NEXT TO NORMAL
Monday, May 14th, 2018
A spectacular Mazie Rudolph’s star turn as a woman struggling with manic depression is just one reason Broadway’s Next To Normal makes for one of Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s best.
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF CLUELESS
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
East Coast transfer student Tai Frasier may have been clueless when she showed up at Beverly Hill High just aching for a makeover, but the folks at Rockwell prove themselves masterful movie spoofers once again with their riotous, rollicking latest, The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Clueless.
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HAMILTON
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
The American Revolution revolutionizes American musical theater in Lin Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking, game-changing Hamilton, now thrilling audiences at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts like virtually nothing before.
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HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Musical Theatre Guild has concluded its 20th-anniversary with a Honeymoon In Vegas so thrillingly staged, choreographed, and performed that yesterday’s audience could be excused for forgetting that they were seeing a mere “concert staged reading” put together in a mere twenty-five hours from table read to showtime.
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KNIFE TO THE HEART
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
To cut or not to cut. That is the question facing Marshall and his shiksa spouse when pregnant-with-twins Julie Ann learns that the postpartum shindig her Jewish mother-in-law’s got planned will involve not just cocktails but a bit of infant cock-snipping. No wonder Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin have titled their entertaining, unexpectedly touching 80-minute stage sitcom Knife To The Heart.
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THE BABY DANCE: MIXED
Sunday, May 6th, 2018
Playwright Jane Anderson factors in race to her 1991 hit The Baby Dance’s already heady mix of adoption and class to give 2018 audiences a play distinct enough from its source material to merit World Premiere status, Rubicon Theatre Company’s compelling, talk-provoking The Baby Dance: Mixed.
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CARDBOARD PIANO
Saturday, May 5th, 2018
War and homophobia wreak havoc on the lives of an overseas missionary couple’s teenage daughter, her Ugandan girlfriend, and the outwardly maimed, inwardly wounded 13-year-old soldier who interrupts their impromptu wedding ceremony one dark and devastating night in Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano, the gut-punching latest from International City Theatre.
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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Chester Gregory may have Yvette Cason, Paulette Ivory, and Bryce Charles singing the lovesick blues from dusk to dawn, but for audiences at The Wallis, Sheldon Epps’ 1982 Best Musical Tony nominee Blues In the Night proves this year’s feel-best musical revue.
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