AS YOU LIKE IT
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
Sparking performances and inventive direction make a 427-year-old play come vibrantly alive for modern audiences in The Porters Of Hellsgate’s inspired take on one of William Shakespeare’s most frequently staged comedies, the provocatively gender-bending As You Like It.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre has a big-stage, big-talent hit on their hands with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, a tuneful, double entendre-packed, laugh-filled treat for Brooks fans and classic horror buffs alike.
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SAINT MEGAN
Monday, October 19th, 2026
Playwright Joy Gregory manages to find both humor and heart amidst the hatred spewed by Topeka, Kansas’s infamous Westboro Baptist Church in her captivating and compelling new play Saint Megan, another stunning Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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FALSETTOS
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
Conundrum Theatre Company hits a bullseye with Falsettos, William Finn and James Lapine’s richly rewarding look back at a freshly out gay New Yorker’s life in the years before and just after the AIDS epidemic began to wreak havoc on his city.
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WIVES
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
I wish I could say I enjoyed Jaclyn Backhaus’s time-hopping feminist comedy Wives as much as I did the delightful performances and dazzing designs on display in its Southern California Premiere at East West Players.
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COME FROM AWAY
Sunday, October 11th, 2026
Excitingly reconceived staging and a fresh new design turn the Broadway smash Come From Away’s true-life tale of heroism, humanity, and heart triumphing over terror into one of the most thrilling A Noise Within musicals ever.
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FOREVER IN THERE OR F*CK AROUND AND FIND OUT
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Forever in There or F*ck Around and Find Out. The title may be easily forgotten, but not the gripping Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that Kill Shelter’s Ashley Rose Wellman has written about two Americans at long last freed from captivity in an unspecified foreign danger zone.
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SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
It takes talent, ingenuity, and a whole lot of chutzpah to trim an original Broadway cast of 26 down to a mere 11 performers and deliver a Sweeney Todd with the entertainment goods of a production more than twice its size, but that’s exactly what Ophelia’s Jump has done on a matchbook-sized stage over in Upland.
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