BEETLEJUICE
Friday, July 14th, 2023If you like your Broadway musicals wild and crazy and loud and flashy and all over the place, you’ll likely not mind that Beetlejuice, now playing at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre, doesn’t quite succeed in adapting the Tim Burton masterpiece for the Broadway stage.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023Spirited performances make In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda’s celebration of life in New York’s Washington Heights, a Morgan-Wixson Theatre crowd-pleaser, however the production loses points for its lighting and sound designs.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ
Monday, July 10th, 2023Musical Theatre West serves up over two-and-a-half hours of nostalgic G-rated family entertainment with The Wizard Of Oz, a summer musical best enjoyed by children twelve and under and parents who don’t mind tagging along.
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TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL
Friday, June 16th, 2023
The legend that was Tina Turner lives on in Naomi Rodgers’ spectacular star turn as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Pantages.
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STARMITES
Monday, June 5th, 2023
Starmites might possibly be the least remembered Best Musical Tony nominee of the 1980s, but there’s nothing in the least bit forgettable about Open Fist Theatre Company’s irresistibly entertaining intimate revival of the 1989 Broadway gem.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Sunday, June 4th, 2023
Rarely has so much entertainment value been packed into just ninety minutes plus intermission than in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s thrillingly directed and performed revival of the international musical smash Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL
Friday, June 2nd, 2023Center Theatre Group celebrates diversity just in time for Pride Month with A Transparent Musical, an exhilarating but overlong adaptation of the hit TV series Transparent.
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A NEW BRAIN
Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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