DIANA OF DOBSON’S
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
Minimum-Wage Worker Goes Wild On 15-Grand Inheritance.
If this sounds like the log-line for an upcoming Emma Stone romcom, think again. Playwright Cicely Hamilton came up with this one way back in 1908 when she wrote Diana Of Dobson’s, a largely forgotten frothy romp with feminist teeth now being given a splendiferous 21st-century Antaeus Theatre Company revival.
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FALSETTOS
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
A freshly out New Yorker’s life before and after the AIDS epidemic wreaked havoc on his city makes for the most unlikely of Broadway musicals, and one of the most richly rewarding, in Falsettos, now moving audience to laughter through tears at the Ahmanson.
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TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Monday, April 15th, 2019
In need of a good laugh? A good cry? A message of comfort and joy in these particularly troubled times? Then look no further than the Pasadena Playhouse, where My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos has set up house this month with her powerful stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, April 14th, 2019
The Wayward Artist opens its second season with a flawless intimate staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal, as dramatically moving and emotionally potent a musical as you’ll see all year.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Saturday, April 13th, 2019
Kevin McCorkle makes for a masterful, deeply affecting Willy Loman in The Process 360’s 70th-anniversary intimate staging of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, now playing at North Hollywood’s Secret Rose Theatre.
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SOUTHERNMOST
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
A big-city transplant returns to the small Hawaiian town her parents still call home for a volcanic family reunion in Mary Lyon Kamitaki’s highly entertaining generation-gap/culture-clash dramedy Southernmost, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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POOR YELLA REDNECKS
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Vietgone’s Quang and Tong are back at South Coast Repertory and facing their not quite happily ever after in Qui Nguyen’s laugh-and-rap-packed World Premiere comedy Poor Yella Rednecks.
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THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019Children’s theater doesn’t get much darker than 24th STreet Theatre’s The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, and not just because the lights are turned way down low on the starkest of production designs. Dwayne Hartford’s adaptation of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo’s tale of a toy rabbit’s passage from owner to owner in Depression-era America is grim as can be, though not without hope and moments of joy.
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