LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Monday, September 21st, 2026
Understudy Matthew Taylor Smith got shot out of a cannon and stuck a show-stopping landing as Seymour Krelborn at the post-Opening Night matinee of La Mirada Theatre’s absolutely sensational big-stage revival of the cult classic to end all cult classics, Little Shop Of Horrors.
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Monday, September 21st, 2026
Teen con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. is back in action and once again scamming his way across the country in the Colony Theatre’s exuberant, crowd-pleasing revival of the 2011 Broadway musical based on Steven Spielberg’s popular 2002 biopic.
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THE VISIT
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
How far would you go if someone offered you an outrageous sum of money on one condition? And if you were willing to go that far, how would you rationalize your decision to do the unthinkable? These are the questions at the heart of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, now being revived at the Pasadena Playhouse in a production so spectacular, you’d think you were seeing it on Broadway.
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TEXAS SODOMY
Sunday, September 13th, 2026
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“There’s a black man with a gun in Apartment 833 of the Colorado Club Apartments acting crazy.” It’s that single brief 911 phone call that sets the ball rolling in Texas Sodomy, Howard Skora’s wildly entertaining, fact-based look back at the second-most groundbreaking Supreme Court decision in LGBTQ+ history.
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THE TRAIL TO OREGON
Saturday, September 12th, 2026
Western Expansion has rarely been as fraught with fun, frolic, and fantasy (not to mention music, dance, and audience participation) as it is in The Trail To Oregon!, the irresistibly entertaining guest production now rib-tickling audiences at the Wisteria Theatre.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Death-defying aerial performances and breathtaking acrobatic feats, stunning animal puppetry, and forbidden love at its most forbidden, Water For Elephants, now dazzling Pantages Theatre audiences, has them all.
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THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII
Monday, September 7th, 2026
All bets are off when a sextet of native and transplanted Topangans get together for a couples’ dinner in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in Bernardo Cubría’s The People Of Pompeii, as laugh-out-loud funny as it is deeply perceptive of the political, economic, and social divides that polarize us and the humanity that binds us together.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Friday, September 4th, 2026
Even last-minute improvised emergency lighting couldn’t dim the opening night excitement at Altadena Music Theatre’s all-around fabulous open-air revival of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors.
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