On  Stage  at the Pasadena Playhouse 

2024 – 2025 Season

​Cyrano de Bergerac

​by Edmond Rostand
Freely Adapted by Martin Crimp

September 4 — September 29, 2024
​Pasadena Playhouse Main   Stage

​​One of the greatest plays ever written is   stunningly reborn    in this critically acclaimed Pasadena Playhouse adaptation.   Poetry and passion collide  in a scorching love triangle when Cyrano discovers the love of his life has eyes for another man – his new best friend. Immerse yourself in the timeless adventure of this universal love story...

La Cage aux Folles

Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Book by Harvey Fierstein​

November 12 — December 15, 2024
​Pasadena Playhouse Main   Stage

Beautiful. Bawdy. Bizarre. Welcome to   La Cage aux Folles, the hottest drag club in town and one of theater’s all-time biggest hits.
​Experience the groundbreaking musical comedy with a heartfelt score by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!,   Mame) and a hilarious script by Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy). The Tony Award-winning musical comes to life in this all-new Playhouse extravaganza.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: The Musical 

​Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Ari Afsar, Emily Xu Hall, Joriah Kwamé, Mark Sonnenblick

Libretto by Timothy Allen McDonald, Sara Wordsworth

Based on the Books by Bernard Waber Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile & The House on East 88th Street and the Columbia Motion Picture entitled Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.

Vocal Arrangements and Incidental Music by Daniel Mertzlufft

Directed by Nina Meehan

February 15 — March 16, 2025
The Colony Theatre in Burbank

​A world premiere musical for children ages 5-12 and their families!

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: The Musical splashes onto the stage with a song to sing! Join Lyle as he and his new human friends face their fears and find their voices. Inspired by Bernard Waber’s much-loved picture books, this lively musical features new music by EGOT-winning composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land). A celebration for the whole family, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: The Musical is packed with humor, heart, and showstopping tunes that will have audiences of all ages roaring with song.

​This Pasadena Playhouse production of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: The Musical is brought to you in partnership with The Colony Theatre.

Topdog/Underdog 
​
by Suzan-Lori Parks

February 26 — March 23​,   2025
​Pasadena Playhouse Main   Stage

A Doll’s House, Part 2

by Lucas Hnath

directed by Jennifer Chang​

May 14 — June 8, 2025
​Pasadena Playhouse Main   Stage​

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​Two brothers in freefall struggle to find their footing as they hustle their way through life. Haunted by the past and their obsession with street cons and cards, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their fate. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Suzan-Lori Parks’ darkly comic fable is poetic, gripping, and unforgettable.

Nora’s back—15 years after walking out on her family— ready to confront the fallout of her iconic escape. Bold, satisfying, and packed with razor-sharp twists, Lucas Hnath’s Tony-nominated play dives into the messy reality of what it means to be a woman living on your own terms. It’s complicated. It’s witty. And it’s happening at Pasadena Playhouse. Get your tickets for A Doll’s House, Part 2 and don’t miss this audacious sequel 146 years after Ibsen’s classic.

“WAIT, I DON’T THINK I SAW A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 1…”

A Doll’s House, Part 2 (2017), is a “sequel” to one of the most influential plays in the history of theatre – Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s   A Doll’s House    (1879). The good news is that   you do not need to have seen the original to enjoy Part 2. All you need to know is that at the end of Ibsen’s play, Nora, a mother and wife, walks out on her husband and three young children. Slamming the door behind her—a moment frequently referred to as the slam heard around the world—she makes a dramatic exit that shocked audiences and shook the foundations of 19th-century theatre.

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