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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Wisteria Theatre makes it two hits in a row with their totally completely captivating take on the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, impressively directed by Brayden Hade.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Rachel Sheinkin, William Finn, Wisteria Theater Company
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DRAT! THE CAT!

Saturday, March 22nd, 2025

Sixty years after it flopped big time on Broadway, the largely forgotten Drat! The Cat! has been given fresh new life by director Bruce Kimmel in a delightful, six-decades-postponed West Coast Premiere at the Group Rep Theatre.
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Tags: Ira Levin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Milton Schafer, The Group Rep
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ONE FOR MY BABY

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

A musical can have hit potential where songs, dances, performances, and production design are concerned, however without a compelling, coherent book to grab an audience, it can still end up a miss, case in point the 3-plus-hour-long retro jukebox musical One For My Baby, now getting its World Premiere at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
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Tags: All Roads Theatre Company, El Portal Theatre, Fred Barton, Harold Arlen, Los Angeles Theater Review, Scott Thompson
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CABARET

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Even constrained by the limitations of a rented set, master director Michael Matthews and an absolutely superb cast deliver a 5-Star Theatricals Cabaret resplendent with Matthews’ unique brand of brilliance.
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Tags: 5-Star Theatricals, Fred Ebb, Joe Masteroff, John Kander, Ventura County Theater Review
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

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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WEST SIDE STORY

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

A number of brilliant directorial choices make the first act of Nocturne Theatre’s West Side Story so thrillingly innovative that it comes as a disappointment that some less inspired ones in Act Two end up diminishing the overall impact of this otherwise impressive in-the-round revival of the 1957 Broadway classic.
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Tags: Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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I LOVE YOU BECAUSE

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

I’m too much of a fan of Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman’s “modern day musical love story” I Love You Because not to feel let down and put out by the overacted, misdirected Chromolume Theatre production now playing at the Zephyr Theatre.
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Tags: Chromolume Theatre, Joshua Salzman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Ryan Cunningham, Zephyr Theatre
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DESPERATE MEASURES

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025

Take a classic Shakespeare plot, chop out all the boring and confusing parts, and transform it into a song-packed Wild West musical romcom and what you’ve got is the off-Broadway hit Desperate Measures, now cheering audiences at International City Theatre.
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Tags: David Friedman, International City Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Peter Kellogg
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