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  • Dance Tour: LUXERíŽA (Barcelona Flamenco Ballet)

    By Nia Liat | March 22, 2022
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    Suspense, intrigue, sex, scandal, love: Luxurí®a  (“Lust”), the latest flamenco dance-theater sensation from Spain’s internationally renowned  Barcelona Flamenco Ballet. As part of a global tour, one performance only is set for The  Alex Theatre in Los Angeles (Glendale) on Saturday,  April 16  at  8pm. David Gutiérrez — photo by unniks.com Award-winning Barcelona Flamenco Ballet artistic directors, choreographers and  ballarines principals  (principal dancers)  David Gutiérrez  and  Paula…

  • Tour Announcement: EMOJILAND (Nationwide Open Call)

    By Gregory Bernard | March 15, 2022
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    EMOJILAND THE MUSICAL TO LAUNCH NATIONAL TOUR Visceral Entertainment today announced that after a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run in 2020, EMOJILAND The Musical is launching a national tour in the Summer of 2022, with cities, theaters, and dates are to be announced soon. The show’s creators will take a unique approach to finding the touring…

  • Theater Review: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Ahmanson Theatre)

    By Marc Wheeler | March 12, 2022
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    DON’T MISS AT ANY COST… BANK ON IT Recently I saw a play which forced me to ask: with the amount of stellar entertainment available to us at home, why would anyone spend this much money to trek across town and see this drivel? Whatever “supporting the arts” or “supporting live theater” means shouldn’t feel…

  • Theater Tour Announcement: YEMANDJA (Angelique Kidjo)

    By Lamont Washington | March 11, 2022
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    YEMANDJA, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO’S FIRST FORAY INTO THEATER After the world premiere at MASS MoCA this week, the co-commissioned Los Angeles premiere of Yemandja will take place at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica April 14, 15, and 16 at 7:30pm before the new work continues on tour   to  Cal Performances  at UC Berkeley on April 23. Inspired…

  • Theater: RIVERDANCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW (Tour)

    By Nia Liat | March 4, 2022
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    THIS RIVER KEEPS FLOWING Opening tonight, the Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show begins its tour (see schedule) of over 40 cities across North America in four months, including a two-week run at the history Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Immerse yourself in the extraordinary power and grace of its music and dance–beloved by fans of all…

  • Theater Review: COME FROM AWAY (North American Tour)

    By Dan Zeff | February 24, 2022
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    A TONIC FOR OUR TIMES Come from Away  tells the story of how residents of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, in Canada suddenly found themselves the host to 7,000 airline passengers grounded in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City. The show doesn’t deal wallow in the high drama of…

  • Jazz: CONNIE HAN TRIO (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)

    By Connor McCormick | February 19, 2022
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    Pianist and composer Connie Han takes on the pantheon of jazz piano ranging from Harlem stride to modal post-bop with her own fiery, contemporary style. Her performances are both powerful and elegant, putting a fresh spin on tradition. The New York Times calls her “the rare musician with fearsome technical chops and a breadth of…

  • Opera Tour: FIDELIO (Heartbeat Opera in NYC, AZ & CA)

    By Lamont Washington | February 7, 2022
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    NYC’S HEARTBEAT OPERA PRESENTS ITS FIRST-EVER TOUR WITH FIDELIO Music by Ludwig van BeethovenOriginal libretto by  Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich SonnleithnerAdapted & Directed by  Ethan HeardArranged & Music Directed by  Daniel SchlosbergNew English Dialogue Co-Written by  Marcus Scott and Ethan HeardFIDELIO  TOUR STOPS:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYThursday, February 10 at 7pmSaturday, February 12 at 7pmSunday, February…

  • Theater Review: HAIRSPRAY (North American Tour)

    By Stephen Best | February 3, 2022
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    YOU REALLY CAN’T STOP THE BEAT There was some major foot stomping, shoulder shimmying and hip swaying happening downtown last night, despite a major snowstorm that dumped half a foot of snow on Chicagoland. The national non-Equity tour of Hairspray the musical has hit the CIBC Theater. This show is so hot, it will melt…

  • Theater Review: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAIME (Ahmanson Theatre)

    By Tony Frankel | February 2, 2022
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    WHAT WILL YOU TALK ABOUT? Red high-heeled shoes? Professional drag queens? Repetitive pop music? Overcoming homophobia? Yeah, the new-ish musical Everybody’s Talking About Jaime sounds a lot like Kinky Boots, because it is. (There are so many ways to glitter and be gay in modern Musical Theater.) Jaime is a musical about a 16-year-old boy…

  • Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (Broadway Playhouse)

    By Stephen Best | January 27, 2022
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    THIS WRONG IS OH SO RIGHT Broadway in Chicago’s gamble is absolutely the right play at the right time. Staged in the intimate setting of the Broadway Playhouse Theatre, this Broadway and London romp is most welcome in a time that has audiences hungering for a sincere, hearty laugh. Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer…

  • Tour Review: MICKEY’S SEARCH PARTY (Disney on Ice)

    By Stephen Best | January 25, 2022
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    IT’S BACK, BIGGER AND BOLDER After an almost two-year pandemic hiatus, Feld Entertainment is back, bigger, brighter and bolder than ever before, lighting up the ice with an aspiring cornucopia of athleticism and artistry. Disney on Ice Presents Mickey’s Search Party combined family-friendly entertainment, an ever-familiar soundtrack and over three dozen loveable animated characters brought…

  • Dance: THE EQUALITY OF NIGHT AND DAY: “First Glimpse” and “Upside Down” (Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE at Royce Hall)

    By Lamont Washington | January 20, 2022
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    CAP UCLA Presents The Equality of Night and Day: First Glimpse and Upside Down  From Prolific Choreographer Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE  Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Equality. Photo by Christopher George, courtesy of The Kennedy Center UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA)  presents award-winning choreographer  Ronald K. Brown  and his company  EVIDENCE  performing  The Equality of Night…

  • Off-Broadway Theater: JERSEY BOYS (1000th performance)

    By Gregory Bernard | January 9, 2022
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    The Tony Award-Winning Musical Jersey Boys Celebrates 1000th  Performance  at New World Stages Today, Sunday, January 9 January 15, 2017                 4,642 performances                            August Wilson Theatre January 9, 2022                      1,000 performances (and counting)                New World Stages The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning musical  Jersey Boys  celebrates its 1000th performance at New York City’s New World Stages…

  • Theater Review: THE BAND’S VISIT (National Tour)

    By Marc Wheeler | December 8, 2021
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    LOST IN THE DESERT Winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical of 2018, Itamar Moses’s The Band’s Visit is one of the most highly-awarded shows in musical theater history. And yet, those expecting the razzmatazz of a Big Broadway Musical in The Band’s Visit’s “post-shutdown” North American  Tour are likely to be at least somewhat…

  • Theater Review: FROZEN (North American Tour)

    By Dan Zeff | December 8, 2021
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    THIS SHOW STAYS FROZEN The Walt Disney animated film Frozen grossed about $1.28 billion dollars during its international run, and when there is a commercial success like that, reworkings and adaptations cannot be far behind. The franchise has included an animated short in 2015, an animated featurette in 2017, and a feature-length sequel, Frozen II,…

  • Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)

    By Harvey Perr | November 13, 2021
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    MY FAILED LADY Let’s make one thing clear. When a national touring company of a Broadway success comes to your city, proclaiming it is a duplicate of the original production, what is meant by “production” is that it is guaranteed to have the same sets and costumes and sound design. It will look great and…

  • Theater Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (National Tour)

    By William C. | November 12, 2021
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    JESUS TRADES SOUL FOR A MAN BUN While the the 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is still finding its footing in this truncated version (90 intermissionless minutes), Timothy Sheader’s 2016 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production was greeted warmly by patrons at Segerstrom Hall, the tour’s kickoff…

  • Dance: THE HIP HOP NUTCRACKER (National Tour)

    By Lamont Washington | November 2, 2021
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    IT WILL HAVE YOU HIPHOPPING IN THE AISLES Everything old is new again. Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a holiday dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker. It is one of the most original takes on this oft-produced dance piece. Tchaikovsky and hip-hop turn out to be great partners. The 34-city tour kicks off…

  • Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)

    By Tony Frankel | October 12, 2021
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    STILL THE FAIREST I’m rather certain one cannot visit enough  productions of  My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s  Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Henry Higgins, a puffed-up upper-class grammarian, and Eliza Doolittle, his lower-class, flower girl protégé whom Higgins turns into a lady by changing her speech. With one of the most…

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