WICKED LIT 2015
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Wicked Lit is back for 2015 at Altadena’s Mountain View Mausoleum And Cemetery, a venue so mysterious and spooky that it’s helped make this creepy, kooky trio of terrorific one-acts an annual L.A. tradition for the past half-dozen years and counting.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre follows its multiple Scenie-winning In The Heights with that show’s half-century-earlier predecessor, the one that started it all, West Side Story, and like ITH, WSS is one of Candlelight’s finest productions to date.
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HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Sunday, October 18th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Sherlock Holmes is back and Actors Co-op’s got him, though Tim Kelly’s stage(y) adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound Of The Baskervilles proves an only okay showcase for both its cast and its master sleuth protagonist.
DAMN YANKEES
Saturday, October 17th, 2015
Cabrillo Music Theatre scores an out-of-the-ballpark home run with its revival of the 1955 Broadway gem Damn Yankees, a production highlighted by a quintet of terrific lead performances, numerous supporting gems, and some of the best dancing in town.
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CARRIE: THE MUSICAL
Friday, October 16th, 2015
Carrie: The Musical has made a sensational arrival at Cal State Fullerton just in time for Halloween, but it’s not just the show’s “scary musical” elements that give this rare college production event status.
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VIETGONE
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
A couple of Vietnamese evacuees fall in love in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 in Qui Nguyen’s rap-fueled, manga-spiced, profanity-packed Vietgone, now getting an electrifyingly innovative and ultimately quite powerful World Premiere at South Coast Repertory.
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DOUBLE DOOR
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
No matter who your favorite TV soap villainess might be, she could learn a thing or two from the selfish, conniving, ruthless monster created way back in 1931 by Elizabeth McFadden for her suspense melodrama Double Door, now deliciously revived for a 21st-century audience at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Monday, October 12th, 2015
The “creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky” family known as The Addams have arrived in Fullerton as 3-D Theatricals debuts its star-powered Broadway-caliber big-stage production of (snap, snap) The Addams Family.
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