THE NINTH DOOR
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
A playwright/actor’s two Marine Corps deployments in Afghanistan inform Matthew Domenico and Katherine Connor Duff’s The Ninth Door, now holding audiences riveted at West Hollywood’s The Other Space.
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CLUE
Monday, September 27th, 2021
McCoy Rigby Entertainment returns live and in person to La Mirada with Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity guaranteed to cure the pandemic blues.
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OUR MAN IN SANTIAGO
Friday, September 24th, 2021
The CIA enlists the most improbable of assassins to rid Chile of its democratically elected president in Mark Wilding’s edge-of-your-seat hilarious Our Man In Santiago, an incisively directed, pitch-perfectly performed World Premiere from Theatre West.
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LIZASTRATA
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
Start spreading the news. The Troubadour Theater Company is back, live and in person at the Getty Villa, mashing up the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata with the Troubies’ trademark blend of zany jokes, inspired adlibs (impromptu or scripted, you be the judge), snappy dance moves, and “the music of Liza Minnelli” in the cleverly redubbed Lizastrata.
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JULIUS CAESAR
Monday, September 6th, 2021
Adeptly trimmed to a brisk eighty minutes by Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer and filled with as much action as it is with political intrigue, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adds up to classical theater as thrillingly staged as it is easily accessible to 21st Century audiences.
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THE LAST, BEST SMALL TOWN
Monday, August 16th, 2021
Two families living side by side in smalltown America, their teenage offspring head-over-heels in love, and an all-seeing, all-knowing stage manager serving as our narrator. Sound familiar?
Only the town in question isn’t Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. It’s Fillmore, California, the families are the Millers and the Gonzalezes, and the year is 2005 in John Guerra’s World Premiere wonder The Last, Best Small Town, now captivating audiences at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
Sunday, August 8th, 2021
Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Sally, Snoopy, and that loveable blockhead Charlie Brown have made Memorial Park their summer home in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s couldn’t-be-better outdoor production of the delightful song-and-sketch cycle You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century tradition at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is back for 2021, trimmed to ninety minutes and jam-packed with physical comedy and song performed by one of the finest Theatricum casts ever, most of them performing in it for the very first time.
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