Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
NO HOMO
Monday, August 3rd, 2015RECOMMENDED
The 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival hit NO HOMO now gets the fully-staged production I put on my wish list when writing about Brandon Baruch’s hilarious bromcom last year. It also gets a new ending likely to disappoint if not downright infuriate those like this reviewer who fell unreservedly in love with NO HOMO 1.0.
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ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE
Saturday, August 1st, 2015
Cori Cable Kidder delivers a star-making performance as country music legend Patsy Cline in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s season-opening revival of Ted Swindley’s Always … Patsy Cline, easily one of the newly revitalized Playhouse’s best productions ever.
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DOWN THE ROAD
Monday, July 27th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Chaz Bono’s bravura performance as a serial killer incarcerated for life is the best reason to catch Lee Blessing’s gripping if frustrating Down The Road, now playing at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre.
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FAILURE: A LOVE STORY
Sunday, July 26th, 2015
A superb cast, a brilliant design team, and above all the directorial genius that is Michael Matthews join forces to turn Coeurage Theatre Company’s Los Angeles Premiere of Failure: A Love Story, Philip Dawkins’ whimsical meditation on the fragility of life and the resiliency of those who live it, into one of the year’s most stellar 99-seat-plan productions.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
Friday, July 24th, 2015NOT RECOMMENDED
The Elephant Theatre goes out with a fizzle instead of a bang with the World Premiere of Lyle Kessler’s family dysfunction-fest The Great Divide, a play so credibility-defying that not even the best efforts of director David Fofi and an excellent cast can save it—and its audience—from the dull-drums.
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SUBURBAN SHOWGIRL
Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Manhattanites will be in for a treat when Palmer Davis takes her self-penned, self-performed Suburban Showgirl to the New York United Solo Festival (on 42nd Street no less) this coming November.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Monday, July 20th, 2015
Take a handsome Old Testament hero with eleven brothers envious of his Coat Of Many Colors, a Pharaoh straight out of Graceland, and an American Idol-ready Narrator, stir in imaginative direction and some of the most energetic choreography in town, and top it off with tunes written by a very young (and not yet knighted) Andrew Lloyd Webber and what you’ve got is Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s latest—and one of its very best—big-stage musicals: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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