Sunday, March 17th, 2024
If you’ve ever been twelve years old, you’ll get an extra special kick out of Becky Wahlstrom’s wild and wacky and way-out-there coming-of-age comedy A Froggy Becomes, now getting the most exhilarating of World Premiere stagings at Open Fist Theatre.
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Tags: Becky Wahlstrom, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
A pair of 30something siblings summoned to their widowed stepfather’s home confront a family crisis involving their adopted teenaged sister in Jon Klein’s absorbing family dramedy Faithless, a laughter-and-discussion-provoking Victory Theatre Center World Premiere.
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Tags: Jon Klein, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Victory Theatre Center
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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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Monday, March 4th, 2024
High school sweethearts reunite for the first time since their breakup thirty years earlier in Timothy Braun’s absorbing World Premiere two-hander Coney Island Land, or The Great Existential Actuality at The End of The Universe, a terrifically acted and designed guest production at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Complex.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theatre Review, Theatre 68, Timothy Braun
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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 25th, 2024
A renowned character actress and the world’s most celebrated sex symbol form the most unexpected of friendships as a grown son celebrates his mother’s memory in Luke Yankee’s fascinating, informative, deeply moving Marilyn, Mom, and Me, now getting its long-awaited World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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Tags: Eileen Heckart, International City Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Luke Yankee, Marilyn Monroe
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