LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS

posted on September 10th, 2019 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley

If John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons sounds like it’s going to be nothing more than a light-hearted accumulation of dates and names and facts we all ought to know but don’t, think again. Though Leguizamo’s one-man show is indeed as funny and elucidating as any theater-going moron could wish for, it’s also a justifiably rage-filled attack on those who’d rather see his people erased not just from history books (as they already are) but from America itself.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

HANDJOB

posted on September 9th, 2019 at 10:42 AM by Steven Stanley

Credibility is strained and logic defied throughout a big chunk of Erik Patterson’s Handjob, an otherwise provocative, sensationally performed Echo Theater Company World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

posted on September 8th, 2019 at 9:17 AM by Steven Stanley

Though production values and technical aspects fall far short of professional theater standards, there’s a good deal to entertain audiences in Whittier Community Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein thanks to Mel Brooks’ laugh-filled, double entendre-packed book, the comedy master’s tuneful, clever songs, and an enthusiastic young cast.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical Play, Theater Review

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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posted in Comedy-Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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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posted in Action-Adventure, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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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posted in Drama, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review

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