DIAL “M” FOR MURDER
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
You’ll be dining at the crime scene as you savor the latest tasty delight from The 413 Project, Frederick Knott’s classic mystery-suspense thriller Dial “M” For Murder at Pasadena’s Madeline Garden.
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GEM OF THE OCEAN
Saturday, October 5th, 2019There is much to rave about in A Noise Within’s big-stage revival of August Wilson’s Gem Of The Ocean, not however its nearly three-hour running time and one particularly over-the-top performance.
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A KID LIKE JAKE
Friday, October 4th, 2019
What would you do if your four-year-old son’s love for all things Cinderella represented not just an affection for the fairytale heroine but something considerably more profound? This is the dilemma facing a 30something husband and wife in Daniel Pearle’s engrossing family dramedy A Kid Like Jake, a hot-button-issue IAMA Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
Iconic roles reinvented by a supremely stellar cast and a production design that’s nothing short of original make Pasadena Playhouse’s powerhouse Little Shop Of Horrors unlike any Little Shop you’ve ever seen.
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FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Playwright Nick Dear humanizes the monster commonly if incorrectly known as Frankenstein in his 2011 stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic, an A Noise Within season opener as compelling as it is unexpectedly poignant.
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GOOD BOYS
Monday, July 1st, 2019
An explicit sex tape involving a prep school jock and a young woman decidedly not his girlfriend sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one entitled Washington DC family in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s suspenseful, provocative Good Boys, now riveting audiences at Pasadena Playhouse.
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LADIES
Friday, June 14th, 2019An all-female creative team join forces to bring a quartet of mid-18th-century pre-feminist Englishwomen to sporadically intriguing but too often meandering 21st-century life in Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies, a Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Monday, April 15th, 2019
In need of a good laugh? A good cry? A message of comfort and joy in these particularly troubled times? Then look no further than the Pasadena Playhouse, where My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos has set up house this month with her powerful stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.
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