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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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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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, July 1st, 2023
Stunningly fresh takes on iconic roles distinguish the the newest Broadway revival of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine’s Into The Woods, now playing at the Ahmanson, from the myriad productions that have preceded it.
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TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL
Friday, June 16th, 2023
The legend that was Tina Turner lives on in Naomi Rodgers’ spectacular star turn as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Pantages.
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A SOLDIER’S PLAY
Friday, May 26th, 2023
Whodunnits don’t get any more edge-of-your-seat, and National Tours don’t get any more spectacular, than Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony-winning revival of A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller’s eye-opening look at racism on a segregated WWII-era military base, now keeping audiences on the edge of their seats at the Ahmanson.
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HAIRSPRAY
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Hairspray remains as fresh and fabulous at the ripe old age of 21 as it was when it made its Broadway debut back in 2002, and if you doubt my words, check out the spiffy National Tour now stopping at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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1776
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Radical re-conception and revelatory re-casting add up to a revolutionary 21st-century take on Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s 1969 Broadway classic 1776 in the 2022 Broadway revival now thrilling audiences at the Ahmanson.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The Temptations give those Jersey Boys some pretty stiff competition for all-time best Broadway bio-musical in Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now making a triumphant return to the Ahmanson following its Tony-winning New York run.
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