Posts Tagged ‘Pasadena Playhouse’

AMADEUS


Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays and West End/Bridgerton breakout star Sam Clemmett burn up the stage in what may well be the most sumptuous production in Pasadena Playhouse history in Darko Tresnjak’s stunning take on Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA


Unique doesn’t begin to describe the out-of-the-ordinary theatrical experience that is Julia Masli’s weird and wonderful, almost entirely improvised Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, a Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Touring Production now wowing audiences at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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EUREKA DAY


Vaccination advocates and their opponents find themselves at each other’s throats to hysterically funny and deadly accurate effect in Jonathan Spector’s Tony-winning comedy Eureka Day, Pasadena Playhouse’s Broadway-caliber 2025-2026 season opener.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2


It’s a whole new A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Pasadena Playhouse with director Jennifer Chang and an ab-fab foursome of TV/stage stars bringing to scintillating life comedic elements left mostly unexplored in the two previous productions I’ve seen of Lucas Hnath’s 2017 Broadway hit.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Pasadena Playhouse’s five-year-long winning streak of Broadway musical revivals comes to a crashing halt with Sam Pinkleton’s ill-conceived take on the 1980s Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein classic La Cage Aux Folles.
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC


The translation’s the thing, but far from the only thing that makes Pasadena Playhouse’s dazzling staging of Martin Crimp’s “free adaptation” of Edmond Rostand’s French classic Cyrano de Bergerac the latest Pasadena Playhouse winner.
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JELLY’S LAST JAM


A year after its record-breaking Sondheim Celebration, Pasadena Playhouse gives Jelly Roll’s Jam as spectacularly staged and phenomenally performed a 33rd-anniversary revival as any lover of rarely produced musicals could wish for.
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ONE OF THE GOOD ONES


Fireworks ignite when a well-to-do Hispanic-American couple’s 22-year-old daughter brings home the man of her dreams in Gloria Calderón Kellett’s One Of The Good Ones, a laugh-packed, conversation-starting 21st-century Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner now getting the classiest and crowd-pleasingest of World Premieres at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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