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REVIEW: "A Wrinkle In Time" — Chance Theater, Anaheim
IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT Epic fantasies with elaborate special effects are all very well and good, but nothing can compare with the...
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Feb 29, 2020


REVIEW: "Kinky Boots" — 3-D Theatricals at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
“Hand me glitter, feathers and a hot glue gun and I can make the world a pretty place." - Lola 3-D Theatricals, in a West Coast Regional...
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Feb 18, 2020


REVIEW: "Rock of Ages" — The Bourbon Room, Los Angeles
Do you remember the glam-metal rock of the 1980s, when MTV was actually about music? Well, it seems this rock has managed to hang on for...
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Feb 17, 2020


REVIEW: "Fun Home" — Chance Theater, Anaheim
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” — Oscar Wilde Every phase...
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Feb 11, 2020


REVIEW: "She Loves Me" – South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa
Sometimes a Little Vanilla Ice Cream is Sweet Deliverance. Such is the discovery of Amalia and Georg, who work as sales clerks in a...
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Feb 5, 2020


REVIEW: "Lost In Yonkers" – Costa Mesa Playhouse
“You think I’m stupid, don’t you, Momma? I’m not a child. If God wanted me to stay a child, why did he make me look like a woman?...” The...
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Jan 31, 2020


REVIEW: "Arsenic and Old Lace" — La Mirada Theatre & McCoy Rigby Entertainment
“Ye Gods! There’s Another One!” The year is 1941. The location is a copious, two-story house next to a cemetery in Brooklyn. In this...
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Jan 26, 2020


REVIEW: "Fireflies" — South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa
"I keep hearing these bombs! When will it stop!" As the Federal holiday, “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” looms right around the corner —...
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Jan 18, 2020


REVIEW: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Charles M. Schulz – Chance Theater, Anaheim
"Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you’re the Charlie Browniest.” It’s 1963, and Lee Mendelson has just spent the last two years...
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Dec 15, 2019


REVIEW: "Anne of Green Gables," – CHANCE THEATER @ Bette Aitken theater arts Center
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" With a libretto by Tony Award nominee Joseph Robinette...
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Dec 10, 2019


REVIEW: "Holiday Inn" — Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center
“Shaking the Christmas Blues Away at Holiday Inn…” Musical Theatre West, Southern California’s Premier Musical Theatre Company, in...
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Dec 9, 2019


REVIEW: "The Lion in Winter" – Laguna Playhouse
“…For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little?...” – Eleanor Forget “Dallas.” Forget “The Sopranos.” Think no more of...
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Nov 19, 2019


REVIEW: "Violet" — Costa Mesa Playhouse
"...Don't try to quote me from the Book of Suffering. I know its every page by heart!" The disfigurement was an accident. The shim on her...
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Nov 18, 2019


REVIEW: "God of Carnage" – The Wayward Artist
“Ready to Crack Like Dime-Store Pottery” Never underestimate the pleasure of watching really good actors behaving terribly. Of course you...
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Nov 11, 2019


REVIEW: "Peter and the Starcatcher" — (IVRT) Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
"This Ship Has Sailed, But the Magic Still Lives!" J. M. Barrie believed fiercely in the wisdom of children. “I am not young enough to...
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Nov 7, 2019


REVIEW: "Aubergine" — South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa
"Celebrating Meat for the Seoul..." A man in his 60s (Sah Shimono) is dying of cirrhosis of the liver. His son, Ray (Jinn S. Kim), has...
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Nov 4, 2019


REVIEW: "Matilda, The Musical" — La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment
"...An Exhilarating Tale of Empowerment!" Children of the World, Unite! The children’s revolution has arrived on these shores, and it is...
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Oct 30, 2019


REVIEW: "Goosebumps, The Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium," Chance Theater
Please!...No SCREAMING Inside the Theatre! Remember back in elementary school? You were so eager you were almost shivering, waiting for...
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Oct 24, 2019


REVIEW: "Something Rotten!" — Musical Theatre West @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center
“It’s Quite a New Sensation! What Shall We Call it? — Will Power!” In the vein of satirical musical comedies and parodies, such as Monty...
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Oct 22, 2019


REVIEW: "The Vandal"— A West Coast Premiere @ Chance Theater
ANAHEIM, CA—Hamish Linklater’s moody little piece about lonesome souls who cross paths in a small suburb of upstate New York is making...
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Oct 7, 2019
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