tick, tick… BOOM!
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Chance Theater does Jonathan Larson proud with the absolute best of the nine productions I’ve seen of tick, tick… BOOM!, the Rent legend’s early-1990s autobiographical one-man show turned musical three-hander.
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LISTING
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
To renovate or not to renovate, that is the question when an early 20th-century architectural gem is put up for sale in Russell Brown’s Listing, an already absorbing drama when slowly but surely it reveals its true nature as one doozy of a thriller.
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Everything goes right where laughter is concerned in The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End-to-Broadway comedy smash that that just might set a laughs-per-minute record at the La Mirada Theatre.
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SLEEPING GIANT
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
CCAE Theatricals’ acclaimed production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has arrived at the Lewis Family Playhouse to dazzle audiences with a spectacular mix of thrilling storytelling, superb performances, and dazzling multimedia magic.
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THE CURIOUS SAVAGE
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
It’s not the crazies who should be committed in John Patrick’s 1950 comedic gem The Curious Savage, the auspicious start to what promises to be the best season in years for North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
Frederick Stuart’s reinventive star turn as Ebenezer Scrooge tops the reasons why my third time seeing A Noise Within’s A Christmas Carol felt like experiencing this holiday spectacular for the very first time.
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MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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