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BWW Reviews: Group Rep Makes Another Valiant Effort with HOTEL PARADISO
Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres wrote the French farce Hotel Paradiso in 1894 to be enjoyed by a French audience. Any translation of it should keep the culture and manners of the people intact as their risque behavior is representative of the Parisian upper class of the time. In Group rep's...
BWW Reviews: THE ROYAL FAMILY is a Valentine to Theatre and All Those Who Make it Happen
Actors who dedicate their life to the theatre are a passionate, unique and rare breed. Art imitates life imitates art when Theatricum Botanicum artistic director Ellen Geer stars alongside her sister Melora Marshall, daughter Willow Geer and daughter-in-law Abby Craden in THE ROYAL FAMILY, an uproa...
BWW Reviews: Enduring SOUTH PACIFIC Offers Enchanted Evening at Moonlight Amphitheatre
Like The King and I, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific is a heartbreaking story told across racial borders and has an elegant score. The look in its rich set design - from the original 2008 Broadway/Lincoln Center revival with an incredible, dreamlike Bali Ha'i in the background, setting the r...
BWW Reviews: Comedienne Jo Anne Worley Keeps on Makin' Us Laugh
Funny lady Jo Anne Worley brings her inimitable wacky, zany style of humor, that made her an overnight success in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (1967-73), to Welk Resorts in Escondido this week June 26-30. Jo Anne has a warm winning way with her audience; they are the reason she's performing, as she t...
BWW Reviews: THE LAST DAYS OF MARY STUART an Electro-Opera Evolution
To fully appreciate THE LAST DAYS OF MARY STUART it is necessary to forget what you normally think of when you think of musical theatre. The allegorical piece jettisons the traditional trappings of the genre and instead surfaces from a lengthy workshop process as a fusion of worlds....
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BWW Reviews: Fringing it with [title of show]
[title of show] is the story of two musical theatre guys who aren't anywhere close to making it but decide to write a musical about writing a musical, starring themselves and their two best friends....
BWW Reviews: Eileen Barnett Is a Breath of Spring at Sterling's
On Sunday June 23 consummate singer Eileen Barnett brought a new version of her night club show to Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal entitled You Must Believe in Spring with superb musical direction from John Boswell and crisp direction from Kristen Benton Chandler....
BWW Reviews: Candlelight Dazzles with Rodgers and Hammerstein's THE KING AND I
The King and I/music by Richard Rodgers;/book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II/based on Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon/directed by Neil Dale/Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre/through August 4...
BWW Reviews: REVOLVER Thought Provoking Theatre at Celebration
Revolver/by Chris Phillips/directed by Ryan Bergmann/Celebration Theatre/through July 21...
BWW Reviews: THE REAL HOUSEKEEPERS OF STUDIO CITY Cleans Up at the Fringe
The Real Housekeepers of Studio City is banking on the fact that everything old is new again by playing to the audience who views the world through a less cynical lens and remembers a time when you didn't get up to leave the room when the commercials came on because you loved them just as much as th...
BWW Reviews: World Premiere MODROCK Brings a British Invasion Mods vs. Rockers Love Story to Life in NoHo
In Great Britain, the period between 1963 and 1966 was one of the most extraordinary moments of youth cultural history as well as in popular music history. MODROCK, with book by Hogan Thomas-Jones, directed by Brian Lohmann, produced by Tom Coleman with choreography by Michele Spears, is an homage t...
BWW Reviews: KING PHYCUS Rules the Hollywood Fringe
Shakespeare. It's not just for highbrows anymore. You can be sure of that when you see The Flynnsmen present Shakespeare's KING PHYCUS at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. What may have once scared off those less familiar with Shakespeare's plays for fear of not understanding the language is now made c...
BWW Reviews: THE POKEMUSICAL Goes on an Adventure
I know next to nothing about Pokemon and from the photos I'd seen I figured THE POKEMUSICAL would simply be a family-friendly musical that might be cute and probably fun, but I never imagined I would love it as much as I did....
BWW Reviews: In 86 minutes, SUNNY AFTERNOON Presents Thought-Provoking Storytelling at its Best
In 86 minutes, SUNNY AFTERNOON presents thought-provoking storytelling at its best with a cast that could not be any more perfect in their characterizations of every person to be in Oswald's presence from the moment he was arrested until he was murdered. The play is bold, meticulous in detail, flood...
BWW Reviews: 30 MM: INDEPENDENCE DAY Blasts Off and Saves the Day
If you like your musicals short, fast-paced, funny, and smart enough to spoof the big guys while delivering a healthy dose of pure fun, this is the musical for you. Brooke Seguin's 30 MM: INDEPENDENCE DAY clocks in around 40 minutes, which is plenty of time to run the aliens out of town and save the...
BWW Reviews: EXORCISTIC, The Rock Musical Parody Experiment
When Michael Shaw Fisher walks out to introduce EXORCISTIC: The Rock Musical Parody Experiment at its Fringe Mainstage home, it takes a few minutes before you realize that the musical has actually begun....
BWW Reviews: O, FALLEN ONE, A Captivating Devised Exploration of Ophelia
O, FALLEN ONE is the initial concept workshop of a devised play that combines stylized scenes with fragmented language, movement, dance, and other devices to create a unique artistic experience....
BWW Reviews: Edgemar's RAINMAKER Remains A Must See Through Early September
Let me start off by saying that the performance of The Rainmaker on Saturday June 15 was almost cancelled due to the illness of the two actors playing File and the Sheriff. Ron Vignone and Daniel Robinson respectively stepped in with only a couple of hours rehearsal so that the show could go on. Wit...
BWW Reviews: La Mirada Stages Intense Revival of Pulitzer Prize-Winning NEXT TO NORMAL
Heartbreaking. Gutsy. Intensely riveting. These are some of the words I jotted down in the dark---while simultaneously wiping tears streaming down my face---during the Southern California Regional Premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL, now playing at the La Mirada Theatre for the...
BWW Reviews: Renaissance Man Charms in THE ROAD TO HIGH STREET
I decided to see Andrew Potter's one man show THE ROAD TO HIGH STREET, a busker's digital rock & roll story, after reading a glowing recommendation from a theatre colleague who saw it last year's Fringe Festival....
BWW Reviews: Brilliant Satirical YES, PRIME MINISTER Lands at Geffen
Not unlike David Mamet's November, a screwball look at the overwhelming incompetence of an American President, Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn in its American premiere at the Geffen, is a savvy, right-on-target satire of British politics that is over-the-top, hysterically funny w...
BWW Reviews: Theatre Movement Bazaar's HOT CAT Dances its Way Through Tennessee Williams' Masterpiece
HOT CAT takes a very modern approach CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, telling it with imaginative and highly intricate movement with the talented cast often saying more with a choreographed group turn of their heads than could ever be portrayed with words alone. Kudos to Tina Kronis for her vision in directi...
BWW Reviews: THE TIME MACHINE MUSICAL Shows Potential at Hollywood Fringe
THE TIME MACHINE MUSICAL is a one-hour condensed version of a longer two act musical adapted for the Fringe by Steve Altman and Joshua Fardon based on the H.G. Wells sci-fi story....
BWW Reviews: The New American Theatre Presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in 1930's Greece, Complete with Gypsies!
The summer theater season wouldn't be complete without multiple interpretations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to quench our appetite for the Bard's most beloved comedy. I have never seen a production more understandable or better staged than the current one at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemb...
BWW Reviews: International City Theatre's DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE
A man - seemingly oblivious to the sound of his own cell phone ringing - sits in a cafe during lunchtime. His phone rings…and rings…and rings until, no longer able to bear the intrusive sound, Jean, a young woman from a nearby table, asks him to please answer it....
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The Most Happy Fella North Coast Repertory Theatre (6/03-6/28) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (6/11-6/13) |
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Millennials Are Killing Musicals Colony Theatre (4/30-5/17) |
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Wedding Party (Or, Why You Shouldn’t Invite Former Friends To Your Wedding) The Actors Company - Let Live Theater (6/04-6/26) |
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Olivia Dean Crypto.com Arena (7/14-7/14) |
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The Little Mermaid The Nocturne Theatre (5/08-6/28) |
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Fritz Coleman's Unassisted Residency El Portal Theatre (3/01-11/29) |
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Alien Girls The Old Globe (4/18-5/10) |
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Magic at the Langham with David Minkin The Langham Huntington (5/02-5/02) |
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Amazing Graves Broadwater Second Stage (6/05-6/23) |
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