Bakersfield Mist - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

by Bill Garry You walk through the intimate theater's door into a kitschy, run-down mobile home in Bakersfield. Mellow music from a local radio station is playing. Maude Gutman, foul-mouthed and 70, is sitting at her kitchen table waiting for a ...

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When Jazz Had the Blues - Theatre Review

Posted By Joan Alperin

Billy Strayhorn (Frank Lawson) ever hear of him? Probably not. Well for one thing, he was the love of Lena Horne's (Michole Briana White) life and most importantly he co-wrote some of Duke Ellington's (Boise Holmes) hits. He also happened to be black ...

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Blood - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

Kabuki is a stylized form of Japanese dance and drama dating back to the 1600s. When, after World War II, Japan put Kabuki on global tour in an attempt to strengthen diplomatic relations, the word took on a new, cynical meaning: self-serving ...

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Bob's Holiday Office Party - Theatre Review

Posted By Joshua Kahn

Bob's Holiday Office Party makes its way to the Atwater Village Theatre for its 21st consecutive year of drunken revelry. I must admit that I'd never heard of this long-running show until seeing it, but now I'll be hard-pressed to forget. Most ...

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White Christmas - Theatre Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

If you are looking for a white Christmas in Los Angeles this holiday season, look no further than the Pantages Theatre. Directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner, the dazzling White Christmas returns for a one-week engagement this holiday season. ...

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Thrones! The Musical Parody - Theatre Review

Posted By Bekah Caden

by Bekah Caden Coming to Los Angeles after rave reviews out of Chicago and from across the pond, is Thrones! The Musical Parody. We begin with a group of friends getting together to watch the latest "Game of Thrones" episode when disaster strikes - ...

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Sleeping Beauty - Theatre Review

Posted By Jen Brown

They've done it again, Storybook Theatre have pulled it off and given us what we want and need - a dollop of warmth, a whole lot of loving and a major helping of FUN! I was more than happy to see this wonderful production for a second time and my ...

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Gardel's Tango - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

If you're a fan of 1940s MGM biopics shown late at night on AMC, you'll be a fan of Gardel's Tango, a new play (with music, of course) about composer, singer, and musical innovator Carlos Gardel. Gardel, who lived from 1890 to 1935, took Tango from ...

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The Super Variety Match Bonus Round! - Theatre Review

Posted By Joshua Kahn

There are times when a piece of art so perfectly captures the national zeitgeist that it's hard to imagine it having nearly as strong an impact at any other point in time. Unfortunately, Rogue Machine's production of Deb Hiett's The Super Variety ...

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Siamese Sex Show: A Wild Wonderful Ride into a Dystopian Future

Posted By Joan Alperin

Siamese Sex Show, the musical is so good that I didn't want it to end. From the moment the show started, I knew I was about to experience something very original and extremely fun. I was not disappointed. The show starts with the very funny M.C. ...

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Theatre Review 11/04/2016

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

A review by Suzanne Birrell. Photos by Joan Marcus. Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened at the Pantages Theatre and the crowd went wild- I m really wild. For those who haven't seen the show, Hedwig explains the his/her/his story in a mixture of personal ...

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Unbound - Theatre Review - 11/02/16

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

A review by Suzanne Birrell. Chris Gardner and Laila Ayad in Unbound at Hudson Theatre The World Premiere of Unbound opened this week at the Hudson Theater in Hollywood. As the plot thickened and drama intensified and the audience progressively ...

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Passing SOLO - Theatre Review

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

Review by Suzanne Birrell. Photos by Kristina Roth. October 18, 2016. The Towne Street Theatre Of Passing SOLO now in the middle of a short run before heading off to Germany is not to missed by anyone who struggles with the status quo of current ...

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Vonnegut, USA - Theatre Review

Posted By Joshua Kahn

A review by Joshua Kahn. Rob Smith as Lou Sterling, Carryl Lynn as Nancy Daily, and Matt Taylor as Bud Carmody. Photo credits: Maia Peters Kurt Vonnegut is a difficult author to adapt to the stage. Much of the success of his writing relies upon the ...

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The Country Wife - Theatre Review

Posted By Jen Brown

REVIEW by Jen Brown Virtic Emil Brown (l.), Michael Hovance, Jean Gilpin; Photo Credits: Garth Pillsbury. Nothing could be finer on a lovely Sunday afternoon than a bawdy romp around the park and Classical Theatre Lab's production of The Country ...

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