Posts Tagged ‘Pasadena Playhouse’

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

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

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024


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

Tuesday, June 4th, 2024


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

Tuesday, March 19th, 2024


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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INHERIT THE WIND

Monday, November 6th, 2023


Inherit The Wind may have made its Broadway debut way back in 1955 and the real-life events that inspired it may have taken place nearly a century ago, but under Michael Michetti’s inspired direction (and given the play’s renewed relevance in today’s ever more polarized America), the multiple Tony-winner’s Broadway-caliber Pasadena Playhouse revival feels as if it could have been written yesterday.
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THE SOUND INSIDE

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023


Amy Brenneman delivers a bravura performance opposite gifted newcomer Anders Keith in Adam Rapp’s unnerving, electrifying The Sound Inside, a phenomenal season opener for the Tony-winning Pasadena Playhouse.
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STEW

Monday, July 17th, 2023


Pasadena Playhouse concludes its monumentally successful Tony-winning 2022-2023 season on a sky-high note with Zora Howard’s gripping, thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining “kitchen sink” dramedy Stew.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

Monday, May 1st, 2023


Pasadena Playhouse’s epic Sondheim Celebration continues this month with A Little Night Music, a Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better revival that tops even February’s magnificent Sunday In The Park With George.
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