Highly Recommended Theater: TINY LITTLE TOWN: A NEW MUSICAL (Theatre Movement Bazaar at Broadwater Theater)

In Tiny Little Town — a new Musical Comedy reimagining Ukrainian playwright Nikolai Gogol’s 19th-century satire The Government Inspector, a small town in 1970s America is thrown into chaos when its corrupt bureaucrats mistakenly identify a visiting stranger from Washington D.C. as an incognito Inspector General sent by the Federal Government to investigate their town. The show is a hilarious and timely indictment of corruption and the insecurities of those who maintain their control through deceit and lies.

Theatre Movement Bazaar (TMB) has built its repertoire re-imagining classic texts with its unique mixture of text, movement, and dance. Over the past 10 years, TMB co-founders — director/choreographer Tina Kronis and mechanical engineer/writer/filmmaker Richard Alger — joined forces with composer Wes Myers to incorporate songs to their interdisciplinary productions, taking advantage of the many skills of its ensemble members and expanding the company’s unique approach to storytelling. Tiny Little Town is the first full musical to come out of this exciting collaboration.

TMB’s award-winning productions merge dance, theater, and cinema, heightening physicality and remixing theater forms to create provocative storytelling. The company is based in Los Angeles, and in collaboration with many talented associate artists has produced 28 original works, garnering critical attention by presenting new works and theatre arts workshops in Los Angeles, across the U.S., the U.K., Russia, and Asia.

Here in LA, TMB’s Grail Project received LA’s Ovation Awards for Best Director, Best Choreographer, and Best Ensemble. TMB’s Track 3 was the first US production to play the Chekhov International Theatre Festival in over 25 years. Other productions have been selected for the Shanghai International Theatre Festival and the Beijing Comedy Theatre Festival.

Tiny Little Town — A New Musical
Theatre Movement Bazaar
Broadwater Theater Main Stage, 1078 Lillian Way in Los Angeles
Thurs – Sat at  7:30; Sat and Sun at 2:30
ends on February 18, 2024 EXTENDED to February 24, 2024
for tickets ($15-$22), visit TMB (Pay What You Can, Sun, Feb 11 at 2:30)