Posts Tagged ‘Duncan ShEIk’
ALICE BY HEART
Sunday, November 9th, 2025
The off-Broadway critics got it right when they called Alice By Heart’s book muddled, but that didn’t bother me a bit last night, so captivated was I by the impressive production it has been given by MouthBone Theater Company.
SPRING AWAKENING
Monday, July 21st, 2025
Brilliantly innovative direction, stunningly original choreography, a baker’s dozen revelatory performances, and a Broadway-caliber production design guarantee Southland audiences as outstanding a Spring Awakening as any musical theater lover could ever hope to see.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Saturday, November 4th, 2023
Director Tim Dang, choreographer Preston Mui, an all-around sensational cast, and a stunning production design make East West Players’ Spring Awakening a standout among the umpteen productions I’ve seen so far.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Friday, January 18th, 2019
Outstanding performances, nuanced direction, and thrillingly original choreography (all by USC students) make Musical Theatre Repertory’s intimate staging of the 2007 Broadway musical hit Spring Awakening one of the best in a long line of Grade-A MTR productions.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Sunday, September 2nd, 2018
Spring Awakening has arrived at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre in what is easily the most “high-concept” of the fourteen productions I’ve seen. Promoted as “Spring Awakening For Gun Safety” and drawing overt connections between its 1891 teen protagonists and the 2018 world we live in, this thoroughly original vision is as stunningly directed and choreographed as it is strikingly designed and powerfully performed.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Director-choreographer-designer Madeleine Heil reinvents Broadway’s Best Musical Tony winner Spring Awakening so sensationally at NoHo’s Cupcake Theater, it’s easily one of the two or three finest of the dozen productions I’ve seen so far.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Monday, August 31st, 2015
Spring Awakening, the 2006 Tony winner for Best Musical, is back in town, an event that would be considerably less newsworthy were it not for the memorable directorial debut it provides recent UCLA grad Michael Kozachenko and the musical theater showcase it offers its talented young cast, most of whom are new to L.A. stages.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Friday, May 29th, 2015
Deaf West’s smash revisal of the Broadway musical hit Spring Awakening has transferred from its Fall 2014 run in the heart of Skid Row to glamorous Beverly Hills, one of the most noteworthy success stories of Los Angeles’s endangered 99-Seat Theatre Plan … and mark my words. You won’t see direction more brilliant nor a cast more gifted nor a production more awe-inspiring than the one now playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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