Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
Billie Holiday sings again at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Deidrie Henry’s searing tour-de-force star turn in Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill.
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DANIEL’S HUSBAND
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
Daniel and Mitchell have been together for seven years. One of them wants to tie the knot. The other does not. And that’s about all you need to know before making a beeline for the Fountain Theatre to savor Michael McKeever’s laugh-out-loud-then-get-out-your-hankies stunner Daniel’s Husband.
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BRONCO BILLY THE MUSICAL
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
An heiress on the run finds an unexpected hideout and a unique new family of friends while being pursued by a gang of comic villains who can’t manage to shoot straight in the infectiously crowd-pleasing World Premiere musical Bronco Billy, quite possibly the most tuneful and entertaining L.A.-cast Broadway hopeful since Sister Act made its Pasadena Playhouse debut back in 2006.
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AT THE TABLE
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
Booze and pot lower inhibitions, loosen tongues, and reveal cracks in the fifteen-year-long friendship of a quartet of 30somethings in Michael Perlman’s At The Table, a Road Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere that proves as edge-of-your-seat compelling as it is provocatively button-pushing.
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MAMMA MIA!
Friday, May 17th, 2019
An all-POC cast (primarily Asian, significantly Filipino), inspired direction, electrifying choreography, and the most gorgeous of production designs breathe fresh new life into East West Players’ thrillingly trailblazing Mamma Mia!, the all-around best of the many MM!s I’ve seen.
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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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