THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS
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.
Tags: Erik Gernand, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Road Theatre Company
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HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre
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BARE: A POP OPERA
Monday, April 14th, 2025Mouth Bone Theatre’s revival of Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere’s Bare: A Pop Opera works better as a talent showcase for its cast of young musical theater performers than it does as a professional production of a show that’s beginning to show its age.
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Tags: Damon Intrabartolo, Jon Hartmere, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mouth Bone Theatre, the Eastwood
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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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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Nocturne Theatre
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JANE EYRE
Friday, April 11th, 2025A Noise Within follows their spectacular reimagining of Macbeth with a solid production of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, albeit not as effectively staged or as ideally cast as I might have wished.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Williamson, Los Angeles Theater Review
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1984
Sunday, April 6th, 2025Leif 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.
Tags: George Orwell, Robert Owens, Robo & Bash Productions, Theatre 68, William A. Miles Jr., Wilton E. Hall Jr.
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ONE JEWISH BOY
Saturday, March 29th, 2025
Is love enough to keep a couple together when one of them has been the victim of hate crime he simply can’t get past? This is the question posed by English playwright Stephen Laughton in his gut-punchingly powerful One Jewish Boy, now getting a compelling West Coast premiere at Echo Theater Company.
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Tags: Echo Theater Company, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Laughton
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