¡PASAJE!

If I were grading on good intentions alone, then J Quiroz and Asdru Sierra’s ¡Pasaje! would earn high marks. Unfortunately, this musical salute to la vida latina in South El Monte is no In The Heights.
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posted in Musical, Now Playing, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, World Premiere

RENT

Jaxx Theatricals follows their Scenie-winning intimate stagings of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party and Chess The Musical with an excitingly performed but overly choreographed revival of Jonathan Larson’s Rent.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review

AMERICAN IDIOT


The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

A trio of topnotch star turns are the three best reasons to catch Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s over-the-top staging of the horror rock extravaganza that is Bat Boy: The Musical. (It would help too if you could understand what the characters are saying/singing.)
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

GLORIA


Everyone’s out for their fifteen minutes of fame in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher Gloria, now being given an electrifying Orange County premiere at Chance Theater.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

TROUBLE IN MIND

A stunning Kimi Walker delivers what may well be a career-best lead performance in Actors Co-op’s mostly successful revival of pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble In Mind.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA


Star turns don’t get more stunning than the pair delivered by Kim Huber and Valerie Larsen in Musical Theatre Guild’s spectacular one-night-only concert staged reading of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s The Light In The Piazza.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES


Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

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