Thursday, April 17th, 2025

I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2025

Decades before Erin Brockovich played David to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Goliath, a young woman fought a similarly consequential battle in Ottawa, Illinois, events that playwright Melanie Marnich recounts in These Shining Lives, the stunning latest from Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Los Angeles Theater Review, Melanie Marnich
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Friday, November 15th, 2024

An inspired creative team take what might seem unlikely subject matter for a musical and transform it into It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, a feel-good celebration of friendship and family now entertaining and uplifting audiences at the Hudson Backstage Theatre.
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Tags: Ben Decter, Hudson Backstage, Kristin Hanggi, Los Angeles Theater Review
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Monday, November 11th, 2024
Cute, fun, silly, and too slight to be of any major consequence, Tom Chiodo and Joe Nedder’s Adventures in the Great Beyond serves primarily as a showcase for Nedder’s catchy melodies and the World Premiere musical’s highly talented cast, in particular a charismatic 20something fivesome who reveal Grade-A vocal chops as the devotees of a quirky desert-dwelling New Age guru named Krishamarti.
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Tags: Hudson Mainstage Theatre, Joe Nedder, Los Angeles Theater Review, Tom Chiodo
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Monday, November 4th, 2024

Two strangers seeking refuge in a dingy motel room reveal their deepest, darkest secrets to riveting effect in The Civil Twilight, Shem Bitterman’s lollapalooza of a two-hander now getting a brilliantly acted World Premiere at the Broadwater Studio Theatre.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, The Broadwater Studio Theatre, The Road Theatre Company
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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
Art Of Acting Studio debuts two very different World Premiere one-acts, Richard Gustin’s Someone Like Me and George Kappaz’s In Whose Eyes?, and in the case of the former, you’ll be seeing a quite different play than the one reviewed here.
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Tags: Art of Acting Studio, George Kappaz, Los Angeles Theater Review, Richard Gustin
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Thursday, October 17th, 2024

It only took me only seconds to fall madly in love with Kimberly Akimbo at the Pantages. No wonder then that David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s tuneful, touching adaptation of the former’s outrageously funny, deeply moving play of the same name won five 2023 Tonys including the big one, Best Musical.
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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, David Lindsay-Abaire, Jeanine Tesori, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre
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