AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
Monday, May 25th, 2026
The “joint is jumpin’” like “nobody’s bizness” at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center now that Ain’t Misbehavin’ has set up shop there to gift L.A. audiences with a bona fide entertainment bonanza.
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ASCENT
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
Henry Ong pays long overdue tribute to Qian Xuese, aka the “Father of Chinese Rocketry,” in Ascent, the much-missed playwright’s look back at not just one of the ugliest pages in American history but one with unmistakable parallels to today’s United States, brought to stunning life at the Skylight Theatre by director-dramaturg Diana Wyenn.
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BRIGADOON
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Brigadoon gets a long overdue makeover at the Pasadena Playhouse, one that updates Lerner’s creaky book while not changing a note of the musical theater classic’ gorgeous score, and the result is the most glorious of revivals.
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ANTIGONE
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
Playwright Kenneth Cavander dusts the cobwebs off Sophocles’ Antigone in his contemporary adaptation of the 2500-year-old Greek tragedy … and the result is yet another Antaeus Theatre Company winner.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
I’ve attended a whopping sixteen productions of the iconic horror comedy rock musical Little Shop Of Horrors, but seeing it “dancified” at the Lineage Performing Arts Center made me feel I was experiencing the off-Broadway camp classic for the very first time.
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EXIT THE KING
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026Unless you are a huge fan of existentialist theater, you’ll probably find A Noise Within’s revival of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist comedy Exit The King a very long hour and forty-five minutes.
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SANCTUARY CITY
Monday, May 11th, 2026
Sanctuary City, Martyna Majok’s gripping, thought-provoking examination the plight of undocumented Americanized teens now makes a stunning Orange County debut at Anaheim’s Chance Theater.
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