BARNUM

posted on September 24th, 2019 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

Seven stellar triple-threat featured performers and some particularly ingenious directorial touches made Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only concert staged reading of the 1980 Broadway hit Barnum worth seeing despite a title performance not up to MTG standards.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review

GRUMPY OLD MEN THE MUSICAL

posted on September 22nd, 2019 at 10:09 AM by Steven Stanley

No matter your mood upon arrival, expect to exit the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts with the broadest of smiles on your face when you see the feel-good musical that’s been made from the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau movie smash Grumpy Old Men.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SPANISH PRAYER BOOK

posted on September 21st, 2019 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley

The Road Theatre’s three-year streak of winners ends with Angela J. Davis’s convoluted, uninvolving The Spanish Prayer Book, the company’s 2019-2020 World Premiere season opener.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

FUN HOME

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

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre took its subscribers and donors on a memorable three-performance-only journey back to the 1970s and ’80s with Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

AMERICAN MARIACHI

posted on September 16th, 2019 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley

I dare you not to fall for South Coast Repertory’s American Mariachi, the crowd-pleasingest season opener any major American regional theater could wish for.
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posted in Orange County, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

DEADLY

posted on September 15th, 2019 at 10:38 PM by Steven Stanley

The Demon Doctor of West 63rd Street is bumping off victim after victim at the Broadwater Theatre in Vanessa Claire Stewart and Ryan Thomas Johnson’s deliciously horrorific Deadly, or as I like to call it, Murder Castle, the H.H. Holmes Musical.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

SKINTIGHT

posted on September 14th, 2019 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) is back at the Geffen with the uproariously funny, unexpectedly touching Skintight, a star vehicle if there ever was one for its wickedly talented leading lady.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER

posted on September 13th, 2019 at 11:49 AM by Steven Stanley

Sex, described by its participants in the most graphic of terms, begins the recovery process for a young married couple in Jack Thorne’s The Solid Life Of Sugar Water, a provocative British two-hander made something quite special indeed when translated into American Sign Language and staged by Deaf West Theatre in its American Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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