Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
SAVE ME
Sunday, November 10th, 2013
Dynasty’s Alexis Carrington, All About Eve’s Eve Harrington, Mean Girls’ Regina George, Melrose Place’s Amanda Woodward, Days Of Our Lives’ Sami Brady … All these movie and TV bad girls owe a debt of gratitude to the brazen hussy that started it all way back in 1890, the one-and-only Hedda Gabler, brought up to 21st Century life in Save Me, Valerie Rachelle’s modern interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s late 19th-Century classic, directed with style and flair by Rachelle and featuring a sensational Shannon Nelson as Her Majesty, Queen Bitch Hedda.
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THE POKÉMUSICAL
Thursday, November 7th, 2013RECOMMENDED
A second extension of the Hollywood Fringe Festival hit The Pokémusical made it possible for this reviewer to catch the much talked-about musical spoof of the animated Pokénon TV series and films, one which features quite a few laughs and some terrific performances. Despite those pluses, however, I must confess to having ended up a good deal less a fan of The Pokémusical than its rave reviews had led me to expect. (read more)
FALLING
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
The challenges of caring for a fully-grown, severely autistic adult child are dealt with powerfully, insightfully, and with occasional refreshing bursts of humor in Deanna Jent’s Falling, now getting a Grade-A West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
Musical Theatre West opens its 61st consecutive season with a sensational remounting of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, one of the few musicals you can feel safe in inviting even your most Broadway-musical-phobic friends to for a monstrous good time.
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DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
What a difference a director can make, and by director I mean MaryJo DuPrey, whose vision for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at Actors Co-op has inspired an outstanding cast and brilliant team of designers to take a play about which I had previously expressed decidedly mixed feelings and turned it into a psychological thriller par excellence.
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PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
Friday, November 1st, 2013
Following in the footsteps of last year’s award-winning Cymbeline, A Noise Within returns for a new season of classical theater with one more of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” once again prompting the question, “What on earth could the so-called ‘problem’ be?” when the play in question yields results as magical as these?
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SONG AND DANCE
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
A stellar Robin De Lano and seven terrifically talented dancers made magic yesterday as Inland Valley Repertory Theatre closed its 2013 season with a two-performance only staging of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Song And Dance at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion
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SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Scenie-winning choreographer Janet Renslow wears both director’s hat and choreographer’s chapeau this time round as Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater presents a terrific revival of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, the Broadway adaptation of the 1954 MGM musical movie hit.
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