BACK PORCH
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
Playwright Eric Anderson pays affectionate tribute to William Inge in Back Porch, the play Inge might himself have written had mid-20th-century Middle America not kept the gay Kansan locked tightly in the closet.
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SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
Saturday, April 1st, 2023
Forty talented performers and the magic of Dr. Seuss fill the Colony Theatre stage as it’s never been filled before in Seussical The Musical, a song-and-dance-packed treat for kids and adults of all ages.
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LOVE AND INFORMATION
Saturday, March 4th, 2023
Eight actors play over a hundred characters in four dozen mostly comedic vignettes over the course of a briskly moving seventy-five minutes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the provocative, mind-blowing latest from Antaeus Theatre Company.
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GREY GARDENS
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Trisha Rapier delivered a dazzling star turn in Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only staging of Grey Gardens, an award-caliber performance made even more remarkable given the rehearsal-time limit for an Actors’ Equity-sanctioned concert staged reading: 25 hours max.
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CALVIN BERGER
Sunday, February 19th, 2023
Get ready to fall head over heels for Calvin Berger, both the lovestruck teenager played ever so winningly by Frankie A. Rodriguez and Barry Wyner’s tune-packed high-school-musical take on Cyrano de Bergerac, now captivating audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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HOME FRONT
Saturday, January 14th, 2023
An interracial couple fall in love on VJ Day 1945 only to find their post-WWII hopes and dreams dashed by the discovery that, as the French so aptly put it, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” in the Victory Theatre Center West Coast Premiere of Warren Leight’s eye-opening, emotion-packed Home Front.
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DIE HEART
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Troubadour Theater Company’s band of triple-threat zanies spoof the action movie genre in their own inimitable way in Die Heart, combining the Troubies’ trademark blend of unrepressed lunacy with the songs of ‘70s/’80s rock legends Ann and Nancy Wilson jukeboxed into their take on the movie that launched Bruce Willis’s career as everybody’s favorite cop-turned-antiterrorist.
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BRIGADOON
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Musical Theatre Guild opened its two-show 2022-2023 season in kilts and plaid with a terrifically performed, one-night-only concert staged reading of Brigadoon, the musical that began one of Broadway’s most successful collaborations.
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