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Little Orphan Annie Still the Champ
As the driving creative force behind the now 30-year-old musical that has spawned countless child stars, including Andrea McArdle and Sarah Jessica Parker, Charnin again returns to his beloved classic, currently at the Orange County Performing Arts Center......
NBC Gets Greased Live: Week 1
Hello twelve, hello fourteen. NBC kicked off the two-hour live episode of the Broadway casting extravaganza, 'Grease: You're the One that I Want,' with the top 12 contestants suddenly discovering two fallen stars were thrown back into the race......
Marissa Chibas is Revolutionary at REDCAT
There is a revolution afoot at the REDCAT and Marissa Chibas is to thank, as her one-woman masterwork, Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, makes its world premiere in the downtown Los Angeles theatre presented by CalArts......
Mormon Boy Comes Clean with Confession
Confessing one's sins certainly takes an act of bravery, but imagine doing so in front of a packed theatre night after night, let alone revealing your dark past and divulging family tidbits to absolute strangers......
Sugar, Spice and Everything Marvelous
Move over Rydell High, there is a new group of singing teenage starlets on stage hailing from Springfield High, and they are making audiences flip at the El Portal Theatre as they relive their 1958 Senior Prom to some doo-wop classics......
Slava's Snowshow Explodes at UCLA
As ambient sounds of faraway whistling trains and occasional waves of stage smoke filled the expansive Royce Hall, a childlike sense of anticipation overcame the audience as they awaited an evening of whimsy and spectacle......
Matthew Bourne's Sharp With Scissorhands
Bourne cuts to the heart of Edward Scissorhands with his approachable dance interpretation, picking up on the despair of the title character's struggle for acceptance in a superficial anywhere American neighborhood......
Ilene Graff Sings at Sterling's Upstairs
Mr. Belvedere star Ilene Graff goes cabaret at Sterling's Upstairs......
John Denver Comes Home at Rubicon
Pull out the fiddle and rosin up the bow, because we all might just be able to go home and discover we are a country boy, or girl, at heart after seeing Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert......
Kids Steal Show in Civic Lights' Oliver!
With an impressive cast of 28 children, it is the younger talent that proves to be the heartbeat of this Lionel Bart adaptation of Charles Dicken's novel......
John Waters' Merry-Scarry Holiday Cheer
Good tidings be damned this holiday season. From the man who created such camp-classic films as 'Hairspray' and 'Cry Baby,' comes a shocking outlook on the most sacred of all Hallmark holidays......
Struthers Saves Christmas in Nuncrackers
Sally Struthers and Adrian Zmed save Christmas with their jovial interpretation of convent leaders in Nuncrackers, The Nunsense Christmas Musical now at the El Portal Theatre......
The Light in the Piazza Luminates L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre
The hit touring production of The Light in the Piazza runs through December 10 at The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles....
Amusing Tale in What the Rabbi Saw
Jewish schtick, long a staple of stage going back to days of vaudeville is alive and well in Los Angeles......
Wishful Drinking Intoxicates at Geffen
Fisher gives a glimpse into her roller coaster life in this World Premiere one-woman show......
Sister Act Makes World Premiere in Pasadena
The Pasadena Playhouse presents the world premiere of Sister Act the Musical, by a Tony, Emmy and Academy Award-winning team......
Tony Danza Croons at Falcon Theatre
Star of Taxi and Who's the Boss? sings a few standards in I Remember You......
Souvenir Delights Los Angeles Audiences
Review of Souvenir, playing at the Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles....
'Beehive' rates an A+
'Beehive' swarms the El Portal for a toe-tapping trip back to the 1960's...
GET TAKEN AT THE L.A. PREMIERE OF DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
GREAT BIG STUFF SERVED UP AT THE PANTAGES THEATRE'S PREMIERE OF 'DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS' -- Tony-Award winner Norbert Leo Butz reprises his role as 'Fredy Benson' in the Southern California Engagement....
I'd Be Delighted -- Little Women opens in Los Angeles
It isn't everyday that a touring company exceeds an original Broadway cast in performance value, but in this case, Little Women was stronger, more enjoyable and engaging than it's original. The story is a timeless coming-of-age tale for theatre-goers of all ages....
'The Last Five Years' at the Pasadena Playhouse
1 relationship. 2 points of view. Moving forward while moving in reverse. How one falls in love. When does one falls out of love? Its easy to remember falling in love, but at what point do you feel it slowly begin to unravel? Jason Robert Brown?s ingenious two-character musical, ?The Last Five...
GO, GO, GO JOSEPH -- Reviewing Joseph in L.A.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat arrives in L.A. for a limited 2-week run at the historic Pantages Theatre....
Review: Camelot at the Hollywood Bowl
With so many older (pre-1970) musicals being the butt of jokes in current Broadway productions, it makes it both supremely difficult and yet very simple to appreciate the more elegant form of a musical. Take, for example, 'Camelot', staged for one night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles....
'Palm Beach' takes on the Pacific - Review
The new musical 'Palm Beach' proves that when it comes to Regional Theatre, La Jolla is at the top of its game....
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