Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

TAMING THE LION


1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
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TEVYE IN NEW YORK


If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Tevye and his family after the curtain went down on Fiddler On The Roof, Tom Dugan imagines the fabled milkman’s new life in America in Tevye In New York, a solo performance that reopens The Wallis in an open-air setting just outside the theater’s Beverly Hills digs.
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AN OCTOROON


Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
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GO WEST

Like its Motel 66 companion piece Head East, The Group Rep’s Go West offers L.A. audiences six short plays performed under NoHo skies, an evening of live theater worth checking out if only to quench a thirst left by what has seemed like an endless fifteen months without.
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HEAD EAST

Theatergoers eager for an experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly new after a fifteen-month hiatus from live entertainment can now Head East (or Go West on alternate nights) for an evening of six short plays performed under NoHo skies in The Yard, the Group Rep’s newly constructed outdoor space next door to the membership company’s longtime home.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE

Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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NEXT TO NORMAL

Live theater is back, and what a thrill that is, even viewed at a distance from the safety of one’s car outside Pasadena’s Gamble House, with Lineage Performing Arts Center’s superbly performed, ingeniously directed, imaginatively choreographed open-air staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

There’s probably no more surefire musical-comedy crowd-pleaser than Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors, proof positive of which can be found in Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s pitch-perfect revival of the 1982 cult classic.
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