Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
VENUS IN FUR
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
A sizzling Sam Bianchini ignites the Atwater Village Theatre stage opposite the dynamic Roland Ruiz in David Ives’ Venus In Fur, as provocative and daring as it is maddeningly cryptic.
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TAMBO & BONES
Sunday, May 8th, 2022Dave Harris’s Tambo & Bones, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere, takes black anger against white America to such extremes that sitting through ninety minutes of it had me wishing I were anyone other than inside the Kirk Douglas Theatre. And it didn’t help that at least forty-five of its ninety minutes are devoted to ear-splitting, N-word/expletive-filled rap.
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AFTERGLOW
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Can an open marriage survive if one husband embarks on a sexual relationship with one of the couple’s occasional bed guests? This is the provocative question posed by playwright S. Asher Gelman in Afterglow, a surefire seat-filler thanks to its extended softcore sex scenes early on but a West Coast Premiere whose real dramatic fire begins once the clothes have come back on.
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THE EFFECT
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Paul Rush delivers one of the most electrifying performances I’ve seen this past year opposite a captivating, compelling Jackie Jandrell in Sixty-Six Productions’ Los Angeles Premiere of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect.
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
After a 26-month hiatus, Musical Theater Guild returned to Glendale’s Alex Theatre on Sunday to once again do what they do best, mount a Broadway musical with just 25 hours of rehearsal, and like its pre-pandemic predecessors, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying succeeded in entertaining a packed house starved for MTG magic.
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MASAO AND THE BRONZE NIGHTINGALE
Monday, May 2nd, 2022Playwrights Dan Kwong and Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara have quite a tale to tell about post-WWII Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights in Masao And The Bronze Nightingale and an ethnically, culturally, linguistically diverse cast of characters to tell it with, but the World Premiere play-with-songs’ hefty three-hour running time begs the question, how much of a good thing is too much?
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HADESTOWN
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Like Rent, Spring Awakening, and Hamilton before it, Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, revitalizes the genre in the most electrifyingly original of ways.
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TOOTSIE
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Michael Dorsey and his female alter ego Dorothy Michaels share the Dolby Theatre stage in Tootie, the Tony-winning 2019 Broadway adaptation of the 1982 movie smash, a musical comedy as classic in concept and construction as it is contemporary in its attitudes, casting, and execution.
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