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Cabaret Review: JASON ROBERT BROWN with MIKAL KILGORE (Samueli Hall at Segerstrom in Costa Mesa)
KING OF THE WORLD — AND MUSICAL SONGS Orange County audiences were treated to an all-too-rare occurrence — a cabaret appearance by Jason Robert Brown, one of today’s finest composer-lyricists. Since Jason Robert Brown no longer regularly performs due to his busy schedule, this was an opportunity to see a master of the musical theatre…
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Theater Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE (Chance Theater)
WHAT A RIDE! NOTHING GOES OFF THE RAILS IN THIS CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Ride the Cyclone is a 2008 musical by Canadians Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. Originally written as a song cycle for the Atomic Vaudeville Theatre Company, it was retooled for its 2015 critically lauded US premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Since then, the…
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Theater Review: GREASE (La Mirada Theatre)
GET READY TO BE GREASED UP The year is 1959, when rock and roll was giving birth to the Sexual Revolution and the turbulent 1960s were about to burst on the scene. Record companies were releasing over a hundred singles every week and the country was about to radically change. In its original raunchy incarnation,…
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Opera Review: THE TRISTAN PROJECT (LA Phil)
A PROJECT MORE THAN A COHESIVE OPERA The heavily hyped revival of director Peter Sellars’ and video artist Bill Viola’s production of Wagner’s monumental opera Tristan and Isolde has landed at Disney Hall with a whimper rather than a bang. In Wagner’s own vision, his operas were to be staged as a “total artwork” (Gesamtkunstwerk),…
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Opera Review: EL íšLTIMO SUEôO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO (San Diego Opera at the Civic Theatre)
THE ULTIMATE DREAM The tumultuous relationship between legendary Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and muralist Diego Rivera has inspired many films, books, operas, and musicals. El último sueí±o de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) is a world premiere Spanish language opera that is co-commission by the San Diego Opera with San…
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Theater Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC (La Mirada Theatre)
YOUR HEART WILL BE BLESSED Maria, an Austrian novice nun in the late 1930s, has difficulty in dealing with the rigid lifestyle of her monastery in Salzburg. Her loving Mother Abbess sends her off to be a nanny to seven children of widower and celebrated navy captain Georg von Trapp, a tough military man. Through…
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Opera / Theater Review: FIDELIO (LA Phil, Deaf West Theatre, and LA Master Chorale)
FAIR FIDELIO Fidelio is the sole opera written by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Inspired by an apocryphal story from the French revolution, it concerns Leonore, whose husband Florestan has been secretly imprisoned by an evil politician named Don Pizzarro. In order to rescue him, Leonore dresses up in male garb and gets a job in the…
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Opera Review: ROMÉO & JULIETTE (San Diego Opera)
RISING STAR PENE PATI SHINES AS ROMÉO There are about two dozen operas based on Romeo & Juliet. Gounod’s version is the only one that has remained in the standard repertory. Pene Pati is Romeo and Nicolle Cabell is Juliette When Gounod had the idea of starting Roméo et Julietta in 1867 he’d already had…
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Album Review: FOR BILLIE — STELLA HEATH
by Michael Landman-Karney | August 21, 2026
in AlbumsTheater Preview: TARTUFFE (REMIXED) (Marylebone Theatre / London)
by Gregory Bernard | August 20, 2026
in International, TheaterTheater Preview: HANGMEN (by Martin McDonagh / Long Beach Playhouse)
by pwsadmin | August 20, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO (Theatre Palisades / Odyssey Theatre / West LA)
by pwsadmin | August 19, 2026
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