Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL


The legend that was Tina Turner lives on in Naomi Rodgers’ spectacular star turn as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Pantages.
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INTO THE BREECHES!


Playwright George Brant reinvigorates the backstage comedy with Into The Breeches!, his crowd-pleasing look at a theater company that refused to go under when its male actors went off to do battle in World War II.
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LOVE, DOLLY


Dolly Parton fans will find themselves transported to country music heaven this weekend and next as Kim Eberhardt performs her spot-on tribute to Tennessee’s very own Backwoods Barbie, the lovingly titled Love, Dolly, at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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STARMITES


Starmites might possibly be the least remembered Best Musical Tony nominee of the 1980s, but there’s nothing in the least bit forgettable about Open Fist Theatre Company’s irresistibly entertaining intimate revival of the 1989 Broadway gem.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT


Rarely has so much entertainment value been packed into just ninety minutes plus intermission than in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s thrillingly directed and performed revival of the international musical smash Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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BACK PORCH


Playwright Eric Anderson pays affectionate tribute to William Inge in Back Porch, the play Inge might himself have written had mid-20th-century Middle America not kept the gay Kansan locked tightly in the closet.
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A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL

Center Theatre Group celebrates diversity just in time for Pride Month with A Transparent Musical, an exhilarating but overlong adaptation of the hit TV series Transparent.
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NO PLACE LIKE GANDERSHEIM

A terrific cast score plenty of laughs in No Place Like Gandersheim, Elizabeth Dement’s time-traveling screwball feminist farce, but the Skylight Theatre World Premiere tries too hard to do too much for it to work the way it should.
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