AUBERGINE

posted on October 28th, 2019 at 3:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Julia Cho returns to South Coast Repertory with Aubergine, the Korean-American playwright’s deeply moving meditation on love, life, dying, death, family, memory … and the role that food plays in all of the above.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

MATILDA THE MUSICAL

posted on October 27th, 2019 at 3:40 PM by Steven Stanley

As deliciously dark as it is uplifting and empowering, Matilda The Musical has arrived at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts to charm and delight audiences of all ages.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE NEW ONE

posted on October 26th, 2019 at 9:43 AM by Steven Stanley

Stand-up comedy at the Ahmanson? Say what?

Now before you rush to judgment, be aware that the stand-up comic in question is actor-director-producer-writer Mike Birbiglia and The New One, the show he’s now touring the country with, comes direct from a successful run on Broadway no less. In other words, if you can afford $35 to $145 per ticket, you won’t find eighty more entertaining, relatable, ultimately powerful minutes of solo-performance theater in town.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on October 24th, 2019 at 11:17 AM by Steven Stanley

Leave it to Cal State Fullerton’s musical-theater majors to give audiences a Disney’s Beauty And The Beast that tops just about every professional production I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a bunch.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

THE ABUELAS

posted on October 22nd, 2019 at 10:06 AM by Steven Stanley

Departing from its tradition of reviving theatrical classics, Antaeus Theatre Company opens its 2019/2020 season with the West Coast Premiere of The Abuelas, Stephanie Alison Walker’s mostly disappointing follow-up to The Madres.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review

NEWSIES

posted on October 21st, 2019 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s spectacular Newsies is not only an infectiously entertaining (and unashamedly pro-labor) treat, it showcases a sensational young ensemble singing and dancing up a standing ovation-worthy storm.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SOMETHING ROTTEN!

posted on October 21st, 2019 at 8:32 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s no more entertaining big-stage musical in town than Musical Theatre West’s regional premiere of Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!, a musical theater buff’s dream come true and just as much fun for those who couldn’t put a last name to Chita, Patti, or Bernadette if their lives depended on it.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE MUSIC MAN

posted on October 19th, 2019 at 4:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Adam Pascal’s charismatic star turn as Harold Hill is the best of at least 76 reasons why 5-Star Theatricals’ The Music Man gives Broadway some pretty stiff competition.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

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