Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
HOW HIGH THE MOON
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026
If you think the 1950s were all The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver, then you haven’t met the the Butlers and Thompsons of Van Nuys, whose hornet’s nest of secrets and lies come to light over the course of an explosively entertaining Fourth Of July weekend in Barbara Nell Beery’s How High The Moon.
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THE FULL MONTY
Friday, July 31st, 2026
The sextet of laid-off upstate New York factory workers with plans to offer Buffalo gals a night they’ll never forget are at it again, but this time round they’re doing it in the round in The Nocturne Theatre’s inventively staged revival of Terrence McNally and David Yazbek’s 2000 Broadway hit musical The Full Monty.
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PROOF
Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Ed Begley Jr has earned a whopping Emmy nominations in his illustrious career, but it’s Heyden Begley who commands the El Portal Theatre stage as the brilliant but emotionally fragile daughter of a mathematical genius gone mad in David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Proof.
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CLOWN SH*T
Monday, July 27th, 2026
Absurdist theater meets romantic comedy meets a meditation on life and death and what comes in-between in Clown Sh*t, Hope Lauren’s exhilarating, thought-provoking roller coaster ride of a World Premiere two-hander.
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APPLAUSE
Saturday, July 25th, 2026
Leslie Stevens and Savannah Mortenson deliver matching star turns as Margo Channing and Eve Harrington in the Group Rep’s Summer of 2026 revival of Applause, but the stage adaptation of the Hollywood classic All About Eve pales in comparison to its fellow 1970s Best Musical Tony winners Company, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, and Sweeney Todd.
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F**KING STRANGERS
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Erik Patterson, L.A.’s master of “I didn’t see that coming” plot twists, is back at Echo Theater with his sexiest and most provocative play in years, the twisty-turny, edge-of-your-seat, and very sexy F**king Strangers.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
I dare you not to feel the urge to kick off your Sunday shoes and cut footloose to the 1980s hits and new-for-Broadway tunes featured in Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s crowd-pleasing revival of Broadway’s Footloose the Musical, the most irresistibly finger-snapping, toe-tapping show in town.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Saturday, July 18th, 2026
Punk rock energy ignites the Broadwater Mainstage in Conundrum Theatre Company’s high-octane revival of the international smash American Idiot, easily the rawest, grittiest, and most ear-splitting of the nine productions I’ve now seen of the Green Day musical.
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