GOD OF CARNAGE
Sunday, January 26th, 2014
Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning Best Play of 2009 God Of Carnage arrives at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts in a production so excitingly staged and performed that even those who may have caught its star-packed L.A. debut a few years back won’t want to miss this staging—the third and last of McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s trio of Best Play Tony winners.
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LET’S MISBEHAVE: THE MUSIC AND LYRICS OF COLE PORTER
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Take three of Southern California’s most talented musical theater performers, then add three-dozen or so Cole Porter songs linked together by an ingenious book, and you’ve got Patrick Young and Karin Bowersock’s Let’s Misbehave, a brand spanking new Cole Porter musical now getting a sparkling California Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Friday, January 24th, 2014
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along once again proves, as has virtually ever other Musical Theatre Repertory offering reviewed here since Sunday In The Park With George six years ago, that a blackbox production entirely directed, designed, and performed by college students can easily rival the best of 99-seat-plan Los Angeles theater, that is if the students involved are part of USC’s illustrious School Of Dramatic Arts.
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bare: a pop opera
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
Catholic school is hardly the most welcoming environment for two teenage boys to fall in love, or so roommates Peter and Jason discover in Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere’s off-Broadway cult favorite bare: a pop opera, now being given a particularly powerful Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center debut under Fred Helsel’s inspired direction.
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THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION)
Monday, January 20th, 2014
Oscar becomes “Olive” and Felix “Florence” as the classic Neil Simon comedy The Odd Couple takes on a distinctively distaff tone at Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre in a production of The Odd Couple (Female Version) so all-around topnotch, you’ll be asking yourself, “Can this possibly be community theater?”
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Sunday, January 19th, 2014
Classical theater fans impatient for the start of A Noise Within’s Spring 2014 season need head a mere five minutes east of ANW’s Pasadena digs to catch Sierra Madre Playhouse’s 2014 opener, an impeccably staged and acted revival of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband.
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DAY TRADER
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Expect the unexpected, and then some, in Eric Rudnick’s edgy, twist-filled Day Trader, thrillingly staged and terrifically acted in its World Premiere production at the Bootleg Theatre.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
That “tale as old as time” better known as Disney’s Beauty And The Beast is back at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts for the first time in over three years—with a brand-new cast and all the magic of the 1992 animated classic and the Broadway musical it inspired.
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