Review: & JULIET at Ahmanson Theatre
& JULIET proves rather emphatically that nobody really needs an original idea or song when you can just as easily get folks rocking out to Britney Spears or Katy Perry.
Dates: 7/10/2026
📍 Theatre: Ahmanson Theatre
135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90012
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-628-2772
Mamma Mia!, my my, how can I resist you?! That's what many of you are pondering as you came across this page to grab your tickets for Mamma Mia! at Ahmanson Theatre on Friday 10th July 2026. There's a pretty good chance that you've experienced the movie or even some version of this musical at some point, and yet something keeps you drawn in! We know what that "something" is. It's the soundtrack, the story, and the set design that transport you on a picturesque coastal paradise. There are so many elements to this story that have brought smiles to people's faces and will go on enchanting audiences.
& JULIET proves rather emphatically that nobody really needs an original idea or song when you can just as easily get folks rocking out to Britney Spears or Katy Perry.
When PARADE debuted on Broadway in December 1998 it won Tonys for Best Book and Best Original Score and six Drama Desk Awards. The 2023 revival was nominated for six Tony Awards itself, winning two. Now touring, the show, based on a true story, is in Los Angeles through July 12. And while it takes place 1913–1915, it is still just as relevant today as it was a century ago.
Filled with puns and pratfalls, mugging and mannerisms, the energy never flags in this delightful screwball comedy
Rachel Chavkin’s staging is resourceful and inventive, packing major punches within Rachel Hauck’s deceptively-simple design. David Neumann’s choreography shines in moments of storytelling, defining locales and making electric the mundane act of sitting in a stool, but flounders during more formal dance breaks.
What did our critic think of 1776 at Ahmanson Theatre? In contemporary theater - as in life - optics matter. A lot. Given current trends in theatrical programing, the musical 1776 would probably never get staged. Granted, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's 1969 take on the sturm and drang surrounding the Second Continental Congress's decision to form a new nation may be a patriotic Tony Award-winner.
It seems everybody is having one of two reactions to Director Daniel Fish’s revival of OKLAHOMA! currently playing at the Ahmanson Theatre. But love it or hate it, so much of this update of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s acclaimed 1943 musical in which a farm girl is courted by two rival suitors, works.
Read our critic's review. HADESTOWN, the too-hot musical by Anais Mitchell directed by Rachel Chavkin, is a scorcher. Masterfully sung, elegantly staged and with a sensibility so romantic it could physically knock you over, the national tour of the 2019 Tony Award-winning musical parks at the Ahmanson through the end of May.
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CHAÏR The Elysian Theater (10/17-10/17) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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