Posts Tagged ‘Pasadena Playhouse’
AMERICAN HERO
Saturday, October 6th, 2018Times are tough for the heroic “sandwich artists” of Bess Wohl’s absurdist, existentialist, surrealist, and non-stop hilarious American Hero, the latest Los Angeles Premiere from IAMA Theatre Company.
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NATIVE GARDENS
Monday, September 10th, 2018Racism, sexism, ageism, and a fence add up to one of the year’s funniest—and most button-pushing—comedies in Karen Zacarías’s Native Gardens, now getting its most star-studded production to date at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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BELLEVILLE
Monday, April 23rd, 2018Young marrieds don’t get much more appealing than Americans in Paris Abby and Zack, but don’t let their Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks looks and charm fool you into thinking Amy Herzog’s Belleville will be the next big romcom. What the Obie-winning Pulitzer Prize finalist has up her sleeve in Belleville is something considerably darker and more twisted, just one reason the latest from the Pasadena Playhouse is one of the season’s must-see productions.
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PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Thursday, February 1st, 2018Pasadena Playhouse is throwing a beach party and you’re invited to share the stage with the players as the audaciously talented young Chicago troupe known as The Hypocrites treat L.A. audiences to the fun-in-the-sun extravaganza that is their take on Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance.
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MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Saturday, December 16th, 2017Pasadena Playhouse fills this year’s holiday slot with a “live radio play” adaptation of the 1947 movie classic Miracle On 34th Street, a charmer, make no mistake, but more stocking stuffer than a full-fledged Christmas gift to follow the back-to-back brilliance of Our Town and King Charles III.
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OUR TOWN
Monday, October 2nd, 2017Deaf West Theatre and Thornton Wilder prove a match made in heaven as Pasadena Playhouse debuts an exquisite seventy-ninth anniversary revival of Wilder’s classic bit of Americana, Our Town, as it has quite literally never been staged before.
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SHOUT SISTER SHOUT
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017The cast is sensational as all get-out and the life story they have to tell, that of Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), is well worth a stage or screen bio, but the late great gospel/R&B pioneer deserves far better than the ill-conceived World Premiere musical Shout Sister Shout.
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