THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
Saturday, August 2nd, 2025
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein encapsulates a quarter century of the American women’s movement as she recounts the Life and Loves of Heidi Holland in her Pulitzer Prize-winning dramedy The Heidi Chronicles, now being given an absorbing, illuminating 37th-anniversary revival at the Group Rep Theatre.
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Not everybody things hot, but it’s hard to imagine any Broadway musical lover not being smitten by the quadruple-Tony-winning stage adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie classic Some Like It Hot now playing at the Hollywood Pantages, a song-and-dance-and-laugh-packed entertainment bonanza with an updated sensibility where race and gender are concerned.
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REEL TO REEL
Monday, July 28th, 2025Ever notice how the minutes can go by lickety-split or seem to move at a snail’s pace depending who you’re with? In the case of the octogenarian couple whose 55-plus-year relationship playwright John Kolvenbach has us spending an hour and a half with in his 2018 four-actor two-hander Reel To Reel, I found the latter to be the case.
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MÉNAGE À QUATRE
Sunday, July 27th, 2025
What would you do if you found out that your spouse and your longtime best friend were having an affair? What if so happened that your spouse’s illicit lover was her own bff as well? These questions and more are posed and answered to terrifically entertaining effect in Peter Lefcourt’s Ménage À Quatre, the prolific L.A. playwright’s best new comedy since 2015’s Café Society.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Saturday, July 26th, 2025
Highlands Theatre follows last summer’s rip-roaring revival of The Music Man with another guaranteed crowd-pleaser for adults and kids of any age, the international musical smash Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Monday, July 21st, 2025
Beatrice and Benedick are once again at it tooth and nail, but this time round she’s wearing a hoopskirt and he’s sporting a Civil War-era Army uniform as director Ellen Geer transposes the Shakespeare comedy classic from 16th-century Italy to 1860s Virginia while sprinkling in one I Love Lucy-inspired physical comedy bit after another.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Monday, July 21st, 2025
Brilliantly innovative direction, stunningly original choreography, a baker’s dozen revelatory performances, and a Broadway-caliber production design guarantee Southland audiences as outstanding a Spring Awakening as any musical theater lover could ever hope to see.
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Monday, July 21st, 2025A pair of magnetic, gorgeously sung lead performances bring out the best in Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman’s The Bridges of Madison County. The makeshift production design it’s been given by Chromolume Theatre Company and some occasionally clunky staging not so much.
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