UNDER THE SKIN
Monday, May 8th, 2023
A philandering father suffering from kidney failure. An estranged daughter ill-inclined to donate one of her own. A tearjerker-movie-of-the-week plot-propeller if there ever was one, but one that has inspired an honest-to-goodness comedy, Michael Hellinger’s Under The Skin, the terrific latest from International City Theatre.
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A NEW BRAIN
Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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HAIRSPRAY
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Hairspray remains as fresh and fabulous at the ripe old age of 21 as it was when it made its Broadway debut back in 2002, and if you doubt my words, check out the spiffy National Tour now stopping at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Monday, May 1st, 2023
Pasadena Playhouse’s epic Sondheim Celebration continues this month with A Little Night Music, a Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better revival that tops even February’s magnificent Sunday In The Park With George.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL
Sunday, April 30th, 2023
A star-making lead performance by fresh-out-of-college triple threat Thomas Whitcomb tops the reasons why Footloose The Musical is well worth a drive to the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center.
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MOOSE ON THE LOOSE
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
A moose on the loose in an icy, snowy Northern Ontario town is all it takes for hilarity to ensue in Dina Morrone’s appropriately titled slice-of-immigrant-Italian-family-life Moose On The Loose, as laughter-and-love-packed a comedy as I’ve seen in ages.
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SCINTILLA
Monday, April 24th, 2023
A grown son’s visit to his semi-estranged mother’s woodsy abode soon turns into a matter of life or death as a raging forest fire advances in their direction in Scintilla, Alessandro Camon’s gripping, suspenseful gut-puncher of a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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THE KING AND I
Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
Bangkok in the early 1860s comes to vivid, tuneful life as seen through the eyes of an English schoolteacher named Anna Leonowens in the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic The King And I, now being given a top-of-the-line revival at the La Mirada Theatre.
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