Reviews

Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band @ COLONY THEATRE

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I don’t think any December I was in town since 2002 has gone by that these zany guys didn’t lift my spirits and ward off my usual sense of holiday humbuggery. Matt Walker and his willing disciples knock their performances into the stratosphere year after year, selling out every show … Read more

La Cage Aux Folles @ PASADENA PLAYHOUSE

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Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania When one thinks of the brash musical La Cage Aux Folles, gritty does not usually come to mind. The bare-bones production at Pasadena Playhouse lacks the gaudy, bawdy luster promised in the title song, and instead leans into tackiness. Read more… Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9.3 out of … Read more

A Christmas Carol @ A NOISE WITHIN

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA For me, the best part of Charles Dickens’ classic 1843 novella is that it conjures a time of year when dead people apparate to terrorize rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees better. Now, that’s a fable for 2024 if there ever … Read more

It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price! @ THE HUDSON THEATRE

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  Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.7 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Prevailing over everything about this bright and promising new musical, it’s interesting to quickly recognize the consummate talents of Tony-nominated director and transplanted native Angeleno Kristin Hanggi (the creator of both … Read more

Pacific Overtures @ EAST WEST PLAYERS

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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 a tantalizing treat in which a country is the main character. The East West Players’ … Read more

Waiting for Godot @ GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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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 of the French Resistance against German occupation. With only a tree and a rock on … Read more

A Doll’s House, Part 2 @ BEVERLY HILLS PLAYHOUSE

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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 after Nora famously exits her marriage. Directed by Allen Barton, the second installment in The … Read more