Posts Tagged ‘El Portal Theatre’
PERFECT WORLD
Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
Barbara Follett had two novels published before she turned 15. Then, at the age of 25, she disappeared and was never heard from again. Her life now forms the basis of Perfect World, a promising new bio-musical being given the most polished of World Premieres at the El Portal Theatre.
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RAGTIME
Monday, September 15th, 2025Some fine lead performances and plenty of soaring full-cast harmonies shine in Actors Repertory Theater of Simi’s restaging of the Broadway classic Ragtime, but the move from the intimate Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center to the far larger El Portal Theatre mainstage proves more a minus than a plus.
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OY! TO THE WORLD ~ CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST!
Monday, December 16th, 2024
A couple dozen of your all-time holiday favorites get performed to perfection in OY! To The World ~ Christmas With A Twist!, back for its second December at the El Portal Theatre and once again celebrating a great big bunch of Christmas classics with one very special thing in common. Jewish songwriters wrote them all.
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LEGALLY BLONDE
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
An audience jam-packed with friends and family greeted the opening night performance of Conundrum Theatre Company’s Legally Blonde with the kind of cheers usually reserved for a Taylor Swift concert, and if the production playing this weekend only at NoHo’s El Portal would not under normal circumstances generate that rhapsodic a reception, an energetic young cast headed by a captivating Paloma Malfavón make it a definite crowd-pleaser.
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OY! TO THE WORLD ~ CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST!
Saturday, December 16th, 2023
What do the teddy bear, the ballpoint pen, the Polaroid Land Camera, Barbie, and just about every Christmas pop standard you’ve ever heard have in common? They’re all the brainchildren of Chosen People like Irving Berlin, whose “White Christmas” is just one of over two dozen seasonal classics that make OY! To The World ~ Christmas With A Twist!, aka “a celebration of your favorite Christmas songs by Jewish songwriters,” a holiday music bonanza at NoHo’s El Portal Theatre.
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HAMLET THE ROCK MUSICAL
Saturday, February 15th, 2020
Like a long-lost rock-opera cousin to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet The Rock Musical has arrived at North Hollywood’s El Portal, and if the show’s original Broadway incarnation flopped big way back in 1976, its 2020 revival is anything but that a bomb. Instead, it’s one of the most excitingly staged, hummably hook-blessed, and thrillingly performed rock musicals I’ve seen in a good long while.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROLE KING
Saturday, December 14th, 2019
No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve had to sit through in your life, you won’t want to miss Troubadour Theater Company’s jukebox-musical extravaganza A Christmas Carole King because (as any L.A. theater fan will tell you) when the Troubies do a holiday show, it’s by definition the most must-see of must-sees.
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