Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS
Sunday, January 5th, 2014
Glendale Centre Theatre opens its 2014 season (and celebrates six weeks of Grandparents’ Day) with an absolutely terrific revival of Joe DiPietro’s hilarious, heartstring-tugging Valentine to a quartet of Italian-American nonni any one of us would be lucky to call our own.
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MOM’S GIFT
Sunday, December 29th, 2013
A ghost who can be seen by only a single living soul. An angel who must accomplish a mission before being given his or her wings. Playwright Phil Olson merges two tried-and-true genres to give L.A. audiences his latest, Mom’s Gift, a sort of Topper-meets-It’s A Wonderful Life dramedy that proves a crowd-pleaser in its World Premiere engagement for The Group Rep at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre.
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MERRY F***IN’ CHRISTMAS, Y’ALL
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013RECOMMENDED
A number of jarring tonal shifts and some underdeveloped characters don’t stop Merry F***in’ Christmas Y’All, the latest from Eclectic Company Theatre, from being a laugh-getter for those who don’t mind more than a bit of raunch in their holiday entertainment.
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THE MYSTERY PLAYS
Monday, December 23rd, 2013
Imaginative direction, terrific performances, and an ingenious production design add up to engrossing theater as The Visceral Company presents the pair of one-acts that playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has somewhat awkwardly fused together as The Mystery Plays.
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DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 16th, 2013
The spirit of the smash Fox sitcom Married With Children lives on in Dysfunctional Family Christmas, now getting its World Premiere at North Hollywood’s newly rechristened BrickHouse Theatre, and if Paul Storiale’s first original holiday comedy is still rough around the edges, topnotch performances and non-stop laughs make it a nontraditional December treat.
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LIGHT UP THE SKY
Sunday, December 15th, 2013
An all-around splendid cast light up the Reuben Cordova stage as Beverly Hills’ venerable Theatre 40 serves up its topnotch revival of Light Up The Sky, Moss Hart’s affectionate skewering of the world of “The Theater.”
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WALKIN’ IN A WINTER ONE-HIT-WONDERLAND
Saturday, December 14th, 2013
The Troubies celebrate their tenth December at Toluca Lake’s Falcon Theatre with a “Greatest Hits” cabaret retrospective of their first nine holiday shows—along with a side trip to A Christmas Carol-land for supporting player-turned-leading man Winter Warlock—as the Troubadour Theater Company presents their latest surefire SRO smash Walking In A Winter One-Hit-Wonderland for Holiday Season 2013.
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THE INVISIBLE PLAY
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Have you ever felt so unnoticed by those around you that you said to yourself, “I might as well be invisible.” Well, that’s exactly how office worker Colin feels in Alex Dremann’s existential romantic comedy The Invisible Play (aka THE :NV:S:BLE PLAY), and though T:P could have benefited from some tightening and sharpening before making its West Coast Premiere, it proves a terrific acting showcase for Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness and her fellow company members at Hollywood’s Theatre of NOTE.
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