Posts Tagged ‘Center Theatre Group’
SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS
Friday, February 14th, 2025
Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
Friday, February 7th, 2025Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL
Monday, November 25th, 2024I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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DUEL REALITY
Friday, September 13th, 2024
The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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CLUE
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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