Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
It takes chutzpah to juxtapose Greek mythology with 20th-century American history, but this is precisely what the creators of the tuneful World Premiere musical Flashes Of Light have done on the Sierra Madre Playhouse stage, albeit more successfully in the show’s delightful first act than in its more far-out second half.
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Tags: Billy Larkin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Nikola Tesla, Ron Boustead., Sierra Madre Playhouse
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Sunday, May 25th, 2025

Delightful performances, clever direction, and Douglas Carter Beane’s fresh new book are three big reasons why Wisteria Theater’s scaled-down take on the 2013 Broadway revival of the 1950s live TV classic known as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella makes it four winners in a row for the new North Hollywood company.
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Tags: Douglas Carter Beane, Los Angeles Theater Review, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Wisteria Theater Company
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Sunday, May 11th, 2025

Kasey Mahaffy delivers an exhilarating, emotion-packed, career-redefining performance as Dublin bus conductor Alfie Byrne in A Noise Within’s stirring revival of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Los Angeles Theater Review, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNally
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025

A young woman fresh out of prison seeks a second chance at life in James Valcq and Fred Alley’s tuneful, inspiring crowd-pleaser The Spitfire Grill, Actors Co-op’s first musical in nearly seven years and one that is well worth the wait.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Fred Alley, James Valcq, Los Angeles Theater Review
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Monday, April 28th, 2025

An incandescent Kathryn Brunner makes it crystal-clear what musical theater stars are made of as the indomitable Elle Woods in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s big-stage big-talent revival of the 2007 Broadway smash Legally Blonde, about as perfect a screen-to-stage adaptation as there’s been in the past twenty years.
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Tags: Heather Hach, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Nell Benjamin
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Monday, April 21st, 2025

Branden Lee Roth puts his own engaging stamp on the title role of Open Fist Theatre Company’s Bat Boy: The Musical, his fortuitous arrival enabling the wild, weird, and wacky L.A.-born, off-Broadway-bred crowd-pleaser to extend its run at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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