GRANGEVILLE
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
Can two brothers estranged for over half their lives possibly find a path back towards reconciliation after decades of accumulated pain, anger and resentments? It is this question that is at the heart of Grangeville, Idaho-born-and-bred playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s most recent mini-Midwest-masterpiece, now getting an absolutely superb West Coast Premiere at the Ruskin Group Theatre.
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PRIMARY TRUST
Friday, May 29th, 2026
The Pulitzer Prize Board doesn’t always get it right but they most definitely did in 2024 when they opted for hope, healing, and heart over heavy-handedness in honoring Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, now getting a much anticipated Los Angeles Premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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HELL’S KITCHEN
Thursday, May 28th, 2026
Coming of age has rarely been brought to life on the musical theater stage as movingly or exhilaratingly as it is in Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen, now bringing L.A. audiences to their feet at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
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LIMONADE TOUS LES JOURS: A PARIS LOVE STORY
Tuesday, May 26th, 2026Love is in the Parisian air at Santa Monica’s City Garage Theatre in Limonade Tous Les Jours: A Paris Love Story, Charles Mee’s wisp of a mai-décembre romance between a 50something American and une jolie francaise less than half his age.
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AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
Monday, May 25th, 2026
The “joint is jumpin’” like “nobody’s bizness” at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center now that Ain’t Misbehavin’ has set up shop there to gift L.A. audiences with a bona fide entertainment bonanza.
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ASCENT
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
Henry Ong pays long overdue tribute to Qian Xuese, aka the “Father of Chinese Rocketry,” in Ascent, the much-missed playwright’s look back at not just one of the ugliest pages in American history but one with unmistakable parallels to today’s United States, brought to stunning life at the Skylight Theatre by director-dramaturg Diana Wyenn.
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BRIGADOON
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Brigadoon gets a long overdue makeover at the Pasadena Playhouse, one that updates Lerner’s creaky book while not changing a note of the musical theater classic’ gorgeous score, and the result is the most glorious of revivals.
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ANTIGONE
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
Playwright Kenneth Cavander dusts the cobwebs off Sophocles’ Antigone in his contemporary adaptation of the 2500-year-old Greek tragedy … and the result is yet another Antaeus Theatre Company winner.
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