A SLEIGHFUL OF SONGS
Monday, December 15th, 2025
Over a half dozen Theatre West member and a bevy of special invited guests joined vocal talents for four performances only of A Sleighful Of Songs, and at the risk of repeating myself, like So Many Stars two Decembers ago, this was the most glorious seventy-five minutes of songs, songs, and more songs I’ve seen and heard all year.
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XANADU
Saturday, July 12th, 2025
Wisteria Theater Company makes it five hits in a row with their zestfully entertaining take on Douglas Carter Beane’s 2005 Broadway treat Xanadu, itself a textbook example of how to turn a movie lemon into multiple Tony-nominated lemonade.
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3 FACES OF STEVE: SONDHEIM IN CONCERT
Monday, September 23rd, 2024
It’s Stephen Sondheim heaven at the Odyssey as 3 Faces Of Steve: Sondheim In Concert treats musical theater lovers to over two dozen of the Broadway legend’s greatest hits, with some lesser-known ditties thrown in to spice up the mix.
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SO MANY STARS
Monday, December 11th, 2023
Theatre West celebrates Holiday Season 2023 with So Many Stars, the most glorious sixty-five minutes of songs, songs, and more songs I’ve seen and heard all year.
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jackbenny: And on the 366th Day
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
When a date happens only once every four years, it acquires event status, which is why jackbenny’s February 29, 2020 one-nighter at the Luckman Fine Arts Center Intimate Theatre, cleverly dubbed “And on the 366th Day,” not only proved a musical extravaganza of epic proportions, the next time the singing, songwriting twins will be able to repeat the event won’t be for another 1461 days.
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LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Love Actually Live is back, and even if you were fortunate enough to savor its every magical musical minute last Christmas at The Wallis, a cast that’s two-thirds new for 2019 makes this year’s reincarnation that much more of a holiday must-see.
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LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
Billie Holiday sings again at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Deidrie Henry’s searing tour-de-force star turn in Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill.
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LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Forget about streaming it on Netflix for the umpteen December or pulling out your much viewed DVD for another annual look-see. Instead, run, don’t walk to Beverly Hills for The Wallis & For The Record’s Love Actually Live.
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