Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
¡PASAJE!
Monday, October 14th, 2024If I were grading on good intentions alone, then J Quiroz and Asdru Sierra’s ¡Pasaje! would earn high marks. Unfortunately, this musical salute to la vida latina in South El Monte is no In The Heights.
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RENT
Monday, October 14th, 2024Jaxx Theatricals follows their Scenie-winning intimate stagings of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party and Chess The Musical with an excitingly performed but overly choreographed revival of Jonathan Larson’s Rent.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024A trio of topnotch star turns are the three best reasons to catch Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s over-the-top staging of the horror rock extravaganza that is Bat Boy: The Musical. (It would help too if you could understand what the characters are saying/singing.)
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TROUBLE IN MIND
Sunday, October 6th, 2024A stunning Kimi Walker delivers what may well be a career-best lead performance in Actors Co-op’s mostly successful revival of pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble In Mind.
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THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Star turns don’t get more stunning than the pair delivered by Kim Huber and Valerie Larsen in Musical Theatre Guild’s spectacular one-night-only concert staged reading of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s The Light In The Piazza.
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JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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3 FACES OF STEVE: SONDHEIM IN CONCERT
Monday, September 23rd, 2024
It’s Stephen Sondheim heaven at the Odyssey as 3 Faces Of Steve: Sondheim In Concert treats musical theater lovers to over two dozen of the Broadway legend’s greatest hits, with some lesser-known ditties thrown in to spice up the mix.
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