WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum concludes one of its best seasons ever with an absolutely terrific staging of Alice Childress’s slice-of-1960s-African-American-life Wine In The Wilderness.
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THE SEAGULL: MALIBU
Monday, August 18th, 2025
Ellen Geer updates Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull from 1890s tsarist Russia to Malibu, California during the “It’s All About Me” 1970s, and the exhilarating result is The Seagull: Malibu, a romantic dramedy that’s both Chekhovian and Southern Californian, and a Summer Of 2025 treat no matter how you feel about Chekhov.
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ANTIGONE
Sunday, August 17th, 2025
Neil LaBute puts a 21st-century spin on French playwright Jean Anouilh’s 1944 adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, itself a thinly veiled attack on the Nazi-allied Vichy government that controlled Paris during World War II, in the compelling, thought-provoking latest from City Garage.
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STRIFE
Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer in Strife, John Galsworthy’s more-relevant-than-ever look at the darker side of HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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THE FANTASTICKS
Sunday, August 3rd, 2025The ups and downs of first love are explored to engaging, tuneful effect in the Ruskin Group Theatre’s 65th-anniversary revival of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s The Fantasticks, though for me at least, the world’s longest-running musical begins somewhat to outstay its welcome at around the two-hour point.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Monday, July 21st, 2025
Beatrice and Benedick are once again at it tooth and nail, but this time round she’s wearing a hoopskirt and he’s sporting a Civil War-era Army uniform as director Ellen Geer transposes the Shakespeare comedy classic from 16th-century Italy to 1860s Virginia while sprinkling in one I Love Lucy-inspired physical comedy bit after another.
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GASLIGHT
Sunday, July 6th, 2025
Decades before “gaslighting” became a thing people talked about, a villainous Victorian set about convincing his submissive spouse that she was losing her increasingly muddled mind in Patrick Hamilton’s classic thriller Gaslight, a mouthwateringly melodramatic treat from Pacific Resident Theatre.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, June 30th, 2025
Summer has come to L.A., and with it the annual return to Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Shakespearean classic once again delighting audiences of all ages, whether they are experiencing its magic for the first time or returning for another summer afternoon or evening of enchantment.
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