FAIRVIEW
Monday, March 16th, 2026It’s taken eight years for Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview to make it from New York to L.A., and though I have mixed feelings about her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the production Rogue Machine Theatre has mounted of it could not be more sensationally acted, directed, or designed.
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Sunday, March 15th, 2026
The Nocturne Theatre reinvents Jesus Christ Superstar to thrilling effect by re-situating the famed rock opera in a dystopian version of the world we live in today, and that’s only the beginning.
THE BEST BOARDING HOUSE IN DELAWARE
Friday, March 13th, 2026
Playwright Marja-Lewis Ryan is back, and reunited with her One In The Chamber star Heidi Sulzman in The Best Boarding House In Delaware, not only the year’s most deliciously dark comedy but one that marks the return to the stage of the exquisite Leigh Taylor-Young.
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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Sunday, March 8th, 2026
Inspired direction and an all-around fabulous cast overcome community theater design limitations in You Can’t Take It With You, the latest crowd-pleaser from Santa Monica’s now 80-year-old Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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THE DIGNITY CIRCLE
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
If someone offered you the chance to get rich quick and improve your self-esteem in the bargain, would you take it? That’s the question posed by playwright Lauren Smerkanich in The Dignity Circle, the provocative, entertaining latest from Theatre of NOTE.
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HONOUR
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026A husband’s midlife crisis gives Marcia Cross and Matt Letscher the chance to show off their considerable acting chops, but Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour, the first production to be staged in Ruskin Group Theatre’s gorgeous new home, proves a rather chilly affair given the play’s potentially fiery subject matter.
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ALL MY SONS
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
An absolutely sensational Antaeus Theatre Company cast under the inspired direction of Oanh Nguyen make it abundantly clear why many like this reviewer consider Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (and not his more celebrated and revived Death Of A Salesman) his masterwork.
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WAITING IN THE WINGS
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
The grandes dames of Whittier Community Theatre take center stage in Waiting In The Wings, Noël Coward’s charming salute to actresses of a certain age who’ve still got it in them to entertain an audience.
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