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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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
Sunday, April 7th, 2019
10 Things I Hate About You, 1999’s teen-movie takeoff on Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, is back for its 20th-anniversary Unauthorized Musical Parody at Rockwell Table + Stage, the latest smash UMPO song-&-dance laughfest from the folks who previously spoofed teen classics Mean Girls and Clueless to equally hilarious/raunchy effect.
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s [title of show] provides a couldn’t-be-better talent showcase for four charismatic young triple-threats and a supremely imaginative young director, today only on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Friday, April 5th, 2019
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance has been delighting the world for a whopping 140 years, though you’d hardly guess its age, not with a libretto as fresh and funny as the latest live-audience sitcom, and certainly not as directed, choreographed, and performed with effervescence and charm at Glendale Centre Theatre.
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