HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Monday, October 20th, 2025
Unique doesn’t begin to describe the out-of-the-ordinary theatrical experience that is Julia Masli’s weird and wonderful, almost entirely improvised Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, a Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Touring Production now wowing audiences at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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HELLO, DOLLY!
Sunday, October 19th, 2025
Tami Tappan Damiano lights up the Musical Theatre West stage like nobody’s business as the one-and-only Dolly Levi in the record-breaking 10-Tony-Award-winning Best Musical of 1964, Hello, Dolly!, not only one of Broadway’s Golden Era’s greatest but one of MTW’s most spectacular productions in years.
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PARANORMAL INSIDE
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Ghostbusting duo Max and Delia are back for more creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky thrills in Paranormal Inside, Prince Gomolivas’s just-in-time-for-Halloween follow-up to his 2022 East West Players hit The Brothers Paranormal.
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HAIRSPRAY
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
5-Star Theatricals concludes its 2025 season with an irresistibly entertaining revival of the 2002 Broadway smash Hairspray, directed by none other than the show’s original Tracy Turnblad, Best Lead Actress Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur herself.
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anthropolgy
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
What if an algorithm could bring back someone you’d lost, or a near-perfect facsimile of that person? What if that algorithm could then investigate their disappearance and come up with answers even the police couldn’t find? This is the heady premise of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, the latest slam dunk for Rogue Machine Theatre.
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THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Boston Court Pasadena revitalizes Tennessee Williams’s last Broadway success with artistic director Jessica Kubzansky’s excitingly cast and powerfully performed The Night Of The Iguana.
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JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
Monday, October 6th, 2025
The double-Tony-winning Broadway hit Jaja’s African Hair Braiding has arrived at the Mark Taper Forum, the nationally touring production treating L.A. audiences to Jocelyn Bioh’s potent mix of hilarity, humanity, and heart.
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I’LL GIVE YOU MY HEART
Sunday, October 5th, 2025
Do you too wish that Hollywood were still making the kind of romantic comedies that turned Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, and Sandra Bullock into international superstars back in the ‘90s? If so, you won’t want to miss Tamara Steren’s heartstrings-tugging World Premiere romcom I’ll Give You My Heart at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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