Before the curtain rises at La Mirada Theatre to begin the clever cascade of theater mishaps superpowering “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” a stage manager in backstage work togs ambles on to drone the tut-tut ...

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Peter Pan is never short on darkness. With its child-hating Captain Hook, ominously skulking crocodile, and wistful musings on the pains of growing up, there is plenty of grime beneath the fairy dust.

Ella Hickson’s adaptation of JM Barrie’s classic “Peter Pan”, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Jonathan Munby, imagines the story with a focus on Wendy. It is a feminist ...