Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BEYOND
Monday, November 11th, 2024Cute, fun, silly, and too slight to be of any major consequence, Tom Chiodo and Joe Nedder’s Adventures in the Great Beyond serves primarily as a showcase for Nedder’s catchy melodies and the World Premiere musical’s highly talented cast, in particular a charismatic 20something fivesome who reveal Grade-A vocal chops as the devotees of a quirky desert-dwelling New Age guru named Krishamarti.
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ANTÍKONI
Monday, November 11th, 2024If Greek tragedy and/or Native American folklore are your thing, Native Voices’ World Premiere production of Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni may be right up your alley. I, unfortunately, found my interest flagging and my mind drifting almost from the get-go.
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THE CIVIL TWILIGHT
Monday, November 4th, 2024
Two strangers seeking refuge in a dingy motel room reveal their deepest, darkest secrets to riveting effect in The Civil Twilight, Shem Bitterman’s lollapalooza of a two-hander now getting a brilliantly acted World Premiere at the Broadwater Studio Theatre.
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THE WISDOM OF EVE
Sunday, November 3rd, 2024The results are uneven, and at nearly three hours in length the play outstays its welcome, but at the very least Mary Orr’s The Wisdom Of Eve gives Whitefire Theatre audiences the chance to see how All About Eve might have turned out had it been adapted by its original author and not by the brilliant Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who received sole writing credit (and two Oscars) for the film. (The answer is not nearly as good.)
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BARBRA’S WEDDING
Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
Nick Bredosky and Kaylin Zeren deliver the comedic goods in a savvily gender-swapped take on Daniel Stern’s married-couples comedy Barbra’s Wedding, now halfway through its two-Fridays-only run at LA Connection Comedy Improv Theatre.
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THE 22+ WEDDINGS OF HUGO MULITPLE
Friday, November 1st, 2024
Latino Theater Company treats L.A. audiences to a rarity in this city of almost a million-and-a-half Spanish speakers, teatro en español (with English supertitles) thanks to Gala Hispanic Theater’s The 22+ Weddings Of Hugo Multiple, Gustavo Ott’s simply marvelous look at love and immigration in today’s America.
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BUYER & CELLAR
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Emerson Collins delivers the solo performance of the year (opposite none other but Barbra Streisand herself) in Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar, the latest winner from The Sixth Act.
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MURDER ON THE LINKS
Monday, October 28th, 2024
Playwright Steven Dietz has taken Agatha Christie’s 1923 whodunnit Murder On The Links and adapted it as a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek six-actor farce that only the most diehard Christie purist could fail to love.
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