REVIEW: “JERSEY BOYS”—3D Theatricals, in association with La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment
JERSEY BOYS…An Unforgettable Portrait Painted in Song and Words With most juke box musicals, how you feel about the music largely...
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Apr 18
REVIEW: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET — Musical Theatre West @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center
As they played, history was knocking on the door. LONG BEACH—APRIL 17, 2024 Finally! Those teeming hordes of the middle-aged wandering...
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May 14, 2023
REVIEW: "MATINICUS: THE STORY OF ABIGAIL BURGESS" — Chance Theater
A Heroine For All Seasons When lighthouse keeper Samuel Burgess moved his family to Matinicus Rock in the mid-19th century, Abbie Burgess...
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May 7, 2023
REVIEW: "AVAAZ" — SCR's 25th Annual PPF Festival
Avaaz is both an exploration and a witty celebration of a life (albeit a complicated one) well lived. Welcome to Nowruz — the Iranian New...
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Apr 30, 2023
REVIEW: “COLEMAN ‘72” by CHARLIE OH — South Coast Repertory
COSTA MESA — APR 30, 2023 “Coleman ’72” by Charlie Oh takes you on a spontaneous family road trip in the summer of 1972 when three Korean...
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Apr 25, 2023
REVIEW: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S “THE KING AND I” — La Mirada Theatre & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
An Absolute Must-See!! APRIL 24, 2023 — LA MIRADA From the very first moments of La Mirada Theatre’s ravishing “The King and I,” it...
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Apr 17, 2023
REVIEW: “AN AMERICAN IN PARIS” — MUSICAL THEATRE WEST @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center
A Timeless Story of Love and Romance in the Indomitable War-Torn City of Light LONG BEACH, CA — APRIL 17, 2023 To live and die for dreams...
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Mar 13, 2023
REVIEW: “ONCE” — LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE
MARCH 13, 2023 — LAGUNA BEACH When the violins begin to play — and the accordion and the mandolin and the guitars and the cello — and the...
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Mar 5, 2023
REVIEW: "THE OUTSIDERS" — La Jolla Playhouse
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong. MARCH 5, 2023—LA JOLLA To millions...
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Feb 23, 2023
REVIEW: "APPROPRIATE" — by BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS @ South Coast Repertory
A play that pushes you to the limit, and shocks you to the core — full of broken-family tropes, from pedophilia, to anti-semitism, to...
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Feb 12, 2023
REVIEW: "9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL" — Musical Theatre West @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Pour Yourself a Cup of Ambition and Get to This Show! Nearly 4 decades before the "MeToo" movement, Dolly Parton, alongside Jane Fonda...
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Feb 6, 2023
REVIEW: "RIDE THE CYCLONE, THE MUSICAL" — A CHANCE THEATER CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
Hilariously Bizarre! Yet Unceasingly Delightful! Time to strap yourself in for “Ride the Cyclone, The Musical,” with music, lyrics and...
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Jan 24, 2023
REVIEW: "GREASE" — La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
A rollicking rock ‘n roll homage to the 50s, young love, and teenage coming of age. It was, as historians say, a time of transition....
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Dec 9, 2022
REVIEW: "RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA" — Musical Theatre West
It Really Was a Lovely Night! Ahhhh…Cinderella! There’s simply no denying this charming, witty adaptation from principal architect,...
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Dec 7, 2022
REVIEW: "LITTLE WOMEN, THE BROADWAY MUSICAL" — Chance Theater
Four Sisters, Learning How to Sail Their Ships It's hard not to love the March girls of Concord, Massachusettes, so deeply etched are Jo,...
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Nov 2, 2022
REVIEW: "LOVE AMONG THE RUINS" — Laguna Playhouse
Two Charismatic Stars Cause Sparks in a Battle of the Sexes LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE is thrilled to announce a sparkling tour de force showcase...
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Nov 1, 2022
REVIEW: "A FEW GOOD MEN" — La Mirada Theatre & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
A Military Courtroom Drama With a Galaxy Cast If ever a play was meant to be a movie, it is "A Few Good Men," which opened Saturday...
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Oct 29, 2022
REVIEW: "DAMN YANKEES" — Musical Theatre West @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center
An Old-Fashioned Faustian Fable with a Baseball Twist MAYBE you thought that was a heat wave that hit town two weeks ago? We prefer to...
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Oct 21, 2022
REVIEW: "RENT" — Cupcake Theater @ Hollywood Majestic
It's odd to have joined the generations that talk about what "the young" are doing, saying and going through these days, and how that is...
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Mar 14, 2022
REVIEW: "What I Learned in Paris"—South Coast Repertory
Delightful Entertainment, More Romantic Than Political Only five years after Atlanta son Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, Vice...
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