WATERFALL
Monday, June 8th, 2015
Lovers don’t get any more star-crossed than Noppon and Katherine, the star-crossed lovers of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s uber-romantic musical tearjerker Waterfall, now getting a gorgeously staged, gorgeously performed World Premiere production at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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OTHER DESERT CITIES
Sunday, June 7th, 2015
Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities has arrived 175 miles west of Palm Springs at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre in a production that makes it abundantly clear why the 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist stands as one of the best written, most thought-provoking, and ultimately most moving plays of the last decade.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Saturday, June 6th, 2015
DOMA Theatre Company returns for its second sensational show of the year with a head-bangingly thrilling intimate staging of Green Day’s American Idiot.
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MARY POPPINS
Saturday, June 6th, 2015
Forget practically perfect. Only someone as nitpicking as Mary Poppins herself could find nits to pick with the Disney and Cameron Mackintosh Broadway smash as produced to utter perfection by La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment.
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Musicals don’t get any more dark and twisted (or come with scores any more gorgeous) than the rarely staged Sweet Smell Of Success, just two of the many reasons to catch UC Irvine’s sensational all-student production, one that rivals the best our professional companies have to offer, albeit with a far more youthful cast.
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THE IDIOT BOX
Monday, June 1st, 2015
If you could live your life in sitcom land and just forget about war, poverty, homelessness, and the complexities of human sexuality, would you?
Playwright Michael Elyanow poses this question in his very funny, very smart The Idiot Box, back for only its second L.A. production ever, and a highly entertaining one at that as staged by Theatre 68 at the NoHo Arts Center.
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A NEW BRAIN
Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Brilliant direction + imaginative choreography + ten terrific performances = more than enough reason for a road trip to San Diego to catch Diversionary Theatre’s pitch-perfect intimate staging of William Finn’s rarely revived A New Brain.
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THE HOUSE OF YES
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
Siblings don’t get any more twincestuous than Anthony and Jackie-O Pascal, the brother-sister protagonists of Wendy MacLeod’s delectably dark The House Of Yes, back for a terrifically acted 25th-anniversary revival at the Zephyr on Melrose.
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