Monday, March 31st, 2025

Over a dozen star turns make Musical Theatre West’s staging of a Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine classic that rarity among Into The Woods revivals, a big-stage, big-talent triumph that captures the magic of the 1987 Broadway original while treating audiences to inspired new interpretations of the fairytale musical’s now iconic roles.
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Tags: James Lapine, Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theatre West, Stephen Sondheim
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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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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
The audience greeted curtain calls with cheers, but for this reviewer at least, Musical Theatre Guild’s one-performance-only concert staged reading of the 2006 Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone failed to live up to the company’s next-best-thing-to-fully-staged standards.
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Tags: Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Greg Morrison, Lisa Lambert, Los Angeles Theater, Musical Theatre Guild, The Broad Stage
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Wisteria Theatre makes it two hits 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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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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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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