Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
MRS. DOUBTFIRE
Thursday, June 13th, 2024
America’s favorite nanny is back in business as triple-threat dynamo Rob McClure lights up the Pantages in his Tony-nominated performance in Mrs. Doubtfire, one of the most crowd-pleasing, feel-good, and family-friendly Broadway musicals in years.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
Torrance Theatre Company closes its 2023-24 season with the most impeccably cast, directed, performed, and designed of the three productions I’ve seen of Terrence McNally’s backstage comedic gem It’s Only A Play.
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THE ALTRUISTS
Sunday, June 9th, 2024A talented bunch of recent AAMDA grads have joined creative forces at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival to bring audiences The Altruists, Nicky Silver’s outrageously funny skewering of liberal causes gone berserk.
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DURAN DURANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Saturday, June 8th, 2024
William Shakespeare meets The Troubies meet one of the 1980s’ most iconic rock bands in Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra, the latest musical-spoofy treat from Troubadour Theater Company “in cahoots with” the Colony Theatre.
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JELLY’S LAST JAM
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
A year after its record-breaking Sondheim Celebration, Pasadena Playhouse gives Jelly Roll’s Jam as spectacularly staged and phenomenally performed a 33rd-anniversary revival as any lover of rarely produced musicals could wish for.
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DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID
Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
Get ready to stand up and cheer director Glenn Casale’s ingeniously reconceived, spectacularly staged revival of Disney The Little Mermaid at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the absolute best of the now eight productions I’ve seen of this most enchanting of musicals.
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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Saturday, June 1st, 2024
Few golden age Broadway comedies hold up anywhere near as marvelously as George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1936 classic You Can’t Take It With You, the playwriting duo’s laugh-packed look at a charmingly eccentric multi-generational family residing together in perfect, if oddball, harmony in a large New York City home in the mid-1930s.
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THE EXPLORERS CLUB
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Things get wild and wacky when a comely female anthropologist is proposed for membership in a heretofore all-male scientific society in Nell Benjamin’s madcap Victorian romp The Explorers Club, now getting a delectably acted West Coast Premiere at Theatre 40.
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