Posts Tagged ‘Ahmanson Theatre’
SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS
Friday, February 14th, 2025
Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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DUEL REALITY
Friday, September 13th, 2024
The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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CLUE
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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FUNNY GIRL
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO AND JULIET
Thursday, February 1st, 2024
Daringly reconceived, thrillingly choreographed, and dazzlingly performed, the North American Premiere of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo And Juliet is the latest absolute must-see from the UK-based dance company that has made the Ahmanson Theatre its American home away from home for the past twenty-six years.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
Entertainment Weekly’s 2nd-Best Christmas Movie of All Time* comes to irresistible song-and-dance life at the Ahmanson as Center Theatre Group treats audiences of all ages to Broadway’s A Christmas Story: The Musical.
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HADESTOWN
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
A nearly brand-new cast makes Hadestown’s two-week return to the Ahmanson not only a must-see for anyone who thrilled to the Best Musical Tony winner last year, but also a thrilling introduction to Anaïs Mitchell’s electrifyingly original musical smash for those discovering it for the first time.
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