Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
DOPE QUEENS
Saturday, August 17th, 2019Dope Queens, Grafton Doyle’s seamy dissection of the go-nowhere lives of three drug-addicted, fresh-out-of-prison LGBTQ street walkers (two of them gender non-conforming POCs and one a GWM) is not just a major downer, it’s an overwrought, all-over-the-place two-acter that overstays its welcome by at least half an hour.
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ANNIE
Friday, August 16th, 2019
A nation in the midst of its gravest economic crisis. Out-of-work Americans on the streets. Underage orphans forced into backbreaking labor. And a perky little redhead with an unquenchable hope for a better “Tomorrow.” Annie The Musical is back at Glendale Centre Theatre, proving that even the grimmest of times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Monday, August 12th, 2019
Climate change, natural disasters, cataclysmic war, and a leading lady who steps out of character to inform the audience that she doesn’t understand a word of the play in which she’s appearing. What must 1942 theatergoers have made of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth?
Check out Theatricum Botanicum’s zesty 2019 revival and savor for yourself this Greek Mythology-meets-The Bible-meets-Ancient History-inspired 20th-century classic, as charming as it is mind-blowing and as terrifically directed and performed as any Wilder fan could wish for.
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SHREK THE MUSICAL
Sunday, August 11th, 2019
The big green ogre made famous by Dreamworks Animation is back on stage as 3-D Theatricals revives its 2013 smash, the irresistibly crowd-pleasing Shrek The Musical.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Friday, August 9th, 2019
There’s no more bewitching way to spend a midsummer night than under the stars at William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century Theatricum Botanicum tradition.
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Monday, August 5th, 2019Ellen Geer updates Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People to 1980 and Americanizes it to South Fork, South Carolina in a problematic World Premiere adaptation that would probably work better if its Theatricum Botanicum cast didn’t have a week off between each performance.
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
Sunday, August 4th, 2019
Baseball season just got a whole lot more entertaining with The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of A League Of Their Own, the UMPO Series’ latest musical movie spoof at Rockwell Table & Stage.
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TWELFTH NIGHT
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
William Shakespeare’s star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools are as star-crossed, mismatched, and zany as ever this summer at Theatricum Botanicum, but this time round they burst into song in Ellen Geer’s enchanting Twelfth Night under Topanga skies.
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