LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

posted on November 19th, 2024 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Pasadena Playhouse’s five-year-long winning streak of Broadway musical revivals comes to a crashing halt with Sam Pinkleton’s ill-conceived take on the 1980s Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein classic La Cage Aux Folles.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

posted on November 18th, 2024 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley


Broadway couldn’t deliver a more magnificent 60th-anniversary Fiddler On The Roof revival than the big-stage, big-budget Jason Alexander starrer now dazzling audiences at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

FIRST DATE

posted on November 17th, 2024 at 9:20 AM by Steven Stanley


Chromolume Theater is back after a six-year hiatus with a sparklingly performed intimate revival of the smart, funny 2013 Broadway romcom musical First Date.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT, TYLER PRICE!

posted on November 15th, 2024 at 12:19 PM by Steven Stanley


An inspired creative team take what might seem unlikely subject matter for a musical and transform it into It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, a feel-good celebration of friendship and family now entertaining and uplifting audiences at the Hudson Backstage Theatre.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

PACIFIC OVERTURES

posted on November 11th, 2024 at 5:30 PM by Steven Stanley


Stephen Sondheim fans could not wish for a more spectacular pick-me-up from post-election blues than East West Players’ Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better production of Sondheim and John Weidman’s rarely-revived 1976 classic Pacific Overtures.
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ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BEYOND

posted on November 11th, 2024 at 5:12 PM by Steven Stanley

Cute, fun, silly, and too slight to be of any major consequence, Tom Chiodo and Joe Nedder’s Adventures in the Great Beyond serves primarily as a showcase for Nedder’s catchy melodies and the World Premiere musical’s highly talented cast, in particular a charismatic 20something fivesome who reveal Grade-A vocal chops as the devotees of a quirky desert-dwelling New Age guru named Krishamarti.
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ANTÍKONI

posted on November 11th, 2024 at 5:05 PM by Steven Stanley

If Greek tragedy and/or Native American folklore are your thing, Native Voices’ World Premiere production of Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni may be right up your alley. I, unfortunately, found my interest flagging and my mind drifting almost from the get-go.
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THE CIVIL TWILIGHT

posted on November 4th, 2024 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Two strangers seeking refuge in a dingy motel room reveal their deepest, darkest secrets to riveting effect in The Civil Twilight, Shem Bitterman’s lollapalooza of a two-hander now getting a brilliantly acted World Premiere at the Broadwater Studio Theatre.
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