Thursday, July 18, 2013
To celebrate the original London production's 20th anniversary, Musical Theater West has produced an impressively barebones version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard. Without…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
The Falcon Theatre launches the new Troubadour mash-up, A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream, combining Shakespeare's classic comedy of magical love swapping with one of the highest-gros…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
When was the last time you watched Sleepless In Seattle and said "Gosh, this would be better if Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks were singing original songs?" This new interpretation of a beloved hit …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMMonday, June 3, 2013
The Scottsboro Boys is a beautiful show about an ugly time when the Establishment ridiculed, tortured, feared, and destroyed the African-American experience. This provocative musical by John…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMFriday, May 3, 2013
Gifted playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute has adapted August Strindberg's classic Miss Julie for the Geffen Playhouse, and while the play always has been filled with jagged edges, LaBute b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Ron Eldard is a dangerous bull in a junk shop. His performance in American Buffalo, now playing at the Geffen Playhouse, is explosive even in his quiet moments so that when he finally blows,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Jennifer Haley's provocative The Nether, premiering at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, is an unsettling thriller that gives the audience much to ponder. A cerebral work due to an emotionally dista…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:28PMThursday, March 21, 2013
For over a year, Los Angelinos have heard hosannas about Tracie Bennett's Drama Desk-winning/Tony-nominated performance as Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow. Now, she has br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has unleashed her latest polarizing comedy The Gift at the Geffen Playhouse, and despite a strong cast and high production values, the plot strings …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Noel Coward's Fallen Angels is the 1920s equivalent of a sitcom: a silly, entertaining, diversion that lifts spirits without straining brain muscles. The Pasadena Playhouse production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Why would a playwright emphasize the romance of two auxiliary characters when there's a revolution known as The Beatles forming around them? The audience at Backbeat: The Birth Of The Beatl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PMFriday, January 18, 2013
If Roz Russell and That Girl's Marlo Thomas had a kid, she'd be sassy drag queen Miss Coco Peru, a liberated woman who emerged in the early ‘90s as a beacon of empowerment during the uglie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:32PMWhen playwright Mark St. Germain's theoretical meeting between esteemed atheist Sigmund Freud and emerging Christian-mythologist C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) premiered off-Broadway in 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:09PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Can you laugh heartily and still want more? That may be your reaction after watching Second City's A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMFriday, December 7, 2012
It has been over a half century since Anything Goes set sail on Broadway, but Kathleen Marshall's Tony Award-winning revival for the Roundabout Theatre Company – now at Los Angeles' Ahmans…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMFriday, October 26, 2012
Michael Golamco's new drama
Build at the Geffen Playhouse deals with weighty subjects in the technological age: How we cannot engage with humanity but only with simulations; how we've strip…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMMonday, October 8, 2012
David Mamet's political satire
Novemberat the Mark Taper Forum is a tough project to pull off, because the characters are so despicable, particularly the protagonist, President Charles Smi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48PMThursday, September 20, 2012
The two main characters of the body-swapping comedy
Under My Skin at the Pasadena Playhouse end up dressed up in each other's clothes. But no matter how director Marcia Milgrom Dodge tries…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:15PMThursday, September 13, 2012
The Book of Mormon has been a gargantuan hit since it opened on Broadway in early 2011. Now, the show has arrived at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles as part of its national tour, and i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMSaturday, August 18, 2012
This biting satire about corporate politics will ultimately leave audiences laughing and astounded.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMMonday, August 13, 2012
Alfred Molina and Jonathan Groff give passionate performances in the Mark Taper Forum's production of John Logan's Tony-winning play about artist Mark Rothko.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Director/choreographer Susan Stroman successfully transfers her Broadway hit to the Hollywood Bowl with an all-star cast led by Richard Kind and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AMMonday, July 16, 2012
The Chance Theatre offers a bold, and ultimately successful, new interpretation of the beloved Stephen Sondheim-Leonard Bernstein musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMFriday, July 13, 2012
This stage version of the tale of a young girl possessed by the devil is shockingly dull.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMFriday, May 4, 2012
This adapatation of the cult horror film is both disgusting and entertaining.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Daytime Emmy Award winner Heather Tom is mesmerizing in the Pasadena Playhouse's gorgeous production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's timeless play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMMonday, April 30, 2012
International City Theatre presents a well-balanced, beautifully acted production of this dark musical about American politics.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Mat Vairo and Glee's Lindsay Pearce lead an excellent cast in this intimate production of the Tony Award-winning musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMMonday, March 12, 2012
Show at Barre's popular For the Record series is branching out to new venues and citites.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThursday, February 16, 2012
Beth Henley's new play set in 1964 Mississippi is well-acted but hopelessly muddled.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMMonday, February 13, 2012
Davis Gaines and Lesli Margherita lead a near-perfect cast in Musical Theatre West's production of the beloved musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM 
