ORRY

posted on November 3rd, 2019 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Legendary Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly lives again (at his own funeral, no less) in Nick Hardcastle’s entertaining, informative Orry, now playing a limited engagement at West Hollywood’s Lee Strasberg Theatre.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Play With Songs, World Premiere, WOW!

DIAL “M” FOR MURDER

posted on November 2nd, 2019 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

You’ll be dining at the crime scene as you savor the latest tasty delight from The 413 Project, Frederick Knott’s classic mystery-suspense thriller Dial “M” For Murder at Pasadena’s Madeline Garden.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY

posted on October 30th, 2019 at 12:36 PM by Steven Stanley

Fountain Theatre scores a major coup by beating out the biggies with the Los Angeles Premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside And Crazy.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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

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