RIGHTEOUS AMONG US
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026Sometimes it pays to stick around for Act Two, which is why I urge you to resist the temptation to exit Little Fish Theatre after Righteous Among Us’s talky, overpadded first act because if you do, you’ll be richly rewarded when Amy Tofte’s tale of Holocaust heroism both real and invented takes dramatic, compelling flight.
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THE COTTAGE
Monday, February 9th, 2026
Noel Coward meets Oscar Wilde meets Hollywood screwball masters Howard Hawks and Preston Surgis in the 1920s English countryside in Sandy Rustin’s The Cottage, a guaranteed laugh-getter from Torrance Theatre Company.
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THE TYPIST
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
A jaded novelist and the cockeyed optimist he hires to type his latest opus try hard not to fall hard for each other in 1961 Greenwich Village in Shem Bitterman’s edgy and entertaining World Premiere two-hander The Typist, now playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre.
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SWEENEY TODD
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Leave it to La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment to deliver a Sweeney Todd so spectacular and innovative, it’s not hyperbole to call it Broadway-caliber nor to imagine its two sensational leads winning Tony awards for their star turns as The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and his partner in murder, mayhem, and meat pies.
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ONCE
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Chance Theater opens their 27th season with a gorgeously staged and performed production of the 2012 Broadway smash Once, easily one of the most charming and heartstrings-tugging musicals of the past 27 years.
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THE CIRCLE
Monday, February 2nd, 2026Issues of familia, cultura, and política come to a head over the course of one tumultuous weekend in Stacey Martino Romero’s powerful if overlong World Premiere dramedy The Circle, now playing at the Greenway Court Theatre.
WHAT OPA DID
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026Audiences in search of uplifting, escapist entertainment in the dismal times we’re living through will not find it in Christopher Franciosa’s Holocaust drama What Opa Did, a Theatre 40 World Premiere not done any favors by James Paradise’s misguided direction.
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BROWNSTONE
Monday, January 26th, 2026
The walls of a century-old Upper West Side apartment have much to talk about in Catherine Butterfield’s Brownstone, a trio of fascinating tales all taking place in a single residence but at three distinct periods of time.
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