Musical metamorphoses: ‘Fiddler,’ ‘Pacific,’ ‘Cage,’ ‘Back to the Future’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus ‘Waiting for Godot,’ ‘A Doll’s House Part 2,’ ‘Antíkoni,’ ‘The Goddamn Couple…’ Read more…
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Read MoreMusical metamorphoses: ‘Fiddler,’ ‘Pacific,’ ‘Cage,’ ‘Back to the Future’
Pacific Overtures @ EAST WEST PLAYERS
Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania When something unique is presented to you, you can either reject it, or absorb its sumptuous foreign flavors. Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures, so heavily influenced by Japanese culture and Kabuki theater techniques, is…
Waiting for Godot @ GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Irish playwright Samuel Beckett wrote “Waiting for Godot” in the winter of 1948, in French, having lived in Paris for 20 years and witnessing the devastating effects of World War II as a member…
Nightingale @ ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE
Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld NIGHTINGALE is a subtle descent into harrowing madness brought to blistering life in a star turn by Lance A. Williams. Read more…
A Doll’s House, Part 2 @ BEVERLY HILLS PLAYHOUSE
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw A Doll’s House, Part 2, Lucas Hnath’s brilliant 2017 play, picks up the fortunes of Nora and Torvald Helmer, the embattled married couple from Henrik Ibsen’s famous drama, A Doll’s House, some 15 years…
Fiddler On The Roof @ LA MIRADA THEATRE
Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania The ageless classic Fiddler on the Roof has bottle-danced its way into Los Angeles’s La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts with an incandescent re-creation, complete with Lee Martino’s restoration of Jerome Robbins’s Tony award-winning original…
Adventures in the Great Beyond @ HUDSON THEATRE
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw Skimpy on plot but packed with vocal talent, this musical comedy follows an alienated young woman on her bumpy journey of self-discovery. Read more… Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT…
SHPIDER! @ FORCE OF NATURE PRODUCTIONS
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move SHPIDER! is without a doubt, the meta-absurdist, hi-camp hilarity, small theater stand-out success of the season. This B-movie creature feature world premiere play is full-frontal, writer/director Matt Ritchey at his best. Read more…
The Piano Lesson @ A NOISE WITHIN
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix It’s a lot to cover, but under Daniel’s direction, the action is engagingly fluid and suspenseful – you really don’t know what’s going to happen next – heightening the story’s innate tensions. And due…
The Orphans’ Revenge @ THE LONNY CHAPMAN THEATRE
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw A tongue-in-cheek musical melodrama replete with a vile villain, a temptress or two, and a hearty hero and heroine, the show features a book by Suzanne Buhrer and Gene Casey, and music by Buhrer, Casey,…