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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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Wisteria Theatre makes it two hits in a row with their totally 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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LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025There’s some very good work being done on the Westchester Playhouse stage in Kentwood Players frontal-nudity-free staging of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Terrence McNally’s three-and-a-half-hour-long celebration of gay love and friendship in the time of AIDS.
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Tags: Kentwood Players, Los Angeles Theater Review, Terrence McNally, Westchester Playhouse
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CABARET
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Even constrained by the limitations of a rented set, master director Michael Matthews and an absolutely superb cast deliver a 5-Star Theatricals Cabaret resplendent with Matthews’ unique brand of brilliance.
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Tags: 5-Star Theatricals, Fred Ebb, Joe Masteroff, John Kander, Ventura County Theater Review
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THESE SHINING LIVES
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Decades before Erin Brockovich played David to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Goliath, a young woman fought a similarly consequential battle in Ottawa, Illinois, events that playwright Melanie Marnich recounts in These Shining Lives, the stunning latest from Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Los Angeles Theater Review, Melanie Marnich
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SUCH SMALL HANDS
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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Tags: Adam Szymkowicz, Chance Theater, Orange County Theater Review
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, March 8th, 2025
Nearly thirty years after its Los Angeles World Premiere, Bat Boy The Musical finally gets the sensationally staged and performed local revival it so richly deserves thanks to the always impressive Open Fist Theatre Company.
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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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