MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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THE HISPANIC/LATINO/LATINA/LATINX/LATINÉ VOTE
Monday, August 26th, 2024
If pre-election worries have got you feeling all angsty about November 5, then head on over to Theatricum Botanicum for The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote, Bernardo Cubría’s couldn’t-be-more-topical-or-entertaining cure for the pre-election blues.
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THE DOUBLE V
Monday, August 26th, 2024A little-known aspect of World War II-era African-American history is brought to life in Carole Eglash-Kosoff’s entertaining, elucidating, mostly successful The Double V, an International City Theatre World Premiere.
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THE 39 STEPS
Monday, August 19th, 2024
South Pasadena Theatre Workshop treats audiences to 75 minutes of virtually nonstop laughter in their somewhat abridged take on Patrick Barlow’s masterful four-actor stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version of John Buchan’s spy classic The 39 Steps.
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THE MUSIC MAN
Saturday, August 17th, 2024
Harold Hill is back in town and aiming to bilk the citizens of River City, Iowa in Meredith Willson’s bona fide Broadway classic The Music Man, now being given an all-around splendid 67th-anniversary revival at La Crescenta’s Highlands Theater.
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TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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HUMAN ERROR
Sunday, August 11th, 2024
A fertility clinic snafu wreaks hilarious havoc on the lives of two married couples, one Red State, one Blue State, in Rogue Machine Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s smart, topical, and very, very funny Human Error.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Saturday, August 10th, 2024
Dramatic and compelling and jam-packed with equal parts spectacle and heart, The Nocturne Theatre’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is all this and more, though not however a kids-friendly family musical like Disney’s The Little Mermaid or Beauty And The Beast.
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