Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
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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BIG FISH
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Gorgeously scored and emotionally impactful, Broadway’s Big Fish gets a terrific regional staging at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion, one of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s most successful big-cast musicals in years.
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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
A hot young director-choreographer, a groundbreakingly diverse trio of lead performers, and a fresh, from-the-ground-up production design breath new life into McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Singin’ In The Rain at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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DIANA OF DOBSON’S
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
Minimum-Wage Worker Goes Wild On 15-Grand Inheritance.
If this sounds like the log-line for an upcoming Emma Stone romcom, think again. Playwright Cicely Hamilton came up with this one way back in 1908 when she wrote Diana Of Dobson’s, a largely forgotten frothy romp with feminist teeth now being given a splendiferous 21st-century Antaeus Theatre Company revival.
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