Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

AS WE BABBLE ON

Millennials get their turn in the East West Players spotlight in Nathan Ramos’s World Premiere comedy As We Babble On, a crowd-pleasing Asian-American take on Friends with more than just laughter on its mind.
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WITH LOVE, MARILYN

Marilyn Monroe is crossing the country to tell her rags-to-riches, obscurity-to-stardom life story in song, and since it’s triple-threat blonde bombshell Erin Sullivan doing the telling and the singing, With Love, Marilyn makes for a fabulously performed trip down memory lane.
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DO RE MI

It’s precisely for shows like Do Re Mi that Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series was created, Broadway chestnuts that for one reason or another have faded from memory despite Tony recognition and decent runs, and with Daniel Smith directing a crème-de-la-crème cast at Long Beach’s Beverly O’Neill Theatre, Do Re Mi’s one-night-only concert staged reading provided more than a few delights.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

You are hereby invited to dine in elegance whilst savoring the equally delectable delights of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest as The 413 Project Theater serves up high tea dinner and a show at Pasadena’s Madeline Gardens, as appetizing an evening of Oscar as any Wilde fan could possibly wish for.
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

The audience is locked up side by side with the loonies in After Hours Theatre Company’s über-immersive One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and if Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of Ken Kessey’s novel isn’t ideally served by this you-are-there approach or the production’s younger-than-written crazies, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The Experience is a theatrical adventure you won’t want to miss.
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HOSTAGE

A Wisconsin mother visits her captive son at the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis in Michelle Kholos Brooks’ compelling, eye-opening, fact-based World Premiere drama Hostage, the latest from Skylight Theatre Company.
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RED SPEEDO

Obie-winning Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath (The Christians, A Doll’s House, Part 2) takes on Sex, Drugs, and Olympic Sports in Red Speedo, the theatrical equivalent of a Raging Waters thrill ride now getting a gold-medal Southern California Premiere at the Road on Magnolia.
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SEX

The sound you hear at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre is Mae West turning over in her grave at the travesty being made of Sex, the 1926 play that outraged critics but proved that season’s biggest Broadway hit and put its one-of-a-kind playwright-star on the map.
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