Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

THE SEAGULL

Monday, January 20th, 2025

A TV-star-studded guest production at the Odyssey Theater does a mostly terrific job of reminding audiences that Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is, as its author steadfastly maintained, a comedy, but falls short of that goal in the play’s downer of a final act.
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THE CURIOUS SAVAGE

Sunday, January 19th, 2025


It’s not the crazies who should be committed in John Patrick’s 1950 comedic gem The Curious Savage, the auspicious start to what promises to be the best season in years for North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Sunday, January 19th, 2025

Panic! Productions’ midsize revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman fails to live up to Salesman’s reputation as the playwright’s greatest achievement due to a combination of inappropriate casting, ineffective direction, and snail-slow pacing on the Colony Theatre stage.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Sunday, December 22nd, 2024


Frederick Stuart’s reinventive star turn as Ebenezer Scrooge tops the reasons why my third time seeing A Noise Within’s A Christmas Carol felt like experiencing this holiday spectacular for the very first time.
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MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL

Thursday, December 19th, 2024


The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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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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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

Saturday, December 14th, 2024


A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND

Tuesday, December 10th, 2024


The Troubies are back with one of their most entertaining holiday shows ever, Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, a Troubadour Theater Company mash-up of the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a pint-sized star and the album that helped establish the Beatles as arguably the most ground-breaking band in pop music history.
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