Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE SPITFIRE GRILL
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
A young woman fresh out of prison seeks a second chance at life in James Valcq and Fred Alley’s tuneful, inspiring crowd-pleaser The Spitfire Grill, Actors Co-op’s first musical in nearly seven years and one that is well worth the wait.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Fred Alley, James Valcq, Los Angeles Theater Review
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THE VIOLIN MAKER
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025Its heart is definitely in the right place, and I can’t fault the performances elicited by director caryn desai, but I found Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak’s downer of a Holocaust memorial play The Violin Maker too narration-and-flashbacks-heavy to fully command my attention throughout most of its two-hour running time.
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Tags: International City Theatre, Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak, Los Angeles Theater Review
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LEGALLY BLONDE
Monday, April 28th, 2025
An incandescent Kathryn Brunner makes it crystal-clear what musical theater stars are made of as the indomitable Elle Woods in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s big-stage big-talent revival of the 2007 Broadway smash Legally Blonde, about as perfect a screen-to-stage adaptation as there’s been in the past twenty years.
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Tags: Heather Hach, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Nell Benjamin
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THE WINTER’S TALE
Friday, April 25th, 2025
If you’ve ever wished Shakespearean English weren’t so darned hard to understand (I certainly have), then Tracy Young’s modern verse translation of The Winter’s Tale, the sparklingly performed latest from Skylight Theatre Company, is the Shakespeare production for you and for me.
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Tags: Lisa Volpe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Skylight Theatre Company, Tracy Young
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL EXTENSION
Monday, April 21st, 2025
Branden Lee Roth puts his own engaging stamp on the title role of Open Fist Theatre Company’s Bat Boy: The Musical, his fortuitous arrival enabling the wild, weird, and wacky L.A.-born, off-Broadway-bred crowd-pleaser to extend its run at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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CORKTOWN ’39
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
Tensions reach a breaking point when an Irish-American family finds itself knee-deep in an assassination plot in John Fazakerley’s slow-boiling thriller Corktown ‘39, another sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Company World Premiere.
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Tags: John Fazakerley, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre
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THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
All hell breaks loose in an Indiana town when a swastika is found spray-painted on a classroom bulletin board celebrating the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Erik Gernand’s The Totality Of All Things, a discussion-provoking, expectations-defying Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
Tags: Erik Gernand, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Road Theatre Company
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HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre
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