Review: WIVES at East West Players
Far more corny than it is cutting or inspiring...the play offers a few insights, scattered laughs and a ton of heavy-handed self-actualization. Even at 90 minutes, this one feels repetitive.…
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Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Ovation Theatre
Jagged Little Pill takes on a Herculean challenge: create a good original story out of a set of existing songs connected only by artist. Diablo Cody, the librettist for this Alanis Morissette musical, accomplishes this feat.…
Review: HEARTBREAK HOUSE at Antaeus Theatre Company
HEARTBREAK HOUSE marks the start of Antaeus Theatre Company’s thirty-fifth anniversary season, and it bodes well for what they have in store.…
Review: FALSETTOS at Victory Theatre
Let’s face the music: William Finn’s Falsettos, written during the Reagan administration’s brutal fumbling of the AIDS epidemic and polarizing of the LGBTQ+ community, remains strikingly relevant to today.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at A Noise Within
Clearly there were a lot worse places to be on that infamous day than small provincial Gander. In Julia Rodriguez-Elliott’s spirited and heart-warming production...A Noise Within let’s us savor that unique visit.…
Review: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum
Waiting in the Wings explores the glamor and elegance of a lost era, life on the stage of 1920s music halls, the terror and loss and beauty of aging, and the incomparable treasures of female friendship. …
Review: THE LIGHT WE LEAVE BEHIND Is a Dreamlike Experience Best Left Unexplained
BroadwayWorld reviews THE LIGHT WE LEAVE BEHIND, an unconventional concert experience that's as much about the mood as the music, playing through October 25 in Downtown LA's Arts District…
Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre
Before the hit movie-to-musical adaptations Legally Blonde and Heathers, Laurence O’Keefe wrote Bat Boy, a cult classic camp-horror musical about a boy who is half human and half bat.…
Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Colony Theatre
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a vivacious and colorful show making the most of its 1960s setting to dazzle us with period fashions and backdrops.…
Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre
CRONE CREED is an ambitious take on mythology and fate, and it is one of the best shows the El Portal has offered in recent years — out of a field of many exceptional efforts.…
Past Shows
74 total · showing 51–60
Little Women - The Broadway Musical
From the novel that holds a special place in the heart of American literature, comes a new musical that proves this timeless story is still relevant, funny, and heartbreaking today. Join rambunctious Jo, practical Meg, sweet Beth, and romantic Amy as they embark on a...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Experience pro wrestling in a whole new light or perhaps for the first time in Kristoffer Diazs Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. Chad Deity follows the life of wrestler Macedonio Guerra. As a lifelong fan, he has followed wrestling only to become a jobber, one who is paid to lose...
A Thousand Maids: OTR Reading
In every artistic context, the imagery of a woman of color in a maids uniform will immediately spark controversy. A Thousand Maids looks at this legacy, from actors who are still asked to wear the uniform now, to cinematic foremothers like Lupe Ontiveros and Butterfly...
We Ain't Ever Gonna Break Up - The Hymon & Parfunkle Story
We Aint Ever Gonna Break Up: The Hymon & Parfunkel Story is the first jukebox musical about, and featuring the songs of, a band that never existed. This original two-man folk musical parodies the tired tropes of jukebox musicals like Jersey Boys, Buddy, Mamma Mia, Beautiful...
Green Day's American Idiot
Slinging razor guitars, thundering drums, and an anti-hero named Johnny. Not the prelude of typical entries in the canon of musical theatre. But these elements herald a groundbreaking American musical all the same: with the burning passion of characters who yearn for something...
HONGO: OTR Staged Reading
Gifted scientist Dr. Mirian Reyes has discovered a method of using mycelium cells to heal damaged brains. So when her radically progressive son, Dagoberto, is left in a vegetative state after a performance art show turns violent, Mirian uses her research to revive him. However...
Fancy Nancy The Musical
This TYA favorite returns to the Chance for the fifth time. Bring the family and watch as Fancy Nancy and her friends Bree, Rhonda, Wanda, and Lionel get ready to perform in their very first show, Deep Sea Dances. Nancy is positive, thats fancy for 100 percent sure, that she and...
Matinicus: A Lighthouse Play
Matinicus: A Lighthouse Play is based on the true story of Abigail Burgess, a young lighthouse keepers daughter, living on a rock 25 miles off the coast of Maine. A one-woman play of humor and heroism, about keeping the lights on at any cost.This is a staged reading. This new...
Cry It Out
Dirty diapers, breast pumps and 2 a.m. feedings, are enough to give anyone sleepless nights Not to mention the need for a strong cup of coffee. Molly Smith Metzler (Shameless, Orange is the New Black, upcoming Netflix series, Maid) holds both a microscope and a megaphone to the...
Crimson Lit - Scarlet Letter Setlist
You’re not going to want to miss the staged reading of the updated version of this brand new pulpy riot grrrl musical adaptation of The Scarlet Letter written by singer-songwriter Jill Sobule (“I Kissed a Girl,” “Supermodel”) and our 2020 Resident Playwright Krista Knight...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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The Cottage North Coast Repertory (10/28-11/22) |
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Woof Odyssey Theatre (10/03-11/08) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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Assassins The Actors Company — The Other Space (11/06-11/29) |
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MARK BROWN'S AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Coachella Valley Repertory (12/02-12/20) |
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Hallowe'en Spooktacular Bob Baker Marionette Theater (9/05-11/08) |
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P3's Cozy Cabaret - The Fabulous 50's & Same Time Next Christmas The Broadwater Second Stage Theatre (11/09-11/09) |
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Duck Pond by Circa The Soraya (11/01-11/01) |
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POOR Magazine and Green Diamond Projects present Crushing Wheelchairs UCLA Nimoy Theater (12/11-12/11) |
