BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
Fountain Theatre scores a major coup by beating out the biggies with the Los Angeles Premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside And Crazy.
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AUBERGINE
Monday, October 28th, 2019
Julia Cho returns to South Coast Repertory with Aubergine, the Korean-American playwright’s deeply moving meditation on love, life, dying, death, family, memory … and the role that food plays in all of the above.
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MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Sunday, October 27th, 2019
As deliciously dark as it is uplifting and empowering, Matilda The Musical has arrived at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts to charm and delight audiences of all ages.
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THE NEW ONE
Saturday, October 26th, 2019
Stand-up comedy at the Ahmanson? Say what?
Now before you rush to judgment, be aware that the stand-up comic in question is actor-director-producer-writer Mike Birbiglia and The New One, the show he’s now touring the country with, comes direct from a successful run on Broadway no less. In other words, if you can afford $35 to $145 per ticket, you won’t find eighty more entertaining, relatable, ultimately powerful minutes of solo-performance theater in town.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Leave it to Cal State Fullerton’s musical-theater majors to give audiences a Disney’s Beauty And The Beast that tops just about every professional production I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a bunch.
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NEWSIES
Monday, October 21st, 2019
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s spectacular Newsies is not only an infectiously entertaining (and unashamedly pro-labor) treat, it showcases a sensational young ensemble singing and dancing up a standing ovation-worthy storm.
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SOMETHING ROTTEN!
Monday, October 21st, 2019
There’s no more entertaining big-stage musical in town than Musical Theatre West’s regional premiere of Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!, a musical theater buff’s dream come true and just as much fun for those who couldn’t put a last name to Chita, Patti, or Bernadette if their lives depended on it.
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THE MUSIC MAN
Saturday, October 19th, 2019
Adam Pascal’s charismatic star turn as Harold Hill is the best of at least 76 reasons why 5-Star Theatricals’ The Music Man gives Broadway some pretty stiff competition.
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