THE FATHER
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Dementia as seen from the inside out. Harrowing, disorienting, and mesmerizing. Unexpectedly, refreshingly funny. Smash runs in Paris, London, and New York. Florian Zeller’s world-acclaimed The Father has arrived at the Pasadena Playhouse with an absolutely superb Alfred Molina in the title role.
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BURIED CHILD
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the darkest, weirdest, and most twisted black comedy ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, returns to L.A., strikingly staged and stunningly performed at A Noise Within.
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THE GREAT LEAP
Monday, November 11th, 2019
Two of L.A.’s premier regional theaters join forces to give Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap as unforgettable a production as Pasadena Playhouse and East West Players have presented in years.
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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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