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HERE LIES LOVE

Thursday, February 19th, 2026

Center Theatre Group’s sensationally designed and performed West Coast Premiere of Here Lies Love, aka the Imelda Marcos Disco Musical, has everything an entirely sung-through show ought to have except one vital element–songs you’d want to listen to a second time.

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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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Jocelyn Bioh, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Multiple 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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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Larissa FastHorse, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum
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AMERICAN IDIOT

Thursday, October 10th, 2024

The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Green Day, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum
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A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Center Theatre Group celebrates diversity just in time for Pride Month with A Transparent Musical, an exhilarating but overlong adaptation of the hit TV series Transparent.
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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Faith Soloway, Joey Soloway, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum, MJ Kaufman
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CLYDE’S

Sunday, November 20th, 2022

Four sandwich-making ex-cons strive to forge new lives for themselves in Lynn Nottage’s hilarious, hard-hitting Clyde’s, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum direct from its recent run at Chicago’s Goodman Theater.
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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review, Lynn Nottage, Mark Taper Forum
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KING JAMES

Thursday, June 9th, 2022

Two young men forge a life-changing best-friendship thanks to their shared love of basketball (and more specifically of b-ball superstar LeBron James) in Rajiv Joseph’s heart-stopping brom-com King James, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Mark Taper Forum.
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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum, Rajiv Joseph
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY

Saturday, April 16th, 2022

Love, hate, and jealousy. Pearl Cleage’s Blues For An Alabama Sky has them all, and an abundance of laughs to boot, in Center Theatre Group’s sensatinal revival of the Atlanta-based playwright’s 1995 hit, directed by none other than its original Alliance Theatre Company star Phylicia Rashad.
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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum, Pearl Cleage, Phylicia Rashad
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