PETER PAN
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
Whether you’ve seen The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee umpteen times or it’s your first time at the Bee, I guarantee you will fall head over heels for the dazzlingly fresh reinterpretation it’s being given at Santa Ana’s The Wayward Artist.
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NEWSIES
Monday, July 15th, 2024
With Dillon Klena reprising his signature role to sensational effect and director-choreographer Jeffry Denman giving the production a fresh new look and feel, Musical Theatre West treats audiences to one of the best Newsies ever.
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THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
A debonair British secret agent faces his evilest and most nefarious foe, i.e., his own alcohol, nicotine, gambling, and sex addictions (with anger issues thrown in for good measure), in Gregg Ostrin’s deliciously clever, fiendishly funny The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre.
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UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Hollywood history comes alive at East West Players in Philip W. Chung’s Unbroken Blossoms, a fascinating and elucidating behind-the-scenes look at the silent movie classic that was Hollywood’s first interracial love story.
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SEMINAR
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic, dramatically potent Seminar gives five talented L.A. actors the chance to dazzle under Jeremy Luke’s razor-sharp direction at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68.
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CHESS THE MUSICAL
Friday, June 28th, 2024
Jaxx Theatricals treats audiences to a fully-staged production of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s rarely revived Chess The Musical, sensationally performed in the company’s spiffy East Hollywood digs.
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THE OUTSIDER
Monday, June 24th, 2024
Things get hilariously out of hand when the seemingly ineffectual lieutenant governor of an unnamed state suddenly finds himself the man in charge in Paul Slade Smith’s The Outsider, a front-runner for the year’s funniest and smartest comedic treat.
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