Review

Breathe... Or You Can Die!

Anna Zastrow makes an adorable clown. Not the Bozo type, but the French cirque type.

Blush

Presented by and at Montclair State University, Alexander Kasser Theater, College Avenue at Red Hawk Road, Montclair, NJ, Nov. 10, 12, and 13.

WHAT IF?

The premise is in the title: What if one famous musical theatre composer had written the score for another's wildly inappropriate show? Thus we are made privy to the delightful fiction, for example, of Stephen Sondheim bringing the verbal density and emotional layering of Company to a bit of ...

Stage Spot

Regular Los Angeles theatregoers sooner or later have the pleasure of watching the ubiquitous Jacque Lynn Colton grace our local stages, practicing her finely honed craft. Since initially performing here in the 1970s in a national tour of the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona and subsequently deciding to make L ...

DANGEREUSES

at Ark Theatre Company

Opening This Week - HEART OF A DOG

When Michael Franco and co-adaptor Richard Helweg premiered The Master and Margarita at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in 2000, it became a cause célebrè among local awards groups and a long-running box-office smash. The play was based on Mikhail Bulgakov's daring novel of the same name, written in the ...

In the near-climactic moments of the madcap finale to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an actor playing one of the Roman soldiers looked at the audience and said, "Stephen Sondheim wrote this. It's supposed to be funny, but this is a dead a

Presented by and at the Lyric Theatre, 520 N. La Brea Ave., L.A. Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. May 10-Jun. 9. (323) 939-9220.

Let's Face It (In Concert)

The star ofLet's Face Itis the show itself -- a breezy, old-fashioned musical comedy with a tuneful score of witty Cole Porter songs.

BOX 27

at the Actors Forum Theatre

CHANGE

at the McCadden Place