ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Monday, September 8th, 2025
The Swinging Sixties have rarely if ever swung as wildly and wackily as they do in the physical-comedy-packed screwball funfest that is the West End-to-Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, A Noise Within’s couldn’t-be-more-fabulous 2025-2026 season opener.
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MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Saturday, September 6th, 2025With over two-dozen talented tykes and teens singing and dancing their hearts out, Matilda The Musical is sure to be packing them in during its three-week run at on Whittier Community Theatre stage.
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RENT
Sunday, August 31st, 2025
A talented bunch of Gen Zers make it crystal clear why Jonathan Larson’s Gen X musical Rent is still going strong at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center nearly thirty years after its Broadway debut.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, August 30th, 2025
Wisteria Theater Company reimagines Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods as seen through the eyes of a child and the result is a production so sparklingly new, I felt almost as if I were experiencing the Broadway musical classic, one I’ve now seen in a whopping 24 productions, for the very first time.
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THE WOOLGATHERER
Monday, August 25th, 2025I’m usually a sucker for a wounded-souls-can’t-help-falling-in-love two-hander, but based on the guest production now playing at the Victory Theatre Center, William Mastrosimone’s The Woolgatherer would seem to be the exception to that rule.
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SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Saturday, August 23rd, 2025Even a minor Tennessee Williams play like Suddenly Last Summer deserves far better than the misbegotten revival the 1958 one-act is being given at North Hollywood’s Whitmore-Lindley Theatre.
DRACULA THE MUSICAL
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
Vampire fans will find themselves in Transylvania Heaven at The Nocturne Theatre’s stunningly staged in-the-round revival of Dracula The Musical, now thrillifying audiences while treating them to some of the most spectacular vocals in town.
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SHUCKED
Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Corn is king in Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Robert Horn’s Shucked, the most hee-haw-larious musical comedy Broadway has seen in years, and as tuneful and heart-filled and downright original as a feel-good musical can get.
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