THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

posted on July 11th, 2019 at 12:39 PM by Steven Stanley

So nonstop hilarious is the latest National Tour playing a visit to the Ahmanson, The Play That Goes Wrong just might hold the laugh-a-minute record for a West End-to-Broadway comedy smash.
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MAMMA MIA!

posted on July 8th, 2019 at 12:39 PM by Steven Stanley

A talented young song-and-dance ensemble and some exhilarating original choreography add up to lively summer fun at Laguna Playhouse for those who don’t mind shelling out big bucks to hear a couple dozen ABBA hits performed to canned karaoke-style backing tracks.
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RAGTIME

posted on July 8th, 2019 at 11:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Chance Theater reinvigorates the 1998 Broadway blockbuster Ragtime to thrilling effect, giving the musical flashback to early-20th-century America race-and-class relations fresh new 21-century relevance.
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THE WEDDING SINGER

posted on July 6th, 2019 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley

Having recently spoofed the ’60s with Little Shop Of Horrors, Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre now treats audiences to the adroitly concocted blend of music, comedy, and 1980s nostalgia that is Chad Beguelin, Tim Herlihy, and Matthew Sklar’s The Wedding Singer.
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GOOD BOYS

posted on July 1st, 2019 at 11:39 AM by Steven Stanley

An explicit sex tape involving a prep school jock and a young woman decidedly not his girlfriend sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one entitled Washington DC family in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s suspenseful, provocative Good Boys, now riveting audiences at Pasadena Playhouse.
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LOOT

posted on June 30th, 2019 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Director Bart DeLorenzo and a mostly English cast get bad-boy Brit Joe Orton abso-bloomin’-lutely right in Loot, the provocative, hilarious latest from Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
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THE PRODUCERS

posted on June 29th, 2019 at 4:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Leave it to Celebration Theatre to take a musical as mammoth as The Producers and scale it down to fit the LGBTQ company’s 47-seat Hollywood digs without losing an iota of its audience appeal. Indeed, the show still officially billed as “A New Mel Brooks Musical” may be even more exciting at Celebration in 2019 than when it made its 2001 Broadway debut.
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READY STEADY YETI GO

posted on June 24th, 2019 at 12:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Sixth-graders reenact a local hate crime for reasons that don’t particularly make sense in David Jacobi’s Ready Steady Yeti Go, a talent showcase for its gifted 20something ensemble that would work even better with age-appropriate casting.
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