THE SPITFIRE GRILL
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
A young woman fresh out of prison seeks a second chance at life in James Valcq and Fred Alley’s tuneful, inspiring crowd-pleaser The Spitfire Grill, Actors Co-op’s first musical in nearly seven years and one that is well worth the wait.
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LEGALLY BLONDE
Monday, April 28th, 2025
An incandescent Kathryn Brunner makes it crystal-clear what musical theater stars are made of as the indomitable Elle Woods in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s big-stage big-talent revival of the 2007 Broadway smash Legally Blonde, about as perfect a screen-to-stage adaptation as there’s been in the past twenty years.
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THE WINTER’S TALE
Friday, April 25th, 2025
If you’ve ever wished Shakespearean English weren’t so darned hard to understand (I certainly have), then Tracy Young’s modern verse translation of The Winter’s Tale, the sparklingly performed latest from Skylight Theatre Company, is the Shakespeare production for you and for me.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL EXTENSION
Monday, April 21st, 2025
Branden Lee Roth puts his own engaging stamp on the title role of Open Fist Theatre Company’s Bat Boy: The Musical, his fortuitous arrival enabling the wild, weird, and wacky L.A.-born, off-Broadway-bred crowd-pleaser to extend its run at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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CORKTOWN ’39
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
Tensions reach a breaking point when an Irish-American family finds itself knee-deep in an assassination plot in John Fazakerley’s slow-boiling thriller Corktown ‘39, another sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Company World Premiere.
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HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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RABBIT HOLE
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
Kudos to director Cate Caplin and an all-around superb Los Angeles-based cast for delivering so powerful a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, you’d have sworn you were watching a fully-staged production had it not been for the scripts which cast members had in hand in the latest entry in the Interact Theatre Company reading series held monthly at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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