Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE
Saturday, September 1st, 2018
Cori Cable Kidder reprises her Ovation Award-nominated, Scenie-winning star turn as Patsy Cline opposite SoCal musical theater treasure Ann Myers in Glendale Centre Theatre’s Always … Patsy Cline for two hours of country music memories backed by a live band. Need I say more?
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Friday, August 31st, 2018
The Glass Menagerie is in expert hands as International City Theatre revives the masterpiece that first put Tennessee Williams’ name on the map, giving it a 74th-anniversary revival sparked by impeccable direction, striking design, and performances that breathe fresh new life into a classic.
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THE CHALK GARDEN
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Brits don’t get more delightfully eccentric than the residents of Mrs. St. Maugham’s Sussex manor house in Enid Bagnold’s 1955 charmer The Chalk Garden, the latest Theatricum Botanicum gem.
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I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE
Monday, August 27th, 2018An emotionally abusive childhood provides the backstory to the celebration of survival that is Inda Craig-Galván’s memory play I Go Somewhere Else, a playwrights’ Arena World Premiere as superbly acted as it is strikingly designed. If only it were easier to figure out who’s who and what’s what.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Sunday, August 26th, 2018
The Motown sound is ready once again to take New York by storm when Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now earning some of the loudest Ahmanson Theatre audience cheers I’ve heard in years, transfers to Broadway’s Imperial this spring.
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MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD
Saturday, August 25th, 2018
Maid Marian is far from the only resident of Nottingham and its neighboring Sherwood Forest to blur gender and sexuality in Adam Szymkowicz’s LGBTQ-celebratory, song-and-swordplay-packed Marian, Or The True Tale Of Robin Hood, one of Theatre Of NOTE’s most exhilarating hits in years.
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MAMMA MIA!
Sunday, August 19th, 2018
Fresh new direction/choreography and a look infinitely superior to the Broadway/Tour design that audiences have been seeing since Mamma Mia! first opened back in 2001 are several big reasons to welcome the international megasmash’s arrival at 3-D Theatricals’ stunning new home, the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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YELLOW FACE
Saturday, August 18th, 2018
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang blurs fact and fiction in the most devilishly clever of ways while tackling issues of racism and race in his 2007 off-Broadway hit Yellow Face, now provoking gales of laughter, plenty of post-performance discussion, and an unexpected tear or two at Beverly Hills Playhouse.
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