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Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey

by Evan Henerson · August 27, 2026

TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater

by Edmund Whelan · August 24, 2026

The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

by Edmund Whelan · August 22, 2026

Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…

Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre

Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre

by Melissa Heckscher · August 22, 2026

With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…

Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box

Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box

by Harker Jones · August 18, 2026

Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…

Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego

Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego

by Evan Henerson · August 17, 2026

The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…

Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre

Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre

by Shari Barrett · August 12, 2026

Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…

Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

by Evan Henerson · August 7, 2026

Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…

Past Shows

20 total · showing 1–10

A Role Playing Game

A Role Playing Game

Jun 8 – Jun 28, 2026

Every Caverns and Creatures campaign needs three things: Knights! Wizards! And, political discourse? When a group of friends finish their long-running C&C campaign, an exploration of what comes next for their shared imaginary world turns into a heated debate over political...

Cumming Down The Mountain

Jun 9 – Jun 28, 2026

Cumming Down The Mountain is a 60-minute raunchy queer comedy written and directed by Katie Hatlestad and produced by Carlos Westbrook, presented as part of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The play follows Hazel, played by Summer Benson, a young queer girl sent to a...

Hold That Thought While I Scream

Hold That Thought While I Scream

Jun 6 – Jun 28, 2026

Set in a 1940s therapist’s office, a therapist meets with three increasingly fractured clients, each bringing their own confessions, delusions, and carefully constructed narratives. As she moves from session to session, her own sense of self begins to erode. Sleep-deprived and...

Jeremy Worried About the Wind

Jeremy Worried About the Wind

Jun 11 – Jun 27, 2026

Explores the weight of childhood anxiety and the liberation found when we finally trade our lists for the unpredictable magic of the unknown.

The Anti-Magic Magic Show

The Anti-Magic Magic Show

Jun 6 – Jun 27, 2026

The Anti-Magic Magic Show is billed as “a magic show for people who hate magic shows.” This suggests that people who have seen magic shows in Vegas or elsewhere have been disappointed by them: the repetition of very old, over-familiar tricks, the fakery involved, the...

Hold That Thought While I Scream

Jun 6 – Jun 26, 2026

Hold That Thought While I Scream is a dark comedy-drama written and directed by Barrett DeYoung, making its debut at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Set in a 1940s therapist's office, the play follows Lady Havilland, portrayed by Nicole Ohara, a fiercely ambitious therapist who...

The Secrets of Uvhash-Ra

The Secrets of Uvhash-Ra

Jun 4 – Jun 26, 2026

At the prestigious Miskatonic University, Polly Simpkins and Gwen Hunter are normal, college girls. Polly is academic, obsessed with research and straight A’s. Gwen is hot and popular and would rather party than study. But their lives are turned upside-down one night when Martha...

The House Always Wins

Jun 4 – Jun 25, 2026

The House Always Wins is a world-premiere original musical written, directed, and starring Carli Wright, presented as part of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The folksy play features a musically inclined ghost tasked with haunting her childhood home by The House, an echo of...

Baby Bipolar

Jun 7 – Jun 21, 2026

Baby Bipolar is a solo show created and performed by Maria Mainelli, directed by Fiona Campbell, making its West Coast premiere at Hollywood Fringe 2026. The show traces Mainelli's first five years following a bipolar 1 diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic, moving through...

Roast Your Chestnuts

Jun 5 – Jun 21, 2026

Roast Your Chestnuts is a 45-minute solo comedy show featuring a glamorously unhinged Mrs. Claus who has had enough of holiday cheer after centuries trapped behind an oven in the shadow of a narcissistic husband with a toy monopoly. She steps into the spotlight to roast holiday...

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