61Jun 5, 2016
REVIEW: BROADWAY NOIR BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO One of the best things about the Hollywood Fringe Festival is that you can see a huge variety of theater works in all stages of creation from experimental, workshop, to a finished product. And time has proven that musicals always require more work-shopping than any other due to […]
62Jun 2, 2016
INTERVIEW: DAVID ORRIS and DAVID HOLLINGSWORTH BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Remember all those classic 80s films where nerds get super powers: Teen Wolf, Zapped, Teen Witch, The Toxic Avenger and Hunk? Well the new musical Invisible (book by David Hollingsworth and lyrics and music by David Orris) based on H.G. Wells The Invisible Man carries that tradition […]
63Jun 1, 2016
INTERVIEW: DANIEL SUGIMOTO BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Celebrate the film noir Hollywood legacy on stage in the world premiere musical Broadway Noir written by Daniel Sugimoto, presented by Sugimation Productions for this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. This neo-noir musical takes audiences behind the scenes into the shady inner workings of the theatre business. And true […]
64May 20, 2016
REVIEW: L.A. NOW AND THEN BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Movie palaces, yo-yos, hula-hoops, the Pan Pacific Auditorium, C.C. Brown’s, Wallichs Music City, disco, the 1962 Dodgers and a time before cellphones—how many of these do you remember? Whether you remember them, or even know what they are, the new musical revue L.A. Now and Then […]
65May 14, 2016
REVIEW: THE STORY OF ALICE BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Lewis Carroll’s 1865 story Alice in Wonderland remains his most popular tale, and has received many film, television and stage adaptations, so many that the basic story itself is now worn-out and pedestrian. It was first presented as a musical at the West End in 1886 […]
66May 7, 2016
Rock Out with Panic! Productions BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Moving set pieces, changing lights, quick changes, microphones cutting in and out, visceral energy and pure adrenaline—that’s the climate at this week’s tech rehearsal for Panic! Productions Camp Rock. None of this phased the cast of young adults as they all handled the challenges of ‘tech’ week […]
67Apr 30, 2016
REVIEW: THE BOY FROM OZ, CELEBRATION THEATRE BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO In 2004 The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman ran on Broadway for 365 performances before it closed at the end of Jackman’s contract, and after he won Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor […]
68Apr 29, 2016
BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Where can you hear the finest performers in town? Some of them Tony nominated and others Broadway bound? The answer is: at (Mostly) Musicals, the L.A. concert series/cabaret produced by Amy Francis Schott with music director Greg Nabours at the piano. On Monday April 25, 2016 (Mostly) Musicals presented a night […]
69Apr 25, 2016
REVIEW: THE FULL MONTY, 3D THEATRICALS BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Bare asses and flabby bellies hit the big screen in 1997 when the British film, The Full Monty, directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, was released and hailed a critical success with an unexpected international commercial success, grossing over $250 million from a budget […]
70Apr 17, 2016
REVIEW: NEXT THING YOU KNOW BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Intimate theater is thriving all over Los Angeles and the Chromolume Theatre at the Attic is one of the quintessential hot spots to take in a show with a mere fifty strangers. Currently running at the Chromolume is the West Coast premiere of Joshua Saltzman and […]