Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
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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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Ingenious staging and a talented young cast make Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a guest production at the Colony Theater, the summer’s brightest musical comedy surprise.
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THE CRUCIBLE
Monday, August 13th, 2018
The Topanga hills prove the ideal setting for Theatricum Botanicum’s gut-punchingly powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the first of the six Crucibles I’ve seen to get everything right.
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