THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD
Monday, October 5th, 2026
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang combines fact, fiction, and Chinese Opera in The Dance And The Railroad, a strikingly acted, designed, and danced Artists At Play and Latino Theater Company revival of Hwang’s poignant 1981 one-act.
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CLOWN SH*T
Monday, July 27th, 2026
Absurdist theater meets romantic comedy meets a meditation on life and death and what comes in-between in Clown Sh*t, Hope Lauren’s exhilarating, thought-provoking roller coaster ride of a World Premiere two-hander.
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MEXODUS
Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
New musicals don’t get any more one-of-a-kind than Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson’s supremely inventive, supremely innovative, supremely elucidating and entertaining off-Broadway two-hander Mexodus, now dazzling Pasadena Playhouse audiences direct from its New York run.
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BLUE KISS
Monday, April 27th, 2026
All bets are off from the moment 17-year-old Susan arrives at 31-year-old Todd’s one-bedroom apartment for her first SAT tutoring session because if you think you know where things are going in Blue Kiss, Stephen Fife’s riveting two-hander now getting its World Premiere at the Ruskin Group Theatre, you’ve got another thing coming.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Saturday, March 28th, 2026A charismatic Sean Yves Lessard as best-selling novelist Jamie Wellerstein cannot overcome a miscast “Shiksa Goddess,” lackluster direction, and poor sound mixing in Chalomot Productions’ well-intentioned but largely unsuccessful revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Hudson Backstage.
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THE TYPIST
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
A jaded novelist and the cockeyed optimist he hires to type his latest opus try hard not to fall hard for each other in 1961 Greenwich Village in Shem Bitterman’s edgy and entertaining World Premiere two-hander The Typist, now playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre.
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HEISENBERG
Saturday, December 20th, 2025
Heisenberg, Simon Stephens’s odd-couple romcom with philosophical underpinnings, now makes for a fascinating and ultimately quite moving ninety minutes of intimate theater in Los Feliz under Cameron Watson’s inspired direction.
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FLY ME TO THE SUN
Saturday, September 20th, 2025Recent Carnegie Mellon grad Gerardo Navarro gives a charismatic, moving, star-making performance in Brian Quijada’s Fly Me To The Sun, but at the very least this Fountain Theatre West Coast Premiere could use some major pruning.
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