Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
NOISES OFF
Monday, April 30th, 2018
A Noise Within re-revives its all-time biggest money-maker, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, guaranteeing audiences two-and-a-half hours of comedic bliss, and not just in Acts One, Two, and Three. This farce-to-end-all-farces is so out-and-out hilarious, you may even find yourself experiencing delayed-reaction laughter during intermissions.
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42nd STREET
Saturday, April 28th, 2018
Palos Verdes Performing Arts welcomes a fabulous lead cast and twenty of L.A.’s most precision tappers for their crowd-pleasing revival of Gower Champion’s 1980 Broadway megasmash 42nd Street.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Friday, April 27th, 2018
Glendale Centre Theatre presents West Side Story as you may never have seen it before–up close and in the round. Terrific lead and supporting performances guarantee GCT yet another hit, and whenever the production’s top-drawer dance ensemble launch into one of Jerome Robbins’s iconic dance numbers as adapted by Orlando Alexander, the show takes particularly high flight.
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BELLEVILLE
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
Young marrieds don’t get much more appealing than Americans in Paris Abby and Zack, but don’t let their Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks looks and charm fool you into thinking Amy Herzog’s Belleville will be the next big romcom. What the Obie-winning Pulitzer Prize finalist has up her sleeve in Belleville is something considerably darker and more twisted, just one reason the latest from the Pasadena Playhouse is one of the season’s must-see productions.
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SOUTH PACIFIC
Sunday, April 22nd, 2018
No matter how many times you’ve seen Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (I myself am at nine productions and counting), you might just feel you’re experiencing it for the first time ever at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, so thrillingly performed and gorgeously designed is this 69th-anniversary McCoy Rigby Entertainment revival.
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NATIVE SON
Saturday, April 21st, 2018Lead performances are powerhouse and production design one of the year’s most electrifying, but Richard Wright’s 20th-century classic Native Son is ill-served at Antaeus Theatre Company by Nambi E. Kelley’s 21st-century stage adaptation’s temporal zigzags, sledgehammer approach to issues of race, and the addition of a “character” not found in the original novel.
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
Thursday, April 19th, 2018The survivor of a horrific childhood is visited by ghosts of his dark and desolate past in Daniel Talbott’s memory play What Happened When, now getting an exquisitely designed Echo Theater Company West Coast Premiere unfortunately made more cryptic than already written by one bad casting choice.
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LITTLE BLACK SHADOWS
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018Kemp Powers’ Little Black Shadows takes an intriguing concept (the lives of teenage house slaves serving white teen masters in early-1850s Georgia), then veers off track into family dysfunction, folktales, magical realism, and a couple of weird plot twists that left me scratching my head despite the best efforts of a Grade-A cast headed by the simply sensational Giovanni Adams and Chauntae Pink.
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