WAITING IN THE WINGS: THE MUSICAL
Monday, November 8th, 2021A Montana gay boy with stardom in his eyes gets accidentally cast in an off-off-off-Broadway male strip show and multiple complications ensue in the stage adaptation of Jeffrey A. Johns’ 2016 movie musical hit Waiting In The Wings, now getting its World Premiere at Westminster’s Rose Center Theater.
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THE SOLDIER DREAMS & NEVER SWIM ALONE
Sunday, November 7th, 2021
Daniel MacIvor’s unique gifts are on display in Open Fist Theatre Company’s The Soldier Dreams and Never Swim Alone, best seen as an evening double feature to fully appreciate the Canadian playwright at his most rule-breaking and rewarding.
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AUGUST WILSON’S SEVEN GUITARS
Friday, November 5th, 2021Performances are impeccable and so is its stunning production design, but I found my mind drifting throughout much of the over three-hour-long August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at A Noise Within.
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MAMMA MIA!
Monday, November 1st, 2021
Mamma Mia! is back, live on stage in La Mirada, and even if you’re one those who saw it on Broadway (or at any time during its fifteen-plus years of touring the country) and thought “Meh,” you owe it to yourself to see how much better the international megahit can be when freed from its original Broadway direction, choreography, and design.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Sunday, October 31st, 2021
Musical Theatre Repertory, USC’s entirely student-produced, student-directed, student-cast, student-designed troupe of multitalented Trojans is back in business after a twenty-month hiatus, and audiences lucky enough to catch their ninety-minute “quarantined concert version” of Broadway’s The Addams Family can count themselves every bit as fortunate as the student talents at long last given new opportunities to shine.
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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
Monday, October 25th, 2021
A man gives three very different women plenty of reasons to sing Blues In The Night in ICT/Ebony Rep’s thrilling revival of Sheldon Epps’ Tony-nominated Broadway musical revue.
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POOR CLARE
Sunday, October 24th, 2021
Contemporary speak proves an ideal fit for Poor Clare, Chiara Atik’s screwball-comedy look at a 13th-century Paris Hilton who gave it all up for God and ended up a Saint.
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THE CALORIE COUNTERS
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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