AS WE BABBLE ON
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Millennials get their turn in the East West Players spotlight in Nathan Ramos’s World Premiere comedy As We Babble On, a crowd-pleasing Asian-American take on Friends with more than just laughter on its mind.
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WITH LOVE, MARILYN
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
Marilyn Monroe is crossing the country to tell her rags-to-riches, obscurity-to-stardom life story in song, and since it’s triple-threat blonde bombshell Erin Sullivan doing the telling and the singing, With Love, Marilyn makes for a fabulously performed trip down memory lane.
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NEWSIES
Sunday, June 3rd, 2018
1899 newsboys on strike give 2018 audiences abundant reason to stand up and cheer La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Broadway-caliber staging of Disney’s Newsies The Musical.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
You are hereby invited to dine in elegance whilst savoring the equally delectable delights of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest as The 413 Project Theater serves up high tea dinner and a show at Pasadena’s Madeline Gardens, as appetizing an evening of Oscar as any Wilde fan could possibly wish for.
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
Friday, June 1st, 2018
The audience is locked up side by side with the loonies in After Hours Theatre Company’s über-immersive One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and if Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of Ken Kessey’s novel isn’t ideally served by this you-are-there approach or the production’s younger-than-written crazies, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The Experience is a theatrical adventure you won’t want to miss.
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HOSTAGE
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
A Wisconsin mother visits her captive son at the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis in Michelle Kholos Brooks’ compelling, eye-opening, fact-based World Premiere drama Hostage, the latest from Skylight Theatre Company.
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RED SPEEDO
Monday, May 28th, 2018
Obie-winning Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath (The Christians, A Doll’s House, Part 2) takes on Sex, Drugs, and Olympic Sports in Red Speedo, the theatrical equivalent of a Raging Waters thrill ride now getting a gold-medal Southern California Premiere at the Road on Magnolia.
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VIOLET
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
Director Richard Israel and a couldn’t-be-better cast and design team get everything right in Actors Co-op’s soul-reviving intimate staging of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet.
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