Saturday, April 19th, 2025

All hell breaks loose in an Indiana town when a swastika is found spray-painted on a classroom bulletin board celebrating the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Erik Gernand’s The Totality Of All Things, a discussion-provoking, expectations-defying, Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
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Tags: Erik Gernand, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Road Theatre Company
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Sunday, April 13th, 2025

There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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Tags: Chad Beguelin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matthew Sklar, Tim Herlihy, Wisteria Theater Company
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Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Leif Gantvoort’s powerful lead performance and Danny Cistone’s ingenious production design are the chief selling points of Robo & Bash’s production of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984. Its tonally off first act and less accomplished supporting cast not so much.
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Tags: George Orwell, Robert Owens, Robo & Bash Productions, Theatre 68, William A. Miles Jr., Wilton E. Hall Jr.
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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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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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