Posts Tagged ‘Center Theatre Group’
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
An American couple attempting to make a fresh start in London soon discover this is more easily said than done when things start going bump in the night in Levi Holloway’s terrorific stage spinoff of the movie franchise Paranormal Activity, now scaring the living daylights out of thrill-and-chill-seeking Angelinos at the Ahmanson.
JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
Monday, October 6th, 2025
The double-Tony-winning Broadway hit Jaja’s African Hair Braiding has arrived at the Mark Taper Forum, the nationally touring production treating L.A. audiences to Jocelyn Bioh’s potent mix of hilarity, humanity, and heart.
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& JULIET
Saturday, August 16th, 2025
Romeo’s teenage bride gets a new lease on life in the West End-to-Broadway smash & Juliet, quite possibly the most hit-packed musical in Broadway history and one that now tops my list of favorite shows of the past ten years right up there with The Prom, Come From Away, and Dear Evan Hansen.
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PARADE
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
Michael Arden’s brilliant Tony-winning direction revitalizes Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade, topping the reasons why Broadway’s 2013 Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical is an absolute must-see at the Ahmanson.
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LIFE OF PI
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Not since War Horse has there been a theatrical experience as spectacular as Life Of Pi, the Tony-winning Broadway smash now dazzling L.A. audiences with its life-sized animal puppets, it cinematic spectacle, and Taha Mandviwala’s star-making performance in the title role.
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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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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
Friday, February 7th, 2025Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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