SHREK THE MUSICAL

posted on August 11th, 2019 at 10:53 AM by Steven Stanley

The big green ogre made famous by Dreamworks Animation is back on stage as 3-D Theatricals revives its 2013 smash, the irresistibly crowd-pleasing Shrek The Musical.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

posted on August 10th, 2019 at 11:25 AM by Steven Stanley

Hot on the heels of their sensational A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, The Drowsy Chaperone makes it two big winners in a row for Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi with performances to rival those of the original Broadway and touring casts.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

posted on August 9th, 2019 at 3:32 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s no more bewitching way to spend a midsummer night than under the stars at William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century Theatricum Botanicum tradition.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

posted on August 5th, 2019 at 12:48 PM by Steven Stanley

Ellen Geer updates Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People to 1980 and Americanizes it to South Fork, South Carolina in a problematic World Premiere adaptation that would probably work better if its Theatricum Botanicum cast didn’t have a week off between each performance.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

posted on August 4th, 2019 at 1:25 PM by Steven Stanley

Baseball season just got a whole lot more entertaining with The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of A League Of Their Own, the UMPO Series’ latest musical movie spoof at Rockwell Table & Stage.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

TWELFTH NIGHT

posted on August 3rd, 2019 at 11:33 AM by Steven Stanley

William Shakespeare’s star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools are as star-crossed, mismatched, and zany as ever this summer at Theatricum Botanicum, but this time round they burst into song in Ellen Geer’s enchanting Twelfth Night under Topanga skies.
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THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

posted on July 31st, 2019 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Masterfully inventive direction and a marvelously multi-talented cast work theatrical alchemy on Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, the latest Antaeus Theatre Company triumph.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

FIREBRINGER

posted on July 29th, 2019 at 4:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Though only an occasional song or scene or joke hits the mark, a hard-working young cast have fun playing cave people in Brian Holden, Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Meredith Stepien, and Mark Swiderski’s Firebringer: A New Stone Age Musical.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review

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