Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
LADIES
Friday, June 14th, 2019An all-female creative team join forces to bring a quartet of mid-18th-century pre-feminist Englishwomen to sporadically intriguing but too often meandering 21st-century life in Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies, a Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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INDECENT
Monday, June 10th, 2019
A gut-punching, all-too relevant look at Antisemitism, censorship, homophobia, anti-immigration hysteria, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism during the first half of the 20th Century, Paula Vogel’s Indecent is also a thought-provoking demonstration of the power of live theater to both inspire and inflame, and for Los Angeles theatergoers, a chance to see the production that scored director Rebecca Taichman a Tony win two years ago.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Saturday, June 8th, 2019
If you’re any kind of musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at least once. But trust me. You’ve never seen, heard, or breathed in anything like The Last Five Years: A Multisensory Experience, the latest from the adventurous After Hours Theatre Company.
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SUCKER PUNCH
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019South London accents either too thick to be understood or virtually non-existent along with loads of British slang prove detrimental to Coeurage Theatre Company’s site-specific West Coast Premiere of Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch. So do view-blocking sight lines for certain audience members squeezed into the Tiger Boxing Gym just off Melrose.
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THE END OF BEAUTY
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Musings on art and beauty serve as an intellectual prelude to a provocative look at a marriage in crisis in Cory Hinkle’s The End Of Beauty, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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THE CHRISTIANS
Saturday, June 1st, 2019
A bombshell announcement dropped one Sunday morning by the pastor of a major American megachurch threatens the future of the institution he has spent years building into mega-proportions in Lucas Hnath’s extraordinary 2014 drama The Christians, now getting a superb L.A.-cast production at Actors Co-op.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Thursday, May 30th, 2019
The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown’s exquisite musical two-hander, showcases UCLA talent to stunning effect as part of Pacific Resident Theatre’s Sunday Concert Series in the company’s newly inaugurated intimate cabaret space.
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DEAD ACCOUNTS
Monday, May 27th, 2019
A New York Banker returns to his family’s Cincinnati home with wads of cash and a secret that’s about to rock their world in Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic look at the Red State-Blue State divide, now getting a terrifically acted Southern California Premiere at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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