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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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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