KIMBERLY AKIMBO
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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RENT
Monday, October 14th, 2024Jaxx 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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TROUBLE IN MIND
Sunday, October 6th, 2024A 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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HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR
Friday, August 30th, 2024The stunts, the puppetry, and the multimedia effects are indeed spectacular, but Lisa Sanaye Dring and Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular ends up biting off more than it can chew in combining all of the above with the doomed love story of two gay stuntmen, one proudly out, one deeply closeted, in an industry where being heterosexual is a must.
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MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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COMPANY
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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PETER PAN
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
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CHESS THE MUSICAL
Friday, June 28th, 2024
Jaxx Theatricals treats audiences to a fully-staged production of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s rarely revived Chess The Musical, sensationally performed in the company’s spiffy East Hollywood digs.
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