Around the World in 80 Days :: LA Drama Critics Circle

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE at the Matrix Theatre

December 24, 2021Terry Morgan - Artsbeat LA It’s a Wonderful Life is now an undisputed holiday classic, but its road to perennial status was as long and difficult as its hero’s journey to happiness. Read more… Tracey Paleo – Gia on the Move “It is a terrifying, asphyxiating story about growing up and relinquishing your dreams, of
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Ahmanson Theatre

December 12, 2021Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania The holiday season has come to the Ahmanson Theatre, where London’s Old Vic Theatre has installed its annual A Christmas Carol, with Bradley Whitford playing Scrooge. Read more… Now running through January 1, 2022

THE BAND’S VISIT at the Dolby Theatre

December 8, 2021Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania …The enchanting musical The Band’s Visit, now at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, perfectly embodies the simplicity with which music draws even the most disparate group of people into a gentle harmony. Read more… Now running through December 19

THE CHILDREN at the Fountain Theatre

December 7, 2021Terry Morgan - Artsbeat LA Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children was written before the pandemic, and it’s about the aftermath of a nuclear accident and not a virus, but its vibe of looming doom and concern over what can actually be done to fix things seems very appropriate to our present-day circumstances. Read more… Now running
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HEAD OVER HEELS at the Pasadena Playhouse

December 7, 2021Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical featuring the songs of the Go-Go’s, is imaginative, but chaotic; energetic, but deflatingly lacking in comedy. Read more… Now running through December 12

LIZASTRADA at Getty Villa

September 17, 2021Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Broadway World During the opening number, the Troubadour Theatre Company, affectionately known to all as the Troubies, comment how thrilled the troupe, and the audience by extension, is to have returned to live theatre. The audience responded with glorious applause, and both the occasion and the Troubies deserve that adulation. Read more…
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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN at Sierra Madre Playhouse

Alexander Mashikian and Hamilton Davis Weaver

August 10, 2021Rob Stevens – Haines His Way For 50 years beginning in 1950, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz drew a daily comic strip entitled Peanuts which featured the mis-adventures of a young boy named Charlie Brown and his friends. Read more… Now running through September 12

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS at the Long Beach Playhouse

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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

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Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze

One actor dropped his moustache, another dropped his lines. It doesn’t matter whether these were opening-night fumbles or thoroughly rehearsed comedy bits. In Around the World in 80 Days at Long Beach Playhouse, they only add to the fun. Read more…

Now running through May 7

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS at Actors Co-op

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Friday, May 15th, 2015

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Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days has been made into films, most notably twice: in 1956 in Mike Todd’s celebrity-studded epic with David Niven and Cantinflas, and in Disney’s 2004 version with Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan. The novel has been adapted for the theater several times, along with this version by Mark Brown in 2001. Even Verne, however could not have imagined the wildly enterprising comedic touches that could be applied to his action-adventure novel. Read more...

David C. Nichols – LA Times

Rampant theatricality and audience regard traverses “Around the World in 80 Days” at the Actors Co-op. Read more…

Now running through June 14.