THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)

Sunday, December 1st, 2024


Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL

Monday, November 25th, 2024

I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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FOUR TOP

Sunday, November 24th, 2024


An initially promising hook-up gone suddenly, disastrously amiss is just the start of the romcom roundelay that is Michael B. Kaplan’s laugh-packed World Premiere Four Top, the latest winner presented Upstairs at the Group Rep.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Saturday, November 23rd, 2024


CASA 0101 triumphs like never before with the musical stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in a production that more than holds its own against L.A.’s most prestigious 99-seat theaters.
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DRY LAND

Friday, November 22nd, 2024


Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing off-off-Broadway play about a high school swimmer desperate to terminate her unwanted pregnancy by whatever means possible, returns to Los Angeles in an impressive limited-run guest production at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Pasadena Playhouse’s five-year-long winning streak of Broadway musical revivals comes to a crashing halt with Sam Pinkleton’s ill-conceived take on the 1980s Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein classic La Cage Aux Folles.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Monday, November 18th, 2024


Broadway couldn’t deliver a more magnificent 60th-anniversary Fiddler On The Roof revival than the big-stage, big-budget Jason Alexander starrer now dazzling audiences at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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FIRST DATE

Sunday, November 17th, 2024


Chromolume Theater is back after a six-year hiatus with a sparklingly performed intimate revival of the smart, funny 2013 Broadway romcom musical First Date.
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