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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The Devil You Know - Theatre Review

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

A review by Suzanne Birrell. L to R (rear) - James Patrick Stuart, Bill Watterson, Braxton Molinaro. Front - Larry Poindexter. Photos © 2016 Allen Corben & Suse Sternkopf The audience was united in bobbing their heads and smiling thru the music ...

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Going... Going... Gone! Theatre Review

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

A review by Suzanne Birrell. Annie Abrams, Troy Metcalf, David Babich and Dennis Pearson, Photos by Ed Krieger Going... Going... Gone!, a new play by Emmy Award winning writer Ken Levine ( M*A*S*H*, Cheers, The Simpsons ) and directed by Andrew ...

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Skullduggery - Theatre Review

Posted By Joan Alperin

A review by Joan Alperin. Photos by Jessica Sherman Photography I have seen many productions at the Sacred Fools Theatre Company and have enjoyed everyone of them, except for this one. I absolutely LOVED their latest entitled SKULLDUGGERY. If there ...

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Skullduggery: A Musical Prequel to Hamlet.

Posted By Joshua Kahn

A review by Joshua Kahn. Hamlet gets the Wicked treatment in Sacred Fools' world premiere production of Skullduggery: A Musical Prequel to Hamlet. Written by Michael Shaw Fisher, the musical was born from a desire to tell the story of Claudius, ...

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Blueberry Toast - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

Michael Sturgis. Jacqueline Wright, Alexandra Freeman and Albert Dayan Photos by Darrett Sanders The Echo Theater Company -- Los Angeles' "Best Bet for Ballsy Original Plays" (L.A. Weekly) -- has come through again. " Blueberry Toast " is their world ...

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Generation Me - Theatre Review

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

A review by Suzanne Birrell. Generation Me a teen musical opened at the Hudson to an enthusiastic crowd. The story revolves around the suicide of a 16 boy and is cleverly interwoven between the weeks leading up to the tragedy and the week after. ...

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Mutual Philanthropy - Theatre Review

Posted By Suzanne Birrell

A review by Suzanne Birrell. James Macdonald, Brea Bee, Xochitl Romero, and Mark Carapezza, Photos by Lew Abramson Mutual Philanthropy is a multi-layered masterpiece. Written by Karen Rizzo and Directed by Dan Bonnell, Mutual Philanthropy is one of ...

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