FREIGHT
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Audiences are flocking to the Fountain Theatre and with good reason. J. Alphonse Nicholson’s tour-de-force star turn as a man with five lives in Howard L. Craft’s off-Broadway-to-L.A. hit Freight is the stuff awards are made for.
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THE HALF-LIGHT
Monday, November 27th, 2023
Four emotionally scarred individuals get a second chance at happiness in Monica Wood’s The Half-Light, a Theatre 40 West Coast Premiere whose touching performances and message of hope make this heartstrings-tugger a bona fide audience-pleaser.
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METEOR SHOWER
Saturday, November 25th, 2023
Leave it to “a wild and crazy guy” like Steve Martin to write a wild and crazy play like Meteor Shower, the deliciously quirky, stealthily surreal hour-long gem now tickling audiences at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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INSULTED. BELARUS
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
A nation’s failed efforts to unseat one of the world’s most reviled dictators comes to stunning, gut-punching life in City Garage Theatre’s English-language World Premiere of Andrei Kureichik’s Insulted. Belarus, an eye-opener to those like myself who knew little to nothing about recent events in Europe’s 13th largest country.
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A FAMILY BUSINESS
Saturday, November 18th, 2023
All hell breaks loose when a dating couple and two sets of parents get together for the first time in A Family Business, Matt Chait’s thoroughly entertaining follow-up to Bearings, which won the playwright a 2022-2023 Best Of The Year Scenie.
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BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
Sunday, November 12th, 2023
“It’s Too Late” “So Far Away” “You’ve Got a Friend” “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman” “I Feel The Earth Move” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”
If these six megahits don’t have you itching to spread the word about Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, then Sara Shepard’s star turn as the woman who wrote and performed some of the mid-20th century’s Greatest Hits most definitely will.
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MAMA MAMA CAN’T YOU SEE
Saturday, November 11th, 2023
Wars past and present merge into an uber-theatrical fever-dream mix of life-or-death drama and mesmerizing modern dance in Stan Mayer and Cecilia Fairchild’s Mama Mama Can’t You See, now blowing audience minds at Studio/Stage.
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INHERIT THE WIND
Monday, November 6th, 2023
Inherit The Wind may have made its Broadway debut way back in 1955 and the real-life events that inspired it may have taken place nearly a century ago, but under Michael Michetti’s inspired direction (and given the play’s renewed relevance in today’s ever more polarized America), the multiple Tony-winner’s Broadway-caliber Pasadena Playhouse revival feels as if it could have been written yesterday.
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