AUGUST WILSON’S RADIO GOLF
Monday, October 24th, 2022
A Noise Within follows the absolutely fabulous Animal Farm with August Wilson’s most accessible play since Fences, the powerful, gripping, and often unexpectedly comedic Radio Golf.
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ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
Backstage comedies pretty much have me at hello. No wonder then that I’ve fallen head over Capezios for According To The Chorus, Arlene Hutton’s captivating journey back in time to Broadway circa 1984, the latest World Premiere delight from North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
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ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
Friday, October 21st, 2022USC’s all-student Musical Theatre Repertory opens its 2022-2023 season to engaging effect with Once On This Island, Lynn Ahrens’ and Stephen Flaherty’s magical musical tale of star-crossed island lovers.
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THE INHERITANCE (PART 1 & PART 2)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
The words Epic Achievement only begin to describe the Stephen Daldry production of Matthew Lopez’s six-and-a-half-hour masterpiece The Inheritance (Part 1 & Part 2), now getting its long-awaited, celebration-worthy West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
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DAMN YANKEES
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Lesli Margherita’s Tony Award-caliber triple-threat star turn as Lola tops the list of reasons to celebrate Musical Theatre West’s 2022 revival of the 1955 Golden Era musical classic Damn Yankees.
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DADDY ISSUES
Sunday, October 16th, 2022The laughs come fast and furious in David Goldyn’s over-the-top but very funny ’80s-sitcom-style gay family farce Daddy Issues, now getting its West Coast Premiere on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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A CLEAN BRUSH
Monday, October 10th, 2022After having given a number of Norm Foster comedies their American or West Coast Premieres, Theatre 40 now gets first dibs on Foster’s latest. Unfortunately, A Fresh Brush proves one of the prolific comic master’s lesser efforts, but that doesn’t mean that its cast of Canadian oddballs don’t earn their fair share of chuckles.
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TO THE BONE
Sunday, October 9th, 2022
Pay no mind to its frustratingly cryptic and even off-putting title. Catherine Butterfield’s alternately sidesplitting/heartstrings-tugging To The Bone is not only one of the year’s best new plays, like David Lindsay-Abaire’s similarly set Good People, the Open Fist Theatre Company World Premiere will keep you guessing—and keep surprising you—from its hilarious start to its unexpected, laughter-through-tears finish.
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