Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
CORKTOWN ’39
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
Tensions reach a breaking point when an Irish-American family finds itself knee-deep in an assassination plot in John Fazakerley’s slow-boiling thriller Corktown ‘39, another sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Company World Premiere.
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THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
All hell breaks loose in an Indiana town when a swastika is found spray-painted on a classroom bulletin board celebrating the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Erik Gernand’s The Totality Of All Things, a discussion-provoking, expectations-defying Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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RABBIT HOLE
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
Kudos to director Cate Caplin and an all-around superb Los Angeles-based cast for delivering so powerful a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, you’d have sworn you were watching a fully-staged production had it not been for the scripts which cast members had in hand in the latest entry in the Interact Theatre Company reading series held monthly at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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JANE EYRE
Friday, April 11th, 2025A Noise Within follows their spectacular reimagining of Macbeth with a solid production of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, albeit not as effectively staged or as ideally cast as I might have wished.
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