THE MOUNTAINTOP
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
A sexy young maid’s late-night visit to a preacher’s Memphis motel room provokes unexpected consequences in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. That the preacher in question is Dr. Martin Luther King on the last night of his life is just one reason audiences should be lining up to catch the Olivier Award Winning Best New Play of 2009’s long-awaited Los Angeles Premiere at the Matrix.
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DOGFIGHT
Monday, February 15th, 2016
A mean-spirited U.S. Marine “tradition” yields unexpectedly touching romantic results in Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012, now being given a powerful Los Angeles and Orange County Premiere by Anaheim Hills’ illustrious Chance Theater.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Sunday, February 14th, 2016
The musical many consider the greatest in Broadway history gets a magnificent big-stage production, the kind most West Side Story lovers can only dream of, as Musical Theatre West debuts their 59th-anniversary revival of the Arthur Laurents-Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim-Jerome Robbins classic.
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CLOSER THAN EVER
Saturday, February 13th, 2016
Over two dozen simply gorgeous songs by Maltby and Shire, four sensational triple-threat performances, and inspired direction by Todd Nielsen add up to yet another triumph for Long Beach’s International City Theatre in their fabulous season-opening revival of the off-Broadway classic Closer Than Ever.
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SALOME
Friday, February 12th, 2016RECOMMENDED
You may love it, you may hate it, you may leave the theater scratching your head and wondering “WTF was that about?” … but one thing is certain. There’s nothing else in town quite like the “militantly erotic epiphany for the 21st Century” that is Christopher Adams-Cohen’s Salome, the playwright/actor’s “radically queer reinvention of the ancient tale of [you guessed it] Salome.”
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BARCELONA
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
A tour-de-force star turn by Betty Gilpin and a magnificent Carlos Leal are just two reasons not to miss Barcelona, Bess Wohl’s funny, thought-provoking, and ultimately quite moving look at European-American relations as seen from the starting-off point of a hot-and-heavy one-night stand.
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DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Monday, February 8th, 2016
The world’s most beloved “tale as old as time” gets a crowd-pleasing retelling at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium as 3-D theatricals gives Disney Beauty And The Beast the kind of topnotch big-stage production that has, for the past half-dozen years, become synonymous with 3-D.
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SEE ROCK CITY
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
A couple of Kentucky newlyweds and their respective mothers are all it takes for playwright Arlene Hutton to evoke the societal changes wrought by World War II in the most entertaining of ways in her justifiably lauded home-front dramedy See Rock City, exquisitely staged and performed this month at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.
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