FELA! Book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA Pounding rhythms, colorful tribal costumes, exquisitely light and authentic African choreography, visually stunning staging and politically charged lyrics – Fela! is a biographical funk concert musical that is…
IT GOES LIKE THIS by JACK BETTS. Pauline Adamek – LA Weekly Written and directed by veteran actor Jack Betts, It Goes Like This is a personal story, clumsily told. Leaden-footed, as if cast in concrete, the melodramatic saga manages to be both utterly predictable…
THE PARISIAN WOMAN by Beau Willomon. Deborah Klugman – ArtsBeatLA In the title role Dana Delaney transforms Beau Willomon’s middling comedy into a crackling satire that makes trenchant commentary on the abuse of power. Delaney plays Chloe, the wife of an ambitious…
A CHORUS LINE – music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante. by Shirle Gottlieb – Gazette Newspapers In 1974, dancer/choreographer Michael Bennett asked 18 dancers why they auditioned for the chorus when the demand for musicals…
NEVERWHERE by Robert Kauzlaric, adapted from the novel by Neil Gaiman. David C. Nichols – LA Times Noteworthy creativity accompanies “Neverwhere” in its ambitious West Coast premiere at Sacred Fools. Robert Kauzlaric’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel about a parallel world beneath London isn’t…