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BWW Reviews: Laugh Out Loud with 3-D Theatricals' AVENUE Q
3-D Theatricals accomplishes its purpose effortlessly with AVENUE Q. Full of bright, bouncy songs and lyrics that make you do a double take, they prove you can get away with almost anything...as long is it's said by a puppet....
BWW Reviews: Stroman Brilliantly Re-Stages THE PRODUCERS for the Hollywood Bowl
Ridiculously silly in all the right ways and featuring a comically gifted, star-studded principal cast--headed up by Richard Kind, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rebecca Romijn, Dane Cook, Gary Beach, and Roger Bart--that delivers the goods with infectious gusto, this large-scale revival on this outdoor aren...
BWW Reviews: Zombie Joe's BLOOD OF MACBETH - Method to the Madness
To the uninitiated, Zombie Joe's BLOOD OF MACBETH may look like merely a mad, manic assault on the senses, but there's a method to director Josh T. Ryan's madness. His version of the Scottish play (co-written with producer Zombie Joe) purposely shreds Shakespeare's tale into a ferocious - and often ...
BWW Reviews: Glorystruck's SPRING AWAKENING in Concert
Spring Awakening has sprung once again in Los Angeles, only this time there is a more powerful message behind it. Done as a concert production, Glorystruck's new pared down rendition of the Tony-winning musical about German teens discovering their sexual and personal identity is helping to raise fun...
BWW Reviews: Sondheim Shares First-hand Insights in Retrospective Concert
Making good on his promise to eventually show up in Orange County to speak about his enduring career in the theater, legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim finally made his long-awaited appearance at the Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa for the landmark event STEPHEN SONDHEIM: IN CONVERSA...
BWW Reviews: A Scintillating PARIS LETTER from Group rep
It's a pleasure to see an intelligently written play about sexual identity, one that shows how homosexuality has been affected by the American cultural climate over a 40 year period. But, when the piece goes beyond basic issues and delves deeply into raw human emotions, it comes up all the richer. I...
BWW Reviews: Zing Go the Strings of Cabrillo's MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Cabrillo's impressive reproduction of the 1989 Broadway version of Meet Me in St. Loui is so charmingly rendered, that one puts the movie, Judy Garland and company on a back burner... at least for 2 hours....
BWW Reviews: Karen Volpe's CD DINNER IN A FANCY DRESS
Actress/singer Karen Volpe has her own CD at long last called Dinner and a fancy dress. This is an album of all new pop country tunes written by Chuck Pelletier. Volpe's first association with Pelletier was his college musical The Green Room, which has received productions internationally from LA to...
BWW Reviews: SOMETHING OF SILVER, A Musical Merchant of Venice
SOMETHING OF SILVER, otherwise known as The Merchant of Venice with Music, is Tony Tanner's latest adaptation for Classical Theatre Lab & the City of West Hollywood's Free Shakespeare in the Park....
BWW Reviews: Antaeus Serves Up Shakesperean Magic with MACBETH
The funeral of a baby, the grieving parents look for reasons why their child should be taken from them. Finding no reason but the caprice of fate, the couple moves forward to exercise that caprice on those around them. Their hope for immortality through their child dashed, they will live on throug...
BWW Reviews: GCT Goes On Golden Pond with Prine and Jens
Hardly an easy task to successfully mount Ernest Thompson's heartwarming and funny On Golden Pond, with the 1980 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda so vivid in the mind! Well, the current mounting at Glendale Centre Theatre, despite a few cracks here and there, is indeed a m...
BWW Reviews: Tony Award Winning Performer Levi Kreis Bids Farewell to LA With Unforgettable Concert Up Close and Personal
On Friday July 13 and Saturday July 14 Tony Award-winning actor/singer Levi Kreis presented his electric one-man odyssey Up Close and Personal to a packed house at the NoHo Arts Center to benefit both the venue and Independant Music. Consisting mostly of original material from his three albums, ther...
BWW Reviews: Brooke Shields is 'Remarkable' in Geffen's THE EXORCIST
It's quite a shame when a well-written, absorbing play has three strikes against it from the onset. Such is the case with The Exorcist by John Pielmeier. The best-selling novel by William Peter Blatty and the 1973 boxoffice blockbuster film of the same name were so powerfully gripping and unforgetta...
BWW Reviews: Pantages Theatre Becomes LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Outrageous in design and color, choreography verging on the acrobatic, spectacle, great singing, offbeat, risque humor and miles of heart are certainly enough attributes to call La Cage Aux Folles top-notch....
BWW Reviews: Zombie Joe's HAMLET Pulses with Tension
Denise Devin deftly directs a fast-paced intermission-less HAMLET with authority and skill at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre; a risk that pays off handsomely as the production explores one man's psychological descent into evil....
BWW Reviews: Odyssey Scores with The Irish Curse
No, Martin Casella's The Irish Curse is not about drinking, although it is alluded to. It's about men and another serious issue, namely the size of their willy... and how a tiny penis can and has caused a raft of problems in the lives of many Irish Catholic men. Now onstage at the Odyssey, the play ...
BWW Reviews: Laguna Playhouse's Marvelous Summer Treat: New Marvelous Wonderettes Sequel
Roger Bean has had such tremendous success with his Marvelous Wonderettes, the musical fable of the all-female singing quartet that began at Springfield High in the 50s and 60s... and, he's done it again. Missy (Misty Cotton), Suzy (Bets Malone), Betty Jean (Jenna Coker-Jones) and Cindy Lou ( Lowe T...
BWW Reviews: DOMA Presents a Fine Jekyll & Hyde
DOMA has a big and bold mission statement: enhancing your theatre experience beyond expectations. Competing with Musical Theatre of Los Angeles, MTW (Musical Theatre West) and Cabrillo, just to name a few, it sounds as if their productions will be of a more memorable calibre than the others. If that...
BWW Reviews: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Enchants Griffith Park
What revels are in hand in Griffith Park this summer? An abundance of mirth, merriment, mischief, and magic, all part of Independent Shakespeare Co.'s 2012 summer of Free Shakespeare....
BWW Reviews: MTW Serves Up Hilarious Regional Production of SPAMALOT
Musical Theatre West's latest top-notch production is the hilarious regional premiere of the Tony-winning musical Monty Python's SPAMALOT. Full of silly humor and absurdist gags that will have you laughing throughout the show, the show continues at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach ...
BWW Reviews: Artful WAR HORSE Lights the Ahmanson Stage
Storytelling on stage is at its theatrical best when all the technical elements utilized blend together so smoothly that you take for granted that they are there at all. Such is the case with the amazing War Horse, based on a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo in which a young boy Albert (Andrew V...
BWW Review: Coast Anabelle in Burbank Hosts Exciting Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Experience
It's been a few years since I have experienced fine dinner theatre in LA, and never have I been part of one presented in a truly intimate setting and that includes one-on-one interaction with the actors throughout. Such is the case with Coast Anabelle Entertainment's Here's Killing You, Kid!, a murd...
BWW Reviews: The One and Only Miss Barbara Cook Gives Dazzling New Concert at Valley Performing Arts Center
On Saturday June 30, Valley Performing Arts Center, Northridge played host to the exquisite Miss Barbara Cook, still radiant at 84, who is perhaps the greatest legendary singer to ever grace a stage. What can one say about this living legend that has not already been said to death? I can only add th...
BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Presents a Classy Evening of Alan Jay Lerner
On Sunday July 1 at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal Kritzerland presented its monthly salute to a composer, July's being renowned lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner. If you remember, My Fair Lady with lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe, was one of the most popular musicals in the world...
BWW Reviews: WARHORSE- Beauty In Battle
"War Horse," like any fine stallion, has a award winning pedigree, and has won the trifecta in terms of the mediums in which it's tale has been told. It began as a novel 28 years ago, was staged as a play at the National Theatre in London 5 years ago, and last year received a motion picture adapta...
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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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"Turn the Page: A wink, a song & the next great chapter" Palm Springs Cultural Center (5/23-5/23) |
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MPAT's Burt Thunders Presents: The First Annual Fundraiser to Save the Whales Zephyr Theatre (6/06-6/25) |
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Trench The Broadwater Studio (6/06-6/28) |
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Jack Johnson Greek Theatre - U.C. Berkeley (10/01-10/01) |
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The Last Dinner Party Fox Theater (5/27-5/27) |
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OTR: Provenance Chance Theater (7/29-7/29) |
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Case Closed?? Upstairs @El Centro (Main Space) (6/13-6/26) |
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