Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
Life imitates art as Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina inflames dormant passions amongst Cuban emigres in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, an Open Fist Theatre Company triumph.
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THE END OF SEX (OR WHAT’S WRONG WITH MOM)
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019A menopausal wife informs her husband of thirty-five years that she never wants to have sex again, not with him, not with anybody. A young wife’s sudden success threatens a husband whose career isn’t going nearly as well. Gay Walch’s The End Of Sex (Or What’s Wrong With Mom), the latest Victory Theatre Center World Premiere is nothing if not conversation-provoking.
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THE PRICE
Sunday, May 12th, 2019
Arthur Miller was still going strong when The Price made its Broadway debut two decades after All My Sons and Death Of A Salesman made him a Broadway household name, and if his 1968 family drama isn’t in quite the same league as those two 20th-century masterpieces, it still makes for powerful, thought-provoking drama on the International City Theatre stage.
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MY THING OF LOVE
Friday, May 10th, 2019An alternate cast prove the wrong trio of actors to make Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ offbeat comic drama My Thing Of Love come to explosive life in its Sixty-Six Theater Co. debut under Paul Rush’s direction.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Monday, May 6th, 2019
The concert staged reading masters at Musical Theatre Guild put together a stunningly performed and directed Sunday In The Park With George (on a Sunday no less) with just enough production design thrown in that audience members might well have thought they were witnessing a fully-staged production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine masterpiece and not a book-in-hand “reading” put together with a mere twenty-five hours of rehearsal.
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BOXING LESSONS
Saturday, May 4th, 2019
A TV season’s worth of secrets and lies come to light over the course of one tumultuous weekend in John Bunzel’s darkly comedic, ever so slightly absurdist Boxing Lessons, an expertly acted, directed, and designed New American Theatre World Premiere.
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BRIGHT STAR
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Christanna Rowader’s star shines bright in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, a Golden Era-style Hollywood weeper given the most gorgeous of bluegrass scores and just as many joyous laughs as soapy tears on the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre stage.
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HAIRSPRAY
Saturday, April 27th, 2019
Director Kari Hayter breathes such fresh new life into the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray that no matter how many times you’ve seen the 2003 Broadway smash, it will feel like your first.
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