REVIEW: AMELIE, A NEW MUSICAL is having a pre-Broadway run at LA's Ahmanson Theatre
The creators have tried but failed to capture the charming, quirky whimsy of the delightful French film.
The creators have tried but failed to capture the charming, quirky whimsy of the delightful French film.
You probably will never see such a sumptuous production of this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.
Director Michael Arden takes on Sondheim's "problem" musical and gives it a highly theatrical look.
As in real life, Strayhorn is overshadowed by the bigger stars--Duke Ellington and Lena Horne--that he associated with in his career.
Daniel Henning had adroitly taken Shakespeare's prose and transferred it to the JFK assassination.
Fun is afoot in Elsinore 30 years before Shakespeare's Prince appears.
The Road Theatre Company presents a sterling production of a puzzling yet mesmerizing piece of theatre.
A lyrical and uplifting production made memorable by the genius and heart of director Glenn Casale and the performance of deaf actor John McGinty in the role of Quasimodo.
Although Robert Schenkkan's play premiered in 2012, it feels and sounds like it was written expressly for the current presidential campaign.
Robert O'Hara has written a very funny one-act about race and class in Middle America. Unfortunately it's a two-act play.
Director Ivo Van Hove leaches all the ethnicity and color out of Arthur Miller's play.
A new musical revue about the storied history of Los Angeles is receiving its premiere at L.A. City College.
Do I have anything negative to say about this energetic production produced in a 55 seat theatre on a tiny budget? Yes--it ended!
Caryl Churchill's gender-bending 1979 play seems as relevant today as it was originally.
Who's bumping off the D'Ysquith heirs in this musical mayhem with an old English Music Hall flavor.
Robert Longbottom choreographed and directed the new revival of the faux Motown musical that is filling the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts with eye popping color.
Bruce Vilanch and Sharon McNight hosted an entertainment filled awards show on February 8 honoring Distinguished Achievement in Los Angeles Theatre for 2015.
The new musical about the building of the Empire State Building needs some reconstruction work.
The play is short in time and of content but the audience gets to see two pros--Rita Rudner and Charles Shaughnessy--doing what they do best.
Loh's newest work reads and plays like a solo performance piece but two talented actresses--Caroline Aaron and Shannon Holt--flesh out a variety of characters in this tale of a woman of a ce…
Jason Robert Brown's lush, romantic score and the chemistry between leading players Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky steam up the Ahmanson Theatre.
There are some great voices in the cast but the material they are given to sing and the characters they are given to inhabit fail them terribly in this World Premiere musical at the Pasadena…
Deborah Strang gives a performance worthy of the Greek Tragedy playwright Miller and director Geoff Elliott have wrought upon the stage.
It proved to be a very personal story as producer/composer/performer Bruce Kimmel took us down his memory lane and described the Broadway musicals that shaped his life and career.
The Master's lyrics and music are burnished gold in the ICT production.