ALADDIN
Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
A guaranteed entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, Disney’s Aladdin is not only late summer’s most all-around entertaining theatrical extravaganza, it may well be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Pantages Theatre stage.
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THE PROM
Monday, September 4th, 2023
There aren’t enough superlatives in the book to describe Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s stand-up-and-cheer regional premiere of The Prom, my absolute favorite Broadway musical of the past five years.
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KINKY BOOTS
Monday, August 7th, 2023Torrance Theatre Company follow’s last summer’s professional-caliber The Addams Family with the 2013 Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, though this time round the results are considerably more mixed.
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LES MISÉRABLES
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Les Miz is back, and more gorgeous to listen to and look at than ever, as the Pantages welcomes the latest U.S. tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s legendary musical juggernaut Les Misérables.
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RENT
Monday, July 31st, 2023
Direction, choreography, performance, and design come together to spectacular effect as Chance Theater delivers as perfect a production of Jonathan Larson’s chef-d’ouevre as any diehard Renthead could wish for.
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AVENUE Q
Sunday, July 16th, 2023
The expletive-spouting puppets of Avenue Q are back, as foul-mouthed and fabulous as ever, in The Wayward Artist’s terrifically entertaining intimate staging of the 2003 Broadway smash.
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BEETLEJUICE
Friday, July 14th, 2023If you like your Broadway musicals wild and crazy and loud and flashy and all over the place, you’ll likely not mind that Beetlejuice, now playing at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre, doesn’t quite succeed in adapting the Tim Burton masterpiece for the Broadway stage.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023Spirited performances make In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda’s celebration of life in New York’s Washington Heights, a Morgan-Wixson Theatre crowd-pleaser, however the production loses points for its lighting and sound designs.
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