Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
DRAT! THE CAT!
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025
Sixty years after it flopped big time on Broadway, the largely forgotten Drat! The Cat! has been given fresh new life by director Bruce Kimmel in a delightful, six-decades-postponed West Coast Premiere at the Group Rep Theatre.
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Tags: Ira Levin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Milton Schafer, The Group Rep
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LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025There’s some very good work being done on the Westchester Playhouse stage in Kentwood Players frontal-nudity-free staging of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Terrence McNally’s three-and-a-half-hour-long celebration of gay love and friendship in the time of AIDS.
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Tags: Kentwood Players, Los Angeles Theater Review, Terrence McNally, Westchester Playhouse
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ONE FOR MY BABY
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025A musical can have hit potential where songs, dances, performances, and production design are concerned, however without a compelling, coherent book to grab an audience, it can still end up a miss, case in point the 3-plus-hour-long retro jukebox musical One For My Baby, now getting its World Premiere at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
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Tags: All Roads Theatre Company, El Portal Theatre, Fred Barton, Harold Arlen, Los Angeles Theater Review, Scott Thompson
Posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere | No Comments »
THESE SHINING LIVES
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Decades before Erin Brockovich played David to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Goliath, a young woman fought a similarly consequential battle in Ottawa, Illinois, events that playwright Melanie Marnich recounts in These Shining Lives, the stunning latest from Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Los Angeles Theater Review, Melanie Marnich
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, March 8th, 2025
Nearly thirty years after its Los Angeles World Premiere, Bat Boy The Musical finally gets the sensationally staged and performed local revival it so richly deserves thanks to the always impressive Open Fist Theatre Company.
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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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WEST SIDE STORY
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025A number of brilliant directorial choices make the first act of Nocturne Theatre’s West Side Story so thrillingly innovative that it comes as a disappointment that some less inspired ones in Act Two end up diminishing the overall impact of this otherwise impressive in-the-round revival of the 1957 Broadway classic.
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Tags: Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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FROU-FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS
Monday, March 3rd, 2025
If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo’s deliciously daring queer riff on Williams’ A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure.
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Tags: Boston Court Pasadena, John Anthony Loffredo, Los Angeles Theater Review, Tennessee Williams
Posted in Comedy-Drama, Now Playing, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW! | No Comments »
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025I’m too much of a fan of Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman’s “modern day musical love story” I Love You Because not to feel let down and put out by the overacted, misdirected Chromolume Theatre production now playing at the Zephyr Theatre.
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Tags: Chromolume Theatre, Joshua Salzman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Ryan Cunningham, Zephyr Theatre
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