holiday tale as Dickens first imagined it back in 1843, once again bedecked with one of the most gorgeous production designs in town.
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HEAD OVER HEELS
Monday, November 15th, 2021
In any other year, Pasadena Playhouse’s Head Over Heels would simply be a Best Production frontrunner. Arriving in November of 2021, this celebration of racial, sexual, and gender diversity set to over a dozen The Go-Go’s hits is nothing short of a theatrical miracle.
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AUGUST WILSON’S SEVEN GUITARS
Friday, November 5th, 2021Performances are impeccable and so is its stunning production design, but I found my mind drifting throughout much of the over three-hour-long August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at A Noise Within.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
Live theater is back, and what a thrill that is, even viewed at a distance from the safety of one’s car outside Pasadena’s Gamble House, with Lineage Performing Arts Center’s superbly performed, ingeniously directed, imaginatively choreographed open-air staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
A Noise Within makes theatrical magic for audiences of all ages in their absolutely captivating revival of Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’s 1933 Broadway adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Friday, February 14th, 2020Though its three-hour running time may not be a contemporary theatergoer’s ideal, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband served with a London High Tea Dinner at Pasadena’s picturesque Madeline Gardens Bistro makes 413 Repertory Theater’s latest a mouth-wateringly out-of-the-ordinary evening of stage and cuisine.
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