Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
MÉNAGE À QUATRE
Sunday, July 27th, 2025
What would you do if you found out that your spouse and your longtime best friend were having an affair? What if so happened that your spouse’s illicit lover was her own bff as well? These questions and more are posed and answered to terrifically entertaining effect in Peter Lefcourt’s Ménage À Quatre, the prolific L.A. playwright’s best new comedy since 2015’s Café Society.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Saturday, July 26th, 2025
Highlands Theatre follows last summer’s rip-roaring revival of The Music Man with another guaranteed crowd-pleaser for adults and kids of any age, the international musical smash Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Monday, July 21st, 2025
Beatrice and Benedick are once again at it tooth and nail, but this time round she’s wearing a hoopskirt and he’s sporting a Civil War-era Army uniform as director Ellen Geer transposes the Shakespeare comedy classic from 16th-century Italy to 1860s Virginia while sprinkling in one I Love Lucy-inspired physical comedy bit after another.
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Monday, July 21st, 2025A pair of magnetic, gorgeously sung lead performances bring out the best in Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman’s The Bridges of Madison County. The makeshift production design it’s been given by Chromolume Theatre Company and some occasionally clunky staging not so much.
BUDDY – THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
Sunday, July 13th, 2025
Buddy Holly may have left this earth some six-and-a-half decades ago on “the day the music died”, but the 1950s rock and roll legend lives on in Long Beach in the person of dazzling quadruple-threat phenom Will Riddle in Musical Theatre West’s rousing revival of musical/tribute concert hybrid that is Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story.
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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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