East West Players presents: The Great Jheri Curl Debate @ David Henry Hwang Theatre – Review

Veralynn Jackson knows hair, she knows her neighborhood, and she also knows that the invention of the Jheri Curl marks the end of the world. When she takes a job in Mr. Kim’s Korean-owned Black beauty supply store and the posters start talking to her, Veralynn might finally come to know her true calling. Taken from the website.

September 15-October 9, 2022

Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! 
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8.6 Overall
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Set & Design9.5
Entertainment8.5
Acting8.5
Costumes9
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Latino Theatre Company Presents: The World Premiere – Sleep with the Angels @ LA Theatre Center – Review

(Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography)

Sleep with the Angels injects a dollop of magical realism into the everyday lives of two working women. Molly, a busy attorney, has just separated from her husband and is in desperate need of a childcare provider. Juana has recently arrived from Mexico and is looking for a job. It’s a perfect match! Soon, Molly and her kids are swept up into Juana’s magical and charming ways. But just who is Juana, really? Taken from the website.

Above Average!
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7.9 Overall
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Story8
Set & Design8.5
Entertainment7.5
Acting7.5
Costumes8
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Very emotional, entertaining and fantastic acting!
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May 27 – June 26,2022

THE MOTHER OF HENRY @ The Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown Los Angeles – Review

(Photos by Andrew Vasquez)

In 1968, a year of watershed moments in the United States: The assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, lunar space exploration and the Vietnam War, Connie, a single mother gets a job at Sears in Boyle Heights, an economic hub in Los Angeles where people of all cultures and nationalities shop and work. When Connie’s son gets drafted and is sent to Vietnam, her mother makes her pray to La Virgen de Guadalupe for his protection. As Connie tries to remember how to pray, La Virgen appears to her and their friendship grows as she navigates work, love, war and her new independence. Taken from the website. 

March 15 – April 14, 2019

AVERAGE SHOW!
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7.4 Overall
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Story7
Set & Design7.5
Entertainment7
Acting8
Costumes7.5
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LACKAWANNA BLUES @ The Mark Taper Forum – Review

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Lackawanna Blues is a reminiscence of his 1950s childhood in a small town on the banks of Lake Erie. Santiago-Hudson takes on more than 20 colorful characters—from would-be philosophers and petty hustlers to lost souls and abandoned lovers—in a brilliant celebration of the eccentric boardinghouse he grew up in. Taken from the website.

MAR 5 – APR 21, 2019

Average Show!
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7.3 Overall
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Set & Design8
Entertainment7
Acting7
Costumes7.5
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VALLEY OF THE HEART @ Mark Taper Forum in Downtown Los Angeles – Review

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The Yamaguchis and the Montaños are two immigrant families struggling to provide a future for their American-born children after the Great Depression on the farmland they share. But as their oldest children fall in love—secretly—the attack on Pearl Harbor throws these Mexican and Japanese American families into uncertainty and turmoil. Taken from the website.

GREAT SHOW!
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8.8 Overall
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Story8.5
Set & Design9
Entertainment8.5
Acting9
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OCT 30 – DEC 9, 2018

 

 

 

INTO THE WOODS @ THE AHMANSON THEATRE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – REVIEW

(Photo by Joan Marcus)

APR 4 – MAY 14, 2017

Into the Woods is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales in a musical format that follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel-all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them. Taken from the website

Masterpiece
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10 Overall
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Set & Design10
Entertainment10
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