THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB

posted on July 9th, 2024 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


A debonair British secret agent faces his evilest and most nefarious foe, i.e., his own alcohol, nicotine, gambling, and sex addictions (with anger issues thrown in for good measure), in Gregg Ostrin’s deliciously clever, fiendishly funny The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DESIGN FOR LIVING

posted on July 7th, 2024 at 6:17 PM by Steven Stanley

An Americanized trio of romantic protagonists and a gay subtext made explicit are two reasons Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s provocative but problematic staging of Noël Coward’s Design For Living is a far cry from the one Broadway audiences first discovered back in 1933.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

ANNIE

posted on July 6th, 2024 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley

That little orphan named Annie is back, reminding audiences at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center that the sun will indeed come out tomorrow in Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s entertaining community theater revival of the Broadway musical smash.
(read more)

Tags: , , , , ,
posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County

THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD

posted on July 5th, 2024 at 11:48 AM by Steven Stanley

Garrett Deagon’s chameleon-like transformation into our nation’s 16th President opposite Samantha Craton’s luminous Mary Todd Lincoln elevates Terrence L. Cranert’s The Lincolns Of Springfield into something more than the overly romanticized by-the-numbers Abraham Lincoln bio-musical it would be without their presence on the Colony Theatre stage.
(read more)

Tags: , , , ,
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review

UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS

posted on July 2nd, 2024 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley


Hollywood history comes alive at East West Players in Philip W. Chung’s Unbroken Blossoms, a fascinating and elucidating behind-the-scenes look at the silent movie classic that was Hollywood’s first interracial love story.
(read more)

Tags: , , , , ,
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE SANDWICH MINISTRY

posted on June 30th, 2024 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley

Performances could hardly be better, but 65 minutes isn’t nearly long enough for playwright Miranda Rose Hall to fully flesh out her three protagonists or the issues raised in The Sandwich Ministry, now nearing the end of its run at the Skylight Theatre.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

SEMINAR

posted on June 29th, 2024 at 1:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic, dramatically potent Seminar gives five talented L.A. actors the chance to dazzle under Jeremy Luke’s razor-sharp direction at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68.
(read more)

Tags: ,
posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

CHESS THE MUSICAL

posted on June 28th, 2024 at 9:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Jaxx Theatricals treats audiences to a fully-staged production of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s rarely revived Chess The Musical, sensationally performed in the company’s spiffy East Hollywood digs.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

Next PagePrevious Page