HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 2015 REVIEWS & STAGESCENELA’S HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2015 TOP 10
Saturday, June 27th, 2015ALL SHOOK UP
Monday, June 22nd, 2015
All Shook Up, aka “The Elvis Musical,” has come to San Diego-adjacent Vista as Moonlight Stage Productions offers SoCal audiences a terrific outdoor revival of one of the most thoroughly entertaining Broadway shows of the past dozen years.
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ASTRO BOY AND THE GOD OF COMICS
Sunday, June 21st, 2015
The words “You’ve never seen anything like this before” may sound cliché, but trust me, you have never seen anything like Sacred Fools’ West Coast Premiere of Natsu Onoda Power’s Astro Boy And The God Of Comics, a mind-boggling blend of fact and fantasy that weaves together human performers and live action with still-&-animated video projections, puppets, and most exciting of all, live cartooning by some skilled actors/pen-&-ink artists—all of which adds up to what is certain to be one of the summer’s most gigantic hits.
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THE HEIR APPARENT
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
As he did with Corneille’s The Liar a few years back, playwright David Ives once again works his theatrical magique on a centuries-old comédie française in The Heir Apparent, Ives’ 2014 off-Broadway adaptation of Jean-François Regnard’s 1706 farcical French bonbon Le Légataire Universelle, now delighting audiences in its Los Angeles Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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BAD JEWS
Friday, June 19th, 2015
To the list of female comedy leads that any actress would kill to play (and win awards for), a list that includes Born Yesterday’s Billie Dawn, Twentieth Century’s Lily Garland, and Lost In Yonkers’ Bella Kurnitz, you can now add the name Daphna Feygenbaum, a role that Molly Ephraim knocks out of the ball park—and then some—in the Geffen Playhouse’s West Coast Premiere of Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews, a play as hilarious as it is brilliant, and one you’ll be talking about for quite some time to come.
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MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL
Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
Motown Records founder Berry Gordy tells his life story surrounded by the Detroiters he turned into superstars in Broadway’s crowd-pleasing Motown: The Musical, now in its second year of touring the country and stopping for the next two weeks at the Segerstrom Center For The Performing Arts.
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A PERMANENT IMAGE
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Thomas Wolfe to the contrary, you can go home again, though it takes a life-altering event for adult siblings Bo and Ally to set foot anywhere near their Idaho birthplace in A Permanent Image, Samuel D. Hunter’s 2011 journey into the dark heart of the American Northwest, now getting a superb West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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ROAD SHOW
Monday, June 15th, 2015
You’re unlikely to see a fully-staged local production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s twice-flopped Road Show any time soon, all the more reason for those in attendance yesterday at Musical Theatre Guild’s one-performance-only concert staged reading to count themselves lucky, particularly since the nearly fully-staged “reading” turned out quite spectacularly indeed under Richard Israel’s ever imaginative direction.
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