Posts Tagged ‘East West Players’
KAIROS
Monday, April 8th, 2024
What starts off a meet-cute romcom ends up something a good deal more thought-provoking and profound in Kairos, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s intriguing examination of love, life, and the search for eternal youth, now getting a terrifically acted East West Players’ World Premiere.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Saturday, November 4th, 2023
Director Tim Dang, choreographer Preston Mui, an all-around sensational cast, and a stunning production design make East West Players’ Spring Awakening a standout among the umpteen productions I’ve seen so far.
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TACOS LA BROOKLYN
Friday, October 13th, 2023
A 20something Korean-American taco stand owner finds himself on the receiving end of a Chicana influencer’s social media campaign against gentrification in Joel Ulloa’s hilarious, conversation-starting culture-clash comedy Tacos La Brooklyn, thrillingly staged at the Los Angeles Theatre Center by Latino Theater Company in association with East West Players.
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ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023The performances are sparkling, the melodies are tuneful, and the show’s heart is in the right place, but without a plot, dialog, or interconnected characters to keep an audience spellbound, a nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time is much too long for a song cycle like Paulo K Tiról and Noam Shapiro’s On This Side Of The World.
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THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL
Monday, November 21st, 2022
You don’t have to believe in ghosts to succumb to the spell of Prince Gomolvilas’s entertainingly spooky supernatural thriller The Brothers Paranormal, now getting its long-awaited Los Angeles Premiere at East West Players.
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INTERSTATE
Sunday, June 19th, 2022
A 20something trans man and his lesbian best friend take a road trip across America (and in so doing transform the life of a transgender Kentucky teen) in East West Players’ powerful, exhilarating World Premiere musical Interstate.
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ASSASSINS
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Presidential killers and would-be killers take center stage at East West Players in Assassins, Stephen Sondheim at his most provocative, innovative, and engrossing.
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THE GREAT LEAP
Monday, November 11th, 2019
Two of L.A.’s premier regional theaters join forces to give Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap as unforgettable a production as Pasadena Playhouse and East West Players have presented in years.
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