BLUES IN THE NIGHT
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Chester Gregory may have Yvette Cason, Paulette Ivory, and Bryce Charles singing the lovesick blues from dusk to dawn, but for audiences at The Wallis, Sheldon Epps’ 1982 Best Musical Tony nominee Blues In the Night proves this year’s feel-best musical revue.
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SIGNIFICANT OTHER
Friday, April 13th, 2018
The gay guy finally gets to be Julia Roberts (or Janeane Garofalo circa The Truth About Cats And Dogs) in Significant Other, Joshua Harmon’s smart, funny, bracingly sardonic romcom now getting a terrific East Coast-cast West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL
Monday, March 19th, 2018
Santa Monica’s venerable Morgan-Wixson Theatre once again blurs the lines between community and professional theater with the best performed of the more than half-dozen big-and-small-stage Little Women, The Musicals I’ve seen.
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STEEL PIER
Monday, March 12th, 2018
Few musicals have faded into obscurity more unjustly than John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Steel Pier, just one reason to celebrate its two-decade-awaited West Coast Premiere, and don’t let the term “student production” scare you away. Though its cast may be younger than many of the characters they are playing, in all other respects this UCLA Department Of Theater stunner is second to none.
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JACKIE UNVEILED
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
Saffron Burrows grants Wallis Center For The Performing Arts an up-close-and-personal, warts-and-all tête-à-tête with one of the 20th century’s most famous, most speculated about, and most enigmatic of legends in Jackie Unveiled, Tom Dugan’s gripping, elucidating look at the woman who was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK
Sunday, February 25th, 2018
Marc and Bella Chagall soar head over heels in love in Kneehigh Theatre and Bristol Old Vic’s magical chamber musical The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk, the latest bit of U.K. theatrical wizardry to pay a visit to Beverly Hills’ Wallis Center For The Performing Arts.
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IRONBOUND
Saturday, February 10th, 2018
A dark cloud may seem to follow Polish immigrant Darja across New Jersey, but that doesn’t stop Marin Ireland from lighting up the stage like nobody’s business in the West Coast Premiere of Martyna Majok’s astringently funny, surprisingly affecting Ironbound, now getting a superb West Coast Premiere with its original off-Broadway leading lady joining it for its five-week visit to L.A.
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ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE
Sunday, February 4th, 2018
Three generations of Marines serving in three different wars have their stories told in four distinct voices in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, the first in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” now making a lyrically told, gorgeously staged, superbly acted Kirk Douglas Theatre debut.
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