MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON–APT. 2B
Monday, October 27th, 2025Even the finest theaters can be permitted a major misfire from time to time, and such is the case with International Theatre Company’s 2025 season closer, Kate Hammill’s Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson–Apt. 2B.
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CYMBELINE
Sunday, October 26th, 2025
Cymbeline may seem an unlikely title for a Western a la Gunsmoke, Bonanza, or The Rifleman, but William Shakespeare and the American West prove an inspired mix in Antaeus Theatre Company’s 2025-26 season opener.
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ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME
Saturday, October 25th, 2025A heaping helping of music video-style dance numbers and over twenty of Britney Spears’ Greatest Hits go a long way towards keeping the audience at Jaxx Theatricals entertained for two and a half hours, but minus multi-million-dollar Broadway production values, Once Upon A One More Time’s book-related shortcomings are harder to ignore in its AEA Showcase Los Angeles Premiere.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Monday, October 20th, 2025
Unique doesn’t begin to describe the out-of-the-ordinary theatrical experience that is Julia Masli’s weird and wonderful, almost entirely improvised Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, a Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Touring Production now wowing audiences at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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HELLO, DOLLY!
Sunday, October 19th, 2025
Tami Tappan Damiano lights up the Musical Theatre West stage like nobody’s business as the one-and-only Dolly Levi in the record-breaking 10-Tony-Award-winning Best Musical of 1964, Hello, Dolly!, not only one of Broadway’s Golden Era’s greatest but one of MTW’s most spectacular productions in years.
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PARANORMAL INSIDE
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Ghostbusting duo Max and Delia are back for more creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky thrills in Paranormal Inside, Prince Gomolivas’s just-in-time-for-Halloween follow-up to his 2022 East West Players hit The Brothers Paranormal.
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HAIRSPRAY
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
5-Star Theatricals concludes its 2025 season with an irresistibly entertaining revival of the 2002 Broadway smash Hairspray, directed by none other than the show’s original Tracy Turnblad, Best Lead Actress Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur herself.
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anthropolgy
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
What if an algorithm could bring back someone you’d lost, or a near-perfect facsimile of that person? What if that algorithm could then investigate their disappearance and come up with answers even the police couldn’t find? This is the heady premise of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, the latest slam dunk for Rogue Machine Theatre.
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