AMERICAN IDIOT

Saturday, July 18th, 2026


Punk rock energy ignites the Broadwater Mainstage in Conundrum Theatre Company’s high-octane revival of the international smash American Idiot, easily the rawest, grittiest, and most ear-splitting of the nine productions I’ve now seen of the Green Day musical.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW! | No Comments »

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

Monday, July 13th, 2026


Director Larry Raben and choreographer Corey Wright reinvent Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat like it’s never been reinvented before in a Musical Theatre West revival that feels fresh and new and very Gen Z-meets-Gen Alpha.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW! | No Comments »

IF/THEN

Monday, July 13th, 2026

The production itself is a mixed bag, but at the very least Chromolume Theatre’s black-box staging of the Broadway musical If/Then gives L.A. audiences the chance to rediscover a show that didn’t deserve to vanish from sight after its National Tour played the Pantages ten years ago.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review | No Comments »

ROMEO AND JULIET

Monday, July 6th, 2026

Casting real-life highschoolers as the world’s most iconic pair of lovestruck teens is just one reason Theatricum Botanicum’s Romeo And Juliet feels fresh and new. So is setting the classic tale of doomed adolescent lovers in Gilded Age New York.

(read more)

Posted in Classic Play, Now Playing, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW! | No Comments »

THE GREAT CLOWN BANK SHOW

Monday, July 6th, 2026

Though Open Fist Theatre Company scores an “A+” for adventurousness, the often entertaining “immersive theater extravaganza” that is Hank Jacobs’ The Great Clown Bank Show proves somewhat of a hit-or-miss enterprise.

(read more)

Tags: , ,
Posted in Los Angeles, Now Playing, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere | No Comments »

E=MC²

Monday, July 6th, 2026

If the life of Albert Einstein seems rather unlikely subject matter for a musical, at the very least the scientist who gave us the Theory of Relativity deserves better than E=MC², the well-intentioned musical muddle now guesting at Glendale’s Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review | No Comments »

PAINTED PONIES

Monday, June 29th, 2026


L.A. theater treasure Rachel Sorsa delivers an extraordinary solo star turn in Ian McRae’s powerful but bleak Ruskin Group Theatre World Premiere drama Painted Ponies.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
Posted in Drama, Now Playing, Solo Performance, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW! | No Comments »

MEAN GIRLS

Saturday, June 27th, 2026


No one can top Wisteria Theater these days when it comes to downscaling big-stage/big-budget Broadway musicals to intimate proportions while maintaining maximum entertainment value. Case in point, their fetch and fabulous take on Mean Girls The Musical.
(read more)

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW! | No Comments »

« Older Entries « Older Entries