Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
A KID LIKE JAKE
Friday, October 4th, 2019
What would you do if your four-year-old son’s love for all things Cinderella represented not just an affection for the fairytale heroine but something considerably more profound? This is the dilemma facing a 30something husband and wife in Daniel Pearle’s engrossing family dramedy A Kid Like Jake, a hot-button-issue IAMA Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Sunday, September 29th, 2019
Student produced, student directed, student designed, and student performed, Musical Theatre Repertory at USC’s intimate staging of the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as all-around splendiferous a Bee as any of the sixteen I’ve now seen.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
Iconic roles reinvented by a supremely stellar cast and a production design that’s nothing short of original make Pasadena Playhouse’s powerhouse Little Shop Of Horrors unlike any Little Shop you’ve ever seen.
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LAS MUJERES DEL MAR
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
Playwrights’ Arena closes its all-around terrific 2019 season with Las Mujeres Del Mar (The Women Of The Sea), Janine Salinas Schoenberg’s 3-generation, 2-country, 72-minute Mexican-American family saga told from a female point of view.
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BARNUM
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019Seven stellar triple-threat featured performers and some particularly ingenious directorial touches made Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only concert staged reading of the 1980 Broadway hit Barnum worth seeing despite a title performance not up to MTG standards.
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GRUMPY OLD MEN THE MUSICAL
Sunday, September 22nd, 2019
No matter your mood upon arrival, expect to exit the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts with the broadest of smiles on your face when you see the feel-good musical that’s been made from the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau movie smash Grumpy Old Men.
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THE SPANISH PRAYER BOOK
Saturday, September 21st, 2019The Road Theatre’s three-year streak of winners ends with Angela J. Davis’s convoluted, uninvolving The Spanish Prayer Book, the company’s 2019-2020 World Premiere season opener.
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FUN HOME
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre took its subscribers and donors on a memorable three-performance-only journey back to the 1970s and ’80s with Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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