ARGONAUTIKA
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Jason’s mythical quest for the Golden Fleece becomes the most thrillingly imaginative action-adventure swashbuckler of this or any L.A. theater year as A Noise Within treats audiences of all ages to Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika: The Voyage Of Jason And The Argonauts.
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HYPE MAN: a break beat play
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
The police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager impacts the lives of a white rapper, his black backup singer, and the multiracial beat maker who completes their stardom-bound rap group in Idris Goodwin’s HYPE MAN: a break beat play, an exhilarating, discussion-provoking Fountain Theatre West Coast Premiere.
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THE WOLVES
Sunday, March 17th, 2019
Echo Theater Company has not only scored a major coup in snagging the Los Angeles Premiere rights to Sarah DeLappe’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves, the extraordinary production Echo has mounted of DeLappe’s Altmanesque eavesdropping on six Saturdays of teen-girl soccer warmups will surely be remembered as one of 2019’s best.
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FRIENDS WITH GUNS
Saturday, March 16th, 2019
Can a “take ‘em all away” couple have Friends With Guns? Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker poses this provocative question in the button-pushing World Premiere latest from the Road Theatre Company on Magnolia.
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REBEL GENIUS – A LOVE STORY
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Albert Einstein may seem the least likely of protagonists for a contemporary pop musical, but wonder of wonders, he makes for a compelling leading man in Rebel Genius – A Love Story, Matthew Puckett’s World Premiere showcase for the gifted triple-threats of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program
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NO, NO, NANETTE
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Roaring Twenties Broadway lives again in Candlelight Pavilion’s bubbly revival of the musical comedy chestnut No, No, Nanette, a nostalgic change of pace from the season-opening stunner that was Titanic, a sweet bit of fluff before the upcoming dramatic fireworks of 2016’s Bright Star, and a tuneful reminder that where songs are concerned, they don’t write’em like they used to.
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HAMLET
Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Five extraordinary actors of assorted ethnicity, gender, race, accent, and age make theatrical history by divvying up The Prince Of Denmark in The 6th Act’s brilliantly conceived, superbly performed Hamlet.
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ALADDIN
Friday, March 8th, 2019
A tale as old as A Thousand And One Arabian Nights, not only is Disney’s Aladdin an entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, it just might be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Segerstrom Center For The Arts stage.
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