JERSEY BOYS

posted on February 17th, 2025 at 10:43 AM by Steven Stanley


It’s taken over twenty years for Jersey Boys to make it from Broadway to National Tour to its Long Beach Regional Premiere, but the sensational production Musical Theatre West is now treating its audiences to makes it well worth the two-decade wait.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

MASTER CLASS

posted on February 15th, 2025 at 11:47 AM by Steven Stanley


Musical theater star Joan Almedilla delivers a tour-de-force performance as opera legend Maria Callas without even singing a note in Terrence McNally’s Master Class at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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posted in Now Playing, Play With Songs, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS

posted on February 14th, 2025 at 4:58 PM by Steven Stanley


Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Revue, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

I WANT A COUNTRY

posted on February 10th, 2025 at 12:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Eleven characters in search of a land they can call home meet a director with a singular vision in Greek playwright Andreas Flourakis’s remarkably topical I Want A Country, the latest from City Garage Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Now Playing, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

AVENUE Q

posted on February 9th, 2025 at 2:18 PM by Steven Stanley


All-around fabulous performances and an excitingly innovative production design combine to make Wisteria Theater Company’s Avenue Q a musical-comedy must-see.
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NOISES OFF

posted on February 8th, 2025 at 1:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Westwood’s esteemed Geffen Playhouse and Chicago’s illustrious Steppenwolf Theatre Company join creative forces to give L.A. audiences a fabulously entertaining revival of what may well be the most inventive and uproarious farce ever written, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT

posted on February 7th, 2025 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley

Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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THE BROTHERS ABELSON SINCE 1946

posted on February 4th, 2025 at 12:25 PM by Steven Stanley


Dramatic fireworks explode when a 26-year-old New York-based graphic novelist is summoned back to the family home in Dennis Danziger’s powerful autobiographical three-hander The Brothers Abelson Since 1942, a guest production at Venice’s Electric Lodge.
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