Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
A Noise Within makes theatrical magic for audiences of all ages in their absolutely captivating revival of Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’s 1933 Broadway adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Saturday, March 7th, 2020Still going strong in its 98th season, Whittier Community Theater entertains loyal locals with a suspenseful, somewhat slow-paced, but mostly fine production of Agatha Christie’s mystery classic And Then There Were None.
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
Superb lead performances and a production design that looks as if it were designed with A Streetcar Named Desire in mind make Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s revival of the 1947 Tennessee Williams classic one of the company’s best productions ever.
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A BODY OF WATER
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Get ready to have your mind boggled in the most provocative of ways as Actors Co-op tantalizes and challenges audiences with the gripping if frustrating brainteaser that is Lee Blessing’s A Body Of Water.
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IN MY MIND’S EYE
Saturday, February 29th, 2020A visually impaired middle-schooler comes of age in The Group Rep’s 35th-anniversary revival of Doug Haverty’s engaging dramedy In My Mind’s Eye.
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BRIGHT STAR
Friday, February 28th, 2020
Glendale Centre Theatre treats audiences to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, not only a heady mix of love, betrayal, hope, and redemption but a masterful example of how to convert a great big Broadway show from its multimillion-dollar proscenium roots to a mini-budgeted in-the-round retooling with zero loss of emotional impact.
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WEST ADAMS
Monday, February 24th, 2020If your idea of a good time is spending eighty minutes with a bunch of downright disagreeable individuals doing some downright despicable deeds, you might want to check out West Adams, Skylight Theatre’s self-described “dark comedy about race, class, and bouncy houses.” Others might want to stick to their own neighborhood.
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
A powerful government official offers to suspend a sex offender’s death sentence in exchange for a night of love-making with the convicted man’s virginal sister.
William Shakespeare foreshadows the #MeToo movement by about four hundred years in Measure For Measure, a four-century-old play given stunning contemporary relevance by directors Armin Shimerman and Elizabeth Swain at Antaeus Theatre Company.
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