A Fantasticks Recreation
A Fantasticks Recreation By Steven Sabel It is billed as “the original fringe musical,” and when The Fantasticks debuted off-Broadway in 1960 it became an instant counter culture musical sensation. For...
View ArticleNightmaricomio: First Fringe Offering From a Fringe Theatre Group
By Steven Sabel Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group (ZJU) knows fringe theater. Now in their 14th season at their North Hollywood location, ZJU has been on the LA theater scene producing edgy,...
View ArticleFringe Review: Bittersweet Love is aptly titled
Fringe Review: Bittersweet Love is aptly titled By Steven Sabel Daurden Contemporary Dance Theatre’s presentation of Bittersweet Love: ‘When Love Is Not Madness, It Is Not Love’ offers 15 dance pieces...
View ArticleFringe Review: Hilarious History of the Biz
Fringe Review: Hilarious History of the Biz By Steven Sabel From Shakespeare to Mamet, and quite a few characters in between, Vicious Circle and writer/director Patrick Mulvihill deftly skewer the...
View ArticleReview: Once and Forever
Review: Once and Forever By Steven Sabel Broadway’s trend of turning films into stage musicals has produced a large number of hits and misses. Now performing on tour at the Pantages Theatre, the...
View ArticleOpinion: The Audition Never Ends
The Audition Never Ends By Steven Sabel Regardless of those naysayers who attempt to argue otherwise, LA is a thriving theatre town. The unprecedented success of this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival...
View ArticleFricken Dickens: Christmas Carols Abound
It was the best of plays, it was the worst of plays, and everything in between. Each holiday season, theatre goers can count – usually requiring both hands – on any number of productions of Charles...
View ArticleArchway Studio/Theatre to Reopen in No Ho
LOS ANGELES – The newly remodeled and specially designed Archway Studio/Theatre will celebrate its grand reopening in its new North Hollywood location with an open house celebration 2 p.m. to 6 p.m....
View ArticleMuch Ado At Archway Theatre
NORTH HOLLYWOOD – Shakespeare’s most endearing classic comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing,” brings Renaissance Italy to life at the Archway Theatre now through Sept. 20. Performances are 8 p.m. Fridays...
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