Kid Gloves at Skylight Theatre

Kid Gloves

Skylight Theatre
1816 1/2 N. Vermont Los Angeles

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.

Presented by Village Green Productions

Thru - Feb 15, 2026

Fri, Jan 30: 8:00pm

Sat, Jan 31: 8:00pm

Sun, Feb 1: 2:00pm

Thu, Feb 5: 8:00pm

Fri, Feb 6: 8:00pm

Sat, Feb 7: 8:00pm

Thu, Feb 12: 8:00pm

Fri, Feb 13: 8:00pm

Sat, Feb 14: 8:00pm

Sun, Feb 15: 2:00pm

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 213-761-7061

skylighttheatrecompany.com/

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Kid Gloves Reviews

Average Rating based on 6 reviews

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Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...Wang and Leavitt have taken the reality-show format of America’s Got Talent, stirred in a helping of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, and dumped in some beloved childhood archetypes—Barney, Captain Kangaroo, Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop—and served up a toe-tapping, oh-so-tasty satire."

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- Ernest Kearney

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Reality TV competitions don’t get any more entertainingly cutthroat than the one theatergoers get to witness in Matthew Leavitt and Nathan Wang’s delightful new musical comedy Kids Gloves, now getting its World Premiere at the Skylight Theatre."

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- Steven Stanley

Stage Raw - Somewhat Recommended

"...There are many individually good elements in the world premiere musical Kid Gloves, now playing at the Skylight Theater, but unfortunately, they are parts of a whole that is somewhat unremarkable. That’s not to say that Kid Gloves is a bad show, yet to suggest that it’s not a particularly great one, that it’s just fine, feels almost more damning than if it were bad."

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- Katie Buenneke

Ticket Holders LA - Somewhat Recommended

"...Although director Richard Israel’s staging is fast-paced and kinetic, his efforts are thwarted bigtime by the show’s length. The program tell us the show runs an intermissionless 100 minutes, yet opening weekend the actual running time clocked in at one hour and 50 minutes. By the time it ended with the otherwise infectious grand finale “Playdate at the Playground,” I was frankly more than ready to pack up my own balls! balls! balls! and stop playing."

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- Travis Michael Holder

Larchmont Buzz - Highly Recommended

"...The Kid Gloves are coming off in this satirical reality-TV show competition, complete with musical numbers, lovable judges, and, of course, bubbles. Wannabe children’s entertainers battle it out in an American Idol-style competition for their own show."

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- Erika Newman

Broadway World - Recommended

"...This world premiere musical comedy is fast-paced, hilarious, and sneakily poignant, skewering the utter depravity of reality TV and how it can corrupt even the most wholesome element of humanity – children – as it dives into the candy-colored chaos of a reality-TV competition where children's entertainers compete for the chance to win their own show. But when we are taken into the backstage waiting area, it becomes very apparent that each of these “wholesome” contestants is willing to do whatever it takes to knock their competition out of the running."

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- Shari Barrett

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Kid Gloves Reviews

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

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