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Rosa Blasi stars in Hermosa Beach’s ‘Sound of Music’

Bondo Wyszpolski / March 16, 2013 5:00 am

Television actress Rosa Blasi is a true beauty – sensuously radiant and voluptuous.

‘Backbeat’ recreates early Beatles

Bondo Wyszpolski / February 15, 2013 5:00 pm

A play with music about the pre-Fab Four is at the Ahmanson Theatre.

‘The Fall of the House of Usher’

Bondo Wyszpolski / February 2, 2013 6:30 am

Experimental and obscure operas have been finding a port of refuge with Long Beach Opera for nearly 35 years.

Anything Goes [THEATER REVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / December 26, 2012 8:32 pm

This is the other splashy musical that takes place aboard an ocean liner – the one that doesn’t strike an iceberg.

Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum [THEATER REVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / December 22, 2012 2:51 pm

Bombs aren’t just going off in Baghdad; there’s a big one set to explode in Palm Springs, year 2004, in Jon Robin Baitz’s Pulitzer Prize finalist, “Other Desert Cities.” At the Taper through Jan.

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” sleds into the Norris Theatre

Bondo Wyszpolski / December 8, 2012 8:19 pm

One could say it began with a magic lamp and perhaps a flying carpet or two.

“Seminar” [THEATER REVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / November 7, 2012 4:04 pm

Theresa Rebeck is a smart, hip writer, with an ability to create ensemble pieces á la “Carnage,” as we previously witnessed in “Poor Behavior” and now in “Seminar.” What all of these works depict, in a kind of high-brow soap opera-ish manner, are alert, with-it and well-to-do people being tested and coming apart at the seams.

Hairspray plays Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

Bondo Wyszpolski / November 2, 2012 8:23 pm

Based on the colorful and over-the-top movie by John Waters, the brash and bold musical “Hairspray” is something we’d have expected from James Blackman and the Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities.

Alfred Molina in “Red” [THEATER REVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / September 3, 2012 4:20 pm

Although the terminus of Mark Rothko’s impassioned and tumultuous life is but presciently alluded to in John Logan’s pugilistic “Red,” the script resonates because of it.

Torrance Theatre Company brings the tradition* of “Fiddler on the Roof” to the Armstrong Theatre

Tom Fitt / August 10, 2012 3:18 pm

“Tradition” is more than one of the many hit songs in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, it’s the essence and spirit of the story.

“War Horse”

Bondo Wyszpolski / July 19, 2012 12:52 pm

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back; but this time it’s with a horse.

“Follies”

Bondo Wyszpolski / May 25, 2012 7:00 am

The first surprise, after one has sat down in the theater, is to look up and realize that most of the auditorium has been draped in black, as if in mourning.

But I’m Thirsty for a Laugh! [THEATER PREVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / April 13, 2012 4:11 pm

“This is Woody Allen’s first play for Broadway.

“Waiting for Godot” [THEATER REVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / March 30, 2012 1:00 pm

No way around this: Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” at the Mark Taper Forum is a must-see.

“American Idiot” [THEATER REVIEW]

Bondo Wyszpolski / March 20, 2012 2:48 pm

Adapted by Green Day lyricist Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Mayer (“Spring Awakening,” etc.) from the 2004 Grammy-winning album of the same name, “American Idiot” – the musical – is packed with explosive angst and it rocks hard from start to finish.

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