Saturday, March 29th, 2025

Is love enough to keep a couple together when one of them has been the victim of hate crime he simply can’t get past? This is the question posed by English playwright Stephen Laughton in his gut-punchingly powerful One Jewish Boy, now getting a compelling West Coast premiere at Echo Theater Company.
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Tags: Echo Theater Company, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Laughton
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Saturday, March 8th, 2025

Nearly thirty years after its Los Angeles World Premiere, Bat Boy The Musical finally gets the sensationally staged and performed local revival it so richly deserves thanks to the always impressive Open Fist Theatre Company.
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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Rogue Machine Theatre, Sophie Swithinbank
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Friday, February 14th, 2025

Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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Tags: Ahmanson Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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Friday, February 7th, 2025
Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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Tags: Center Theatre Group, Larissa FastHorse, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Taper Forum
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Saturday, February 1st, 2025
Characters whose eccentricities are carried to the extreme and a plot whose raison d’être escapes me are two reasons why Rogue Machine Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of Will Albery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing proves a major disappointment from the playwright and company who gave us one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed box office successes with Heroes Of The Fourth Turning.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre, Will Arbery
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Saturday, December 14th, 2024

A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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Tags: Ahmanson Theatre, Amy Sherman-Paladino, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mary Rodgers
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