PRELUDE TO A KISS THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
A gorgeous score, appealing performances, and a book that will have you reflecting on the very meaning of love are just three reasons to fall for South Coast Repertory’s World Premiere musical adaptation of Craig Lucas’s Prelude To A Kiss.
(read more)
Tags: Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé, Orange County Theater Review, Sean Hartley, South Coast Repertory
Posted in Musical, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW! | No Comments »
JERSEY BOYS
Sunday, April 21st, 2024
The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
(read more)
Tags: 3-D Theatricals, Bob Crew, Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, Marshall Brickman, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Rick Elice
Posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW! | No Comments »
TWELFTH NIGHT
Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Actors Co-op gives L.A.’s top-of-the-line classical theater companies some stiff competition with their irresistibly entertaining, tunefully tropical take on Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools.
(read more)
Tags: Actors Co-op, Los Angeles Theater Review, William Shakespeare
Posted in Classic Play, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW! | No Comments »
HIGH MAINTENANCE
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024Christian Prentice dazzles as a state-of-the-art robot about to star as Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opposite TV diva Ivy Khan’s Nora in Peter Ritt’s High Maintenance, an initially captivating Road Theatre World Premiere that fails to live up to expectations in its romance-derailing, credibility-straining final scenes.
(read more)
Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Peter Ritt, The Road Theatre Company
Posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere | No Comments »
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Dear Abby and Ann Landers could learn a thing or two from Sugar, the advice columnist whose empathetic, profound, deeply moving responses to folks in dire need of counsel make Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things the most heartstrings-tugging show in town.
(read more)
Tags: Chance Theater, Cheryl Strayed, Nia Vardalos, Orange County Theater Review
Posted in Drama, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW! | No Comments »
OPHELIA
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
(read more)
Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Odyssey Theatre, Stefan Marks
Posted in Comedy, Now Playing, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW! | No Comments »
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.
(read more)
Tags: East West Players, Lisa Sanaye Dring, Los Angeles Theater Review
Posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW! | No Comments »
MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
(read more)
Tags: Christian St. Croix, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre
Posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Two-Hander, WOW! | No Comments »