Top Rated Plays List - The Highest Rated Shows In LA

The "Theatre In LA Top Rated Plays List" is a list of the top rated plays now running in the LA area based on what the current reviews are saying. To see all of the play reviews go to Review Round-Up.

The Book of Mormon

Pantages Theatre

The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." It's The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical from the creators of South Park. This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation.

Los Angeles Times- Recommended
LA Daily News- Highly Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended
Total Theater- Recommended
Cultural Weekly- Highly Recommended
Showmag- Highly Recommended
That Awesome Theatre Blog- Highly Recommended
Hollywood Revealed- Highly Recommended
On Stage Blog- Highly Recommended
Its Not About Me- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended

Lifeline

The Road on Magnolia

In the aftermath of an unforeseen life-changing event, Patti, a well-meaning mother, decides to become a volunteer for a suicide hotline, where laughter, tears, and a new understanding bridge the divide between people from very different walks of life.

Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts

Attend the dark, witty and Tony Award-winning tale of love, murder and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th century London. An infamous tale that originally appeared as a penny dreadful serial in 1867, "Sweeney Todd" follows an unjustly exiled barber (Todd) as he returns to nineteenth-century London seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!

Los Angeles Times- Highly Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
TheaterMania- Recommended

Kid Gloves

Village Green Productions at Skylight Theatre

This world premiere musical comedy dives into the candy-colored chaos of a reality-TV competition where children's entertainers compete for the chance to win their own show. Fast-paced, hilarious, and sneakily poignant, Kid Gloves skewers the utter depravity of reality TV and how it can corrupt even the most wholesome element of humanity.

Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Somewhat Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Recommended

Brownstone

Open Fist Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre

“If only these walls could talk.” Open Fist Theatre Company makes that wish a reality with the Los Angeles premiere of Brownstone, a bittersweet comedic drama that unfolds on the second floor of a classic New York brownstone at three distinct moments in its history. Brownstone’s structure is as striking as the architecture that inspired it: three poignant, often funny stories, set in 1978, 1937 and 1999, take place in the same building, linked through time.

Stage and Cinema- Somewhat Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
Colorado Boulevard- Highly Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Somewhat Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Highly Recommended
The Hollywood Times- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Recommended

The Notebook

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, THE NOTEBOOK tells the story of Allie and Noah, both from different worlds, who share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart. “Full of butterfly-inducing highs and beautiful songs” (Entertainment Weekly), THE NOTEBOOK is a deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love.

Los Angeles Times- Somewhat Recommended
Stage and Cinema- Not Recommended
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
LA Theatrix- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
Indulge Magazine- Highly Recommended
Broadway World- Somewhat Recommended

What Opa Did

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre

What Opa Did follows Kate, a young New Yorker, as she confronts her Jewish grandparents’ past in Germany, where they were forced to hide with their baby during the war. As Kate uncovers the truth about her Opa leaving the family to fend for themselves for three years and the choices that he and her Oma had to make to survive, she grapples with the moral complexities of their actions and the impact of secrets on their identities.

Stage Scene LA- Not Recommended
Showmag- Highly Recommended
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
Larchmont Buzz- Recommended
Broadway World- Highly Recommended

To see the LA Theatre Reviews of all plays go to the Theatre In LA Review Round-Up.