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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A BODY OF WATER
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Get ready to have your mind boggled in the most provocative of ways as Actors Co-op tantalizes and challenges audiences with the gripping if frustrating brainteaser that is Lee Blessing’s A Body Of Water.
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jackbenny: And on the 366th Day
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
When a date happens only once every four years, it acquires event status, which is why jackbenny’s February 29, 2020 one-nighter at the Luckman Fine Arts Center Intimate Theatre, cleverly dubbed “And on the 366th Day,” not only proved a musical extravaganza of epic proportions, the next time the singing, songwriting twins will be able to repeat the event won’t be for another 1461 days.
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BRIGHT STAR
Friday, February 28th, 2020
Glendale Centre Theatre treats audiences to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, not only a heady mix of love, betrayal, hope, and redemption but a masterful example of how to convert a great big Broadway show from its multimillion-dollar proscenium roots to a mini-budgeted in-the-round retooling with zero loss of emotional impact.
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