Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
XANADU
Saturday, July 12th, 2025
Wisteria Theater Company makes it five hits in a row with their zestfully entertaining take on Douglas Carter Beane’s 2005 Broadway treat Xanadu, itself a textbook example of how to turn a movie lemon into multiple Tony-nominated lemonade.
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YANKEE DAWG YOU DIE
Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Kelvin Han Yee and Daniel J. Kim are on fire in East West Players’ 37th-anniversary revival of Yankee Dawg You Die, Philip Kan Gotanda’s look at Asian-American representation on stage and screen, at how it has changed since the days of Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa, and at the changes that remained to be made in 1988 … and still do in 2025.
GASLIGHT
Sunday, July 6th, 2025
Decades before “gaslighting” became a thing people talked about, a villainous Victorian set about convincing his submissive spouse that she was losing her increasingly muddled mind in Patrick Hamilton’s classic thriller Gaslight, a mouthwateringly melodramatic treat from Pacific Resident Theatre.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, June 30th, 2025
Summer has come to L.A., and with it the annual return to Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Shakespearean classic once again delighting audiences of all ages, whether they are experiencing its magic for the first time or returning for another summer afternoon or evening of enchantment.
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MOTEL 66
Saturday, June 28th, 2025The seven one-acts that comprise the latest incarnation of the Group Rep’s Motel 66 may not all be slam-dunks, and a couple of them are not ideally cast, but put them all together and you’ve got one enjoyable afternoon or evening of short-form live theater.
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THE RESERVOIR
Saturday, June 28th, 2025
Two talented Jakes make stunning Geffen Playhouse debuts in The Reservoir, Jake Brasch’s hilarious, heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful look at alcoholism and Alzheimer’s that has rising star Jake Horowitz standing in for the playwright in one of the year’s most captivating performances.
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NICE GIRL
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
What’s a Nice Girl to do when she finds herself still living at home with her mother and rapidly approaching the age when singledom turns into spinsterhood? That’s the dilemma Jo faces in Melissa Ross’s tangy slice-of-1980s-life now captivating audiences on Rogue Machine’s uber-intimate Henry Murray Stage.
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has rarely been as quirkily charming as he is in his tangy Irish comedy Outside Mullingar, now in the final weekend of a scrumdiddlyumptious The 6th Act revival at the Matrix.
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