Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
WOOD BOY DOG FISH
Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Wood Boy Dog Fish, Rogue Artists Ensemble’s deliciously twisted take on Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio has moved uptown and upscale from the Bootleg to Toluca Lake, terrific news for those who like their fairy tales dark and dirty and theatrically magical.
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BAD JEWS
Friday, May 18th, 2018
Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews is back in a terrifically acted and directed Odyssey Theatre Ensemble production that does its smart, button-pushing source material proud.
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SOFT POWER
Friday, May 18th, 2018
A New York cast and production team bring Los Angeles audiences the World Premiere latest from Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Tony-winning composer-lyricist Jeanine Tesori, the crowd-pleasing East-meets-West “play with a musical” Soft Power, as audacious in concept as it is for the most part effective in execution.
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DIE, MOMMIE, DIE!
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Over-the-top doesn’t begin to describe the performances–or the fun of seeing so much scenery chewed by so sensational a cast–in Center Theatre Group’s Block Party reprise of Celebration Theatre’s 2017 comedy smash Die, Mommie, Die!
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF CLUELESS
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
East Coast transfer student Tai Frasier may have been clueless when she showed up at Beverly Hill High just aching for a makeover, but the folks at Rockwell prove themselves masterful movie spoofers once again with their riotous, rollicking latest, The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Clueless.
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HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Musical Theatre Guild has concluded its 20th-anniversary with a Honeymoon In Vegas so thrillingly staged, choreographed, and performed that yesterday’s audience could be excused for forgetting that they were seeing a mere “concert staged reading” put together in a mere twenty-five hours from table read to showtime.
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KNIFE TO THE HEART
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
To cut or not to cut. That is the question facing Marshall and his shiksa spouse when pregnant-with-twins Julie Ann learns that the postpartum shindig her Jewish mother-in-law’s got planned will involve not just cocktails but a bit of infant cock-snipping. No wonder Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin have titled their entertaining, unexpectedly touching 80-minute stage sitcom Knife To The Heart.
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CARDBOARD PIANO
Saturday, May 5th, 2018
War and homophobia wreak havoc on the lives of an overseas missionary couple’s teenage daughter, her Ugandan girlfriend, and the outwardly maimed, inwardly wounded 13-year-old soldier who interrupts their impromptu wedding ceremony one dark and devastating night in Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano, the gut-punching latest from International City Theatre.
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