Posts Tagged ‘James Lapine’
INTO THE WOODS
Monday, July 22nd, 2024
There’s something particularly magical about Knot Free Productions’ intimate revival of Into The Woods at the Greenway Court Theatre, and as someone who’s seen 22 different live productions of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, I know what I’m talking about.
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INTO THE WOODS
Friday, March 15th, 2024The Nocturne Theatre opens its Spring 2024 season with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods, and though not everything works in the oft-produced musical’s latest revival, its striking high fantasy look, a number of inspired directorial choices, and more than a few sensational performances earn cheers.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, July 1st, 2023
Stunningly fresh takes on iconic roles distinguish the the newest Broadway revival of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine’s Into The Woods, now playing at the Ahmanson, from the myriad productions that have preceded it.
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A NEW BRAIN
Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Monday, February 20th, 2023
Stephen Sondheim’s most personal musical, Sunday In The Park With George, finally gets what L.A. Sondheim lovers have long prayed for, a superbly performed, stunningly designed, rarer-than-rare big-stage revival that had its Pasadena Playhouse opening night audience swooning with joy.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, October 29th, 2022
Master director Ken Sawyer and some tremendously talented USC student performers and designers join creative forces to give audiences a highly inventive new take on the 20th-century musical theater masterpiece Into The Woods.
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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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FALSETTOS
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
A freshly out New Yorker’s life before and after the AIDS epidemic wreaked havoc on his city makes for the most unlikely of Broadway musicals, and one of the most richly rewarding, in Falsettos, now moving audience to laughter through tears at the Ahmanson.
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