Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
LEGALLY BLONDE
Monday, April 25th, 2022Ragged around the edges but blessed with some terrific lead performances, Cupcake Theatre’s intimate revival of Broadway’s Legally Blonde would have me singing its praises even louder had the show not started thirty minutes late to accommodate walk-ins.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022Impeccably acted by a admirably diverse cast, Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 would be another all-around International City Theatre winner if its midsection didn’t get bogged down in a talky rehashing of past events.
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JANE AUSTEN UNSCRIPTED
Sunday, April 17th, 2022
Impro Theatre is back with Jane Austen Unscripted, their first in-person show in two-and-a-half years, and that means “new characters, new love stories, and new escapades” twice on Saturdays and twice on Sundays under sunny Toluca Lake skies in the Garry Marshall Theatre Garden.
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Love, hate, and jealousy. Pearl Cleage’s Blues For An Alabama Sky has them all, and an abundance of laughs to boot, in Center Theatre Group’s sensatinal revival of the Atlanta-based playwright’s 1995 hit, directed by none other than its original Alliance Theatre Company star Phylicia Rashad.
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ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Illicit passions set a Florida cigar factory aflame in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, the dramatic latest from A Noise Within.
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BRIGHT HALF LIFE
Saturday, April 9th, 2022
An interracial same-sex couple embark upon a four-decade-long roller-coaster ride of romantic highs and lows in the Road Theatre Company’s Los Angeles Premiere of Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life, as funny and sad and moving a two-character dramedy as I’ve seen in ages.
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BUYER & CELLAR
Monday, April 4th, 2022
Mike Millan and Barbra Streisand share the Broadwater Second Stage in Jonathan Tolins’ deliciously dishy Buyer & Cellar, Celebration Theatre’s long awaited return to live-and-in-person programming.
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A CHORUS LINE
Monday, April 4th, 2022
The annual USC spring musical is back after a three-year hiatus with director Tim Dang and choreographer Cedric Dodd’s strikingly fresh take on A Chorus Line, a talent showcase for a couple dozen Trojan triple-threats on their way to the top.
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