THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER
Monday, September 9th, 2024
There have been a handful of musicals about the American Civil War, but probably never one as eye-opening, entertaining, or emotionally powerful as The Civility Of Albert Cashier, the truth-is-stranger-than fiction Civil War musical now enthralling audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Whittier Community Theatre proves it’s still going strong in its 101st season with 9 to 5: The Musical, the 2009 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1980 Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Dolly Parton movie smash.
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WENDY’S PETER PAN
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum treats audiences to their most kids-friendly show in memory with Wendy’s Peter Pan, Ellen Geer’s reimagining of the J.M. Barrie classic as told by a now grown-up Wendy Darling to her three precocious offspring.
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MURDER AFTER HOURS (THE HOLLOW)
Saturday, August 31st, 2024
Agatha Christie is at her fiendishly clever best in the very long but very entertaining Murder After Hours (The Hollow), now being revived to deliciously brain-teasing effect at North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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THE HISPANIC/LATINO/LATINA/LATINX/LATINÉ VOTE
Monday, August 26th, 2024
If pre-election worries have got you feeling all angsty about November 5, then head on over to Theatricum Botanicum for The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote, Bernardo Cubría’s couldn’t-be-more-topical-or-entertaining cure for the pre-election blues.
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THE 39 STEPS
Monday, August 19th, 2024
South Pasadena Theatre Workshop treats audiences to 75 minutes of virtually nonstop laughter in their somewhat abridged take on Patrick Barlow’s masterful four-actor stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version of John Buchan’s spy classic The 39 Steps.
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THE MUSIC MAN
Saturday, August 17th, 2024
Harold Hill is back in town and aiming to bilk the citizens of River City, Iowa in Meredith Willson’s bona fide Broadway classic The Music Man, now being given an all-around splendid 67th-anniversary revival at La Crescenta’s Highlands Theater.
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TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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