Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

DEADLY

The Demon Doctor of West 63rd Street is bumping off victim after victim at the Broadwater Theatre in Vanessa Claire Stewart and Ryan Thomas Johnson’s deliciously horrorific Deadly, or as I like to call it, Murder Castle, the H.H. Holmes Musical.
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SKINTIGHT

Playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) is back at the Geffen with the uproariously funny, unexpectedly touching Skintight, a star vehicle if there ever was one for its wickedly talented leading lady.
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THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER

Sex, described by its participants in the most graphic of terms, begins the recovery process for a young married couple in Jack Thorne’s The Solid Life Of Sugar Water, a provocative British two-hander made something quite special indeed when translated into American Sign Language and staged by Deaf West Theatre in its American Premiere.
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LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS

If John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons sounds like it’s going to be nothing more than a light-hearted accumulation of dates and names and facts we all ought to know but don’t, think again. Though Leguizamo’s one-man show is indeed as funny and elucidating as any theater-going moron could wish for, it’s also a justifiably rage-filled attack on those who’d rather see his people erased not just from history books (as they already are) but from America itself.
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HANDJOB

Credibility is strained and logic defied throughout a big chunk of Erik Patterson’s Handjob, an otherwise provocative, sensationally performed Echo Theater Company World Premiere.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Though production values and technical aspects fall far short of professional theater standards, there’s a good deal to entertain audiences in Whittier Community Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein thanks to Mel Brooks’ laugh-filled, double entendre-packed book, the comedy master’s tuneful, clever songs, and an enthusiastic young cast.
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THE LONESOME WEST

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh once again plumbs the depths of human depravity to hilarious and horrifying effect in his pitch-black 1997 comedy The Lonesome West, one of Little Fish Theatre’s best productions ever.
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THE BODYGUARD

Daebreon Poiema is once again spectacular as pop diva Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, the ’90s movie smash recreated live on stage at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre under John LaLonde’s able direction.
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