ROMEO AND JULIET
Monday, July 6th, 2026
Casting real-life highschoolers as the world’s most iconic pair of lovestruck teens is just one reason Theatricum Botanicum’s Romeo And Juliet feels fresh and new. So is setting the classic tale of doomed adolescent lovers in Gilded Age New York.
THE GREAT CLOWN BANK SHOW
Monday, July 6th, 2026Though Open Fist Theatre Company scores an “A+” for adventurousness, the often entertaining “immersive theater extravaganza” that is Hank Jacobs’ The Great Clown Bank Show proves somewhat of a hit-or-miss enterprise.
E=MC²
Monday, July 6th, 2026If the life of Albert Einstein seems rather unlikely subject matter for a musical, at the very least the scientist who gave us the Theory of Relativity deserves better than E=MC², the well-intentioned musical muddle now guesting at Glendale’s Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center.
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PAINTED PONIES
Monday, June 29th, 2026
L.A. theater treasure Rachel Sorsa delivers an extraordinary solo star turn in Ian McRae’s powerful but bleak Ruskin Group Theatre World Premiere drama Painted Ponies.
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MEAN GIRLS
Saturday, June 27th, 2026
No one can top Wisteria Theater these days when it comes to downscaling big-stage/big-budget Broadway musicals to intimate proportions while maintaining maximum entertainment value. Case in point, their fetch and fabulous take on Mean Girls The Musical.
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MAMMA MIA!
Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Mamma Mia!, the jukebox musical that started it all, has returned to the Ahmanson Theatre, its 25th-Anniversary Tour treating the Broadway mega-smash’s mega-multitude of fans to not only two dozen of ABBA’s Greatest Hits but a much-needed feel-good night or matinee of musical theater enchantment.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Ophelia’s Jump Productions celebrates Pride Month with a feel-good intimate stage revival of Matthew Lopez’s 2015 off-Broadway crowd-pleaser The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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THE UNOFFICIAL ‘MEET THE ROBINSONS’ MUSICAL PARODY
Sunday, June 21st, 2026
Unofficial Musical Parodies don’t get any more inventive than Annika Hoseth’s delightful take on the 2007 animated Walt Disney smash Meet The Robinsons, now completing its crowd-pleasing run at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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