THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
Multitalented director Michael Marchak ups the physical comedy to entertaining effect in Crown City Theatre Company’s 124th-anniversary revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest, but it remains Wilde’s way with words delivered by a terrific cast of Crown City favorites that earn the lion’s share of laughs.
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IT IS DONE
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Sparks fly in the most horrifyingly unexpected of ways in a seedy bar ninety miles from nowhere in Alex Goldberg’s edge-of-your-seat chiller It Is Done, the risk-taking latest from Beverly Hills’ venerable Theatre 40.
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HELLO, DOLLY!
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Betty Buckley is making matches right and left while earning ovation after ovation as only a Broadway legend can in the 10-Tony-award-winning 1964 classic Hello, Dolly!, now paying L.A. a three-week visit to Hollywood’s Pantages.
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SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
There will be blood all month in Costa Mesa as South Coast Repertory debuts its scaled-down but still powerful, sensationally performed 40th-anniversary revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Weaver’s musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street..
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PARADISE
Monday, January 28th, 2019
A Columbia University professor reduced to teaching science in an overcrowded, underfunded Bronx high school and a Muslim-American student with dreams far loftier than her Yemeni immigrant family are likely ever to allow. From these two disparate, desperate souls, Laura Maria Censabella has written Paradise, as intelligent, thought-provoking, compelling, heartbreaking, and satisfying a two-hander as I’ve seen in a good long while.
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THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN
Saturday, January 26th, 2019
A stageful of stereotype-defying Irish islanders, an abundance of well-earned laughs and maybe even a tear or two thrown in for good measure are just a few of the reasons Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple Of Inishmaan at Antaeus Theatre Company adds up to one supremely satisfying (and pardon my Irish) fecking entertaining evening of L.A. theater.
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TITANIC THE MUSICAL
Monday, January 21st, 2019
Titanic The Musical sails into Claremont to give Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre one of its best productions ever—superb performances, gorgeous songs, first-class design, and a live orchestra to boot.
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PICK OF THE VINE 2019
Monday, January 21st, 2019Pick Of The Vine ups the quirky a bit too much in 2019, the main reason why, for this reviewer at least, only about half of Little Fish Theatre’s annual collection of “This Year’s Best Short Plays” hit the mark the way almost all of last year’s did.
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