GREASE
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
McCoy Rigby Entertainment pulls out all the stops to serve up a couldn’t-be-better Grease at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, astutely cast, adroitly directed, arrestingly designed, and entertaining as all get-out.
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ANATOMY OF GRAY
Saturday, January 21st, 2023
An offbeat stranger’s sudden arrival via tornado smack dab in the middle of “the most boring place in the world” sets in motion a series of events destined to transform the lives of a plucky Midwest teen and her fellow Indiana townsfolk in Jim Leonard’s Anatomy of Gray, the simply marvelous latest from Open Fist Theatre Company.
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BROTHERS PLAY
Monday, January 16th, 2023
Traumatic childhood memories haunt a trio of 40something male siblings on a fateful Christmas Eve in Brothers Play, Matthew Doherty’s darkly comedic walloper now getting a spectacularly acted, directed, and designed World Premiere production at Legacy LA.
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HOME FRONT
Saturday, January 14th, 2023
An interracial couple fall in love on VJ Day 1945 only to find their post-WWII hopes and dreams dashed by the discovery that, as the French so aptly put it, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” in the Victory Theatre Center West Coast Premiere of Warren Leight’s eye-opening, emotion-packed Home Front.
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LITTLE THEATRE
Sunday, December 18th, 2022
Justin Tanner’s ’90s-nostalgia-filled autobiographical gem Little Theatre once again showcases the prolific playwright’s gift for out-of-left-field laughs, especially when delivered by a couldn’t-be-better trio of Rogue Machine stars.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The Temptations give those Jersey Boys some pretty stiff competition for all-time best Broadway bio-musical in Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now making a triumphant return to the Ahmanson following its Tony-winning New York run.
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LITTLE WOMEN – THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Sarah Pierce’s revelatory star turn as Jo March tops the list of reasons not to miss the fourth incarnation of Little Women – The Broadway Musical at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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DIE HEART
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Troubadour Theater Company’s band of triple-threat zanies spoof the action movie genre in their own inimitable way in Die Heart, combining the Troubies’ trademark blend of unrepressed lunacy with the songs of ‘70s/’80s rock legends Ann and Nancy Wilson jukeboxed into their take on the movie that launched Bruce Willis’s career as everybody’s favorite cop-turned-antiterrorist.
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