POOR YELLA REDNECKS
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Vietgone’s Quang and Tong are back at South Coast Repertory and facing their not quite happily ever after in Qui Nguyen’s laugh-and-rap-packed World Premiere comedy Poor Yella Rednecks.
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
Sunday, April 7th, 2019
10 Things I Hate About You, 1999’s teen-movie takeoff on Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, is back for its 20th-anniversary Unauthorized Musical Parody at Rockwell Table + Stage, the latest smash UMPO song-&-dance laughfest from the folks who previously spoofed teen classics Mean Girls and Clueless to equally hilarious/raunchy effect.
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PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Friday, April 5th, 2019
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance has been delighting the world for a whopping 140 years, though you’d hardly guess its age, not with a libretto as fresh and funny as the latest live-audience sitcom, and certainly not as directed, choreographed, and performed with effervescence and charm at Glendale Centre Theatre.
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Six Southern women with deceptively delicate exteriors give six Actors Co-op treasures the chance to strut their comedic-dramatic stuff like the L.A. theater stars they are in Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias.
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Teen con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. is once again scamming his way across the country—but this time he’s doing it “Live In Living Color”—in Musical Theatre West’s pizzazzy spring offering Catch Me If You Can, the big-stage musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s popular 2002 biopic.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Saturday, March 30th, 2019
USC School Of Dramatic Arts offers musical theater aficionados the rare opportunity to see Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sunday In The Park With George fully staged, fully orchestrated, exquisitely designed, and most importantly of all, superbly performed by a stellar student cast.
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TOO MUCH SUN
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Tony-nominated playwright Nicky Silver goes Chekhovian without abandoning his gift for snappy one-liners in Too Much Sun, a West Coast Premiere that manages to transition from comedy to something befitting the Greeks without missing a beat.
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