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LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

December 18, 2018Ellen Dostal – Broadway World The countdown to Christmas begins and ends with an all-out love blitz this year in For the Record’s latest world premiere, LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE, a hybrid entertainment that blends scenes from Richard Curtis‘ 2003 film Love Actually with live performances of the movie’s soundtrack. Read more… Now running through December
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DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

December 7, 2018Dany Margolies – The Daily News Sure, “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” keeps its audience amused. The show also educates, teaching us a bit about the history of Tupperware and the woman, Brownie Wise, who invented the Tupperware party. But mostly, at least if you’re interested in comedy as an art form, this solo show is mighty
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Geffen Playhouse

December 5, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Around this time of year, productions of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol are a dime a dozen, but none is quite like the moody, spooky version currently running at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Read more… Now running through December 16

MIDDLE8 at the Stella Adler Theatre

December 3, 2018Margaret Gray – LA Times The eponymous, fictional Kansas City rock band in Stefan Marks’ new play, “Middle8,” now at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, almost made it big — 20-some years ago. Now losing their hair, paunchy, slogging away at ordinary jobs to support ordinary families, the five of them are still haunted
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A MILE IN MY SHOES at the Hudson Backstage Theatre

December 3, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In A Mile in My Shoes, writer and solo performer Kathryn Taylor Smith dramatizes the crisis in homelessness by portraying various homeless people and some of the community figures who interact with them. The production has heart and a message that needs to be heard, but its staging requires some
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COME FROM AWAY at the Ahmanson Theatre

December 3, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen On paper, it feels a bit wrong to call a musical about September 11th, 2001 “uplifting.” It is easy to wonder how that could possibly be true…until seeing Come From Away, a true marvel of a show that manages to take a large story everyone knows about one
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SHOWPONY at the Victory Theatre

November 30, 2018Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Like so many of our social and/or cultural environments, today’s workplace is radically different from what it was many decades ago when the centers of power were pretty much the sole province of white males. American women had their “stations,” and not too much concern was given over to
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Whittier Community Theatre at The Center Theater

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Saturday, September 15th, 2018

Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review

It is quite remarkable how many times the Victor Hugo novel, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” has been dramatized, in film, on television, and on the stage.
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Now running through September 22

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Friday, November 14th, 2014

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Jonas Schwartz - TheaterMania

When Disney Theatricals launched an epic musical version of the 1996 animated film in Berlin in 1999, The Hunchback of Notre Dame was the first Disney production to open outside the United States. With additional songs by the original writers Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz and a book and direction by the acclaimed James Lapine, the show broke box-office records and ran for three years. Now the producers have mounted the first U.S. production at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse but with a new book by Peter Parnell and direction by Scott Schwartz. Read more…