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Pasadena Playhouse

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As the official State Theater of California and the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award winner, Pasadena Playhouse is a century-old cultural landmark known for propelling the careers of legends and shaping the landscape of American drama.

Mexodus

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A New York Times Critic's Pick, this live-looping hip-hop musical takes theatre and storytelling to the next level. It reveals the little-known southward trajectory of the Underground Railroad, detailing the pursuit of liberation in Mexico.

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

In 1987 Boyle Heights, Ana Garcia is pulled between her own ambitions, her family's expectations, and the community of women who raised her. Based on Josefina Lopez's play (first staged here at the Playhouse in 2015), this warm, funny adaptation carries a Tony-nominated score by Grammy winner Joy Huerta and a book co-written by Nell Benjamin of Mean Girls.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

On a sweltering night at the family's Southern estate, the Pollitts gather for Big Daddy's birthday and slowly come apart as buried truths surface. Alfred Molina stars in Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, directed by Jessica Kubzansky and back at the Playhouse after his runs in The Father and Inherit the Wind.

The Visit

The richest woman in the world returns to the struggling town that once cast her out, ready to save it from ruin on a single chilling condition. In this dark comedy, Tony winners Jefferson Mays and Darko Tresnjak reunite at the Playhouse, following Amadeus, to ask how far a whole town will go for a billion dollars.

Passing Strange

A young artist leaves South Central LA chasing something real and finds it somewhere in the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of a cross-continental search for himself. Twenty years after its premiere, Stew's Tony-winning musical finally makes its LA debut, directed by 2026 Tony nominee Zhailon Levingston with a score that runs on raw feeling and volume.