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'The Immigrant' Sings with Authenticity
With a small stage, simple yet effective settings and props, and a small cast of four The Immigrant is not your usual musical. Overall The Immigrant is an enjoyable new show, filled with authenticity, laughter, and a talented group of actors......
Culture Clash Super Tranny Fierce in the O.C.
Culture Clash, the satirically comic trio of cultural observers, is stirring the pot once again, this time in the crispy clean Orange County, a town full of nouveau elite Americans. This is, after all, the town that spawned a bevy of cultureless phenoms like 'Laguna Beach,' 'The O.C.' and lest we f...
Sondheim & Rich, The Art of Making Art
With a continued resurgence of Sondheim revivals on Broadway, listening to the composer opine for over an hour lived up to the hype, and with Rich's insight, a conversation between the two was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for any theatre aficionado......
'No Child...' is a Dream Deferred
In No Child?, Sun's highly entertaining and message driven one-woman play, now running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the life altering affect theatre can have on children is thrown center stage......
'Almost Maine' Warms a City Slicker's Heart
Almost Maine, the delightful, new comedy enjoying its Los Angeles premiere at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, is the best advertisement for our country's northern most state that any chamber of commerce could hope for......
Joan Rivers Delivers the Goods with 'A Work in Progress'
For anyone wishing to catch a glimpse of a bright star that by all means of logic should have faded decades ago, then Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress is a fantastic showcase of laughs and tears. And a note to any network executives reading this review, neither Ryan Seacrest n...
LaBute Gives a Good Fight with 'Some Girl(s)' at Geffen
With his latest West Coast premiere of Some Girl(s) at the Geffen Playhouse, LaBute has delivered yet another exceptional piece of theatre, scouring to the depths of male bashing with utter finesse. And to ensure the production is living up to the book's potential, its playwright has directed as we...
'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' Yea... Whatever
Center Theatre Group's latest musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, has a central message, and it is rather simple, f@$k theatrical conventions. Thanks to the progressive nature of recent offerings including Spring Awakening and the soon to open Passing Strange, Broadway has been breaking away fro...
'Orson's Shadow' is a Gift to the Stage
With so many larger-than-life figures on stage, and the inevitable egos that follow, there are plenty of laughs to be had as they are each bursting with arrogant overtones and plenty of pent up frustration at their stalled careers. Yet, beyond such comical moments, Orson's Shadow is filled with poi...
Deborah Voigt, a True Soprano
The American Songbook, in its Broadway musical form, is often sung with varying degrees of interpretation from singers in nightclubs and symphony halls across the country, yet rarely has the genre sounded so regal as when the magnificent soprano Deborah Voigt lends her glorious vocal styling to the ...
'Color Purple' Strikes Soulful Chord
Transforming such a momentous story into a staged musical, as bookwriter Marsha Norman has done with The Color Purple, could not have been an easy task. What has ended up on stage more closely resembles a Disney spin on history, rather than a gritty realization of historical abuse. Yet, it strikes...
Start Spreading the News, 'The Rat Pack' is Hot
Time to order a whiskey, straight up, because the ice might melt, it's that hot. Okay, clichéd lines aside, there is something heartening going down at the Wilshire Theatre, as showbusiness's three greatest crooners are on display in all their glory......
Geffen's 'Life' Pure Quality Theatre
Quality of Life remains highly relevant leading up to next years presidential elections, and the enormously talented cast treats the work with utmost sincerity. Metcalf and Williams have the most dynamic characters to develop, as both come to terms with the others choices and their roller coaster e...
SCR's 'Shipwrecked!' Blimey Fun
Growing up in a coastal community, dreams of swashbuckling and great sea adventures floated around throughout my adolescence, and thanks, in part, to Disney recently giving a much needed boost to the pirate adventures series, tales of the high seas are back in vogue. Subsequently, what was once the...
No Clowns, Only Pros in SCR's 'Night Music'
There has been a recent influx of Stephen Sondheim shows back in the East, with intriguing revivals of 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Company,'but for Los Angeles fans of Sondheim tuners, there is one show that stands as perhaps the most sophisticated from the composer, 'A Little Night Music,' now on stage at ...
Rachel York: A Dream Come True at Sterling's Upstairs
Only a handful of performers can claim the ability to captivate an audience from the opening notes through the resounding ovation of an appearance on stage, and the always lovely Rachel York can indeed count herself among such a select few......
'Avenue Q' is Hot Property
As if stuck in Los Angeles traffic at the height of rush hour, it has taken 'Avenue Q' a long, long time to finally make its debut in the City of Angels. But like any journey, when you finally arrive at your destination, you are thankful and happy to be there. ...
Reprise! 'On Your Toes' Twirls with Nostalgia
That roar of applause heard from UCLA's Freud Playhouse is a two-fold result of the top-notch production of On Your Toes as part of Reprise! Broadway's Best as well as a note of approval for the smash up job from the company's newest artistic director, actor Jason Alexander......
Changed for Good: An Evening with Stephen Schwartz
If you closed your eyes last night,you would have thought you were back in New York even though you knew you had just valeted your car in West Hollywood. Yes, Broadway came to Hollywood to a new, beautiful new supper club called Eleven for 'Changed for Good: An Intimate Evening with Stephen Schwar...
La Jolla Looks Abstract with 'The Deception'
Stepping into the La Jolla Playhouse, it is easy to immediately be transported into an abstract world of delightfully foreign art, thanks to the staging of Pierre Marivaux's classic La Fausse Suivante, completely re-imagined as The Deception......
'Gershwin' Comes Alive at the Geffen
A show that started out in this city nearly eight years ago, Gershwin Alone tickles its way back into Angelenos' standards loving hearts with a run at the Geffen Playhouse......
Sterling's Upstairs Looking Good at One
Sterling's upstairs at Vitello's restaurant marked its one year anniversary this past Saturday night with Three of a Kind......
'Spelling Bee' Originals Still Super Silly
Producer David Stone sought to capture magic in a bottle twice with his Tony Award winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, reuniting the entire original cast for the show's Los Angeles premiere, and judging Sunday's opening performance, his plan was a S-U-C-C-E-S-S......
'Yellow Face' Hwang's Lingering Grudge
Yellow Face often blurs the lines between fact and fiction, with many of Hwang's personal travails making their way into the play, yet never fully emphasizing what is truth. Even with such ambiguities, the play is a scathing rebuke of minority critics, especially journalists, which get their fair s...
Graae's Fully Exposed 'Anatomy'
Although Graae's Anatomy is making its West Coast debut at the El Portal Theatre, Los Angeles is no stranger to the musical and often comedic styling of star Jason Graae. And that is Graae, like 'blah,' not like that hit ABC show about dysfunctional doctors in Seattle......
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