Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
Monday, May 13th, 2024Musical theater star Kelley Dorney captivates without singing a note in What The Constitution Means To Me, Heidi Schreck’s initially entertaining but ultimately long-winded lecture on the U.S. Constitution’s failure to protect the rights of women, people of color, immigrants, Native Americans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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AMERICAN MARIACHI
Monday, May 13th, 2024
A half-dozen years after its Old Globe world premiere, José Cruz González’s American Mariachi makes an endlessly entertaining Latino Theater Co. L.A. debut under under José Luis Valenzuela’s incisive direction at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Saturday, May 11th, 2024
The Nocturne Theatre makes it four hits in a row with a terrifically crowd-pleasing, family-friendly in-the-round staging of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ‘EM
Monday, May 6th, 2024How would you like to be trapped in a room with your first wife, your current wife, and the girlfriend neither of them knows about? That’s the dilemma faced by a comatose Thomas Axelrod in Lee Redmond’s Can’t Live Without ‘Em, an amusing World Premiere two-hour sitcom now playing upstairs at the Group Rep that I just might have enjoyed even more without its central conceit.
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DISTRACTIONS AT THE CRASH SITE: SHORT PLAYS BY STEVE YOCKEY
Friday, May 3rd, 2024The seven one-acts that comprise Theatre of NOTE’s Distractions At The Crash Site: Short Plays by Steve Yockey are a mixed bag, and even at an intermissionless ninety minutes the West Coast Premiere runs about ten minutes too long, but Yockey fans will enjoy seeing the Wolves/Mercury playwright (and The Flight Attendant showrunner) in short-form mode.
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THE BALD SOPRANO
Monday, April 29th, 2024Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco invented a whole new genre of comedy back in 1950 with his théâtre de l’absurde ground-breaker The Bald Soprano, and if its 2024 City Garage revival is still rough around the edges as of opening weekend, there remains plenty to entertain an audience.
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H*TLER’S TASTERS
Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit.
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JERSEY BOYS
Sunday, April 21st, 2024
The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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