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BWW Reviews: Titillating PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOUDOIR Continues in Best of Fringe Extensions Through 7/27
First performed in 1990, PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOUDOIR became an immediate scandal, causing lots of debates in the Brazilian press. Throughout the years, the show was performed in several countries, with the same kind of reaction, and the current production in Hollywood is not for the faint of heart....
BWW Reviews: Gregg Marx and Sharon McKnight Are Together Again for the First Time at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal
On Sunday, July 21, Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal in North Hollywood presented Gregg Marx and Sharon McNight, Together Again for the First Time. Gregg, a former Emmy-winning soap-opera star turned singer and Sharon, a thirty-five-year show-biz veteran, including Broadway, provided definite cont...
BWW Reviews: Bruce Norris' PARALLELOGRAM Storms Mark Taper Forum
According to Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is defined as a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides that are non-intersecting, which means they will never cross. Bruce Norris throws definition to the winds as one of the characters in his blistery new play A Parallelogram, now at the Mark...
BWW Reviews: Chance Theater's Edgy BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON Makes Splashy OC Debut
One of the most exciting, edgy, in-your-face new musicals to have popped up in recent years, the electrically-transfused angst-rock musical BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON is making quite a splashy, enjoyable Orange County debut at The Chance Theater. Filled with clever barbs and super-silly gags, this...
BWW Reviews: 3D Theatricals Shines Bright Green with SHREK THE MUSICAL
Shrek the Musical/book & lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire/music by Jeanine Tesori/directed by David F.M. Vaughn/3D Theatricals at Plummer Auditorium, Fullerton/through August 4/Redondo Beach, Performing Arts Center/August 9-11...
BWW Reviews: Cabrillo Is All Decked Out in Pink for LEGALLY BLONDE
Legally Blonde The Musical/book by Heather Hach/music & lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin/directed by Tiffany Engen/Cabrillo Music Theatre/@ Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza/through July 28...
BWW Reviews: The Aerospace Players Light Up the Stage with THE KING AND I at the Armstrong Theatre
The cast of THE KING AND I includes the incredibly talented and imposingly regal Ron Banks as the King of Siam, who has performed the role over 500 times in both national and regional productions. He was born to play the role and embodies the heart and soul of a King caught between loving his cultur...
BWW Reviews: Pitch Black Comedy REVELATION Addresses the Struggle Between Good and Evil at the End of Days
The critically acclaimed, award-winning Elephant Theatre Company continues its 17th season with the world premiere of REVELATION by Samuel Brett Williams, directed by Elephant Co-Artistic Director Lindsay Allbaugh. The show opened Friday, July 19 and runs through August 25....
BWW Reviews: Heavenly Goofy SISTER ACT National Tour Charms Hollywood
Delightful and down-right hilarious, SISTER ACT - THE MUSICAL---the nun-tastic stage adaptation of the hit 1992 motion picture of the same name---is, frankly, to my pleasant surprise, an unexpected gem of a show. Heavily retooled from its 2006 Out-of-Town premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse and its e...
BWW Reviews: MTW Stages Evocative Return of Norma Desmond and SUNSET BOULEVARD
1993's rarely produced Sunset Boulevard is a flawed, somewhat boring musical play that satisfies best with the casting of an actress of great star quality as Norma Desmond, one whose face could have convincingly lit up a silent film screen. MTW has found its star in Valerie Perri, and under Larry Ra...
BWW Reviews: DOMA Presents a Darkly Stimulating NINE
It is practically impossible not to be pulled into the passionately earthy, very Italian world of fictional film director Guido Contini (David Michael Trevino) in Maury Yeston's 1982 darkly breathtaking musical Nine. Guido's mental turmoil, a series of vivid images that come fiercely plummeting into...
BWW Reviews: Ebullient Chemistry Lights Up THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Okay, I'll say it. I haven't seen a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW that comes anywhere close to this vivid interpretation of the story. It is spectacular!...
BWW Reviews: LOVERS and Love Scenes by California Shakespeare Ensemble
California Shakespeare Ensemble, in partnership with L.A. County Department of Parks and Recreation, staged a light evening of Shakespearean love scenes this past weekend in Altadena's Farnsworth Park. The event was an encore performance of a program the company presented at Descanso Gardens earlier...
BWW Reviews: Revamped-for-Broadway SISTER ACT Gives Holiness A Brand New Look
Sister Act/book by Cheri Steinkellner & Bill Steinkellner/additional material by Douglas Carter Beane/music by Alan Menken/lyrics by Glenn Slater/directed by Jerry Zaks/Pantages Theatre/through July 28 only...
BWW Reviews: It's Witty Romance in SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Independent Shakespeare Co. bookends its 2013 season with two witty romantic comedies, Oliver Goldsmith's SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, to offset a terrifyingly intense and bloody version of MACBETH during this summer's Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival....
BWW Reviews: Chromolume Theatre's LOVE SONGS Beautifully Explores Relationships
In opera and operetta, the storytelling is completely through music; there are few or no spoken words. Steven Cagan's world premiere Love Songs is a modern day operetta of sorts with a line or two of spoken dialogue here and there, but composed of 99% music. Now through July 28 at the Attic Theatre,...
BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Does Classy 35th Show to Honor the British Invasion of '60s & '70s Musicals
On Sunday July 7, Kritzerland presented its 35th show The British Invasion, music from UK musicals of the 60s and 70s, at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal. I can only say to Bruce Kimmel, 'good show, ole' boy'!...
BWW Reviews: An Eclectic Group of Ladies Share Their Joys and Sorrows in STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Little Fish Theatre
STEEL MAGNOLIAS is centered in a small town beauty shop in Louisiana where social veneers are set aside and women see one another once a week, building relationship and community with extraordinary mettle that suits the metaphor in the play's title....
BWW Reviews: Tim Piper Channels John Lennon in JUST IMAGINE at the Hayworth Theatre
Written and directed by Steve Altman, JUST IMAGINE intertwines John Lennon's songs with the stories behind them to create a unique and electrifying multimedia concert experience. The multimedia show takes you through a final Lennon performance, revealing his outlook on his life, his music career, a...
BWW Reviews: SPAMALOT Brings the Magic of Broadway to Santa Monica
It's difficult to know where to start with my praise for this outrageously spectacular production. Starting with a remarkable cast able to transform themselves into what seemed to be hundreds of characters in a matter of seconds, every single element combined brilliantly to make the production shine...
BWW Reviews: Bryan Batt Rocks Rockwell
On Tuesday, July 2, Bryan Batt appeared at Rockwell on Vermont in Hollywood in Batt on a Hot Tin Roof. The show may have had nothing to do with Tennessee Williams, as Batt pointed out at the top, but boy oh boy did he SIZZLE....
BWW Reviews: Kingsmen Shakespeare Company Conjures THE TEMPEST
A short drive up the 101 to Thousand Oaks, and located on the campus of Cal Lutheran University, you'll find the summer home of Kingsmen Shakespeare Company. For 17 years the professional theatre group has been presenting Shakespeare's classic plays outdoors in a lovely corner of the grounds, border...
BWW Reviews: Actress/Singer Polly Seale Seizes the Stage at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal
On Sunday June 30 I went to Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal to see Polly Seale do her one woman show, Cougar Mama!, The Sensual Evolution Revolution. Before I get to Ms. Seale, I would like to say that I 'discovered' a new appetizer (or side) to their tasty hamburgers, and that treat is the grill...
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