Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022Inland Valley Repertory Theatre bids a bittersweet farewell to its longtime Claremont home with A Grand Night For Singing, a tuneful collection of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, from Broadway classics like “Something Wonderful,” “If I Loved You,” and “I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy” to lesser known gems like “I Know It Can Happen Again.”
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MARVIN’S ROOM
Monday, February 28th, 2022
It takes a gifted playwrights to find comedy in the darkest of scenarios and a talent-blessed theater company to bring these words to pitch-perfect life, which is why Actors Co-op’s long-awaited revival of Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room succeeds in evoking abundant laughter through well-earned tears, with an emphasis on the former.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Sunday, February 27th, 2022
A splendid cast, innovative direction, the most gorgeous costumes in town, and Stephen Sondheim at his most sublime are just several of the reasons to celebrate Knot Free Productions’ intimate staging of the rarely revived A Little Night Music at Greenway Court Theatre.
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ASSASSINS
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Presidential killers and would-be killers take center stage at East West Players in Assassins, Stephen Sondheim at his most provocative, innovative, and engrossing.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
All’s Well That Ends Well might be Shakespeare’s most quoted title, but it’s not often theatergoers get to see the play itself performed live on stage, just one reason A Noise Within’s Spring 2022 season opener is one that no L.A. Bardophile will want to miss.
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POWER OF SAIL
Saturday, February 19th, 2022
The consequences are catastrophic when a respected Ivy League professor invites an infamous white nationalist to speak at Harvard in Paul Grellong’s Power Of Sail, a powerhouse Geffen Playhouse West Coast Premiere sure to have audiences talking long after the lights go out, and not just because of Bryan Cranston’s riveting lead performance and Amy Brenneman’s fiery featured turn.
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SLAVE PLAY
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
A trio of interracial couples let it all hang out in group therapy as Center Theatre Group presents the Broadway production of Jeremy O. Harris’s daringly provocative, deliberately discomforting, and frequently damn funny Slave Play.
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MARRY ME A LITTLE
Monday, February 14th, 2022
Stephen Sondheim lovers craving something less frequently revived than Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd, Company, Sunday In The Park With George, or Assassins will find it this month in International City Theatre’s Marry Me A Little, sixty minutes of Sondheim gems that you just might be discovering for the very first time.
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