HARVEY
Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic about a man and an invisible six-foot-one-and-a-half-inch-tall rabbit called Harvey returns 81 years after its Broadway debut to close out Whittier Community Theatre’s 101st season on a delightfully (and thought-provokingly) winning note.
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THE CHINESE LADY
Monday, May 26th, 2025
A largely forgotten figure in Asian-American history is resurrected to indelible life by a stunning Michelle Krusiec in Chance Theater’s gorgeously staged regional premiere of Lloyd Suh’s critically-acclaimed off-Broadway hit The Chinese Lady.
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RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
Sunday, May 25th, 2025
Delightful performances, clever direction, and Douglas Carter Beane’s fresh new book are three big reasons why Wisteria Theater’s scaled-down take on the 2013 Broadway revival of the 1950s live TV classic known as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella makes it four winners in a row for the new North Hollywood company.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
It’s a whole new A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Pasadena Playhouse with director Jennifer Chang and an ab-fab foursome of TV/stage stars bringing to scintillating life comedic elements left mostly unexplored in the two previous productions I’ve seen of Lucas Hnath’s 2017 Broadway hit.
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BECKY’S NEW CAR
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Great play. Great direction. Great cast. Great design. Theatre 40’s intimate revival of Becky’s New Car, Steven Dietz’s unorthodox look at marital devotion and extramarital hanky-panky has everything it takes to make it one of Theatre 40’s most all-around fabulous productions in years.
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HIDE & HIDE
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
The American Dream ends up little more than an urban legend for the two star-crossed protagonists of Roger Q. Mason’s compelling, heart-rending two-hander Hide & Hide, a sensationally acted, directed, and designed Skylight Theater World Premiere.
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THE HOMECOMING
Monday, May 12th, 2025
An outsider’s arrival upsets the delicate balance that has until now preserved the status quo inside a vipers’ nest of a family home in Harold Pinter’s 20th-century classic The Homecoming, the provocative latest from City Garage.
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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Kasey Mahaffy delivers an exhilarating, emotion-packed, career-redefining performance as Dublin bus conductor Alfie Byrne in A Noise Within’s stirring revival of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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