BRONCO BILLY THE MUSICAL
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
An heiress on the run finds an unexpected hideout and a unique new family of friends while being pursued by a gang of comic villains who can’t manage to shoot straight in the infectiously crowd-pleasing World Premiere musical Bronco Billy, quite possibly the most tuneful and entertaining L.A.-cast Broadway hopeful since Sister Act made its Pasadena Playhouse debut back in 2006.
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AT THE TABLE
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
Booze and pot lower inhibitions, loosen tongues, and reveal cracks in the fifteen-year-long friendship of a quartet of 30somethings in Michael Perlman’s At The Table, a Road Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere that proves as edge-of-your-seat compelling as it is provocatively button-pushing.
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MAMMA MIA!
Friday, May 17th, 2019
An all-POC cast (primarily Asian, significantly Filipino), inspired direction, electrifying choreography, and the most gorgeous of production designs breathe fresh new life into East West Players’ thrillingly trailblazing Mamma Mia!, the all-around best of the many MM!s I’ve seen.
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ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
Life imitates art as Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina inflames dormant passions amongst Cuban emigres in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, an Open Fist Theatre Company triumph.
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TIGERS BE STILL
Sunday, May 12th, 2019
Grief, loss, guilt, depression, and a ferocious jungle feline on the loose might seem the unlikeliest of ingredients for comedy, but playwright Kim Rosenstock weaves them all together to laugh-packed effect in Tigers Be Still, the latest Chance Theater winner.
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THE PRICE
Sunday, May 12th, 2019
Arthur Miller was still going strong when The Price made its Broadway debut two decades after All My Sons and Death Of A Salesman made him a Broadway household name, and if his 1968 family drama isn’t in quite the same league as those two 20th-century masterpieces, it still makes for powerful, thought-provoking drama on the International City Theatre stage.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
If you’ve any doubt that Fiddler On The Roof is a true musical theater masterpiece, check out the dazzling National Tour now playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts for proof positive that the Broadway classic is as great as it gets.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Monday, May 6th, 2019
The concert staged reading masters at Musical Theatre Guild put together a stunningly performed and directed Sunday In The Park With George (on a Sunday no less) with just enough production design thrown in that audience members might well have thought they were witnessing a fully-staged production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine masterpiece and not a book-in-hand “reading” put together with a mere twenty-five hours of rehearsal.
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