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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Theater Review: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (North American Premiere Tour at The Ahmanson Theatre) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

CAN HORROR WORK ONSTAGE? PARANORMAL ACTIVITY MAKES ITS CASE I imagine most people's response to hearing that Paranormal Activity has been turned into a stage play is a raised eyebrow"doubt m…

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Friday, June 20, 2025

Theater Review: PARADE (National Tour, Ahmanson Theatre) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

NEITHER FOOLS NOR COWARDS Michael Arden is a Renaissance artist. He approaches his work with a humanist curiosity, an intricate yet organic perfectionism, and a keen eye for composition, mov…

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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Theater Review: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (Broadway Production at The Ahmanson Theatre) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER Almost two hundred years ago, Hans Christian Andersen penned a quaint story about a lonesome prince in search of a woman who can prove to his mo…

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Friday, November 22, 2024

Theater Review: LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K (Handspring Puppet Company and Baxter Theatre at The Wallis) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

A LIVING PORTRAIT Regular patrons of the theatre are accustomed to passively sitting back, letting the story flow off the stage and course through them. Life & Times Of Michael K is not …

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Friday, November 8, 2024

Theater Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (National Tour) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

TIME I'LL NEVER GET BACK Any time I see a show that truly knocks it out of the park, it fills me with so much joy to be able to review it. Nothing quite compares to the transcendent experien…

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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Theater Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO (National Tour, Pantages) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

YOUR GREAT ADVENTURE AWAITS If you rearrange the letters of "progeria," you can get "opera rig," or "rigor ape," or "prior age." That last one is befitting. Progeria is an incredibly rare sy…

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Friday, August 2, 2024

Theater Review: COMPANY (2023-2024 North American Tour) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

THE COMPANY WE KEEP To wed or not to wed " that is the question that Stephen Sondheim poses in his 1970 musical Company, for which he is the composer and lyricist (with a book by George Furt…

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Saturday, June 8, 2024

Theater Review: A STRANGE LOOP (Ahmanson Theatre) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

A STRANGE LOOP'S IDENTITY CRISIS See if you can guess which musical this is. "A young black man sets out on a spiritual journey to discover his art, love, and himself. Along the way, he enco…

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Theater Review: WONDERFUL JOE (Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at The Nimoy by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

RONNIE BURKETT HAS THE WORLD ON A STRING You haven't lived until you've seen Santa as a beer-bellied, Silverlake bear puppet twerking in a nightclub with Jesus and the Tooth Fairy. Wonderful…

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Friday, April 5, 2024

Cabaret Review: KEN PAGE ("Right Here, Right Now" at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

PAGE BY PAGE Anyone who gets a standing ovation merely by entering the room has undoubtedly accomplished something great. Ken Page's illustrious career and sterling character earned him such…

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Saturday, March 2, 2024

Theater Review: FATHERLAND (Fountain Theatre) by Christopher Lloyd Bratten

FATHER V. SON Over 2,000 people stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Within two years, more than 1,200 attackers would be charged. One such perpetrator, Guy Reffitt from Texas, was c…

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