PASSING STRANGE
Tuesday, November 10th, 2026
There is phenomenal talent on display on the Pasadena Playhouse stage, and songwriter-playwright Stew’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story is one worth telling. That being said, this particular musical just isn’t for me.
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LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL
Monday, November 9th, 2026
The wait is over! 20 years after its National Tour stopped for a brief 2 weeks at the Hollywood Pantages, Little Women The Musical finally gets the major regional production it richly deserves, and the result is a superbly staged and performed Broadway-caliber gem.
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THE LAUGH TRACK
Monday, November 9th, 2026
Situation comedy groundbreakers Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh deserve to be saluted, and the cast assembled on the International City Theatre stage to salute them definitely give it their all, but the sitcomish approach playwright Wendy MacLeod has taken in The Laugh Track ends up less successful in execution than it might promise to be on paper.
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RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
A pivotal episode in the sci-fi series The X-Files that may or may not have actually aired in the mid-1990s becomes a metaphor for childhood trauma in Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’s Recent Alien Abductions, a West Coast Premiere that sets a high bar for Sacred Fools Theatre’s 30th season.
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DEAR EVAN HANSEN
Sunday, November 1st, 2026
The multiple Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen gets its Southern California Regional Premiere at the La Mirada Theatre a whopping ten years after its Broadway debut in a production that reaffirms its status as one of the most powerful and emotionally compelling musicals of this or any century.
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at the very bottom of a body of water
Saturday, October 31st, 2026
The quiet magic realism that has made playwriting stars of Sarah Ruhl and Julia Cho has found a fresh new voice in Benjamin Benne, whose World Premiere drama at the very bottom of a body of water has arrived at Boston Court to captivate and move audiences in equal measure.
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THE MUSIC MAN
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Few Golden Age musicals stand the test of time the way Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic The Music Man has for the past 69 years, and if you don’t believe me check out the fabulously entertaining National Tour now paying a visit to the Ahmanson Theater.
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RORSCHACH
Monday, October 26th, 2026
Four contemporary Angelinos find their lives intertwined with that of pioneering Swiss psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach more than a century after his death in Kelly Younger’s Rorschach, a spectacular World Premiere season opener for a Skylight Theatre Company rejuvenated under Cameron Watson’s artistic directorship.
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