ROMEO & JULIET: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ENDING
Monday, August 15th, 2022
Should Romeo woo Juliet or should he court Rosaline? This is just the first of three major life decisions left up to an audience vote at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Ann and Shawn Fraistat’s Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending, a hilariously clever new take on a centuries-old classic.
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BEACH PEOPLE
Sunday, August 14th, 2022
A quartet of sunbathers philosophize on the sand in Charles A. Duncombe’s absurdist existential comedy Beach People, a City Garage World Premiere impressively acted by a skin-revealing cast of four.
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THE PROM
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
A gaggle of liberal-minded Broadway narcissists descend on conservative Middle America to aid an Indiana teen who just wants to dance in public with the girl she loves in The Prom, the multiple-Tony-nominated musical that now ranks sky-high on my list of 21st-century favorites.
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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Set in the Eisenhower 1950s and featuring a Goodness Gracious Great Bunch of Top 40 oldies, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s The Merry Wives Of Windsor takes comedic flight as the inspired vision of director Ellen Geer, who’s not afraid to alter the text if it earns laughter to do Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel proud.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Monday, August 8th, 2022
Torrance Theatre Company’s finger-snappingly fabulous The Addams Family redefines what a community theater can accomplish with a crackerjack volunteer-actor cast and just as much talent behind the scenes.
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THE METROMANIACS
Sunday, July 31st, 2022
The rhymes come fast and furious, and so do the laughs, in Theatre 40’s 2022-2023 season-opener The Metromaniacs, David Ives’ très délicieux updating of Alexis Piron’s early-18th-century French farce of a similar name.
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IF I FORGET
Saturday, July 30th, 2022
A long-simmering family feud fuels Steven Levinson’s hilarious and harrowing off-Broadway tragicomedy If I Forget, dazzlingly reconceived for the Fountain Theatre by director Jason Alexander.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Disaffected 20somethings let out their anti-establishment rage to a punk-pop soundtrack in Chance Theater’s electrifying summer staging of Green Day’s American Idiot.
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