MASALA DABBA
Monday, September 15th, 2025
An Indian widow pays an unexpected visit to the adult daughter she hasn’t communicated with in over fifteen years, her daughter’s African-American husband, and the teenage granddaughter she has never met in Wendy Graf’s cross-cultural family drama Marsela Dabba, an impressive International City Theatre World Premiere.
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WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum concludes one of its best seasons ever with an absolutely terrific staging of Alice Childress’s slice-of-1960s-African-American-life Wine In The Wilderness.
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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Monday, September 8th, 2025
The Swinging Sixties have rarely if ever swung as wildly and wackily as they do in the physical-comedy-packed screwball funfest that is the West End-to-Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, A Noise Within’s couldn’t-be-more-fabulous 2025-2026 season opener.
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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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