MIDNIGHT SCREENING
Monday, April 17th, 2023
Take two or more complete strangers, trap them in a single location, and watch the fireworks fly. It’s a formula that worked for John Hughes in his 1985 classic The Breakfast Club and six years later in his not-so-classic Career Opportunities, and it’s a concept that proves every bit as effective at the Zephyr Theatre in Tim Schildberger’s World Premiere winner Midnight Screening.
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Monday, April 17th, 2023
A dozen or so Gershwin classics, dance sequences galore, and a pair of sensational star turns steal the show in Musical Theatre West’s latest crowd-pleaser, An American in Paris.
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AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Elizabeth McGovern proves herself as accomplished a playwright as she is a gifted actress in Ava: The Secret Conversations, the Academy Award nominee’s fascinating look at the life and loves of screen goddess extraordinaire Ava Gardner.
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1776
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Radical re-conception and revelatory re-casting add up to a revolutionary 21st-century take on Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s 1969 Broadway classic 1776 in the 2022 Broadway revival now thrilling audiences at the Ahmanson.
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BATTLESONG OF BOUDICA
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Fans of those sword-and-sandal epics that made bodybuilders like Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott action-movie stars in the late-1950s and early-1960s won’t want to miss Christopher Williams Johnson’s Battlesong of Boudica, now thrilling audiences with Jen Albert’s almost nonstop fight choreography at Hollywood’s Hudson Backstage Theatre.
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COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHỞ IS DELICIOUS
Monday, April 10th, 2023
You don’t have to be a Vietnamese food fan to fall for Dustin H. Chinn’s culture clash comedy Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious, now getting a tangy World Premiere production at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
It’s theatrical heaven for Broadway buffs this month as Theatre 40 treats audiences to the venerable Beverly Hills company’s third surefire laugh-getter in a row, Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023
You may have read Manuel Puig’s novel. You might have watched its Oscar-winning movie adaptation. If you’re a musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen it set to the songs of Kander and Ebb. But chances are you haven’t experienced the powerful theatrical two-hander Puig himself adapted from his book, just one of many reasons not to miss Kiss Of The Spider Woman’s stunningly acted, directed, and designed debut at A Noise Within.
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