THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Boston Court Pasadena revitalizes Tennessee Williams’s last Broadway success with artistic director Jessica Kubzansky’s excitingly cast and powerfully performed The Night Of The Iguana.
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JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
Monday, October 6th, 2025
The double-Tony-winning Broadway hit Jaja’s African Hair Braiding has arrived at the Mark Taper Forum, the nationally touring production treating L.A. audiences to Jocelyn Bioh’s potent mix of hilarity, humanity, and heart.
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I’LL GIVE YOU MY HEART
Sunday, October 5th, 2025
Do you too wish that Hollywood were still making the kind of romantic comedies that turned Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, and Sandra Bullock into international superstars back in the ‘90s? If so, you won’t want to miss Tamara Steren’s heartstrings-tugging World Premiere romcom I’ll Give You My Heart at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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STRIPPED
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
The songs of Annie Lennox and The Eurythmics provide the musical soundtrack to Stripped, writer-director-choreographer Kelleia Sheerin’s seductively danced love letter to (and cautionary tale about) the City of Angels.
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TORCH SONG
Monday, September 29th, 2025
Michael Mullen delivers a career-best performance as Arnold Beckoff in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, now making its long-awaited local debut at Santa Monica’s venerable Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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MY SPIRITS SOAR
Monday, September 29th, 2025Rising L.A. stage star Abigail Stewart and Daytime Emmy nominee Kevin Spirtas light up the stage in Doug Haverty and Adryan Russ’s entertainingly old-fashioned romantic musical comedy My Spirit Soars now playing at The Group Rep.
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OTHERKIN
Sunday, September 28th, 2025If fantasy fiction is your thing, or you grew up playing Dungeons and Dragons, N.T. Vandecar’s Otherkin might be right up your alley. If not, only the play’s more human elements are likely to grab you.
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RENT
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
No matter how many times you’ve seen Jonathan Larson’s legendary rock musical Rent, you have never seen it “dancified” the way Lineage Performing Arts Center dancifies their shows, just one reason why Lineage’s unique take on the 1990s Broadway classic is well worth checking out.
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