Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

In need of a good laugh? A good cry? A message of comfort and joy in these particularly troubled times? Then look no further than the Pasadena Playhouse, where My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos has set up house this month with her powerful stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Kevin McCorkle makes for a masterful, deeply affecting Willy Loman in The Process 360’s 70th-anniversary intimate staging of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, now playing at North Hollywood’s Secret Rose Theatre.
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SOUTHERNMOST

A big-city transplant returns to the small Hawaiian town her parents still call home for a volcanic family reunion in Mary Lyon Kamitaki’s highly entertaining generation-gap/culture-clash dramedy Southernmost, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE

Children’s theater doesn’t get much darker than 24th STreet Theatre’s The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, and not just because the lights are turned way down low on the starkest of production designs. Dwayne Hartford’s adaptation of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo’s tale of a toy rabbit’s passage from owner to owner in Depression-era America is grim as can be, though not without hope and moments of joy.
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

10 Things I Hate About You, 1999’s teen-movie takeoff on Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, is back for its 20th-anniversary Unauthorized Musical Parody at Rockwell Table + Stage, the latest smash UMPO song-&-dance laughfest from the folks who previously spoofed teen classics Mean Girls and Clueless to equally hilarious/raunchy effect.
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Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s [title of show] provides a couldn’t-be-better talent showcase for four charismatic young triple-threats and a supremely imaginative young director, today only on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance has been delighting the world for a whopping 140 years, though you’d hardly guess its age, not with a libretto as fresh and funny as the latest live-audience sitcom, and certainly not as directed, choreographed, and performed with effervescence and charm at Glendale Centre Theatre.
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Six Southern women with deceptively delicate exteriors give six Actors Co-op treasures the chance to strut their comedic-dramatic stuff like the L.A. theater stars they are in Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias.
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