Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
SIGNIFICANT OTHER
Friday, April 13th, 2018
The gay guy finally gets to be Julia Roberts (or Janeane Garofalo circa The Truth About Cats And Dogs) in Significant Other, Joshua Harmon’s smart, funny, bracingly sardonic romcom now getting a terrific East Coast-cast West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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VOTE, PRAY, LOVE
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Charismatic, multitalented L.A. musical theater performer Ryan O’Connor recalls the most challenging year of his life in story and song in his terrifically entertaining musical memoir Vote, Pray, Love, now playing Sundays and Mondays at the Celebration.
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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Monday, April 9th, 2018
The Twenties roar and Gershwin tunes soar as Musical Theatre West gives L.A. its first taste of the 2012 Broadway delight that is Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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PIGS AND CHICKENS
Saturday, April 7th, 2018The Office meets A.I. meets Orwell’s Big Brother in Marek Glinski’s entertaining if a tad over-complicated satirical absurdist black comedy Pigs And Chickens, the latest Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA World Premiere.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Friday, April 6th, 2018
A ragtag team of pint-sized spellers make musical theater magic at Burbank’s Grove Theatre Center as Domino One productions debuts its imaginatively directed and choreographed, delightfully performed intimate staging of the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
Monday, April 2nd, 2018
A dysfunctional family in mourning makes for unexpected holiday hilarity and heart in Jami Brandli’s Through The Eye Of A Needle, a humdinger of a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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AKUMA-SHIN
Sunday, April 1st, 2018Terrific performances and an ingenious production design cannot salvage the perplexing jumble that is Kenley Smith’s big-ideas sci-fi-parody-fantasy-thriller black comedy Akuma-Shin, a Sacred Fools Theater Company World Premiere, any more than its cast of characters—Dr. Joyce Brothers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer among them—are able to save Tokyo from Godzilla.
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THE MADRES
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker pays tribute to the women who would not be silenced when their sons and daughters started disappearing by the thousands during the “dirty war” waged by the Argentine military dictatorship on its own citizens beginning in the mid-1970s in The Madres, another powerhouse Skylight Theatre World Premiere.
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