CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Friday, November 9th, 2018
A New York-based director, star, and production design team have joined forces to bring Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to spectacular solo-performance life at the Geffen Playhouse.
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QUACK
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Allegations of medical advice turned fatal threaten to destroy TV’s most beloved physician in Eliza Clark’s Quack, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere that proves as hilarious as it is timely as it is button-pushing and thought-provoking.
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26 PEBBLES
Friday, October 5th, 2018
Playwright Eric Ulloa puts a personal face on fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history and the deadliest ever at a high school or grade school in his riveting, touching, inspiring 26 Pebbles, Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 at its most risk-taking and cutting-edge.
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Feuding co-workers who’ve no idea they’re secretly in love with each other make for romantic musical comedy magic in the 1963 Broadway classic She Loves Me, Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delightful 2018-2019 season opener.
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THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA
Friday, September 14th, 2018An intriguing premise and promising first act are sabotaged by a ridiculous post-intermission trek to the hereafter that bodes little to no regional theater afterlife for José Rivera’s The Untranslatable Secrets Of Nikki Corona, a Jo Bonney-directed Geffen Playhouse World Premiere.
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SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Regina George has met her Ghanaian match in Jocelyn Bioh’s side-splittingly funny, acerbically perceptive, unexpectedly touching School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, imported to the Kirk Douglas Theatre from its hit off-Broadway run with most of its original MCC Theater cast intact.
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THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Five of L.A.’s most talented triple-treats performing twenty-nine Kander & Ebb gems add up to one non-stop entertaining evening of musical theater as Reprise 2.0 treats audiences to its sensationally performed, imaginatively directed, gorgeously designed The World Goes ‘Round.
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THE CHALK GARDEN
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Brits don’t get more delightfully eccentric than the residents of Mrs. St. Maugham’s Sussex manor house in Enid Bagnold’s 1955 charmer The Chalk Garden, the latest Theatricum Botanicum gem.
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