Posts Tagged ‘Ahmanson Theatre’
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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PETER PAN GOES WRONG
Saturday, August 12th, 2023
The laughs keep coming and coming and coming as the mishaps keep piling up in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the side-splittingest show to play the Ahmanson since The Play That Goes Wrong had audiences rolling in the aisles four years back.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, July 1st, 2023
Stunningly fresh takes on iconic roles distinguish the the newest Broadway revival of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine’s Into The Woods, now playing at the Ahmanson, from the myriad productions that have preceded it.
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A SOLDIER’S PLAY
Friday, May 26th, 2023
Whodunnits don’t get any more edge-of-your-seat, and National Tours don’t get any more spectacular, than Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony-winning revival of A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller’s eye-opening look at racism on a segregated WWII-era military base, now keeping audiences on the edge of their seats at the Ahmanson.
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1776
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Radical re-conception and revelatory re-casting add up to a revolutionary 21st-century take on Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s 1969 Broadway classic 1776 in the 2022 Broadway revival now thrilling audiences at the Ahmanson.
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