TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Dear Abby and Ann Landers could learn a thing or two from Sugar, the advice columnist whose empathetic, profound, deeply moving responses to folks in dire need of counsel make Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things the most heartstrings-tugging show in town.
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KAIROS
Monday, April 8th, 2024
What starts off a meet-cute romcom ends up something a good deal more thought-provoking and profound in Kairos, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s intriguing examination of love, life, and the search for eternal youth, now getting a terrifically acted East West Players’ World Premiere.
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FUNNY GIRL
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Monday, April 1st, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller ignites fires of lust, jealousy, and revenge at Theatre Palisades in A View From The Bridge, a community theater stunner whose riveting performances and spot-on direction rival the best that L.A. equity houses have to offer.
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ANDREW LIPPA’S WILD PARTY
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Performances don’t get any more sizzlingly spellbinding than Madelyn Claire Lego’s star turn as Queenie in Jaxx Theatrical’s fabulous 4-performance-only revival of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party.
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