Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
It takes talent, ingenuity, and a whole lot of chutzpah to trim an original Broadway cast of 26 down to a mere 11 performers and deliver a Sweeney Todd with the entertainment goods of a production more than twice its size, but that’s exactly what Ophelia’s Jump has done on a matchbook-sized stage over in Upland.
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THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD
Monday, October 5th, 2026
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang combines fact, fiction, and Chinese Opera in The Dance And The Railroad, a strikingly acted, designed, and danced Artists At Play and Latino Theater Company revival of Hwang’s poignant 1981 one-act.
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THE FEEL GOOD STORY AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW
Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
Things get wild and crazy when six Americans held hostage by a band of Sudanese terrorists are reunited in New York for a 60 Minutes-style TV newsmagazine feature in The Feel Good Story America Needs Right Now, Mark Wilding’s latest World Premiere adventure in comedic mayhem at Theatre West.
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THE PETERSON SHOW
Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
The laughs come fast and furious amidst resurrected childhood traumas when five Cosby Show-style sitcom siblings find themselves reunited decades later in Janine Nabers’ The Peterson Show, the latest World Premiere Echo Theater Company must-see.
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KAIJU
Saturday, September 26th, 2026
Playwright Dan Caffrey may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew in Kaiju, his satirical mashup of Godzilla-style creature features and pretentions/clueless post-performance talkbacks, but I so enjoyed the World Premiere comedy now playing at the Road Theatre on Magnolia that I can’t really complain.
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FRANKENSTEIN: RESURRECTION
Friday, September 25th, 2026
Gothic horror isn’t really my cup of tea, but if it’s among your favorite theatrical genres, you just might find The Nocturne Theatre’s World Premiere Gothic horror musical Frankenstein: Resurrected right up your dark alley.
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A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
A pair of single fathers from mirror-opposite backgrounds bond against all odds over parenthood, financial challenges, and a shared “specific kind of sadness” in Samuel D. Hunter’s deeply moving two-hander, A Case For The Existence Of God, the fifth of Hunter’s 15 “Idaho Plays” to get a pitch-perfect Los Angeles Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Monday, September 21st, 2026
Understudy Matthew Taylor Smith got shot out of a cannon and stuck a show-stopping landing as Seymour Krelborn at the post-Opening Night matinee of La Mirada Theatre’s absolutely sensational big-stage revival of the cult classic to end all cult classics, Little Shop Of Horrors.
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