Month October 2017

MATELUNA at REDCAT

Margaret Gray – LA Times Few people sitting down at REDCAT this week for the U.S. premiere of Mateluna” will have heard of Jorge Mateluna. But after seeing this theatrical exploration of truth and deception in life and art, none…

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IN THE HEIGHTS at Musical Theatre West

Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Lin-Manuel Miranda, that contemporary titan of musical theater, premiered his first show off-Broadway in 2007. In the ten intervening years, Miranda’s star rose: In the Heights won the Tony for Best Musical in 2008, and Miranda went…

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THIS LAND at Company of Angels

Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main Early on in Evangeline Ordáz’s engaging and arrestingly mounted historical melodrama, an altercation ensues between Toya (Cheryl Umaña), a proud and angry Indian princess, and Enrique (Jeff Torres) the amiable son of a Mexican…

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