PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL
Saturday, June 18th, 2022Pretty Woman The Musical has arrived at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre for a three-week run, and if you love the 1990 movie it’s based on as much as I do, I can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy its Broadway adaptation. Just don’t expect the First National Tour’s leading lady to fill Julia Roberts’ thigh-high boots.
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COCK
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
A young man finds himself torn between two lovers, one male and one female, in Mike Bartlett’s provocative comedic four-hander Cock, one of the most impressively staged and performed productions I’ve seen at Hollywood Fringe since the festival was inaugurated back in 2010.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Monday, June 13th, 2022
A soon-to-be legendary Florida Panhandle drag queen lights up the stage in International City Theatre’s supremely entertaining production of Matthew Lopez’s 2016 off-Broadway comedy smash The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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ANDRÉ & DORINE
Sunday, June 12th, 2022
Not a single word needs to be spoken for Spain’s Kulunka Teatro to make theatrical magic with André & Dorine, now paying an all too brief visit to The Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown L.A.
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KING JAMES
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Two young men forge a life-changing best-friendship thanks to their shared love of basketball (and more specifically of b-ball superstar LeBron James) in Rajiv Joseph’s heart-stopping brom-com King James, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Mark Taper Forum.
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THE DESPERATE HOURS
Monday, June 6th, 2022Joseph Hayes’ The Desperate Hours may have won a Tony as the Best Play of 1955, but the 67-year-old suspense melodrama is showing its age these days with its stilted dialog and Father Knows Best-meets-Dragnet characters, and some questionable casting choices don’t help its 2022 revival at the Group Rep.
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COME FROM AWAY
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
The 2017 Broadway Tony winner Come From Away has returned to the Ahmanson Theatre for a two-week run, once again proving that heroism, humanity, and heart can triumph over terror. Not only that, but this supremely feel-good musical remains one of the best directed and most powerfully performed National Tours I’ve seen in many a year.
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KING OF THE YEES
Sunday, May 29th, 2022
Sierra Madre Playhouse is back in business with Lauren Yee’s affectionate, affecting, winningly amusing tribute to her Chinese-American dad in King Of The Yees.
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