EXIT WOUNDS
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
A father at the end of his rope seeks help for his delinquent teenage son from a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty-five years in Wendy Graf’s compelling, cathartic family drama Exit Wounds, now getting an absorbing World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
Sunday, August 20th, 2023
If the idea of spending two hours listening to Catholic conservatives inveigh against abortion, LGBT rights, and other left-wing causes sounds off-putting, think again.
There’s a reason why Will Arbery’s Heroes Of The Fourth Turning, now getting an absolutely sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Los Angeles Premiere, was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. There’s a reason why the New York Times called it “astonishing and riveting.”
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A PERFECT GANESH
Tuesday, August 15th, 2023Theatricum Botanicum takes a break from the Bard in its otherwise entirely Shakespearean 2023 season with Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, a play not nearly as appealing as McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, It’s Only A Play, Master Class, Corpus Christi, and Love! Valour! Compassion!
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THE RED SUITCASE
Sunday, August 13th, 2023
Growing up gay in the Deep South is no picnic for the protagonist of Jiggs Burgess’s laugh-out-loud funny, get-out-the-Kleenex moving The Red Suitcase, a P3 Theatre Company World Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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PETER PAN GOES WRONG
Saturday, August 12th, 2023
The laughs keep coming and coming and coming as the mishaps keep piling up in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the side-splittingest show to play the Ahmanson since The Play That Goes Wrong had audiences rolling in the aisles four years back.
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DORIS AND IVY IN THE HOME
Monday, August 7th, 2023
Norm Foster invites audiences to spend a couple of hours with Doris And Ivy In The Home, the prolific Canadian playwright’s latest laugh-packed crowd-pleaser at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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KINKY BOOTS
Monday, August 7th, 2023Torrance Theatre Company follow’s last summer’s professional-caliber The Addams Family with the 2013 Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, though this time round the results are considerably more mixed.
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LES MISÉRABLES
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Les Miz is back, and more gorgeous to listen to and look at than ever, as the Pantages welcomes the latest U.S. tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s legendary musical juggernaut Les Misérables.
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