DIE HEART: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
The Troubies are back at the Colony Theatre for their annual spoofstravaganza, the “Director’s Cut” of December 2022’s Die Heart, and let me tell you I had even more fun the second time around (and not simply because heroic protagonist John McClane, played by national treasure Matt Walker, interrupted the mayhem and merriment to give a certain L.A. theater reviewer a shoutout).
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Leave it to director Cate Caplin to take a play I had previously found to be heavy-handed and preachy, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, and transform it into something quite magical at Theatre 40.
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THE PRINCE OF EGYPT
Monday, November 24th, 2025
Casa 0101 provides proof positive that last year’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was no fluke, the Boyle Heights theater company returning this holiday season with their impressively staged and performed take on Stephen Schwartz, Philip LaZebnik, and The Book of Exodus’s The Prince Of Egypt.
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POINTY SCISSORS
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
Things go from bad to worse and from hilarious to hilariouser when a nincompoop barber accidentally sticks a pair of pointy scissors into a customer’s ear and then hides the body in the barber shop storeroom in Clara Rodriguez’s nonstop fun fest Pointy Scissors, a Theatre West World Premiere.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
An American couple attempting to make a fresh start in London soon discover this is more easily said than done when things start going bump in the night in Levi Holloway’s terrorific stage spinoff of the movie franchise Paranormal Activity, now scaring the living daylights out of thrill-and-chill-seeking Angelinos at the Ahmanson.
TABLE 17
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Audiences are invited to talk back to the exes who reunite at a trendy night spot to rehash the past and maybe, just possibly get back together in the MCC Theater production of Douglas Lyons’ raucously funny off-Broadway hit Table 17, imported to L.A. by the Geffen Playhouse precisely when stressed-out Angelinos need it most.
नेहा & NEEL (NEHA & NEEL)
Monday, November 10th, 2025
A divorced Indian mother and her USA-born-and-raised teenage son embark on the year’s most entertaining and heartwarming road trip in Ankita Raturi’s नेहा & Neel (Neha & Neel), now guaranteeing audiences an abundance of laughs and more than a few cross-cultural insights at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
ALICE BY HEART
Sunday, November 9th, 2025
The off-Broadway critics got it right when they called Alice By Heart’s book muddled, but that didn’t bother me a bit last night, so captivated was I by the impressive production it has been given by MouthBone Theater Company.
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