Posts Tagged ‘Lin-Manuel Miranda’
IN THE HEIGHTS
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023Spirited performances make In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda’s celebration of life in New York’s Washington Heights, a Morgan-Wixson Theatre crowd-pleaser, however the production loses points for its lighting and sound designs.
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FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME
Sunday, July 17th, 2022
Rap meets improv meets R&B meets live theater at its most magical in the Tony-winning Freestyle Love Supreme, the most entertainingly original audience-participatory show you’ll see all summer.
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HAMILTON
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
The American Revolution revolutionizes American musical theater in Lin Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking, game-changing Hamilton, now thrilling audiences at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts like virtually nothing before.
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SPAMILTON: AN AMERICAN PARODY
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
Imagine you’ve spent the past three-and-a-half decades spoofing New York’s buzz-worthiest musicals but this year there’s one megasmash that dwarfs the competition like no musical ever has before. If you’re Gerard Alessandrini, you write Forbidden Broadway 2017 and call it Spamilton, eighty minutes of Broadway satire at its funniest, cleverest, and most tuneful now getting its West Coast Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
Musical Theatre West gives In The Heights, the thrilling, entertaining, emotionally powerful Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008, not only its first major L.A. County staging since its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda played the Pantages, its MTW debut proves the most brilliant of the eight productions I’ve now seen since that 2010 First National Tour.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Monday, April 18th, 2016
In The Heights, the thrilling, entertaining, emotionally powerful Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008, has arrived at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center in a production whose triple-threat performances rival the best of the multiple professional ITH stagings I’ve seen over the past six years.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Monday, August 17th, 2015
Candlelight Pavilion tops everything it’s done over the past year—and that includes Evita, The Producers, Spamalot, and last month’s Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat—with a sensational mid-summer staging of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In The Heights.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Saturday, July 12th, 2014
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In The Heights now arrives in Anaheim Heights (sorry, make that Anaheim Hills) in as fine an intimate staging as any you could hope to see of the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008, Chance Theater mainstays Oanh Nguyen and Kelly Todd directing and choreographing with their accustomed brilliance, aided and abetted by a sensational young cast.
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