Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

THE BAND’S VISIT


Rarely have I found myself more thoroughly smitten with a new musical that I am with The Band’s Visit, now enfolding audiences in its warm, welcoming embrace at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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tick, tick…BOOM!


With its remarkable Netflix adaptation now garnering much-deserved raves, the time could not be riper for Up Next Productions to revive tick, tick…BOOM! as off-Broadway audiences first discovered it twenty years ago, restaged in 2021 by a terrifically talented director and choreographer and performed by three dynamic young triple threats at Thymele Arts.
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THE CHILDREN

Its Best Play Tony nomination aside, I found Fountain Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children to be a depressing, upsetting downer.
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KEN LUDWIG’S THE GAME’S AFOOT; OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS


Following their all-around fabulous London Suite, The Group Rep makes it two in a row with a terrifically directed/acted revival of the Ken Ludwig-meets-Conan Doyle-meets-Agatha Christie farce The Game’s Afoot; Or Holmes For The Holidays, a particularly tasty treat for audiences in search of December fare that’s not Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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ALLEY OF MISFITS

A couple of homeless women cross paths with a mixed bag of acquaintances and strangers on Thanksgiving Eve in Barbera Ann Howard and Marjorie Lewit’s World Premiere dramedy Alley Of Misfits, itself somewhat of a mixed bag, but one whose pluses ultimately outweigh its minuses.
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PARADISE BLUE


A nightclub owner haunted by a lifetime of demons meets a woman who spells “trouble” with a capital T in Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, the kind of noir Hollywood could have made back in the late 1940s but didn’t, an explosive West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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HEAD OVER HEELS


In any other year, Pasadena Playhouse’s Head Over Heels would simply be a Best Production frontrunner. Arriving in November of 2021, this celebration of racial, sexual, and gender diversity set to over a dozen The Go-Go’s hits is nothing short of a theatrical miracle.
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@PLAYAZ


A trio of adult gamers face post-lockdown challenges in Dana Schwartz’s engaging World Premiere comedy @Playaz, a play so of-the-moment it seems incredible that the 2019 O’Neill Finalist was originally written pre-Covid.
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