OUR TOWN
Saturday, November 29th, 2025The Group Rep takes us back to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire circa 1901 for a solid if not extraordinary revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town.
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Leave it to director Cate Caplin to take a play I had previously found to be heavy-handed and preachy, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, and transform it into something quite magical at Theatre 40.
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THE PRINCE OF EGYPT
Monday, November 24th, 2025
Casa 0101 provides proof positive that last year’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was no fluke, the Boyle Heights theater company returning this holiday season with their impressively staged and performed take on Stephen Schwartz, Philip LaZebnik, and The Book of Exodus’s The Prince Of Egypt.
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POINTY SCISSORS
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
Things go from bad to worse and from hilarious to hilariouser when a nincompoop barber accidentally sticks a pair of pointy scissors into a customer’s ear and then hides the body in the barber shop storeroom in Clara Rodriguez’s nonstop fun fest Pointy Scissors, a Theatre West World Premiere.
SUFFS
Friday, November 21st, 2025Women’s History Month may not be until March but there are lessons to be learned in Suffs, Shaina Taub’s imperfect but educational and ultimately stirring double-Tony-winning musical about the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century.
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BORDER CRISIS
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025Considering how much of what’s coming out of Washington DC these days seems like théâtre de l’absurde, the time could hardly be riper for City Garage to debut Charles A. Duncombe’s absurdist comedy Border Crisis, though in the case of this contemporary adaptation of a 1967 Polish play, excellent intentions yield less than successful results.
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
An American couple attempting to make a fresh start in London soon discover this is more easily said than done when things start going bump in the night in Levi Holloway’s terrorific stage spinoff of the movie franchise Paranormal Activity, now scaring the living daylights out of thrill-and-chill-seeking Angelinos at the Ahmanson.
TABLE 17
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Audiences are invited to talk back to the exes who reunite at a trendy night spot to rehash the past and maybe, just possibly get back together in the MCC Theater production of Douglas Lyons’ raucously funny off-Broadway hit Table 17, imported to L.A. by the Geffen Playhouse precisely when stressed-out Angelinos need it most.
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