Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID


The volunteer performers lighting up the James Armstrong Theatre stage give the pros a run for their money in Torrance Theatre Company’s dazzlingly designed, imaginatively directed, and delightfully performed big-stage, live-orchestra production of Disney The Little Mermaid.
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COMPANY


Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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CLUE


Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre is back with an entertaining mid-sized revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the University of La Verne.
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THE PITCH

A widowed single father finds himself in hot water with the IRS soon after embarking on a phone sales job he seems woefully ill suited for in Tom Alper’s overly padded but mostly entertaining The Pitch, an Odyssey Theatre visiting production.
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CREVASSE


Adolph Hitler’s favorite filmmaker meets the man who made animated movie stars of Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi in Tom Jacobson‘s Crevasse, a fascinating, stunningly staged co-production of Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center.
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INTO THE WOODS


There’s something particularly magical about Knot Free Productions’ intimate revival of Into The Woods at the Greenway Court Theatre, and as someone who’s seen 22 different live productions of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, I know what I’m talking about.
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THE BAUHAUS PROJECT: BAUHAUS WEIMER

Over the past two decades, Tom Jacobson has established himself as one of L.A.’s most adventurous and original playwrights, creating such risk-taking winners as Bunbury, Ouroboros, The Twentieth Century Way, and his extraordinary Bimini Baths Trilogy. I can’t, unfortunately, add Bauhaus Weimer, Part One of his World Premiere triptych The Bauhaus Project, to that list.
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