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Neely Swanson

“Love is never having to say you’re sorry.” Erich Segal (“Love Story”) couldn’t have been more wrong.

“Shucked,” the corn pone, corny, cornfed musical has landed, and for a brief time you too can indulge in the vegetable that is the same going in as it is coming out.

Get ready for some fun, laughter and unexpected raucous joy. “& Juliet” has arrived at the Ahmanson, and it’s one of the must-see events of the summer. Like “Mamma Mia,” presently being revived in New York, this is a “leave your brain at the door”

Director David Mackenzie and writer Justin Piasecki have set the stage for a mystery thriller that continues at a slow burn that gradually increases in speed and heat as the stakes are raised, and raised and raised yet again.

This homage to the 1988 classic “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” is spot on.

It’s catch-up time for some of those series that premiered in late spring, along with some new ones that are just emerging.

“The Survivors” is a recently released Australian series that is thoroughly engrossing.

Get ready because here comes “Superman!” Aimed at adolescents (of age and mind), this film that reboots a cherished franchise is full of “coulda, woulda, shoulda.”

In the genre of “what if” science fiction movies, with a whole lot more fiction than science, comes another addition to the “Jurassic Park” collection.

The big theater hit and Olivier-winning play of this season in London is about a famous author, one whose works have touched so many children, mine included.