SWEENEY TODD
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Leave it to La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment to deliver a Sweeney Todd so spectacular and innovative, it’s not hyperbole to call it Broadway-caliber nor to imagine its two sensational leads winning Tony awards for their star turns as The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and his partner in murder, mayhem, and meat pies.
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ONCE
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Chance Theater opens their 27th season with a gorgeously staged and performed production of the 2012 Broadway smash Once, easily one of the most charming and heartstrings-tugging musicals of the past 27 years.
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BROWNSTONE
Monday, January 26th, 2026
The walls of a century-old Upper West Side apartment have much to talk about in Catherine Butterfield’s Brownstone, a trio of fascinating tales all taking place in a single residence but at three distinct periods of time.
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LIFELINE
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
A suicide hotline center provides the backdrop for Robert Axelrod’s Lifeline, a Road Theatre Company World Premiere dramedy as compelling as it is funny as it is ultimately quite moving thanks to a terrific script, a fabulous cast, a sensational production design, and Ken Sawyer in the director’s chair.
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KID GLOVES
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Reality TV competitions don’t get any more entertainingly cutthroat than the one theatergoers get to witness in Matthew Leavitt and Nathan Wang’s delightful new musical comedy Kids Gloves, now getting its World Premiere at the Skylight Theatre.
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THE CLUB OF BROKEN FASTS
Sunday, January 11th, 2026
John Hughes meets William Shakespeare in Phil S. Gould’s Hollywood Fringe Festival hit The Club Of Broken Fasts, now completing its all-too-short three-performance-only reprise at the Long Beach Playhouse.
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THE NOTEBOOK THE MUSICAL
Friday, January 9th, 2026
Exquisitely staged and performed, the best-selling novel-turned-movie blockbuster-turned Broadway crowd-pleaser The Notebook The Musical, now visiting the Pantages, is the most unabashedly romantic musical since The Bridges Of Madison County, not coincidentally another Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-Hollywood blockbuster, and I loved every gloriously sung and heartstrings-tugging moment of it.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 21st, 2025
A production design that just keeps getting more gorgeous, staging that gets more and more inventive year after year, new songs and harmonies to make it seem almost a musical, and cast additions that only add to the magic… For these reasons and more, there’s no A Christmas Carol in town that comes close to matching A Noise Within’s one-of-a-kind take on the Charles Dickens classic.
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