Posts Tagged ‘William Finn’

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE


Whether you’ve seen The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee umpteen times or it’s your first time at the Bee, I guarantee you will fall head over heels for the dazzlingly fresh reinterpretation it’s being given at Santa Ana’s The Wayward Artist.
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A NEW BRAIN


Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

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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FALSETTOS

A freshly out New Yorker’s life before and after the AIDS epidemic wreaked havoc on his city makes for the most unlikely of Broadway musicals, and one of the most richly rewarding, in Falsettos, now moving audience to laughter through tears at the Ahmanson.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

A ragtag team of pint-sized spellers make musical theater magic at Burbank’s Grove Theatre Center as Domino One productions debuts its imaginatively directed and choreographed, delightfully performed intimate staging of the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has set up shop at the Sierra Madre Playhouse for the next two months in a 99-seat production sure to delight both Bee newbies and veteran Bee buffs like this reviewer, who enjoyed Bee 14.0 every bit as much as his very first thanks to Robert Marra’s zesty direction/choreography and a cast to rival the best I’ve seen.
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A NEW BRAIN

Brilliant direction + imaginative choreography + ten terrific performances = more than enough reason for a road trip to San Diego to catch Diversionary Theatre’s pitch-perfect intimate staging of William Finn’s rarely revived A New Brain.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Theatre Out starts out 2015 with a B-A-N-G as Santa Ana’s gem of an LGBT theater offers Orange County and OC-adjacent theatergoers the chance to savor every M-A-R-V-E-L-O-U-S-L-Y M-A-G-I-C-A-L moment of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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