Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
International City Theatre’s 35th season gets off to a nostalgically tuneful, breezily comedic start with The Andrews Brothers, Roger Bean’s seniors-targeted journey back to the 1940s, engagingly directed and choreographed for ICT by Jamie Torcellini..
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FOUND
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Audiences in search of something excitingly original where musical comedies are concerned need look no further than Found, the latest from IAMA Theatre Company.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
It’s taken eight years of touring the U.S. for The Book Of Mormon to pay its first visit to the Ahmanson, but the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner’s distinctive mix of raunch, romance, hilarity, and heart make it a show worth waiting for as it continues to pack them in NYC.
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IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Judging from yesterday’s standing ovation, audiences in attendance at Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only concert staged reading of It Shoulda Been You most likely came to the identical conclusion as this reviewer. The 2015 Broadway musical romcom shoulda been a hit.
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KINKY BOOTS
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
Things are getting kinky over in Cerritos as 3-D Theatricals treats SoCal audiences to a sensational first L.A. regional staging of the crowd-pleasing, transformative, emotional-punch-packing 2013 Tony–winning Best Musical Kinky Boots.
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HAMLET THE ROCK MUSICAL
Saturday, February 15th, 2020
Like a long-lost rock-opera cousin to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet The Rock Musical has arrived at North Hollywood’s El Portal, and if the show’s original Broadway incarnation flopped big way back in 1976, its 2020 revival is anything but that a bomb. Instead, it’s one of the most excitingly staged, hummably hook-blessed, and thrillingly performed rock musicals I’ve seen in a good long while.
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Friday, February 14th, 2020Though its three-hour running time may not be a contemporary theatergoer’s ideal, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband served with a London High Tea Dinner at Pasadena’s picturesque Madeline Gardens Bistro makes 413 Repertory Theater’s latest a mouth-wateringly out-of-the-ordinary evening of stage and cuisine.
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THE FATHER
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Dementia as seen from the inside out. Harrowing, disorienting, and mesmerizing. Unexpectedly, refreshingly funny. Smash runs in Paris, London, and New York. Florian Zeller’s world-acclaimed The Father has arrived at the Pasadena Playhouse with an absolutely superb Alfred Molina in the title role.
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