THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
Director Geoff Elliott reinvigorates a 20th-century classic to stunning effect in A Noise Within’s 2019 revival of Tennessee Williams’ 1944 chef-d’oeuvre The Glass Menagerie.
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THE JUDAS KISS
Monday, February 25th, 2019
What he did for love. What he sacrificed for love. What he suffered for love. Playwright David Hare asks audiences to ponder whether Oscar Wilde’s unconditional devotion to Lord Alfred Douglas was worth the years of pain he endured in The Judas Kiss, the powerful, provocative latest from The Theatre @ Boston Court.
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RAGTIME
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
A nation where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and immigrants are told to get out and stay out. Ragtime may take place a century ago, but the epic 1998 Broadway musical has never been more relevant than it is today, and thanks to director David Lee and a glorious cast and design team, its 2019 Pasadena Playhouse revival blows the seven other Ragtimes this reviewer has seen out of the water, and then some.
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THE WONDERFUL WINTER OF OZ
Saturday, December 15th, 2018
The Yellow Brick Road leads to Pasadena this week and next as Lythgoe Family Panto debuts its latest kids-friendly holiday musical spoof, a seasonally retitled The Wonderful Winter Of Oz.
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THE GAME’S AFOOT
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
You don’t have to be a murder mystery fan to enjoy Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot; Or Holmes For The Holidays, but if you are, this Ludwig-meets-Conan Doyle-meets-Agatha Christie farce will prove a particularly tangy holiday treat at Pasadena’s Madeline Gardens, and one served with a high-tea dinner as scrumptious as the show itself.
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Friday, October 19th, 2018
There’s no better month for a ghost story than October and no better place for Halloween chills this year than the City Of Roses as Pasadena Playhouse trick-or-treats audiences to the The Woman In Black, the West End smash comedy thriller staged just as Londoners have been eating it up nonstop since 1989.
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Sunday, October 14th, 2018
Tom Stoppard ponders the absurdity of life and the inevitability of death in his existentialist comedy classic Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, the thrillingly staged if occasionally inscrutable latest from A Noise Within.
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EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Playwright Sarah B. Mantell rights centuries of wrong done Shakespeare’s Jessica, Lorenzo, and Shylock in The Theatre @ Boston Court’s adventurous, challenging Everything That Never Happened. But be forewarned and forearmed. The more familiar you are with its Merchant Of Venice protagonists, the greater the rewards of Mantell’s World Premiere romcom will be.
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