LETTER FROM THE FRINGE at various locations
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw Welcome to Fringe Season, when there are so many shows, and all of them taking place within the same 30 block area, you almost need 50 heads to see them all. With so many shows…
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HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL at various locations
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly One of the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s many venues is an old van laden with graffiti and suitcases, with shrinelike decorations in the back. The vehicle, like the show that occurs within and around it,…
MATILDA at the Ahmanson Theatre
Jon Magaril – Curtain Up Broadway is commonly viewed as a middle-of-the-road mecca for lite, tourist-friendly fare. But a surprisingly significant number of current smash hit musicals focus on singing revolutionaries battling stinging oppression. Elphaba defies the the duplicitous Wizard…
MARRY ME A LITTLE at the Lillian Theatre
Les Spindle – Edge on the Net First presented in 1980, “Marry Me a Little” offers an entertaining compilation of songs by master composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, which he originally wrote for other musicals. Each song was dropped, for one reason or another,…
WATERFALL at the Pasadena Playhouse
Bob Verini – Arts In LA “Waterfall,” the new cross-cultural, lushly romantic tuner at the Pasadena Playhouse, has admirable ambition, visual splendor and patchy dramaturgy. Working from a Thai source novel, stage veterans Richard Maltby Jr. (words) and David Shire (music) seek to explore cultural…