EDGES
Sunday, July 18th, 2021
The Chance Theater Orange County Premiere of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Edges proves a terrific talent showcase for a quartet of upcoming musical theater stars and the long-awaited chance for audiences to rediscover the thrill of live, in-person performances at the Chance.
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TAMING THE LION
Monday, July 12th, 2021
1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
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TEVYE IN NEW YORK
Sunday, July 11th, 2021
If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Tevye and his family after the curtain went down on Fiddler On The Roof, Tom Dugan imagines the fabled milkman’s new life in America in Tevye In New York, a solo performance that reopens The Wallis in an open-air setting just outside the theater’s Beverly Hills digs.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE
Sunday, May 9th, 2021
Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
Live theater is back, and what a thrill that is, even viewed at a distance from the safety of one’s car outside Pasadena’s Gamble House, with Lineage Performing Arts Center’s superbly performed, ingeniously directed, imaginatively choreographed open-air staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Monday, March 9th, 2020
There’s probably no more surefire musical-comedy crowd-pleaser than Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors, proof positive of which can be found in Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s pitch-perfect revival of the 1982 cult classic.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
A Noise Within makes theatrical magic for audiences of all ages in their absolutely captivating revival of Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’s 1933 Broadway adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
Superb lead performances and a production design that looks as if it were designed with A Streetcar Named Desire in mind make Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s revival of the 1947 Tennessee Williams classic one of the company’s best productions ever.
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