JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Ingenious direction and equally innovative choreography are just two reasons not to miss 5-Star Theatricals’ excitingly performed revival of Sirs Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 100 minutes of pure, unadulterated, family-friendly music and fun up Thousand Oaks way.
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VINO VERITAS
Friday, October 13th, 2017
There’s nothing like an exotic Peruvian wine to reveal long-hidden secrets when a couple of 30something married couples imbibe said intoxicant in full Halloween regalia at Theatre 40 in Vino Veritas, David MacGregor’s tantalizing look at two marriages for whom truth may be precisely what the doctor ordered, or the worst medicine of all.
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STUPID KID
Monday, October 9th, 2017
Folks are dumb where Chick Ford comes from, which is why you may be excused for assuming at first that Sharr White’s Stupid Kid has nothing but poor white trash jokes in store for audiences at The Road On Magnolia. But think again. Chick and his kinfolk are about to reveal far more about the Eastern Colorado Fords than initially meets the eye.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, October 8th, 2017
Inspired casting choices and Broadway-caliber production values make the latest from 3-D Theatricals the all-around best of the six Young Frankenstein’s I’ve seen in the seven years since its National Tour arrived first brought Transylvania to L.A.
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF HOCUS POCUS
Saturday, October 7th, 2017
The Salem-witchy women known far and wide as the Sanderson Sisters are alive and well and working their black magic in Los Feliz as Rockwell Table & Stage reprises its absolutely spooktastic Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Hocus Pocus for Halloween season 2017.
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WALKING TO BUCHENWALD
Friday, October 6th, 2017
An intergenerational trek across Europe turns a good deal darker than the lighthearted family road trip it initially promises to be in the Open Fist Theatre Company’s World Premiere Walking To Buchenwald, the funny, impactful latest from the endlessly self-reinventing Tom Jacobson.
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BR’ER COTTON
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017An angry, rebellious African-American teen finds himself at loggerheads with his hard-working single mom, his tradition-bound granddad, and the racist world he confronts on a daily basis in Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton, a dialog-provoking gripper of a play that I’d like even better if it stayed in the very real present instead of detouring into magical realism territory and the Civil War past.
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OUR TOWN
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
Deaf West Theatre and Thornton Wilder prove a match made in heaven as Pasadena Playhouse debuts an exquisite seventy-ninth anniversary revival of Wilder’s classic bit of Americana, Our Town, as it has quite literally never been staged before.
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