ANNE, A NEW PLAY
Monday, June 17th, 2019
Anne Frank is alive and well and living in Paris when first we meet her in Anne, A New Play, Nick Blaemire’s trimmed-down adaptation of a 2014 Dutch-language hit whose powerful U.S. Premiere more than merits a visit to the Museum Of Tolerance.
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AVENUE Q
Sunday, June 16th, 2019
The Group Rep treats audiences to a crowd-pleasing Avenue Q, the 2004 Robert Lopez-Jeff Marx-Jeff Whitty musical comedy smash that imagines what might happen if Jim Henson’s Muppets started singing songs and teaching life lessons about adult topics like sexual orientation, racism, and Internet porn.
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INDECENT
Monday, June 10th, 2019
A gut-punching, all-too relevant look at Antisemitism, censorship, homophobia, anti-immigration hysteria, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism during the first half of the 20th Century, Paula Vogel’s Indecent is also a thought-provoking demonstration of the power of live theater to both inspire and inflame, and for Los Angeles theatergoers, a chance to see the production that scored director Rebecca Taichman a Tony win two years ago.
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A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Lead performances to rival those of the original Broadway and touring casts and an ingeniously scaled-down production design are two very good reasons not to miss the hilarious salute to homicide that is Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, the murderously mirthful quadruple-Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Saturday, June 8th, 2019
If you’re any kind of musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at least once. But trust me. You’ve never seen, heard, or breathed in anything like The Last Five Years: A Multisensory Experience, the latest from the adventurous After Hours Theatre Company.
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THE PAJAMA GAME
Friday, June 7th, 2019
Racially diverse casting skyrockets a sixty-five-year-old Broadway classic into the 21st century without sacrificing an iota of its Golden Era charm in UCI Claire Trevor School Of The Arts’ big-stage, big-talent revival of 1954’s The Pajama Game.
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THE END OF BEAUTY
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Musings on art and beauty serve as an intellectual prelude to a provocative look at a marriage in crisis in Cory Hinkle’s The End Of Beauty, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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HARVEY
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Harvey is back, and French Stewart is seeing him (even if we can’t) in Laguna Playhouse’s spiffy 2019 revival of Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic.
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