CYRANO DE BERGERAC

posted on September 10th, 2024 at 4:35 PM by Steven Stanley


The translation’s the thing, but far from the only thing that makes Pasadena Playhouse’s dazzling staging of Martin Crimp’s “free adaptation” of Edmond Rostand’s French classic Cyrano de Bergerac the latest Pasadena Playhouse winner.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER

posted on September 9th, 2024 at 11:06 AM by Steven Stanley


There have been a handful of musicals about the American Civil War, but probably never one as eye-opening, entertaining, or emotionally powerful as The Civility Of Albert Cashier, the truth-is-stranger-than fiction Civil War musical now enthralling audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL

posted on September 7th, 2024 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Whittier Community Theatre proves it’s still going strong in its 101st season with 9 to 5: The Musical, the 2009 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1980 Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Dolly Parton movie smash.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

WENDY’S PETER PAN

posted on September 3rd, 2024 at 11:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum treats audiences to their most kids-friendly show in memory with Wendy’s Peter Pan, Ellen Geer’s reimagining of the J.M. Barrie classic as told by a now grown-up Wendy Darling to her three precocious offspring.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

MURDER AFTER HOURS (THE HOLLOW)

posted on August 31st, 2024 at 11:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Agatha Christie is at her fiendishly clever best in the very long but very entertaining Murder After Hours (The Hollow), now being revived to deliciously brain-teasing effect at North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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posted in North Hollywood, Theater Review, Thriller, WOW!

HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR

posted on August 30th, 2024 at 5:14 PM by Steven Stanley

The stunts, the puppetry, and the multimedia effects are indeed spectacular, but Lisa Sanaye Dring and Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular ends up biting off more than it can chew in combining all of the above with the doomed love story of two gay stuntmen, one proudly out, one deeply closeted, in an industry where being heterosexual is a must.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN

posted on August 27th, 2024 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE HISPANIC/LATINO/LATINA/LATINX/LATINÉ VOTE

posted on August 26th, 2024 at 8:59 AM by Steven Stanley


If pre-election worries have got you feeling all angsty about November 5, then head on over to Theatricum Botanicum for The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote, Bernardo Cubría’s couldn’t-be-more-topical-or-entertaining cure for the pre-election blues.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

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