¡PASAJE!
Monday, October 14th, 2024If I were grading on good intentions alone, then J Quiroz and Asdru Sierra’s ¡Pasaje! would earn high marks. Unfortunately, this musical salute to la vida latina in South El Monte is no In The Heights.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre is back with an entertaining mid-sized revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the University of La Verne.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
Jayde Mitchell and Jackie Bonsignore and Bryan Mittelstadt and Margaret Berkowitz deliver four breakout star turns in the eighteenth production I’ve seen of Jason Robert Brown’s mesmerizing romantic musical two-hander The Last Five Years, Sierra Madre Playhouse’s first traditional stage production since its reimagining as a performing arts center and one I made it a point to see with two equally fabulous casts.
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THE RIGHT IS OURS
Saturday, September 16th, 2023Tuneful songs and terrific performances do their utmost to overcome a by-the-numbers book and workshop-level production values in the Sierra Madre Playhouse World Premiere of The Right Is Ours, aka The Suffragette Musical.
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THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Saturday, July 15th, 2023
Michael Mullen and Shayna Gabrielle deliver bravura performances at Sierra Madre Playhouse in Jeffrey Hatcher’s adeptly adapted retelling of Henry James’ classic horror novella The Turn Of The Screw.
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LOVE, DOLLY
Saturday, June 10th, 2023
Dolly Parton fans will find themselves transported to country music heaven this weekend and next as Kim Eberhardt performs her spot-on tribute to Tennessee’s very own Backwoods Barbie, the lovingly titled Love, Dolly, at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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MR. YUNIOSHI
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Asian-American actor J. Elijah Cho turns the tables on the dubious Golden Era Hollywood practice of casting Caucasian actors as “Orientals” in the bitingly hilarious Mr. Yunioshi, Cho’s thought-provoking look back at the 1930s/40s movie star now perhaps best known for playing Audrey Hepburn’s angry Japanese landlord in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
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A PATSY CLINE HOLIDAY CONCERT
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
Cori Cable Kidder, whose star-making performance in Always … Patsy Cline gave Sierra Madre Playhouse one of its biggest hits ever, is back in town as the country music legend in A Patsy Cline Holiday Concert, and that alone is reason for a pre-Christmas celebration.
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