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Music Review: SIBELIUS AND SWAN LAKE (LA Phil; Hilary Hahn, violinist; Alpesh Chauhan, conductor)
Yesterday at Walt Disney Concert Hall conductor Alpesh Chauhan, making his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut, began with Saad Haddad’s new piece, Aysheen (عايشين), or “living” in Arabic, an LA Phil commission which received its first performances over the weekend. Aysheen begins with the bass drum thumping a soft heartbeat, soon joined by droning cellos and basses,…
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Theater Review: THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY (The Geffen Playhouse)
A MOST ENGAGING PARTY Going into the west coast premiere production of Samuel Baum’s The Engagement Party, currently running at the Geffen Playhouse, I was aware of two things. First, a spilled glass of wine is the instigating action that causes everything to collapse. Two, the poster bore a striking resemblance to imagery used in…
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Theater Review: THE SORCERER (Ventura County Gilbert & Sullivan Repertoire Company)
THE SORCERER TAKEN FROM THE SOURCE This weekend, the Ventura County Gilbert & Sullivan Repertoire Company began its three-weekend run of The Sorcerer, a revival of their 2016 production. It is Gilbert and Sullivan’s first full-length opera and infrequently performed today. Subject to revisions since the opera’s 1877 premiere, this version reinstates the original Act…
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Theater Review: THE RIGHT IS OURS! (Sierra Madre Playhouse)
TECHNICAL ISSUES ASIDE, THIS NEW MUSICAL IS FULL OF HEART The Right is Ours!, a world premiere new musical which opened yesterday at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, tells the story of the friendship between women’s rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Emily Abeles) and Susan B. Anthony (Anna Mintzer), starting with their meeting in 1851, and…
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Theater Review: GREASE (Altadena Music Theatre)
by Michael Landman-Karney | August 10, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterMuseum Preview: THE BOWERY: DEVIL’S MILE (New Museum / New York)
by Gregory Bernard | August 8, 2026
in Art and Museums, New YorkTheater Review: IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT (Shotgun Players / Berkeley)
by Chuck Louden | August 7, 2026
in San Francisco
(Bay Area), TheaterTheater Review: THE OUTSIDERS (National Tour)
by Croydon Fernandes | August 7, 2026
in Chicago, Theater, ToursTheater Review: MARBLE (The Gift Theatre / Copernicus Center / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | August 6, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: CITY OF ANGELS (Ogunquit Playhouse / Ogunquit, Maine)
by Lynne Weiss | August 6, 2026
in Regional, TheaterTheater Review: THE SAVIORS (Atlantic Theater Company / New York)
by Alex Simmons | August 6, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Preview: MYSTIC PIZZA (National Tour)
by Gregory Bernard | August 6, 2026
in Theater, Tours



