Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
JAGGED LITTLE PILL
Friday, September 16th, 2022
A double album’s worth of Alanis Morissette’s Greatest Hits provide the plot-propelling dramatic soundtrack to Jagged Little Pill, the thrillingly of-the-moment Tony winner that redefines the oft-derided “jukebox musical” to stunning effect.
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SILENT SKY
Sunday, September 11th, 2022
Sierra Madre Playhouse pays tribute to a groundbreaking, trailblazing astronomer who refused to let her gender hold her back in Lauren Gunderson’s engaging, informative biodrama Silent Sky.
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BEARINGS
Saturday, September 10th, 2022Is it real or is are we in The Twilight Zone? One thing is for certain. Matt Chait’s Bearings will keep you on the edge of your seat for eighty-five entertaining minutes at Hollywood’s Flight Theatre.
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ANIMAL FARM
Monday, September 5th, 2022
A superlative cast, inspired direction, and designs that are the epitome of imaginative top the list of reasons not to miss Peter Hall’s musical adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm at A Noise Within.
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VALLEY SONG
Monday, August 29th, 2022
South African master playwright Athol Fugard tells a coming-of-age story as universal as it is specific to his homeland in Valley Songs, the poignant and powerful latest from Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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THE WEST SIDE WALTZ
Sunday, August 28th, 2022
It’s a family affair at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum as the legendary Grandpa Walton’s eldest daughter Ellen Geer, her sister Melora Marshall, and Ellen’s daughter Willow Geer make theatrical magic in The West Side Waltz, Ernest Thompson’s captivating slice of 1980s New York life.
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NORMAL NOISES
Saturday, August 27th, 2022
If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then you’re bound to leave Normal Noises, Clara Rodriguez’s quirky sextet of “plays about real life, only more so” in the halest of health.
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LAVENDER MEN
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
Queer playwright Roger Q. Mason explores the love that dared not speak its name between Abraham Lincoln and his “close friend” Elmer Ellsworth in Lavender Men, at once a gay American history fantasia, a very public therapy session for its self-described “black, fat, femme” author, and one of the most stunning productions in town.
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