Author Archive
SKYLIGHT
Sunday, April 28th, 2019
Skylight, David Hare’s postmortem look at an adulterous couple’s unexpected reunion, gets a terrific 24th-anniversary Chance Theater revival under Oanh Nguyen’s incisive direction.
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HAIRSPRAY
Saturday, April 27th, 2019
Director Kari Hayter breathes such fresh new life into the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray that no matter how many times you’ve seen the 2003 Broadway smash, it will feel like your first.
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BIG FISH
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Gorgeously scored and emotionally impactful, Broadway’s Big Fish gets a terrific regional staging at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion, one of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s most successful big-cast musicals in years.
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SHEEPDOG
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
UNARMED BLACK TEEN SHOT, KILLED BY POLICE The headline happens to come from the June 20, 2018 issue of USA Today, but it could just as well describe the shooting experienced first-hand by Cleveland police officers Ryan and Amina in Kevin Artigue’s conversation-provoking Sheepdog, a gut-punching South Coast Repertory World Premiere.
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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
A hot young director-choreographer, a groundbreakingly diverse trio of lead performers, and a fresh, from-the-ground-up production design breath new life into McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Singin’ In The Rain at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Few High School Musicals guarantee as much dark and twisted fun as Heathers: The Musical, a terrific talent showcase for the Musical Theater BFA majors who’ve made Cal State Fullerton their pre-professional training grounds.
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DIANA OF DOBSON’S
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
Minimum-Wage Worker Goes Wild On 15-Grand Inheritance.
If this sounds like the log-line for an upcoming Emma Stone romcom, think again. Playwright Cicely Hamilton came up with this one way back in 1908 when she wrote Diana Of Dobson’s, a largely forgotten frothy romp with feminist teeth now being given a splendiferous 21st-century Antaeus Theatre Company revival.
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FALSETTOS
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
A freshly out New Yorker’s life before and after the AIDS epidemic wreaked havoc on his city makes for the most unlikely of Broadway musicals, and one of the most richly rewarding, in Falsettos, now moving audience to laughter through tears at the Ahmanson.
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