RENT
Sunday, August 31st, 2025
A talented bunch of Gen Zers make it crystal clear why Jonathan Larson’s Gen X musical Rent is still going strong at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center nearly thirty years after its Broadway debut.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, August 30th, 2025
Wisteria Theater Company reimagines Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods as seen through the eyes of a child and the result is a production so sparklingly new, I felt almost as if I were experiencing the Broadway musical classic, one I’ve now seen in a whopping 24 productions, for the very first time.
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DRACULA THE MUSICAL
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
Vampire fans will find themselves in Transylvania Heaven at The Nocturne Theatre’s stunningly staged in-the-round revival of Dracula The Musical, now thrillifying audiences while treating them to some of the most spectacular vocals in town.
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SHUCKED
Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Corn is king in Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Robert Horn’s Shucked, the most hee-haw-larious musical comedy Broadway has seen in years, and as tuneful and heart-filled and downright original as a feel-good musical can get.
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THE SEAGULL: MALIBU
Monday, August 18th, 2025
Ellen Geer updates Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull from 1890s tsarist Russia to Malibu, California during the “It’s All About Me” 1970s, and the exhilarating result is The Seagull: Malibu, a romantic dramedy that’s both Chekhovian and Southern Californian, and a Summer Of 2025 treat no matter how you feel about Chekhov.
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ANTIGONE
Sunday, August 17th, 2025
Neil LaBute puts a 21st-century spin on French playwright Jean Anouilh’s 1944 adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, itself a thinly veiled attack on the Nazi-allied Vichy government that controlled Paris during World War II, in the compelling, thought-provoking latest from City Garage.
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& JULIET
Saturday, August 16th, 2025
Romeo’s teenage bride gets a new lease on life in the West End-to-Broadway smash & Juliet, quite possibly the most hit-packed musical in Broadway history and one that now tops my list of favorite shows of the past ten years right up there with The Prom, Come From Away, and Dear Evan Hansen.
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TUNE IN
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Playwright Carlos Lacámara tackles university politics, mental illness, psychedelic drug therapy, childhood trauma, and women in academia in the early 1960s, stirs in at least one soap opera-worthy plot twist, and garners more than a few laughs along the way in Tune In, another fabulous Theatre Of NOTE World Premiere.
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