SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
It takes talent, ingenuity, and a whole lot of chutzpah to trim an original Broadway cast of 26 down to a mere 11 performers and deliver a Sweeney Todd with the entertainment goods of a production more than twice its size, but that’s exactly what Ophelia’s Jump has done on a matchbook-sized stage over in Upland.
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RIDE THE CYCLONE
Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 
Triple-threat performances by a super-talented Gen Z cast score a solid A from this Boomer, but having now seen two different productions of Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond’s Ride The Cyclone, the best I can give the musical itself is a C-.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
I dare you not to feel the urge to kick off your Sunday shoes and cut footloose to the 1980s hits and new-for-Broadway tunes featured in Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s crowd-pleasing revival of Broadway’s Footloose the Musical, the most irresistibly finger-snapping, toe-tapping show in town.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Ophelia’s Jump Productions celebrates Pride Month with a feel-good intimate stage revival of Matthew Lopez’s 2015 off-Broadway crowd-pleaser The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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FLASHES OF LIGHT
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025It takes chutzpah to juxtapose Greek mythology with 20th-century American history, but this is precisely what the creators of the tuneful World Premiere musical Flashes Of Light have done on the Sierra Madre Playhouse stage, albeit more successfully in the show’s delightful first act than in its more far-out second half.
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MASTER CLASS
Saturday, February 15th, 2025
Musical theater star Joan Almedilla delivers a tour-de-force performance as opera legend Maria Callas without even singing a note in Terrence McNally’s Master Class at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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¡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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