Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE CALORIE COUNTERS
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Musical Theatre West is back, and gloriously so, with A Grand Night For Singing, a grand showcase for the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the five triple-threats who light up the MTW stage.
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SALVAGE
Monday, October 11th, 2021
The pre-pandemic hit Salvage is back, a couple of terrific cast additions adding even more grit and depth to its already compelling mix of haunted memories and haunting country-flavored songs.
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THE NINTH DOOR
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
A playwright/actor’s two Marine Corps deployments in Afghanistan inform Matthew Domenico and Katherine Connor Duff’s The Ninth Door, now holding audiences riveted at West Hollywood’s The Other Space.
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ASCENSION
Friday, October 8th, 2021D.G. Watson’s trippy Ascension may run a good fifteen minutes too long and leave an audience wondering what on earth this “immersive, interactive, sci-fi mystery thriller” was all about, but the Echo Theater Company World Premiere is nothing if not different, and a terrific showcase for its designers.
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HAVE A GOOD ONE
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021A trio of 20ish Midwesterners, two of them shirtless greeters at a trendy clothing chain called Penderleigh & Ashe, come of age circa Y2K in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s Have A Good One, the crowd-pleasing latest from Pop-up Playhouse.
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CLUE
Monday, September 27th, 2021
McCoy Rigby Entertainment returns live and in person to La Mirada with Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity guaranteed to cure the pandemic blues.
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AS GOOD AS GOLD
Sunday, September 26th, 2021Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
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