REVIEW: Road Show, Musical Theatre Guild By RYAN M. LUÉVANO Musicals in 25 hours! Musical Theatre Guild’s closed their 19th season with a rousing production of Stephen Sondheim’s heavily revised musical Road Show at the Moss Theater in Santa Monica. The musical, based on the story of the brothers Wilson and Addison Mizer’s search for […]

REVIEW: Waterfall, The Pasadena Playhouse By RYAN M. LUÉVANO The Pasadena Playhouse launches a world premiere of the new musical Waterfall, book and lyrics by Tony winner Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by Academy Award and two-time Grammy winner David Shire. An adaptation of sorts stemming from the Thai musical Behind the Painting (2008) which […]

REVIEW: THREE PENNY OPERA, A NOISE WITHIN THEATER By RYAN M. LUÉVANO The Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill 1928 classic The Threepenny Opera makes it’s way to A Noise Within Theater in Pasadena, a production that permeates with high theater values and purpose. “Money rules the world!,” “Show us the legs that men admire,” from […]

REVIEW: SIDE SHOW, 3D THEATRICALS By RYAN M. LUÉVANO The musical Side Show returns to the west coast after its second Broadway run, bringing the freaks to the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton CA, where 3D Theatricals has mounted its tent for this production. The true story of conjoined twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton comes to […]