PAINTED PONIES
Monday, June 29th, 2026
L.A. theater treasure Rachel Sorsa delivers an extraordinary solo star turn in Ian McRae’s powerful but bleak Ruskin Group Theatre World Premiere drama Painted Ponies.
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THE UNOFFICIAL ‘MEET THE ROBINSONS’ MUSICAL PARODY
Sunday, June 21st, 2026
Unofficial Musical Parodies don’t get any more inventive than Annika Hoseth’s delightful take on the 2007 animated Walt Disney smash Meet The Robinsons, now completing its crowd-pleasing run at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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THE FIRST GENTLEMAN
Monday, June 15th, 2026There are some terrific songs and performances in Torrance Theatre Company’s The First Gentleman, but the musical itself feels like it’s getting its World Premiere about 20 years too late.
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MELT
Friday, June 12th, 2026A nerdy gay college theater kid and the school’s hunky hockey team captain take an instant (but definitely not permanent) dislike to each other when auditioning for a same-sex romantic two-hander in Shak Kanish’s promising new play Melt, playing this weekend only at the Lee Strasberg Institute’s Marilyn Monroe Theatre.
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ASCENT
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
Henry Ong pays long overdue tribute to Qian Xuese, aka the “Father of Chinese Rocketry,” in Ascent, the much-missed playwright’s look back at not just one of the ugliest pages in American history but one with unmistakable parallels to today’s United States, brought to stunning life at the Skylight Theatre by director-dramaturg Diana Wyenn.
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MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS
Monday, May 4th, 2026There is so much talent on the Colony Theatre stage that it’s a shame they’re not starring in a better show than Nico Juber’s deceptively titled and almost certainly not New York-bound Millennials Are Killing Musicals.
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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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