Opening and Sweet Shows This Weekend

OPENING THIS WEEKEND

THE MANOR- MURDER AND MADNESS AT GREYSTONE @ Greystone Mansion

January 11, 2018 6:00 pm

The Manor- Murder and Madness at Greystone depicts momentous changes in the fortunes of the fabulously wealthy MacAlister Family (fictional surrogates of the oil-rich Doheny Family). Family patriarch and mining tycoon Charles makes an …read more

AN EVENING WITH DAVIS GAINES @ La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts

January 12, 2018 8:00 pm

The thrilling voice of Man of La Mancha returns! Broadway veteran Davis Gaines brings his intimate evening of song to the La Mirada stage for one performance only. The New York Post said of …read more

FREUD’S LAST SESSION @ Odyssey Theatre

January 13, 2018 8:00 pm

September, 1939. On the day England enters World War II, legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud invites the young, rising Oxford don C.S. Lewis to his home in London. There, only weeks before Freud took …read more

SWEET SHOWS

ASHES TO ASHES

Opens: December 7, 2017
Closes: January 14, 2018

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The Athena Cats, a collective of Southern California female playwrights and directors, presents a madcap romantic comedy that’s a perfect escape for the holidays. Liberal Sara and right-winger Jefferson are polar opposites about everything — except their love and devotion for their two, newly deceased, filthy-rich best friends. Trapped by the time-constraints of their friends’ will, the two are forced to spend the next 16 days, 21 hours and 32 minutes together, scattering ashes across Europe. Whether they make it or not, the audience is in for a bumpy and very funny ride.

ROTTERDAM

Opens: December 31, 1969
Closes: January 28, 2018

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New Year’s. Rotterdam, 2017. Alice has finally found the courage to email her parents to tell them she’s a lesbian. But before Alice hits send, her girlfriend Fiona reveals that she has always identified as a man, and now wants to live as one, sending their relationship into a tailspin. A queer love story, about all of us…

DELEARIOUS

Opens: November 3, 2017
Closes: January 27, 2018

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Tragedy meets hilarity and King Lear gets a happy ending in a madcap musical romp à la Mel Brooks and Monty Python. Open Fist Theatre Company revives its smash hit production of this award-winning play-within-a-play by Second City’s Ron West and composer Phil Swann, Ron and Phil are writing about King James I and Shakespeare — who in turn are writing about the legendary King Lear. Phil gets sick of Ron’s laziness and womanizing; King James gets sick of Shakespeare and demotes him to working on the Bible; and King Lear gets sick of everyone and goes crazy. Great songs, a clever story and lots of laughs!