jackbenny
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
The singing, songwriting twins known professionally as jackbenny (and individually as Jack and Benny Lipson) have set up monthly residency at Silver Lake’s Lyric Hyperion Café, guaranteeing audiences two hours a month of original music, laughter, an occasional cover, and a guest artist (or two or three) to spice up the already savory mix.
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BIG RIVER
Saturday, July 7th, 2018
Actors Repertory Theatre Of Simi treats Simi Valley audiences to one of its best–and best-looking–productions ever, a terrifically performed revival of the 1005-performance Tony-winning Best Musical of 1985, Roger Miller and William Hauptman’s Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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CABARET
Friday, July 6th, 2018
Michael Matthews takes Cabaret, a director’s show if there ever was one, and transforms it into the summer’s most spectacular intimate musical, an almost perfect rendition of the 20th-century Broadway classic, a production blessed by superb performances, breathtaking choreography, and the most jaw-dropping design I may ever have seen at Celebration Theatre.
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MARY POPPINS
Sunday, July 1st, 2018
Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre delivers the family entertainment goods with a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Mary Poppins, once again proving that you don’t need Broadway-budget spectacle to get audiences cheering.
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OUR VERY OWN CARLIN MCCULLOUGH
Friday, June 29th, 2018
Amanda Peet takes a trio of characters we’ve seen before–a parent, a prodigiously talented child, and a dedicated coach–and weaves them together into the cliché-defying Our Very Own Carlin McCullough, as riveting a World Premiere as I’ve seen at the Geffen Playhouse, or just about anywhere else for that matter.
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THE HUMANS
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
Laughter and fears go hand in hand at Thanksgiving dinner in Stephen Karam’s justifiably honored Best Play Tony-winner The Humans, now playing at the Ahmanson with its Tony-winning stars Jayne Howdyshell and Reed Birney (and all but one of its original Broadway ensemble members) intact.
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MAMMA MIA!
Monday, June 25th, 2018
No matter how many times you’ve seen Mamma Mia!, you have never seen it as excitingly performed, expertly directed, thrillingly choreographed, or gorgeously designed as it is under Vista skies in its Moonlight Stage Productions SoCal regional debut.
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PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES
Sunday, June 24th, 2018
The roadside joint’s a jumpin’ just a whoop-and-a-holler east of Pasadena as the Sierra Madre Playhouse treats audiences to the infectiously entertaining Pump Boys And Dinettes.
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