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THE WEDDING SINGER

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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1984

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.

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Wisteria Theater Company scores their second hit in a row with their 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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AVENUE Q

Sunday, February 9th, 2025

All-around fabulous performances and an excitingly innovative production design combine to make Wisteria Theater Company’s Avenue Q a musical-comedy must-see.
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Tags: Jeff Marx, Jeff Whitty, Los Angeles Theater Review, Robert Lopez, Wisteria Theater Company
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SLEEPING GIANT

Saturday, January 25th, 2025

All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Steve Yockey, The Road Theatre Company
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THE CURIOUS SAVAGE

Sunday, January 19th, 2025

It’s not the crazies who should be committed in John Patrick’s 1950 comedic gem The Curious Savage, the auspicious start to what promises to be the best season in years for North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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Tags: John Patrick, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Group Rep
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