FUN HOME

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre took its subscribers and donors on a memorable three-performance-only journey back to the 1970s and ’80s with Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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THE BODYGUARD

Daebreon Poiema is once again spectacular as pop diva Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, the ’90s movie smash recreated live on stage at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre under John LaLonde’s able direction.
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB

Sierra Madre Playhouse offers audiences a timely salute to the immigrant experience while exploring the generation/culture gap that separates four middle-aged Chinese women from their grown American daughters in an exquisitely staged and designed production of Susan Kim’s not entirely successful adaptation of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
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PETER PAN

Children in particular will be captivated by Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s high-flying revival of the 20th-century Broadway classic (and perennial TV favorite) Peter Pan.
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DAMES AT SEA

42nd Street meets Anything Goes in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s deliciously campy Dames At Sea,  a nonstop song-and-dance extravaganza guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a tap in your step.
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BRIGHT STAR

Christanna Rowader’s star shines bright in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, a Golden Era-style Hollywood weeper given the most gorgeous of bluegrass scores and just as many joyous laughs as soapy tears on the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre stage.
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BIG FISH

Gorgeously scored and emotionally impactful, Broadway’s Big Fish gets a terrific regional staging at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion, one of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s most successful big-cast musicals in years.
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AUNTIE MAME

Amanda Walker’s absolutely fabulous Mame Dennis and Lauren Mayfield’s hilariously scene-stealing Agnes Gooch are the best reasons to catch Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s big-stage revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1955 Broadway smash Auntie Mame, that and the chance to see where its hit Hollywood screen adaptation and the Jerry Herman musical gem Mame got their start.
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