FLOWER DRUM SONG
Friday, April 24th, 2026
A hundred million miracles may be happening every day, but none are more miraculous where musical theater is concerned than the one that has transformed Flower Drum Song, splendiferously revived at Little Tokyo’s Aratani Theatre, from a show filled with antiquated stereotypes to one that can now take its place among Rodgers and Hammerstein’s finest.
FOR WANT OF A HORSE
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
“Horsing around” takes on new meaning in Olivia Dufault’s For Want Of A Horse, Echo Theater Company’s provocative World Premiere look at a man with two loves, his wife Bonnie and a filly named Q-Tip.
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CLARA VS. INFINITY
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Peter and the Starcatcher. And now Zack Rocklin-Waltch’s Clara vs. Infinity. Plays don’t get any more extraordinary than these.
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MEAN GIRLS
Monday, April 13th, 2026
It’s taken eight years for Mean Girls to make it from Broadway to La Mirada for its Southern California Regional Premiere, and McCoy Rigby Entertainment has pulled out all the stops to deliver not only a fabulously directed, choreographed, and performed crowd-pleaser but a freshly designed one as well.
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ENGLISH
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
You don’t have to have made a lifetime career out of teaching English to speakers of other languages as I have to be blown away by the Broadway production of Sanaz Toossi’s extraordinary Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, now paying a must-see visit to The Wallis in Beverly Hills.
REEFER MADNESS
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
Women cry for it, men die for it, and the audience goes wild for it in Wisteria Theater Company’s wickedly entertaining take on Reefer Madness The Musical, Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney’s tuneful stage adaptation of what is surely one of the worst movies ever made.
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SOMEBODY TO LOVE
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Four college besties set off on a decades-long journey through life at the Rubicon Theatre in Somebody To Love, a crowd-pleasing World Premiere jukebox musical that with some script tweaking could have legs on the regional theater circuit.
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AMERIKA OR, THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Writer-director Dietrich Smith takes a young German immigrant on the journey of a lifetime in his stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared, the year’s most exhilarating theatrical adventure ride.
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