Angeles Stage

'Sweeney Todd'...for Valentine's Day?

Plus 'The Notebook,' 'Brownstone,' 'More Miracles' and more non-miracles...

Feb 4 • Don Shirley

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December 2025

The top 20 of 2025

Plus 'Stereophonic,' holiday shows, and Rob Reiner's "Dirty Plays"

Dec 18, 2025 • Don Shirley

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November 2025

Tough 'Suffs.' Ghost plays. A cult starts to crack.

Plus 'Passion', 'Mariology', 'Table 17,' R.I.P. Murray Mednick, and more

Nov 25, 2025 • Don Shirley

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October 2025

A Greater LA stage guide, 'Guac' and 'Gone'

'Jaja's,' 'anthropology,' four plays at LATC, 'Aaron Play,' 'Littleboy,' 'ha ha ha...' plus the LA Times list of 52 places to see plays...and more

Oct 30, 2025 • Don Shirley

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September 2025

'Come From Away,' grown in Greater LA

'West Side' moves, vaccine plays, 'Roxie' rocks, 'Adolescent Salvation,' plus more

Sep 30, 2025 • Don Shirley

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'& Juliet' & Oedipus & Elvis

Plus 'Wine in the Wilderness,' 'Masala Dabba,' 'Achilles in Arcadia,' 'Fernandomania' and more

Sep 4, 2025 • Don Shirley

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August 2025

'Some Like' musicals, others don't

'The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals,' 'Some Like It Hot,' 'A Beautiful Noise,' 'Fantasticks,' 'The Seagull: Malibu,' 'Opposite of Love,' 'Reel to Reel…

Aug 2, 2025 • Don Shirley

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June 2025

A powerful 'Parade', a hapless 'Hamlet'

Theatricum re-opens, 'Reservoir,' 'Nice Girl,' 'Sorry,' 'The Wedding Singer,' and more

Jun 27, 2025 • Don Shirley

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May 2025

Mad kings breed dismay, in DC and LA

Trump dumps on theaters. 'Lear Redux' in West LA. Pasadena's 'Doll's House Part 2.' Glendale's 'Glass Menagerie'. 'A Man of No Importance.' 'Life of…

May 29, 2025 • Don Shirley

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April 2025

Penn plays: pop this 'Cork...', payne's lane

'Corktown '39,' 'Violin Maker,' "Furlough's Paradise,' 'You Are Cordially Invited...', How to Fail,' 'Secret Comedy of Women,' 3 plays at LATC

Apr 30, 2025 • Don Shirley

March 2025

Chills in 'Cabaret' X 2, fun in 'frou-frou'

'Blueberries,' 'Unreconciled,' 'Bacon,' 'Hamlet (Solus)' and more. Ron Sossi, R.I.P.

Mar 27, 2025 • Don Shirley

February 2025

Can LA theater match the drama in DC?

'Cambodian Rock Band,' "Fake It,' 'Four Women,' 'Noises Off,' 'Desperate Measures,' 'Macbeth,' 'Twelfth,' 'Sondheim's Old Friends', 'Harry Potter…

Feb 28, 2025 • Don Shirley

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