SOMEBODY TO LOVE
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Four college besties set off on a decades-long journey through life at the Rubicon Theatre in Somebody To Love, a crowd-pleasing World Premiere jukebox musical that with some script tweaking could have legs on the regional theater circuit.
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AMERIKA OR, THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Writer-director Dietrich Smith takes a young German immigrant on the journey of a lifetime in his stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared, the year’s most exhilarating theatrical adventure ride.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Monday, March 30th, 2026
Geoff Elliott’s magnificent star turn as Willy Loman, nearly a dozen impeccable supporting performances, and inspired direction and design by an all-star A Noise Within team add up to as brilliant a revival of Death Of A Salesman as any Arthur Miller aficionado could ever hope to see.
MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Monty Python’s Spamalot is back, and the Hollywood Pantages has got it, guaranteeing L.A. audiences not only the wildest, wackiest, and winningest of musical comedy rides but a spectacular new scenic design and even more flashy dancing than the 2005 Broadway original.
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KIM’S CONVENIENCE
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
As hard as I fell for Kim’s Convenience when I streamed the Canadian sitcom on Netflix a couple of years back, I was unprepared for how head over heels I would be for its inspiration, Ins Choi’s 2011 feel-amazing stage gem now paying a visit to the Ahmanson.
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Sunday, March 22nd, 2026
Six terrific actresses strut their comedic stuff as a sextet of Louisiana women whose delicate exteriors hide tough-as-steel cores in the Group Rep’s season-opening crowd-pleaser, Robert Harling’s Southern-fried charmer Steel Magnolias.
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GUILTY PLEASURES
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Noël Coward meets Neil Simon in Ken Levine’s sexy new romcom romp Guilty Pleasures, now getting a laugh-packed West Coast Premiere at the LAX-adjacent Kentwood Players.
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Sunday, March 15th, 2026
The Nocturne Theatre reinvents Jesus Christ Superstar to thrilling effect by re-situating the famed rock opera in a dystopian version of the world we live in today, and that’s only the beginning.
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