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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: CLOUDLANDS (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa) by Samuel Bernstein

EXPOSITION, THE MUSICAL SPOILER ALERT in this first paragraph! There are attempts at surprising plot twists in Octavio Solis’ and Adam Gwon’s new musical drama Cloudlands, but this new p…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:27AM

Monday, April 23, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: MISS SAIGON (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada) by Samuel Bernstein

COME FOR THE MUSIC, STAY FOR THE CADILLAC The music is everything in Miss Saigon—not the plot, which is strangely muddled at times, and not the lyrics, which are sometimes awkward. What st…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:07PM

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: DAMES AT SEA (Colony Theatre in Burbank) by Samuel Bernstein

DAMES AT SEA: NOTES ON CAMP When Dames at Sea opened in 1966 at the Caffe Cino, a small coffee house and performance space in New York City’s Greenwich Village that was at the heart of…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:10PM

Friday, April 13, 2012

Los Angeles Theater & Tour Review: BILLY ELLIOT (Pantages Theatre in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

A VERY F***ING SPECIAL SHOW One of the big dramatic moments in Billy Elliot, making its Los Angeles premiere for a month-long run at the Pantages, comes late in the second act, when Billy’…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PM

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: FEEDBACK (Lyric Theatre in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

FEEDBACK: THE BIG TEASE Everything that works and doesn’t work about Jane Miller’s new play Feedback turns on one thing: Nudity. In terms of talking the talk, the whole exercise is about…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32AM

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: MAMMA MIA! (Pantages Theatre in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

MAMMA MIA: TEN YEARS OF DIZZY, FIZZY DELIGHT The most essential elements of the Mama Mia! National tour, now in its tenth year, and visiting Los Angeles once again at the Pantages for the ne…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:25PM

Monday, March 26, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: THE WHO’S TOMMY (Met Theatre in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

THE QUESTION IS: CAN YOU SEE TOMMY? Everything is murky about the DOMA Theatre Company’s new production of The Who’s Tommy at the Met Theatre—the performances, the sound design, the st…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AM

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: ROCK OF AGES (Pantages in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

ROCK & ROLL CAMP The cast of Rock of Ages is riotously hell bent on making you have a good time. They beat you into submission with energy, wide smiles, and hair—lots and lots of great…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:41PM

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: GROUNDLINGS ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE and LET THEM EAT SUNDAY (The Groundlings Theatre in West Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

GROUNDLINGS ZERO The best part about cleaning up my DVR last weekend was catching up on Raising Hope, the hilarious FOX comedy. It’s funny, surprising, naughty, sometimes dirty, and wholly…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:02PM

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: FIGURE 8 (Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

ORIGINAL SIN In their fevered exploration of the seven deadly sins, Figure 8 playwright/co-director Phinneas Kiyomura and co-director Jerry Kernion seem hell bent on making sin seem as origi…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08PM

Friday, February 24, 2012

Los Angeles Theater Review: THE COST OF THE ERECTION (Blank Theatre in Hollywood) by Samuel Bernstein

SUPER STRUCTURE The Cost of the Erection: The title of Jon Marans’ new play sounds like one of those gay shows where comely actors get naked to pump up the box office. There is some veiled…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:02AM

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