Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

DRAGON LADY


Broadway vet Sarah Porkalob pays loving tribute to her feisty Filipina grandmother while bringing to vivid life more than two dozen finely delineated characters and showing off exquisite three-octave pipes in her much lauded solo show Dragon Lady, now paying the most entertaining and compelling of visits to Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC


The translation’s the thing, but far from the only thing that makes Pasadena Playhouse’s dazzling staging of Martin Crimp’s “free adaptation” of Edmond Rostand’s French classic Cyrano de Bergerac the latest Pasadena Playhouse winner.
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THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER


There have been a handful of musicals about the American Civil War, but probably never one as eye-opening, entertaining, or emotionally powerful as The Civility Of Albert Cashier, the truth-is-stranger-than fiction Civil War musical now enthralling audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL


Whittier Community Theatre proves it’s still going strong in its 101st season with 9 to 5: The Musical, the 2009 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1980 Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Dolly Parton movie smash.
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WENDY’S PETER PAN


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum treats audiences to their most kids-friendly show in memory with Wendy’s Peter Pan, Ellen Geer’s reimagining of the J.M. Barrie classic as told by a now grown-up Wendy Darling to her three precocious offspring.
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MURDER AFTER HOURS (THE HOLLOW)


Agatha Christie is at her fiendishly clever best in the very long but very entertaining Murder After Hours (The Hollow), now being revived to deliciously brain-teasing effect at North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR

The stunts, the puppetry, and the multimedia effects are indeed spectacular, but Lisa Sanaye Dring and Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular ends up biting off more than it can chew in combining all of the above with the doomed love story of two gay stuntmen, one proudly out, one deeply closeted, in an industry where being heterosexual is a must.
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MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN

Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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