Review: THE BOTTOMING PROCESS at The Renberg Theatre
This could have been a compelling exploration of interracial and intergenerational relationships, but with the lead being so hateful and the script so sharply heavy-handed, any impact is lost.
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Review: HAIRSPRAY at Dolby Theatre
Aerosol is in the air as Tracy Turnblad, Penny Pingleton, and the teens of Baltimore bring politics and pizzazz to Hollywood with a stunning production of one of the best and beloved musicals of all time.
Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Pasadena Playhouse
Part of its Stephen Sondheim Celebration this spring, “A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC” is another triumph for the Pasadena Playhouse, following up the sublime “Sunday in the Park with George.
Review: THE THIN PLACE at Atwater Village Theatre
Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath’s THE THIN PLACE is an eerie meditation on grief, regret and the need for closure, though it is undermined by the lack of a satisfying conclusion despite phenomenal performances.
Review: LET ME IN at Theatre 68 Arts Complex
The show varies from insightful to manic, bordering on shrill but never crossing into it thanks to strong performances from well-cast performers and Thayer’s tight direction.
Review: NOT/NOW at Write Act Repertory
The friends’ frenetic jumble of revelations and their evening of navel gazing (so much navel gazing) is a powder keg of soap opera cum sitcom tropes.
Review: DO YOU FEEL ANGER? at Circle X Theatre Company
Playwright Mara Nelson–Greenberg smartly and incisively takes on the topic of male toxicity to explosive and thought-provoking results.
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Pantages Theatre
Despite some deficiencies in the script, MEAN GIRLS still skyrockets in ways most large-scale musicals don’t these days.
Review: ANNIE at Dolby Theatre
With the state of the world these days, we need a heroine like Annie.
Review: BROKEN STORY at The Sherry Theater
The set-up of BROKEN STORY is interesting, it just never catches fire in this lackluster production.
Review: 2:22 A GHOST STORY at Ahmanson Theatre
It doesn’t help that director Matthew Dunster plays much of Danny Robins’ script for laughs when it could have been amping up some suspense.
Review: FARRAGUT NORTH at Theatre 68 Arts Complex - The Rosalie
The show is a blistering expose of a political campaign and the tenuous loyalty, fierce ambition and blinding hubris that takes place every day in every office across the country.
Review: ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS at Road Theatre Company
The ’80s are remembered as the most fun decade in recent memory but they were rife with strife and upheaval that affected everyone, even if they were living in a Broadway bubble, and this show looks back with clear-eyed, unsentimental affection.
Review: EVERYBODY at Antaeus Theatre Company
EVERYBODY, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ contemporary riff on a 15th-century morality play, is a creative and chaotic allegory about Christian salvation which is, in the end, an uneven production for the usually consistent Antaeus Theatre Company.
Review: I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER at Two Roads Theatre
This is a sensitively crafted and introspective drama is.
Review: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE at Mark Taper Forum
Bridging the 1985 original with the contemporary leaves one with a sense of disconnection
Review: CLOWNFISH at Theatre Of NOTE
In the end, the pathos that jut through the humor are jagged and piercing, leaving audiences with a lingering sense of both emptiness and hope, like a light flashed on and off in a dark room, the afterimage seared onto the memory.
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