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BWW Reviews: Good People Theatre Company Produce an Astounding Inaugural A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
What a treat to see a brand new theatre company present such a fine opening show like A Man of No Importance! Winner of the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award in New York as Best Off-Broadway Musical, Man..., based on a 1994 film starring Albert Finney, tells a simple but rich story of an ordinary bus ...
BWW Reviews: The Troubies' A MIDSUMMER SATURDAY NIGHT'S FEVER DREAM
There are no fewer than nine different productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream playing in theatres around the Southland this summer but I can guarantee that none of them will be done up quite like the Troubies' A MIDSUMMER SATURDAY NIGHT'S FEVER DREAM at the Falcon Theatre....
BWW Reviews: See the Intellectually Challenging THE HARRY AND SAM DIALOGUES During the Hollywood Fringe Festival
I am a huge fan of theatre that gets you thinking and questioning the experience, characters and subject matter presented. And I find myself, even after so many hours, still thinking about this fine production and just what reality was really being presented. I challenge you to do the same after s...
BWW Reviews: #HASHTAG Examines the Daily Struggle to Stay Engaged in the Present Moment
#HASHTAG explores the other kind of LA gridlock: the daily struggle to remain engaged in the present moment in a culture built on social media and status anxiety. Audience members are encouraged to leave their phones on and tweet, take videos or photos and post them during the show to document the ...
BWW Reviews: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Is All The Bard You Need!
You can experience ALL the comedies, ALL the tragedies, ALL the histories, and even a nod to the sonnets, neatly compressed into a 97-minute package performed by three exceptionally talented actors: Eric Bloom (the company's Artistic Director), Mike Niedzwicki, and Lucas Kwan Peterson....
BWW Reviews: Not Man Apart Physical Theater Presents Thrilling Staging of HERCULES FURENS
Through combined and extremely intricate dance movements, the skill of the actors/dancers certainly exemplified the group's moniker as a physical theatre ensemble with each scene more exciting that the last. You will not be able to take your eyes off them!...
BWW Reviews: Hilarious, Campy PRISCILLA Musical Sashays into L.A.
Hilarious, visually arresting, and surprisingly heart-warming, PRISCILLA - QUEEN OF THE DESERT---the rousing stage musical adaptation of the 1994 Oscar-winning indie film of the same name---is an outlandishly silly show from start to finish, filled with non-stop eye-popping visuals, out-of-this-worl...
BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Salutes the Sophistication of Noel Coward
The Sunday, June 2nd Kritzerland Show at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal in North Hollywood proved another highly enjoyable evening from Bruce Kimmel and Adryan Russ. The composer celebrated in this show, Noel Coward, is perhaps more renowned for his lyrics than his melodies, but what lyrics they...
BWW Reviews: Encore Dinner Theatre Presents Superb Production of Neil Simon Comedy RUMORS
What better place for an assortment of controversial characters to gossip and frolic than at a dinner party? The participants are famous within their own local realm as community politicians and their narrow-minded friends. It's a small town in New York state and mayor Charlie and his wife Myra are ...
BWW Reviews: Marsha Moode Brings Down the Curtain at Downey Civic Light Opera with the Rarely Produced PAINT YOUR WAGON
Originally on Broadway in 1951 Lerner & Lowe's Paint Your Wagon was one of their less successful shows, which chronologically came right before their mega-hit My Fair Lady. As with most Lerner & Lowe, it's the place and characters that Lerner had such a talent for depicting. In Paint Your Wagon it's...
BWW Reviews: Pasadena Playhouse Goes SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
Sleepless in Seattle is one of the most popular films of the 90s which gave Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan two of their best roles ever as destined.to.meet lovers Sam and Annie. In a brave move Jeff Arch, Ben Toth and Sam Forman have composed a musical based on the movie which is making its world premiere a...
BWW Reviews: RENT Revival Raises Critical Funding for The Stigma Project
Southern California fans of musical theater are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the musical RENT with a one-weekend-only production of the beloved Broadway smash hit presented by Beyond the Stage productions, with proceeds from the show benefiting the HIV/AIDS outreach and education organizatio...
BWW Reviews: SCR's Revival of THE FANTASTICKS Gets a Magical Makeover
Now performing at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through June 9, Director Amanda Dehnert's beguiling new revival of THE FANTASTICKS comes to vibrant life as an old-timey vaudevillian review that just happens to have a love story woven into it. This clever, magical makeover, setting the piece in...
BWW Reviews: Fast-Moving Vaudeville IONESCOPADE Takes a Very Funny Look at the Ridiculous Nature of Life
Taken from the plays, playlets, journals and poetry of "Theatre of the Absurd" playwright Eugene Ionesco (Rhinoceros, The Bald Soprano, Exit the King), IONESCOPADE is a zany musical vaudeville featuring mime, farce and parody - all hilariously balanced on the edge of madness....
BWW Reviews: Over the Moon Design for PRISCILLA Makes for a Knockout Glamorous Show at the Pantages
Priscilla Queen of the Desert the musical/book by Stephan Elliott & Allan Scott/based on the 1994 film distributed by MGM/directed by Simon Philips/Pantages Theatre/through June 16...
BWW Reviews: Kander and Ebb's Last Work THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Cuts Like a Knife at the Ahmanson
Leave it to Kander and Ebb to create The Scottsboro Boys, a monstrously humane musical in the guise of a minstrel show. After all, it's what they are most famous for: taking headline news - the darker, the better - and turning it upside down inside out it with an unexpectedly entertaining structure....
BWW Reviews: 2Cents Theatre Group Presents PRIVATE EYES, a Play About Deception and Broken Trust
PRIVATE EYES by Steven Dietz is a play about deception and broken trust, labeled by the author as a 'comedy of suspicion,' as the story is told in multiple layers and the audience is repeatedly tricked to believe that the current situation is real as nothing is ever quite what it seems....
BWW Reviews: Broadway Vet Shoshana Bean Sings Final Free Concert at Americana at Brand, 6/2
What happens when you cram together the star quality of Barbra, the riffs of Beyonce, Whitney, and Mariah, the sass of Stevie, and the deep, emotional soul of Aretha? You get Broadway star and old-school soul revivalist Shoshana Bean. A gifted powerhouse vocalist, Ms. Bean is one of those entertaine...
BWW Reviews: Beautiful World Premiere Heart Song Heats Up the Fountain
In a quite extraordinary way Stephen Sachs' world premiere comedy/drama Heart Song tears down barriers separating life and death across many cultures. There is no finer celebration of the joys and pains of life than performing flamenco dance, which is gut wrenching and intensely theatrical. Boasting...
BWW Reviews: THE CRUCIBLE Examines What Can Happen When Fear Clouds Fact and Reason is Replaced by Blame
The Antaeus production highlights the play's universal and timeless themes by staging the play as presentation theater with the actors speaking directly to the audience, rarely to the person onstage to whom they are speaking. It is performed in conservative modern dress on a minimalistic set, makin...
BWW Reviews: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Closes the Season at the Long Beach Playhouse
The Long Beach Playhouse is closing its 2012-2013 Mainstage Season with one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, the quirky and much-loved musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, an affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies....
BWW Reviews: OC's 3D Theatricals Presents Extraordinary Revival of PARADE
One of the most stunning, brilliantly-staged productions I've seen in the past few years, Orange County's 3D Theatricals has, once again, outdone itself with its moving, epic-sized revival of Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning musical PARADE. Now playing a limited engagement through May 26 at t...
BWW Reviews: Even the Heat Can't Stop the Powerhouse That is RENT at the Hudson Theatre
The old adage that the show must go on was put to the test at Hudson Theatre during the opening night performance of Jonathan Larson's musical RENT presented by the 2Cents Theatre Group. Not only did the air conditioning go out, the sound equipment was on the blink! Even so, the produciton still p...
BWW Reviews: The West Coast Premiere of LONG WAY GO DOWN Examines the Borders People Cross to Find a Better Life
Zayd Dohrn'sLONG WAY GO DOWN is a fast-paced and often brutal story with hyper-realistic dialogue in English and Spanish. With evocatively moody original music by Jared Swanson and an incredible multi-level and location set by Michael Allen, effectively lit by the show's producer Johnny Patrick Yod...
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