THE LAST, BEST SMALL TOWN
Monday, August 16th, 2021
Two families living side by side in smalltown America, their teenage offspring head-over-heels in love, and an all-seeing, all-knowing stage manager serving as our narrator. Sound familiar?
Only the town in question isn’t Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. It’s Fillmore, California, the families are the Millers and the Gonzalezes, and the year is 2005 in John Guerra’s World Premiere wonder The Last, Best Small Town, now captivating audiences at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT
Saturday, August 14th, 2021If you’re in the mood for an hour of decidedly offbeat whimsy, then John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Atwater Village, just might be your theatrical thing. At the very least, you’ll reward its star Jim Ortlieb with much earned cheers.
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DURANG!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2021Christopher Durang reveals his trademark outlandishness times four at Studio/Stage this month in Mmmkay Productions and Crown City Theatre Company’s Durang!, a quartet wild and crazy Hollywood Fringe Festival one-acts, directed with pizzazz by Kristin Towers-Rowles.
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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
Sunday, August 8th, 2021
Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Sally, Snoopy, and that loveable blockhead Charlie Brown have made Memorial Park their summer home in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s couldn’t-be-better outdoor production of the delightful song-and-sketch cycle You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century tradition at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is back for 2021, trimmed to ninety minutes and jam-packed with physical comedy and song performed by one of the finest Theatricum casts ever, most of them performing in it for the very first time.
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TAMING THE LION
Monday, July 12th, 2021
1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
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AN OCTOROON
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE
Sunday, May 9th, 2021
Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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