BWW Interviews: Director David Lee Talks FORUM and Reprise Theatre
Director David Lee has won 9 Emmy Awards for producing, directing and writing such TV megahits as Frasier, Cheers, Wings and The Jeffersons.
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Cousin Bette a Triumph for Antaeus Company
The Antaeus Company ensemble offers a devilishly dark and venemous Cousin Bette to relish.
Ginger Rogers Musical Goes Backwards in High Heels at ICT
Legendary star Ginger Rogers is long overdue for a musical show in her honor.
BWW Reviews: Talented Broads Sing BROADS! THE MUSICAL
I loved the four gals playing the Broads - all talented - but the show needs a major overhaul.
Master Class with Master Composer Stephen Schwartz
On Monday, February 15 The Festival of New American Musicals' newly formed Academy for Young Professionals presented day-long master classes in vocal performance and auditioning at the Edgemar Theatre in Santa Monica.
BWW Interviews: Heather Lee Talks BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS
Actress, singer, dancer Heather Lee has been nominated for an LADCC award for her outstanding performances as all the ladies in No Way to Treat a Lady at the Colony Theatre in 2009.
BWW Reviews: Feminism Takes Center Stage with THE FEMALE of the SPECIES
Hearing Margot Mason's (Annette Bening) brash opening words on the phone to her publisher 'F*** You!', people will either automatically turn on or turn off to Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species about the misadventures of a fictional best-selling feminist writer plagued by writer's block
BWW Reviews: Theatre West Revives Arthur Miller's THE PRICE
Arthur Miller's talky play The Price does not quite stand up to his masterpieces All My Sons or Death of a Salesman.
BWW Reviews: BARK! The Musical Woofs Louder @ CLOSBC, Redondo Beach
When I first reviewed Bark! The Musical at the Coast Playhouse in 2004 for reviewplays, I said it was a musical 'worth yip, yip, yipeaying about.
BWW Reviews: MTW Honors SWEENEY TODD
Hard to believe, but Sweeney Todd first bowed on Broadway in late 1979 and I was in New York to witness the brilliant achievement of Sondheim, Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou and the entire creative team.
BWW Reviews: La Mirada County SPELLING BEE
Talk about quirkiness and how it can be used to its best advantage in a musical! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is terribly funny in a rather intelligent and offbeat manner with prize worthy characterizations of lively eclectic people.
Audiences Love Souvenir
When I first saw Souvenir 3 years ago in Brentwood with its Broadway star Judy Kaye, I marveled at her Tony nominated performance, but did not like the play.
BWW Reviews: Crown City Revives A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER
In 1978, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter impacted audiences who were living through the post-Vietnam syndrome.
BWW Reviews: Open Fist Opens a Glamorous STAGE DOOR
Even if we've seen and heard it a million times over, the old show biz debate about devotion to stage versus film is a treat as served up in Kaufman and Ferber's Stage Door, being given a red carpet production at the Open Fist Theatre.
BWW Reviews: A Stellar Evening with Judy Norton at Sterling's
This is my first cabaret review for 2010, not counting the finale for LA's Next Great Stage Star 2010 held at Sterling's Upstairs @ Vitello's earlier this month on January 3.
BWW Reviews: Reprise Bows with a Shimmering CAROUSEL
Carousel/music by Richard Rodgers/book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II/directed by Michael Michetti/choreographed by Lee Martino/Reprise Theatre Company @ Freud Playhouse, UCLA/through February 7.
A Fresh Camelot Is Resplendent
Camelot/book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner/music by Frederick Loewe/choreographed by Mark Esposito/directed by David Lee/Pasadena Playhouse/through February 7
Group Rep Visits Clyde Fitch's The City
Night-time TV soaps like Dynasty, Dallas, Knots Landing and more recently Dirty Sexy Money explored the universal issues of greed and infidelity and their devastating effects on the family unit.
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