Friday, March 15th, 2024
The Nocturne Theatre opens its Spring 2024 season with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods, and though not everything works in the oft-produced musical’s latest revival, its striking high fantasy look, a number of inspired directorial choices, and more than a few sensational performances earn cheers.
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Tags: James Lapine, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim, The Nocturne Theatre
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
Director Barry Pearl and co-director/choreographer Michelle Elkin re-team at the Colony Theatre to bring L.A. audiences a bigger-budget incarnation of their 2023 hit Footloose The Musical, though this time round minus the powerhouse star turn of last year’s breakout leading man.
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Tags: BarCinBoo Productions, Colony Theatre, Dean Pitchford, Los Angeles Theater Review, Panic! Productions, Tom Snow, Walter Bobbie
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Sunday, February 11th, 2024
Musical Theatre West opens its 2024 season with just about as surefire a crowd-pleaser as 20th-century Broadway has to offer, the screen-to-stage classic 42nd Street.
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Tags: Al Dubin, Harry Warren, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Bramble, Michael Stewart, Musical Theatre West
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Take the movie that set Julia Roberts on the path to superstardom, stir in twenty of the 1980s and ‘90s’ Greatest Hits, give the mix a contemporary sensibility and a dynamite triple-threat cast, and you’ve got Mystic Pizza (The Musical), a surefire La Mirada Theatre hit.
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Tags: La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Sandy Rustin
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Sunday, December 24th, 2023
A Glendale landmark is reborn as The Nocturne Theatre just in time to treat holiday audiences to Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment’s fabulous new, gender-bending musical twist on the Charles Dickens Christmas classic.
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Tags: Charles Dickens, Chris Thomas, Justin Patrick Meyer, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Nocturne Theatre
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2023
No matter what your personal feelings are about Michael Jackson (and mine are decidedly conflicted), there’s little denying that MJ the Musical, now playing at Hollywood’s Pantages, is skillfully crafted, sensationally sung and danced, and spectacularly designed, no matter how frustratingly uncritical it is of its subject.
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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, Los Angeles Theater Review, Lynn Nottage, Michael Jackson, Pantages Theatre
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