MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD
Saturday, August 25th, 2018
Maid Marian is far from the only resident of Nottingham and its neighboring Sherwood Forest to blur gender and sexuality in Adam Szymkowicz’s LGBTQ-celebratory, song-and-swordplay-packed Marian, Or The True Tale Of Robin Hood, one of Theatre Of NOTE’s most exhilarating hits in years.
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ON YOUR FEET!
Thursday, August 23rd, 2018
Love and family, tragedy and triumph, and música, música, música propel the immigrant American dream as lived by the one-and-only Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet!, now evoking justified cheers at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo’s classic take on Beauty And The Beast, arrives at Moonlight Stages in a powerfully acted and gorgeously sung production that is, make no mistake, not the kids-friendly Disney musical some parents might be expecting despite the presence of half-a-dozen or so songs from the 1996 animated movie hit.
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MAMMA MIA!
Sunday, August 19th, 2018
Fresh new direction/choreography and a look infinitely superior to the Broadway/Tour design that audiences have been seeing since Mamma Mia! first opened back in 2001 are several big reasons to welcome the international megasmash’s arrival at 3-D Theatricals’ stunning new home, the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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YELLOW FACE
Saturday, August 18th, 2018
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang blurs fact and fiction in the most devilishly clever of ways while tackling issues of racism and race in his 2007 off-Broadway hit Yellow Face, now provoking gales of laughter, plenty of post-performance discussion, and an unexpected tear or two at Beverly Hills Playhouse.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Ingenious staging and a talented young cast make Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a guest production at the Colony Theater, the summer’s brightest musical comedy surprise.
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THE CRUCIBLE
Monday, August 13th, 2018
The Topanga hills prove the ideal setting for Theatricum Botanicum’s gut-punchingly powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the first of the six Crucibles I’ve seen to get everything right.
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DREAMGIRLS
Saturday, August 11th, 2018
With its dazzling costumes, pizzazzy lighting, and above all its sensational talent both on stage and off, Cupcake Theater’s Dreamgirls more than holds its own against its multimillion-dollar predecessors.
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