Posts Tagged ‘James Lapine’
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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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Saturday, March 30th, 2019
USC School Of Dramatic Arts offers musical theater aficionados the rare opportunity to see Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sunday In The Park With George fully staged, fully orchestrated, exquisitely designed, and most importantly of all, superbly performed by a stellar student cast.
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INTO THE WOODS
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Revivals don’t come any more thrillingly imaginative than Fiasco Theater’s brilliantly re-imagined Into The Woods, now paying a visit to the Ahmanson Theatre in a production no musical theater lover will want to miss.
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INTO THE WOODS
Monday, April 11th, 2016
Cal State Fullerton’s musical theater majors once again prove themselves some of American’s Most Promising triple-threats in CSUF’s splendid big-stage revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods.
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A NEW BRAIN
Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Brilliant direction + imaginative choreography + ten terrific performances = more than enough reason for a road trip to San Diego to catch Diversionary Theatre’s pitch-perfect intimate staging of William Finn’s rarely revived A New Brain.
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INTO THE WOODS
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
Into The Woods is back big time, its long-awaited film adaptation joined by a couple of recent, much lauded out-of-town imports at the Old Globe and the Wallis Annenberg, community theater productions galore, and now by the supremely talented students who’ve been starring in, directing, and designing one terrific intimate revival after another at USC over the past eight years, the musical theater stars of the future who call themselves Musical Theatre Repertory.
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INTO THE WOODS
Friday, December 5th, 2014
Into The Woods is back in town again, the musical’s long-awaited film adaptation’s upcoming Christmas Day opening certain to inspire more ITW revivals than have been seen locally in years and years … and leave L.A. theatergoers scratching their heads wondering which of the bunch to see.
For this reviewer, at least, the answer is simple. Head on over to Beverly Hills’ ritzy Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts to catch the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Of 2014 smash revival, now spending the holiday season indoors at the Wallis after four SRO months under the Ashland, Oregon skies.
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