Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE TRAGEDY OF JFK (AS TOLD BY WM. SHAKESPEARE)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Jackie Kennedy believed Lyndon Johnson killed her husband, and so apparently does The Bard Of Avon in The Tragedy Of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare), Daniel Henning’s devilishly clever “Julius Caesar Redux,” now getting an exciting (and sure to be controversial) World Premiere at Henning’s The Blank Theatre.
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ATLAS PIT, OR THE GARBAGE MAN’S SON
Saturday, October 8th, 2016
Playwright Alex Burkart takes a grieving teenager, the girl he’s lost for eternity, his desperate parents, and a drug-dealing high school buddy, stirs in the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, and mixes these ingredients to often powerful effect in his World Premiere drama Atlas Pit, or The Garbage Man’s Son, the latest from The Los Angeles New Court Theatre.
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NEVERMORE
Saturday, October 8th, 2016Imagine an Edgar Allan Poe story with Poe himself as protagonist and you’ve got Nevermore, Matt Ritchey’s theatrical riff on The Fall of the House of Usher (with bits of The Pit And The Pendulum and The Tell Tale Heart thrown in for good measure), arriving at Theater Unleashed in time for Halloween in a production that could be better, but provides just enough laughs and thrills to make for ‘60s thriller movie-style fun.
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OUR TOWN
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
Inspired direction, refreshing diversity in casting, and striking production design breathe fresh new life into Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana that first astonished audiences in 1938 with its then revolutionary look at birth, life, love, and what comes after.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
Cecil B. DeMille meets Vegas meets pop-rock at its most eclectic in Broadway superstar-turned-director Marc Kudisch’s endlessly entertaining retelling of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s very first hit musical, and if you think you’ve seen Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat before, think again. You’ve never seen one quite like 3-D Theatricals’ stand-up-and-cheer 2016-2017 season opener.
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FOR THE RECORD: SCORSESE – AMERICAN CRIME REQUIEM
Friday, September 30th, 2016
L.A.’s uber-popular For The Record franchise once again dazzles, this time with an absolutely stunning Broadway-scale, Broadway-caliber For The Record: Scorsese – American Crime Requiem at Beverly Hills’ sumptuous Wallis Annenberg Theatre.
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VICTOR/VICTORIA
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016Roles made famous on the big screen by Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, and Lesley Ann Warren give a quartet of Southland musical theater stars the chance to shine on the big stage in Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s three-performance-only revival of the Broadway hit Victor/Victoria, one whose Henry Mancini/Leslie Bricusse score still offers multiple delights but whose creaky Blake Edwards book could do with a major rewrite.
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