Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THREADS
Friday, July 12th, 2019Love … and the fragility of life … tie together Jeff Locker’s serio-comedic Threads, an evening of theatrical shorts that doubles as the 2019 Summer Showcase for seventeen talented professional actors studying at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop.
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
So nonstop hilarious is the latest National Tour playing a visit to the Ahmanson, The Play That Goes Wrong just might hold the laugh-a-minute record for a West End-to-Broadway comedy smash.
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Having recently spoofed the ’60s with Little Shop Of Horrors, Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre now treats audiences to the adroitly concocted blend of music, comedy, and 1980s nostalgia that is Chad Beguelin, Tim Herlihy, and Matthew Sklar’s The Wedding Singer.
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GOOD BOYS
Monday, July 1st, 2019
An explicit sex tape involving a prep school jock and a young woman decidedly not his girlfriend sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one entitled Washington DC family in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s suspenseful, provocative Good Boys, now riveting audiences at Pasadena Playhouse.
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LOOT
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
Director Bart DeLorenzo and a mostly English cast get bad-boy Brit Joe Orton abso-bloomin’-lutely right in Loot, the provocative, hilarious latest from Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
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THE PRODUCERS
Saturday, June 29th, 2019
Leave it to Celebration Theatre to take a musical as mammoth as The Producers and scale it down to fit the LGBTQ company’s 47-seat Hollywood digs without losing an iota of its audience appeal. Indeed, the show still officially billed as “A New Mel Brooks Musical” may be even more exciting at Celebration in 2019 than when it made its 2001 Broadway debut.
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READY STEADY YETI GO
Monday, June 24th, 2019Sixth-graders reenact a local hate crime for reasons that don’t particularly make sense in David Jacobi’s Ready Steady Yeti Go, a talent showcase for its gifted 20something ensemble that would work even better with age-appropriate casting.
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DAMES AT SEA
Sunday, June 23rd, 2019
42nd Street meets Anything Goes in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s deliciously campy Dames At Sea, a nonstop song-and-dance extravaganza guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a tap in your step.
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