MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
A newly liberated Sicily provides a fresh new WWII-era time and place for American GI Benedick and Italian ragazza Beatrice to fall in love at not-quite-first sight in A Noise Within’s sparkling 2023 revival of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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9 to 5
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Musical Theatre West has another major hit on its hands with the stage adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the tantalizing tale of a trio of resourceful secretaries who put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs along the way.
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COCK
Sunday, February 12th, 2023
One of 2022’s finest productions has returned to the Davidson/Valentini Theatre even more impressive than it was last June thanks to an exciting new cast addition, a more polished design, and the once again stunning contributions of its gifted young director and the three returning stars who once again dazzle in Mike Bartlett’s provocative tragicomedy Cock.
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INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
Katie Forgette puts a 1970s blue-collar Irish-American Catholic comedic spin on the memory play in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the crowd-pleasing latest from Theatre 40.
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RIDE THE CYCLONE
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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FINAL INTERVIEW
Monday, January 30th, 2023
What starts out as a routine job interview quickly turns into a matter of life and death when a construction firm exec finds himself with a gun to his head in Gabriel Oliva’s Final Interview, an edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller that more than merits a return engagement following its all too brief five-performance run at the Pico.
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MR. YUNIOSHI
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Asian-American actor J. Elijah Cho turns the tables on the dubious Golden Era Hollywood practice of casting Caucasian actors as “Orientals” in the bitingly hilarious Mr. Yunioshi, Cho’s thought-provoking look back at the 1930s/40s movie star now perhaps best known for playing Audrey Hepburn’s angry Japanese landlord in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
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TWELVE O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER
Monday, January 23rd, 2023
Alessandra Assaf delivers a spellbinding solo turn as one of the most glamorous screen goddesses in Hollywood history in Twelve O’clock Tales with Ava Gardner, now playing Sunday matinees at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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