THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
Cassandra Marie Murphy and Caleb Shaw are sheer perfection as the star-crossed lovers of The Bridges Of Madison County, bringing composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s and book writer Marsha Norman’s exquisite take on Robert James Waller’s novel to soaringly romantic life in an all too brief, just concluded three-performance-only Inland Valley Repertory Theatre run at Candlelight Pavilion.
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GLORIA
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
The office banter amongst the millennials who toil for a New Yorker-style magazine in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Gloria may be catty, querulous, gossipy, back-stabbing, and hilarious as all get-out, but the 33-year-old playwright has far more than edgy cable sitcom humor on his mind in his 2015 off-Broadway hit, a ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher of an Echo Theater Company West Coast Premiere.
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MAME
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Musical Theatre Guild treated lucky L.A. audiences to a one-night-only concert staged reading of Jerry Hermans’s Mame that proved not only a terrifically directed-and-performed look back at the 1500-performance 1966 Broadway smash but illustrates to perfection precisely why MTG is a SoCal treasure.
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BONNIE & CLYDE
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater makes a Broadway buff’s dreams come true with L.A.’s first major professional production of the Tony-nominated Bonnie & Clyde since its 2011 debut, not only one of Candlelight’s very best ever but one that more than merits being called “Broadway caliber all the way.”
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Feuding co-workers who’ve no idea they’re secretly in love with each other make for romantic musical comedy magic in the 1963 Broadway classic She Loves Me, Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delightful 2018-2019 season opener.
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THE RESCUED
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Abuse survivors living in a group home would seem unlikely to inspire a comedy as sweet and touching and funny as Julie Marie Myatt’s The Rescued, but the Road Theatre Company’s latest World Premiere proves an utterly charming if still-a-bit-in-need-of-a polish gem.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
The Dashwood sisters fall truly, madly, deeply in love once again as South Coast Repertory treats Jane Austen fans to Sense And Sensibility, its daringly cast and deliciously performed 2018-2019 season opener.
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CHICAGO
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Having spent the better part of the past fourteen years wowing worldwide audiences as Chicago’s Velma Kelly, Terra C. MacLeod returns to Moonlight Stage Productions to deliver a sensational star turn as Roxie Hart, the first of many very good reasons not to miss this terrific new take on an old favorite.
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