1776
Monday, January 14th, 2019
American history comes stirringly alive in Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s 1776, turning audiences at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts into flies on the walls of the Continental Congress of 1776 as our country’s Founding Fathers wrangle over the question of Independence.
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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Saturday, November 3rd, 2018
Farce master Ken Ludwig proves the perfect playwright to adapt Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express for the stage, evidence of which is now on display at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts where Sheldon Epps has directed a pitch-perfect production of a pitch-perfect play.
A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Janis Joplin lives and breathes and sings out hit after hit after hit in her gravely gift of a voice as Mary Bridget Davies revives her Tony-nominated performance as the Queen Of Rock-&-Roll in A Night With Janis Joplin at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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NEWSIES
Sunday, June 3rd, 2018
1899 newsboys on strike give 2018 audiences abundant reason to stand up and cheer La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Broadway-caliber staging of Disney’s Newsies The Musical.
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SOUTH PACIFIC
Sunday, April 22nd, 2018
No matter how many times you’ve seen Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (I myself am at nine productions and counting), you might just feel you’re experiencing it for the first time ever at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, so thrillingly performed and gorgeously designed is this 69th-anniversary McCoy Rigby Entertainment revival.
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CABARET
Monday, January 22nd, 2018
There’ve been Cabarets light, Cabarets dark, and Cabarets in between, but there’s probably never been a Cabaret as pitch black as the stunning German Expressionist nightmare director Larry Carpenter has unleashed on audiences at the La Mirada Theatre For the Performing Arts.
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END OF THE RAINBOW
Sunday, November 5th, 2017
Even the words “definitive” and “tour de force” seem inadequate to describe Angela Ingersoll’s astonishing transformation into Judy Garland in End Of The Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s powerful, probing examination of the last months Judy’s not-so-storybook life, superbly directed by Michael Matthews for La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
It takes brilliance and balls to pull off the reinvention of a musical theater classic, particularly one as renowned for its iconic choreography as for its book, music, and lyrics, but this is precisely what director Richard Israel and choreographer John Todd have accomplished in the brilliant, ballsy West Side Story they have mounted for The La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment.
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