COMPANY

posted on November 19th, 2019 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 Broadway classic Company proves a fabulous fit for a dozen-and-a-half theater-majoring performers and designers to strut their stuff in the most sumptuously professional a venue any university production could ever hope for, the UC Irvine-adjacent the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

SALVAGE

posted on November 17th, 2019 at 7:49 PM by Steven Stanley

A chance visit to a run-down, out-of-the-way bar stirs up memories long-ago friendships, unfulfilled dreams, unforgotten grudges, and a woman named Jennifer in Tim Alderson’s Salvage, a World Premiere “play with music” which requires buying into more than one coincidence but offers multiple rewards, not the least of which is getting to hear some of the most haunting, gorgeously sung country music in town.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

KEY LARGO

posted on November 16th, 2019 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

The Geffen Playhouse reboots a 1948 black-and-white movie classic live in living color in Jeffrey Hatcher and Andy Garcia’s rip-roaring World Premiere stage adaptation of the Bogie-&-Bacall suspense thriller Key Largo, directed with abundant flair by Tony winner Doug Hughes.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

BURIED CHILD

posted on November 14th, 2019 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the darkest, weirdest, and most twisted black comedy ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, returns to L.A., strikingly staged and stunningly performed at A Noise Within.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

DEFENDERS

posted on November 12th, 2019 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley

A trio of WWII GIs stranded on a storm-tossed island off the north Icelandic coast learn the hard way that it’s not just the Nazis who are out to get them in Cailin Maureen Harrison’s supernatural-tinged action-adventure thriller Defenders, a World Premiere guest production at Hollywood’s Broadwater Blackbox.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE GREAT LEAP

posted on November 11th, 2019 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Two of L.A.’s premier regional theaters join forces to give Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap as unforgettable a production as Pasadena Playhouse and East West Players have presented in years.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

posted on November 10th, 2019 at 11:46 AM by Steven Stanley

A star is born in 19-year-old Iain Kohn, whose breakout stage debut as on-the-spectrum amateur detective Christopher Boone is just one reason why Greenway Arts Alliance’s production of Simon Stephens’ The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time ought to top any L.A. theatergoer’s must-see list.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

EIGHT NIGHTS

posted on November 9th, 2019 at 1:00 PM by Steven Stanley

A Holocaust survivor newly arrived in 1940s New York. An African-American couple who’ve journeyed north in the tumultuous ’60s in hopes of escaping racism down south. The Japanese-American grandson of WWII internment camp detainees circa 1988. A Syrian refugee in Trump-era America. Playwright Jennifer Maisel weaves together these characters and their interconnected stories in her decades-spanning World Premiere drama Eight Nights, an Antaeus Theatre Company triumph.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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