The Broadway musical Fela! is the true story of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, who created a new type of music, Afrobeat, and mixed these pounding eclectic rhythms with incendiary lyrics that openly attacked oppressive...
Category - Musical
Pauline Adamek
“West Side Story” returns to the Pantages in April – Los Angeles musical theater review
::STOP PRESS:: West Side Story returns to the Pantages Theatre, Hollywood One Week Only ∙ April 9—14, 2013 Possibly the greatest musical ever created, WEST SIDE STORY – a modern version of Shakespeare’s...
“End of the Rainbow” – a cringe-worthy caricature of the legendary Judy Garland, Los Angeles musical theater review
If you didn’t get to see legendary actress and singer Judy Garland perform live, then a new play with music about the last days of her turbulent life may offer you the next best thing – that is, if you’re okay with a...
“The Trouble With Words” – Los Angeles theater review for LA Weekly
Gentle readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of Coeurage Theatre Company’s superb musical The Trouble With Words, now playing at Lost Studio in Hancock Park district, on La Brea. *** Coeurage...
“For The Record: Scorsese” at Rockwell: Table & Stage
::STOP PRESS:: For The Record: Scorsese begins encore presentations this Friday, January 11 and runs until Sunday, January 27, 2013. Weekly performances are Thursday – Sunday at 8PM. Ticketing information below...