BWW Reviews: Brilliant BENT Revival at Taper
When Bent first premiered in 1979 its persecution of gays in Nazi Germany was a real eye opener.
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BWW Reviews: 3-D Theatricals' TARZAN THE MUSICAL is a Swinging Success
TARZAN THE MUSICAL is the latest winner in a string of ambitious musicals by the Dawson producing team at 3-D Theatricals (Gretchen, Daniel, Jeannette and T.
BWW Reviews: JOSEPH Rocks Candlelight Pavilion
Considered Andrew Lloyd Webber's first official musical in the late 60s, in spite of the fact that it really took off after Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has within itself a miraculous power to entertain and inspire.
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE Offers a Frolicking Good Time for Everyone!
I have to admit I had never seen the 2001 MGM movie, Legally Blonde before seeing LEGALLY BLONDE The Musical at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica.
BWW Reviews: A Classy SINGIN' IN THE RAIN at MTW
To those newer generation theatre and movie fans who do not remember 1952's blockbuster hit film Singin' in the Rain, directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green and costars Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds all contributed to making it the smash tha
BWW Reviews: Deliriously Funny ADAM & EVE AND STEVE Comes to NoHo
Adam & Eve and Steve/written by Chandler Warren/musical composer: Wayne Moore/directed by Ronnie MarmoTheatre 68 at/NoHo Arts Center/through August 30 A humorous take on the biblical version of creation as told through the rantings of dueling Beelzebug and God is the award-winning world premier
BWW Reviews: SHIV Nearly Transports You to Other Worlds
The west coast premiere of Aditi Brennan Kapil's Shiv receives a simply gorgeous mounting at the Theatre @ Boston Court.
BWW Reviews: ALL AMERICAN GIRL - A Mistitled Anti-American Rally I Wanted to Unsee
Playwright Wendy Graf totally deceives in naming her world premiere All American Girl.
BWW Reviews: Vive La France! Kingsmen Shakespeare Company Serves Up French Joie De Vivre For MEASURE FOR MEASURE
With the first production of their 19th Season, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company presents the dramatic-comedy Measure For Measure with a definitive French flavour.
BWW Review: MACBETH Unleashed by the Creative Mind of Michael Keith Allen at the Art of Acting Studio
The brilliantly creative mind of Michael Keith Allen has worked wonders with a new re-telling of Shakespeare's MACBETH at the Art of Acting Studio by setting the tragedy in a postmodern Scotland where street thugs battle for leadership as well as territory, while cutting the run time to 90 minutes a
BWW Reviews: With Patience, OFF THE KING'S ROAD Accommodates
Neil Koenigsberg' Off the King's Road vividly illustrates the need for patience in dealing with your elders.
BWW Reviews: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Still Impressive After All These Years
Spectacle wins out in Cameron Mackintosh's latest tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
BWW Reviews: PACK OF LIES at Hillcrest Center For The Arts
In their 1962 Cold War song, 'The John Birch Society,' the Chad Mitchell Trio sings, 'You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin / If Mommy is a Commie then you gotta turn her in.
BWW Reviews: La Mirada's Jolly MARY POPPINS Is A Charming Delight
The charming new regional production of the Disney/Cameron Mackintosh musical spectacular MARY POPPINS---currently playing at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through June 21---has found a lovely, practically perfect Poppins in Hart of Dixie's Brandi Burkhardt, who confidently channels
BWW Reviews: Clever, Imaginative PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Flies Into South Coast Rep
Let's first get this very necessary accolade out of the way: South Coast Repertory's brand new production of Rick Elice's PETER AND THE STARCATCHER is, hands down, one of the most enjoyable, most thrilling, and most engagingly imaginative plays I have seen all season---a fitting capper to the Tony A
BWW Reviews: Adorable ANNIE Returns In (Another) New Tour
A safe, inoffensive, cutesy crowd-pleaser for the young and the young-at-heart, the brand new non-Equity touring revival of the Broadway classic ANNIE is eager to please and pretty much does so.
BWW Reviews: Funny & Relatable Annabelle Gurwitch Succeeds with her I SEE YOU MADE AN EFFORT
In the Los Angeles premiere of I See You Made an Effort; Annabelle Gurwitch adeptly performs excerpts from her bestselling book of the same title.
BWW Reviews: THE GRADUATE at Conejo Players Theatre - Not Quite Making The Grade
When one thinks of 'The Graduate', it is the iconic 1967 movie which catapulted Dustin Hoffman into mainstream American culture and solidified both his and Anne Bancroft's positions as some of the greatest performances of the silver screen.
BWW Reviews: GROUNDLINGS KUNG FU BATTLE ISLAND - The Ultimate Destination of Laughter
Groundlings Kung Fu Battle Island, the latest in The Groundlings' continued, well-oiled, laugh-filled Friday & Saturday night shows, just keeps the fine-tuned physical comedy and the hysterical jokes flowing.
BWW Reviews: A Production To Be Proud Of - OUR TOWN at Newbury Park High School
Edward Albee once described fellow playwright Thornton Wilder's Our Town as,'.
BWW Reviews: The Legendary Groove Comes to Life in MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
Turning a profit in the theatre business is challenging at best but it isn't surprising that MOTOWN THE MUSICAL easily recouped its initial investment during its run on Broadway, or its outlay for the First National Tour, now playing at the Hollywood Pantages.
BWW Reviews: Nadège August Simply Captivates as SUNSET BABY
The West Coast premiere of Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby provides a wonderful star vehicle for the very talented Nadege August.
BWW Reviews: PIPPIN at Agoura High School's Theatre Department - Magic To Do…And They Did!
The Stephen Schwartz coming-of-age musical that helped put Bob Fosse on the map exploded onto Broadway in 1972.
BWW Reviews: South Coast Rep Stages World Premiere of Rajiv Joseph's MR. WOLF
South Coast Repertory's latest offering, MR.
BWW Reviews: Supercalifragilistic MARY POPPINS Flies Into Cabrillo
Mary Poppins/book by Julian Fellowes/music by The Sherman Brothers/new songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe/directed by Lewis Wilkenfeld/choreographed by Cheryl Baxter/Cabrillo Music Theatre at the Fred Kavli Theatre of the Thousand Oakes Civic Arts Plaza/through April 26 only
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Beetlejuice JR Conejo Players Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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The Wizard Of Oz BANK OF AMERICA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER – FRED KAVLI THEATRE (7/10-7/19) |
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GFour Productions presents Menopause the Musical® Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (9/30-9/30) |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Conejo Players Theatre (11/06-11/29) |
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5 Star Theatricals presents The Wizard of Oz Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (7/10-7/19) |
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5 Star Theatricals presents Les Miserables Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (10/09-10/18) |
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Mötley Crüe at Shoreline Amphitheatre Shoreline Amphitheatre (9/24-9/24) |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Bank of America Performing Arts Center (8/08-8/08) |
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Fellowship for Performing Arts presents The Screwtape Letters Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (8/08-8/08) |
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Steel Magnolias Conejo Players Theatre (8/07-8/29) |