BAD HABITS
Monday, January 6th, 2020
A nonagenarian TV legend spars with a quintet of salty-tongued singing nuns in Steve Mazur’s comedic crowd-pleaser Bad Habits, a holiday hit for Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre held over to start 2020 with a bang.
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CHARLEY’S AUNT
Saturday, January 4th, 2020
Effervescent performances by a pitch-perfect cast, inspired direction by a Broadway National Tour vet only just out of his teens, and a script so fresh and funny, you’d hardly guess it was written over a hundred-twenty-five years ago combine to make Glendale Centre Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Brandon Thomas’s Charley’s Aunt the year’s first bona fide comedy hit.
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
Monday, December 16th, 2019
When it comes to terrorizing an all-American family while scheming to get his own egomaniacal way, nobody did it better in the 1930s than radio superstar Sheridan Whiteside, just one reason why Golden-era Broadway fans won’t want to miss The Group Rep’s spiffy revival of Kaufman and Hart’s screwball comedy classic The Man Who Came To Dinner.
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DISPOSABLE NECESSITIES
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Playwright Neil McGowan gives a futuristic spin to the age-old question “What would you do if you could live forever?” in his gender-bending, race-bending, relentlessly clever dark comedy Disposable Necessities, a Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROLE KING
Saturday, December 14th, 2019
No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve had to sit through in your life, you won’t want to miss Troubadour Theater Company’s jukebox-musical extravaganza A Christmas Carole King because (as any L.A. theater fan will tell you) when the Troubies do a holiday show, it’s by definition the most must-see of must-sees.
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WE THREE SISTERS
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Anton Chekhov’s Olga, Masha, and Irina return to life as squabbling 21-century siblings in Mina Bloom and Leland Frankel’s absorbing song cycle We Three Sisters, a Method & Madness Theatre Co. gem playing now through Sunday at Thymele Arts.
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MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE
Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Choreographer extraordinaire Matthew Bourne returns to the Ahmanson with his thrillingly original take on Swan Lake, the Tchaikovsky ballet that first put Bourne’s name on the dance map in the 1990s with its stageful of bare-chested male swans and the handsome prince who found himself smitten with their seductive leader.
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SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY
Monday, December 9th, 2019
L.A.’s most popular year-end comedy extravaganza since the year 2000, Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back for even more December magic in 2019, making this year’s collection of wacky Benny Hill-like skits, SNL-ready videos, Broadway-parodying production numbers, nostalgic recollections of Christmases past, and a whole lot of drag (rated R-for-language and H-for-heart) even more of a must-see.
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