SMILE
Monday, November 14th, 2022A guidance counselor and a 17-year-old student find their lives intertwined to explosive effect in Melissa Jane Osborne’s Smile, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere as compelling as it is exasperating.
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DI LADY DI
Sunday, November 13th, 2022
Serendipitously timed to coincide with the arrival of Season Five of Netflix’s The Crown, the pre-Thanksgiving return engagement of Di Lady Di makes it abundantly clear why Charlotte Munson’s cleverly titled solo bio-musical was named Best Musical at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022.
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ALL IS TRUE, OR HENRY VIII
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Shakespeare aficionados will welcome the arrival of All Is True, or Henry VIII, aka the play even they probably didn’t know he (co)wrote, as well as the arrival of its gifted director as the new artistic head of the North Hollywood Shakespeareans who call themselves The Porters Of Hellsgate.
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2:22 – A GHOST STORY
Saturday, November 5th, 2022
October may be over, but it’s still Halloween season at the Ahmanson as Center Theatre Group treats theatrical thrill seekers to the U.S. premiere of the West End phenomenon that is Danny Robins’ scrumptiously scare-packed haunted house chiller 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
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RENT
Monday, October 31st, 2022
Jonathan Larson’s Rent surrounds the audience quite literally in Coeurage Ensemble’s stunningly groundbreaking, entirely sold-out reinvention of the much-revived 1996 Broadway classic.
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A FEW GOOD MEN
Sunday, October 30th, 2022
A suspense-filled script, courtroom sequences that would do Perry Mason proud, and an eye-opening look at what it means to be a United States Marine, A Few Good Men delivers with all of the above in La Mirada Theatre’s gripping, Broadway-caliber revival of Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 edge-of-your-seater.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, October 29th, 2022
Master director Ken Sawyer and some tremendously talented USC student performers and designers join creative forces to give audiences a highly inventive new take on the 20th-century musical theater masterpiece Into The Woods.
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LEND ME A TENOR
Monday, October 24th, 2022
Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor closes International City Theatre’s 2022 season on a farcical high note, directed to razor-sharp perfection by Todd Nielsen and terrifically acted by an all-around stellar cast.
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