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FUNNY GIRL

Thursday, April 4th, 2024

Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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Tags: Ahmanson Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review
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ANDREW LIPPA’S WILD PARTY

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Performances don’t get any more sizzlingly spellbinding than Madelyn Claire Lego’s star turn as Queenie in Jaxx Theatrical’s fabulous 4-performance-only revival of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party.
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Tags: Andrew Lippa, Jaxx Theatricals, Los Angeles Theater Review
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INTO THE WOODS

Friday, March 15th, 2024

The Nocturne Theatre opens its Spring 2024 season with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods, and though not everything works in the oft-produced musical’s latest revival, its striking high fantasy look, a number of inspired directorial choices, and more than a few sensational performances earn cheers.
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Tags: James Lapine, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim, The Nocturne Theatre
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

Director Barry Pearl and co-director/choreographer Michelle Elkin re-team at the Colony Theatre to bring L.A. audiences a bigger-budget incarnation of their 2023 hit Footloose The Musical, though this time round minus the powerhouse star turn of last year’s breakout leading man.
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Tags: BarCinBoo Productions, Colony Theatre, Dean Pitchford, Los Angeles Theater Review, Panic! Productions, Tom Snow, Walter Bobbie
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SWEENEY TODD

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Julia Rodriguez-Elliot’s brilliantly innovative direction and Cassandra Marie Murphy’s spectacular star turn as Mrs. Lovett top the reasons not to miss Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at A Noise Within.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Hugh Wheeler, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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42ND STREET

Sunday, February 11th, 2024

Musical Theatre West opens its 2024 season with just about as surefire a crowd-pleaser as 20th-century Broadway has to offer, the screen-to-stage classic 42nd Street.
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Tags: Al Dubin, Harry Warren, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Bramble, Michael Stewart, Musical Theatre West
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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

Monday, February 5th, 2024

Performances don’t get any more sizzlingly sensational than Tom Avery’s powerhouse star turn as Hedwig in Chance Theater’s 2024 supercharged season opener, Hedwig And The Angry Inch.
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Tags: Chance Theater, John Cameron Mitchell, Orange County Theater Review, Stephen Trask
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MYSTIC PIZZA

Monday, January 22nd, 2024

Take the movie that set Julia Roberts on the path to superstardom, stir in twenty of the 1980s and ‘90s’ Greatest Hits, give the mix a contemporary sensibility and a dynamite triple-threat cast, and you’ve got Mystic Pizza (The Musical), a surefire La Mirada Theatre hit.
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Tags: La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Sandy Rustin
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