TIGERS, TRAUMA, AND THEATRICAL MAGIC: LIFE OF PI ROARS TO THE STAGE Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel's story has found enormous commercial success " first in Yann Martel's Booker Prize"winning nov…
THE DELOREAN IS THE ONLY THING THAT FLIES IN THIS DUMPSTER FIRE Since the release of the Stranger Things television series in 2016, the public appeal of all things '80s has left very few sto…
FEED ME MORE OF THIS DELICIOUS PRODUCTION Stroll down Skid Row to visit Mushnik's Flower Shop and immerse yourself in Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's musical masterpiece Little Shop of Horro…
I'VE GOT SOME GREAT NEWS TO CHER The Cher Show, a new musical that follows Broadway's continuous trend of capitalizing on rockstar jukebox bio-musicals like MJ The Musical and Tina The Tina …
STRIKE A POSE! Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. " Coco Chanel Ret…
MURDEROUS LAUGHTER In 1945, "Cluedo" first came on the scene in the United Kingdom to the delight of board game lovers. Created by game designer Anthony E. Pratt, this beloved family friend …
IT'S SILLY BUT NOT KOOKY (SNAP, SNAP) Every generation, there is an iconic TV family that defines the era. From the perfect clan of The Donna Reed Show to the trashy hellscape of Keeping Up …
HELLOOOOOO! The 90s zeitgeist has returned in the form of drag Scottish nanny Mrs. Doubtfire, the eponymous movie of which has been turned into a Broadway musical, and is now on a national t…
THERE'S A STAR IN THIS DUSTY OLD COUCH OF A MUSICAL Funny Girl " the musical narrative of the ugly duckling turned Ziegfeld star turned tragic heroine " takes center stage once more. With be…
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST OF POPCORN THEATRE In Nocturn Theater's inaugural season, the company embarked on a daring journey, presenting some of Broadway's most iconic works. From Into the Wo…
KINK SHAME: AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE MASSES In North Hollywood, the audience's senses were assaulted, mainly by each other, in the reception room before we even got into the theater for the …
A HEARTBREAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL MINDFUCK "He was immortal, so he couldn't die, but this pain, it was agony " it was a wound that would never heal. So he begged the other deities to make him mort…
HOW I WISH MARILYN MONROE WAS MY MOM In Luke Yankee's Marilyn, Mom & Me, the playwright-director takes the audience on a ruminative journey based on the complex relationship with his mot…
A PERFECTLY CRAFTED TRAINWRECK Having brought the house down with The Play that Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre Company has followed up with a delicious offering: Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Written …
VIVA LA VIE CHANCE Rent by the late Jonathan Larson (tick, tick… BOOM!) is a musical theater phenom; productions are as ubiquitous as the stars in the firmament. The show is about a year i…
THESE SIX QUEENS SLAY IT The cast of Six riled up the audience at Segerstrom in this pop concert remix of Tudor history. Catchy earworms, check. Iconic costumes, check. American-Idol-esque b…
PAILAPIL POPS HIS CHERRY IN HIS PLAYWRITING PREMIERE "Why won't you let me top you? Is it because I am Asian?!" This ear-catching line is decried robustly by the very passionate protagonist …
ALL THAT JAZZ AND MORE Bandstand, shining lights, and sexy murderers in lingerie. Chicago celebrates 25 years of razzle dazzle with this national tour featuring the original New York product…
A TRAILBLAZING VOICE EMERGES It is tough to capture what Avaaz is in writing. On the surface, it is a one-person play in which author Michael Shayan plays his mother, Roya, a Jewish-Iranian …
A LOVE LETTER TO AN IMMIGRANT FATHER Coleman '72 is getting a fantastic world premiere production from South Coast Repertory. It is a melodrama about nostalgia, the immigrant experience, cro…
THIS HEAVYWEIGHT TAKES THE PRIZE Can you ask for a more perfect pairing than a drag queen and the high camp of musical theater? In this national tour production of Hairspray, Tracy Turnblad …
DROP-DEAD FUNNY What happens when you take Little Shop of Horrors and mix it with The Pink Panther cartoons, and throw in a little dash of Urinetown? You get this fantastic dark musical come…
ONCE UPON AN AMAZING TIME Good theater allows audiences to see the world from the eyes of the creators. In this triumphant production of Once, which opened last night March 12 at Laguna Play…
PLAYFUL SINGULARITY DaEun Jung's Byoulnorri closes Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's dance festival, 2023 Dance at the Odyssey, with playful austerity. The hour-long concert is performed in two par…
THIS JOYOUS TRIUMPH IS LIKE A PIG IN SHIT Mixed with the contradictory language of William Shakespeare and Trump-speak, Nimrod is a gut-busting, refreshing, sharp, irreverent, and often caco…