THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Wisteria Theater Company scores their second hit in a row with their completely captivating take on the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, impressively directed by Brayden Hade.
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DRAT! THE CAT!
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025
Sixty years after it flopped big time on Broadway, the largely forgotten Drat! The Cat! has been given fresh new life by director Bruce Kimmel in a delightful, six-decades-postponed West Coast Premiere at the Group Rep Theatre.
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CABARET
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Even constrained by the limitations of a rented set, master director Michael Matthews and an absolutely superb cast deliver a 5-Star Theatricals Cabaret resplendent with Matthews’ unique brand of brilliance.
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THESE SHINING LIVES
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Decades before Erin Brockovich played David to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Goliath, a young woman fought a similarly consequential battle in Ottawa, Illinois, events that playwright Melanie Marnich recounts in These Shining Lives, the stunning latest from Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
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SUCH SMALL HANDS
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, March 8th, 2025
Nearly thirty years after its Los Angeles World Premiere, Bat Boy The Musical finally gets the sensationally staged and performed local revival it so richly deserves thanks to the always impressive Open Fist Theatre Company.
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FROU-FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS
Monday, March 3rd, 2025
If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo’s deliciously daring queer riff on Williams’ A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure.
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44 THE MUSICAL
Saturday, March 1st, 2025
Has life under 47 got you down? If so, head on over to the Kirk Douglas Theatre where 44 The Musical’s rollicking, raunchy, R&B-packed look back at Barack Obama’s first term in office has arrived to provide L.A. audiences with a spirits-lifting respite from the DJT blues.
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