A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 21st, 2025
A production design that just keeps getting more gorgeous, staging that gets more and more inventive year after year, new songs and harmonies to make it seem almost a musical, and cast additions that only add to the magic… For these reasons and more, there’s no A Christmas Carol in town that comes close to matching A Noise Within’s one-of-a-kind take on the Charles Dickens classic.
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HEISENBERG
Saturday, December 20th, 2025
Heisenberg, Simon Stephens’s odd-couple romcom with philosophical underpinnings, now makes for a fascinating and ultimately quite moving ninety minutes of intimate theater in Los Feliz under Cameron Watson’s inspired direction.
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FROST MY LIFE
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
With a whopping 40 new Hallmark Christmas Movies debuting this holiday season (not to mention 5 more premiering on Netflix), the time could hardly be riper for Wisteria Theater Company’s off-the wall-wacky, R-rated musical parody Frost My Life.
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A SLEIGHFUL OF SONGS
Monday, December 15th, 2025
Over a half dozen Theatre West member and a bevy of special invited guests joined vocal talents for four performances only of A Sleighful Of Songs, and at the risk of repeating myself, like So Many Stars two Decembers ago, this was the most glorious seventy-five minutes of songs, songs, and more songs I’ve seen and heard all year.
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SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY!
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
Santasia – A Holiday Comedy! is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 26th annual mash-up of madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, and it hardly matter than Santasia 2025 is pretty much the exact same production as last year’s, Version 26.0 remains the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy that combines R-rated language and the season’s spirit of warmth and good cheer.
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STEREOPHONIC
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
If you’ve ever wondered what it would have been like to be a fly on the wall when Fleetwood Mac spent seven tumultuous months recording Rumours, the next best thing to your wish has come true in David Adjmi’s multiple-Tony winning play à clef Stereophonic.
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MRS. CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 8th, 2025
San Diego theater treasure Linda Libby stands in for prolific playwright Tom Jacobson in Jacobson’s funny and loving musical tribute to his truly one-of-a-kind mother in Mrs. Christmas, now spreading holiday cheer at Long Beach’s Aurora Theatre.
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SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 8th, 2025
Ebenezer Scrooge sings and dances and delights audiences of all ages in Leslie Bricusse’s Scrooge! The Musical, a holiday gift from Chance Theater so toe-tappingly tuneful, even the grinchiest grouch will be powerless to resist his crochety charms.
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