Michael Lamont News

CD of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara will be available after July 22. Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara Geffen Playhouse - Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater directed by Taylor Hackford through August written by and starring Award-winning Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder as Keely Smith and Louis Prima.

The Geffen Playhouse rolls out the red (white and blue) carpet for the opening of Beau Willimon's political powerhouse play Farragut North at the Geffen Playhouse, running through July 26.

On the cusp of their 100th toe-tapping performance in the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, the team behind the hit musical Louis & Keely: Live at the Sarhara announce another five-week extension. The 100th performance, which occurs Saturday evening June 13, is a landmark show in a unanimously acclaimed run, which will now continue through Sunday, August 2, 2009.

On the cusp of their 100th toe-tapping performance in the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, the team behind the hit musical Louis & Keely: Live at the Sarhara announce another five-week extension. The 100th performance, which occurs Saturday evening June 13, is a landmark show in a unanimously acclaimed run, which will now continue through Sunday, August 2, 2009.

A Theatre Planners Production invites you to ECSTASY, THE MUSICAL- Take a TRIP with me... The Groovy ?70s Musical: A World Premiere

East West Players (EWP), the Nation's Premier Asian American Theatre, has extended its two one-act musicals by two of the best musical theatre composers of our time to June 21, 2009. This musical theatre event continues EWP's tradition of producing Stephen Sondheim musicals with Marry Me a Little and explores new ground with Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years.

By George Productions presents the Los Angeles Premiere of the 1937 Broadway musical comedy hit, 'I'd Rather Be Right', opening at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre

The 2007-2008 Reprise Theatre Company season will end with 'Flora, the Red Menace,' John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb's first Broadway musical. Eden Espinosa stars as Flora, opposite Manoel Felciano as Harry.

With a small stage, simple yet effective settings and props, and a small cast of four The Immigrant is not your usual musical. Overall The Immigrant is an enjoyable new show, filled with authenticity, laughter, and a talented group of actors...

For anyone wishing to catch a glimpse of a bright star that by all means of logic should have faded decades ago, then Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress is a fantastic showcase of laughs and tears. And a note to any network executives reading this review, neither Ryan Seacrest nor Lisa Rinna can ever come close to the genius that is Joan Rivers on the red carpet...

With his latest West Coast premiere of Some Girl(s) at the Geffen Playhouse, LaBute has delivered yet another exceptional piece of theatre, scouring to the depths of male bashing with utter finesse. And to ensure the production is living up to the book's potential, its playwright has directed as well, although LaBute's stronger suit is directing screen rather than stage (not counting that horrendous misstep called 'The Wicker Man')...

LA Reprise! presents Li'l Abner through February 17 at the Freud Playhouse at UCLA. The production will be directed by Michael Michetti, choreographed by Lee Martino, and has musical direction by Darryl Archibald.

Li'l Abner is being performed February 5 to 17 for 16 performances only at the Freud Playhouse at UCLA. The production will be directed by Michael Michetti, choreographed by Lee Martino, and has musical direction by Darryl Archibald.

Quality of Life remains highly relevant leading up to next years presidential elections, and the enormously talented cast treats the work with utmost sincerity. Metcalf and Williams have the most dynamic characters to develop, as both come to terms with the others choices and their roller coaster emotional journeys drive the heart of Anderson's work...

Reprise! Broadway's Best presents Damn Yankees through Sunday, November 25 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

The Geffen Playhouse has announced the cast lineup for their first produced play in the theater's new commission program, The Quality of Life, which will star Laurie Metcalf, Scott Bakula, Dennis Boutsikaris and JoBeth Williams...

That roar of applause heard from UCLA's Freud Playhouse is a two-fold result of the top-notch production of On Your Toes as part of Reprise! Broadway's Best as well as a note of approval for the smash up job from the company's newest artistic director, actor Jason Alexander...

In Fat Pig, which is making its West Coast debut at the Geffen Playhouse, LaBute goes deep into the psyche of insecure characters, as the subject of weight is discussed, actually argued over when a good-looking guy becomes attracted to a fat chick. Though, the variable phrases scattered throughout the play are often quite more demeaning. What an apropos locale, vanity obsessed Los Angeles, for Fat Pig to run...

Feinstein's at the Regency will continue its spring 2007 season with the nightclub debut of Golden Globe winning star of TV, film and stage Peter Gallagher in an exclusive three week engagement from May 15 - June

If a hero should be regarded as a model or ideal figure, than Gerald Sibleyras' Heroes is sorely lacking any such characters. This American premiere at the Geffen Playhouse sets out with the best of intentions, but sadly disappoints in its final form...