A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Kasey Mahaffy delivers an exhilarating, emotion-packed, career-redefining performance as Dublin bus conductor Alfie Byrne in A Noise Within’s stirring revival of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Los Angeles Theater Review, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNally
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BONNIE & CLYDE
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
America’s most infamous bank-robbing duo are back in business and the Rubicon Theatre has got them in the Ventura treasure’s must-see revival of the Tony-nominated Bonnie & Clyde The Musical.
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Tags: Don Black, Frank Wildhorn, Ivan Menchell, Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County Theater Review
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THE SPITFIRE GRILL
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
A young woman fresh out of prison seeks a second chance at life in James Valcq and Fred Alley’s tuneful, inspiring crowd-pleaser The Spitfire Grill, Actors Co-op’s first musical in nearly seven years and one that is well worth the wait.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Fred Alley, James Valcq, Los Angeles Theater Review
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LEGALLY BLONDE
Monday, April 28th, 2025
An incandescent Kathryn Brunner makes it crystal-clear what musical theater stars are made of as the indomitable Elle Woods in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s big-stage big-talent revival of the 2007 Broadway smash Legally Blonde, about as perfect a screen-to-stage adaptation as there’s been in the past twenty years.
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Tags: Heather Hach, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Nell Benjamin
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL EXTENSION
Monday, April 21st, 2025
Branden Lee Roth puts his own engaging stamp on the title role of Open Fist Theatre Company’s Bat Boy: The Musical, his fortuitous arrival enabling the wild, weird, and wacky L.A.-born, off-Broadway-bred crowd-pleaser to extend its run at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
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BARE: A POP OPERA
Monday, April 14th, 2025Mouth Bone Theatre’s revival of Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere’s Bare: A Pop Opera works better as a talent showcase for its cast of young musical theater performers than it does as a professional production of a show that’s beginning to show its age.
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Tags: Damon Intrabartolo, Jon Hartmere, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mouth Bone Theatre, the Eastwood
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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Tags: Chad Beguelin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matthew Sklar, Tim Herlihy, Wisteria Theater Company
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Sunday, April 13th, 2025
The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Nocturne Theatre
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