IN THE HEIGHTS
Monday, August 17th, 2015
Candlelight Pavilion tops everything it’s done over the past year—and that includes Evita, The Producers, Spamalot, and last month’s Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat—with a sensational mid-summer staging of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In The Heights.
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LUKA’S ROOM
Saturday, August 15th, 2015
Leave it to Rob Mersola, the playwright who gave audiences Backseats & Bathroom Stalls and Dirty Filthy Love Story, to subvert the teenage coming-of-age tale in the most outrageously unexpected of ways in Luka’s Room, the latest Rogue Machine World Premiere and sure to be one of this summer’s most buzzed-about productions.
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LOMBARDI
Monday, August 10th, 2015
Vince Lombardi—coach, husband, father, man—comes to emotionally resonant life in Lombardi, Eric Simonson’s powerful 2010 Broadway biodrama whose terrific West Coast Premiere at North Hollywood’s The Group Rep might turn even sports-hating theatergoers into football buffs. It certainly made a Lombardi fan out of me.
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GREEN GROW THE LILACS
Sunday, August 9th, 2015
Theatricum Botanicum revives a Golden-Era theatrical gem in a production worth a whole heap of whoopin’ and hollerin’ … but before I go ahead and name it, here’s a question for all you theater lovers out there.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Saturday, August 8th, 2015
The longest-running show in Broadway history is back in town, exciting news indeed for Phantom Of The Opera fans who’ve been waiting years for its return, particularly since this North American Tour’s fresh new scenic/lighting designs and choreography give this Phantom a look unlike any other.
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ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE
Saturday, August 1st, 2015
Cori Cable Kidder delivers a star-making performance as country music legend Patsy Cline in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s season-opening revival of Ted Swindley’s Always … Patsy Cline, easily one of the newly revitalized Playhouse’s best productions ever.
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DOGFIGHT
Monday, July 27th, 2015
Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012, has at long last arrived in Southern California at San Diego’s Cygnet Theatre in a production that is (to quote from one of the show’s best songs) “Nothing Short Of Wonderful.”
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FAILURE: A LOVE STORY
Sunday, July 26th, 2015
A superb cast, a brilliant design team, and above all the directorial genius that is Michael Matthews join forces to turn Coeurage Theatre Company’s Los Angeles Premiere of Failure: A Love Story, Philip Dawkins’ whimsical meditation on the fragility of life and the resiliency of those who live it, into one of the year’s most stellar 99-seat-plan productions.
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