Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
FOLLIES (CONCERT VERSION)
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
With a now basically unaffordable original Broadway cast of 47 (and opulent sets and costumes to match), Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies turned out to be the ideal rarely-staged gem for Musical Theatre Guild to introduce audiences to its best-ever new space at Santa Monica’s The Broad Stage, a one-night-only concert version that more than earned Sunday’s extended standing ovation.
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KILL SHELTER: THE RED CAST
Saturday, September 30th, 2023
A return visit to Theatre Of NOTE to catch the “Red Cast” in Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter provides additional proof that (to quote from my original review) this is “not only one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.”
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TOWARDS ZERO
Monday, September 25th, 2023Haphazard casting and shaky direction make Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero the weakest Theatre 40 production since the company’s return to live, in-person programming over two years ago.
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BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Sunday, September 24th, 2023
A lifetime of failed opportunities to connect weighs heavy on the hearts of the father-daughter protagonists of Anna Ouyang Moench’s haunting Birds Of North America, exquisitely acted by Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye at the Odyssey Theatre.
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ROOM SERVICE
Saturday, September 23rd, 2023Sluggish pacing drags down the Group Rep’s 2023 revival of John Murray and Allen Boretz’s Room Service despite a delightful first act and a number of snappy performances.
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HOW IT’S GON’ BE
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
A black teenager comes of age to both heartbreaking and heartwarming effect in JuCoby Johnson’s How It’s Gon’ Be, a dramatic stunner as universal as it is specific, and the latest must-see from Echo Theater Company.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: A WILDE NEW MUSICAL
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Whittier Community Theatre celebrates its long-awaited return to in-person productions (and the start of its 100th-anniversary season) with the absolutely smashing The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Wilde New Musical, a high point in WCT’s century of shows.
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MEASURE STILL FOR MEASURE
Sunday, September 17th, 2023
Rehearsals for Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure have life imitating art in Jessica Kubzansky’s Measure Still For Measure, a sensational Boston Court World Premiere that takes backstage drama to a whole new level.
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