Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE WHO’S TOMMY
Friday, October 30th, 2026
Not everything works to perfection in the National Tour of the 2024 Broadway revival of The Who’s Tommy, but a spectacular production design, mesmerizing choreography, and soaring vocals add up to a thrilling theatrical extravaganza at the Hollywood Pantages.
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THE MUSIC MAN
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Few Golden Age musicals stand the test of time the way Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic The Music Man has for the past 69 years, and if you don’t believe me check out the fabulously entertaining National Tour now paying a visit to the Ahmanson Theater.
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RORSCHACH
Monday, October 26th, 2026
Four contemporary Angelinos find their lives intertwined with that of pioneering Swiss psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach more than a century after his death in Kelly Younger’s Rorschach, a spectacular World Premiere season opener for a Skylight Theatre Company rejuvenated under Cameron Watson’s artistic directorship.
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AS YOU LIKE IT
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
Sparking performances and inventive direction make a 427-year-old play come vibrantly alive for modern audiences in The Porters Of Hellsgate’s inspired take on one of William Shakespeare’s most frequently staged comedies, the provocatively gender-bending As You Like It.
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SAINT MEGAN
Monday, October 19th, 2026
Playwright Joy Gregory manages to find both humor and heart amidst the hatred spewed by Topeka, Kansas’s infamous Westboro Baptist Church in her captivating and compelling new play Saint Megan, another stunning Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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FALSETTOS
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
Conundrum Theatre Company hits a bullseye with Falsettos, William Finn and James Lapine’s richly rewarding look back at a freshly out gay New Yorker’s life in the years before and just after the AIDS epidemic began to wreak havoc on his city.
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WIVES
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
I wish I could say I enjoyed Jaclyn Backhaus’s time-hopping feminist comedy Wives as much as I did the delightful performances and dazzing designs on display in its Southern California Premiere at East West Players.
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COME FROM AWAY
Sunday, October 11th, 2026
Excitingly reconceived staging and a fresh new design turn the Broadway smash Come From Away’s true-life tale of heroism, humanity, and heart triumphing over terror into one of the most thrilling A Noise Within musicals ever.
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