GOOD BOYS
Monday, July 1st, 2019
An explicit sex tape involving a prep school jock and a young woman decidedly not his girlfriend sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one entitled Washington DC family in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s suspenseful, provocative Good Boys, now riveting audiences at Pasadena Playhouse.
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LOOT
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
Director Bart DeLorenzo and a mostly English cast get bad-boy Brit Joe Orton abso-bloomin’-lutely right in Loot, the provocative, hilarious latest from Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
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THE PRODUCERS
Saturday, June 29th, 2019
Leave it to Celebration Theatre to take a musical as mammoth as The Producers and scale it down to fit the LGBTQ company’s 47-seat Hollywood digs without losing an iota of its audience appeal. Indeed, the show still officially billed as “A New Mel Brooks Musical” may be even more exciting at Celebration in 2019 than when it made its 2001 Broadway debut.
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DAMES AT SEA
Sunday, June 23rd, 2019
42nd Street meets Anything Goes in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s deliciously campy Dames At Sea, a nonstop song-and-dance extravaganza guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a tap in your step.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
A revelatory Rob Morrow heads an all-around superb cast in The Ruskin Group Theatre’s meticulously directed, stunningly performed 70th-anniversary revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman.
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MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction in Michael Mitnick’s time-traveling, mind-tripping look at the Mysterious Circumstances surrounding the still unsolved death of the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes scholar.
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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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