TWELVE O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER


Alessandra Assaf delivers a spellbinding solo turn as one of the most glamorous screen goddesses in Hollywood history in Twelve O’clock Tales with Ava Gardner, now playing Sunday matinees at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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A PATSY CLINE HOLIDAY CONCERT


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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DI LADY DI


Serendipitously timed to coincide with the arrival of Season Five of Netflix’s The Crown, the pre-Thanksgiving return engagement of Di Lady Di makes it abundantly clear why Charlotte Munson’s cleverly titled solo bio-musical was named Best Musical at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022.
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BUYER & CELLAR


Mike Millan and Barbra Streisand share the Broadwater Second Stage in Jonathan Tolins’ deliciously dishy Buyer & Cellar, Celebration Theatre’s long awaited return to live-and-in-person programming.
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STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT

If you’re in the mood for an hour of decidedly offbeat whimsy, then John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Atwater Village, just might be your theatrical thing. At the very least, you’ll reward its star Jim Ortlieb with much earned cheers.
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TEVYE IN NEW YORK


If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Tevye and his family after the curtain went down on Fiddler On The Roof, Tom Dugan imagines the fabled milkman’s new life in America in Tevye In New York, a solo performance that reopens The Wallis in an open-air setting just outside the theater’s Beverly Hills digs.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE

Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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THE NEW ONE

Stand-up comedy at the Ahmanson? Say what?

Now before you rush to judgment, be aware that the stand-up comic in question is actor-director-producer-writer Mike Birbiglia and The New One, the show he’s now touring the country with, comes direct from a successful run on Broadway no less. In other words, if you can afford $35 to $145 per ticket, you won’t find eighty more entertaining, relatable, ultimately powerful minutes of solo-performance theater in town.
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