Rosa Blasi stars in Hermosa Beach’s ‘Sound of Music’
Television actress Rosa Blasi is a true beauty – sensuously radiant and voluptuous.
Television actress Rosa Blasi is a true beauty – sensuously radiant and voluptuous.
A play with music about the pre-Fab Four is at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Experimental and obscure operas have been finding a port of refuge with Long Beach Opera for nearly 35 years.
This is the other splashy musical that takes place aboard an ocean liner – the one that doesn’t strike an iceberg.
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.
One could say it began with a magic lamp and perhaps a flying carpet or two.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
No way around this: Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” at the Mark Taper Forum is a must-see.
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.