BUYER & CELLAR
Monday, April 4th, 2022
Mike Millan and Barbra Streisand share the Broadwater Second Stage in Jonathan Tolins’ deliciously dishy Buyer & Cellar, Celebration Theatre’s long awaited return to live-and-in-person programming.
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STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT
Saturday, August 14th, 2021If you’re in the mood for an hour of decidedly offbeat whimsy, then John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Atwater Village, just might be your theatrical thing. At the very least, you’ll reward its star Jim Ortlieb with much earned cheers.
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TEVYE IN NEW YORK
Sunday, July 11th, 2021
If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Tevye and his family after the curtain went down on Fiddler On The Roof, Tom Dugan imagines the fabled milkman’s new life in America in Tevye In New York, a solo performance that reopens The Wallis in an open-air setting just outside the theater’s Beverly Hills digs.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE
Sunday, May 9th, 2021
Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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THE NEW ONE
Saturday, October 26th, 2019
Stand-up comedy at the Ahmanson? Say what?
Now before you rush to judgment, be aware that the stand-up comic in question is actor-director-producer-writer Mike Birbiglia and The New One, the show he’s now touring the country with, comes direct from a successful run on Broadway no less. In other words, if you can afford $35 to $145 per ticket, you won’t find eighty more entertaining, relatable, ultimately powerful minutes of solo-performance theater in town.
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LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
If John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons sounds like it’s going to be nothing more than a light-hearted accumulation of dates and names and facts we all ought to know but don’t, think again. Though Leguizamo’s one-man show is indeed as funny and elucidating as any theater-going moron could wish for, it’s also a justifiably rage-filled attack on those who’d rather see his people erased not just from history books (as they already are) but from America itself.
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CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Friday, November 9th, 2018
A New York-based director, star, and production design team have joined forces to bring Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to spectacular solo-performance life at the Geffen Playhouse.
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SIGNING THE SONG
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Musical theater performer William Martinez escorts audiences on a journey so uniquely entertaining and inspiring, it’s no wonder SIGNing The Song has become a coast-to-coast phenomenon.
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