Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

ONE FOR MY BABY

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

A musical can have hit potential where songs, dances, performances, and production design are concerned, however without a compelling, coherent book to grab an audience, it can still end up a miss, case in point the 3-plus-hour-long retro jukebox musical One For My Baby, now getting its World Premiere at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
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THESE SHINING LIVES

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025


Decades before Erin Brockovich played David to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Goliath, a young woman fought a similarly consequential battle in Ottawa, Illinois, events that playwright Melanie Marnich recounts in These Shining Lives, the stunning latest from Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

Saturday, March 8th, 2025


Nearly thirty years after its Los Angeles World Premiere, Bat Boy The Musical finally gets the sensationally staged and performed local revival it so richly deserves thanks to the always impressive Open Fist Theatre Company.
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WEST SIDE STORY

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

A number of brilliant directorial choices make the first act of Nocturne Theatre’s West Side Story so thrillingly innovative that it comes as a disappointment that some less inspired ones in Act Two end up diminishing the overall impact of this otherwise impressive in-the-round revival of the 1957 Broadway classic.
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FROU-FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS

Monday, March 3rd, 2025


If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo’s deliciously daring queer riff on Williams’ A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure.
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I LOVE YOU BECAUSE

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

I’m too much of a fan of Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman’s “modern day musical love story” I Love You Because not to feel let down and put out by the overacted, misdirected Chromolume Theatre production now playing at the Zephyr Theatre.
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44 THE MUSICAL

Saturday, March 1st, 2025


Has life under 47 got you down? If so, head on over to the Kirk Douglas Theatre where 44 The Musical’s rollicking, raunchy, R&B-packed look back at Barack Obama’s first term in office has arrived to provide L.A. audiences with a spirits-lifting respite from the DJT blues.
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BACON

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025


Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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