THE LONESOME WEST

posted on September 2nd, 2019 at 5:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh once again plumbs the depths of human depravity to hilarious and horrifying effect in his pitch-black 1997 comedy The Lonesome West, one of Little Fish Theatre’s best productions ever.
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THE BODYGUARD

posted on September 2nd, 2019 at 8:54 AM by Steven Stanley

Daebreon Poiema is once again spectacular as pop diva Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard, the ’90s movie smash recreated live on stage at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre under John LaLonde’s able direction.
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WITCH

posted on September 1st, 2019 at 9:40 AM by Steven Stanley

Is there something you want so badly that you’d give up your soul to get it? That is the question Jen Silverman poses in Witch, her devilishly clever, deliciously laugh-packed, decidedly dark look at gender, class, and the future of life as we know it, set way back in Jacobean England but told in a vernacular as contemporary as the latest Netflix hit.
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MOBY DICK – REHEARSED

posted on August 27th, 2019 at 9:20 AM by Steven Stanley


With metatheatrical stage adaptations of literary classics almost as commonplace today as cell phones and email, Orson Welles’ Moby Dick — Rehearsed feels like it could have been written last week and not way back in 1955. It’s also as thrilling a production as I’ve seen at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB

posted on August 27th, 2019 at 8:48 AM by Steven Stanley

Sierra Madre Playhouse offers audiences a timely salute to the immigrant experience while exploring the generation/culture gap that separates four middle-aged Chinese women from their grown American daughters in an exquisitely staged and designed production of Susan Kim’s not entirely successful adaptation of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
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BEAST ON THE MOON

posted on August 24th, 2019 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley

Richard Kalinsoki’s Beast On The Moon may have been performed in over twenty countries and translated into nineteen languages, but its latest incarnation at International City Theatre reveals flaws both in the play itself and in the production now on stage in Long Beach.
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DRIVING WILDE

posted on August 23rd, 2019 at 1:38 PM by Steven Stanley

Though it goes haywire about halfway through, Driving Wilde, Jacqueline Wright’s trippy contemporary Americanized take on The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, is far from dull.
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EARLY BIRDS

posted on August 20th, 2019 at 11:40 AM by Steven Stanley

Night-and-day-different 70somethings bond aboard ship in Dana Schwartz’s Early Birds, a World Premiere comedy as entertaining and charming as it is predictable, and nothing wrong with that.
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