RENT

posted on October 14th, 2024 at 9:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Jaxx Theatricals follows their Scenie-winning intimate stagings of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party and Chess The Musical with an excitingly performed but overly choreographed revival of Jonathan Larson’s Rent.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review

AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on October 10th, 2024 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley


The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

posted on October 8th, 2024 at 10:18 AM by Steven Stanley

A trio of topnotch star turns are the three best reasons to catch Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s over-the-top staging of the horror rock extravaganza that is Bat Boy: The Musical. (It would help too if you could understand what the characters are saying/singing.)
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

GLORIA

posted on October 7th, 2024 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Everyone’s out for their fifteen minutes of fame in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher Gloria, now being given an electrifying Orange County premiere at Chance Theater.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

TROUBLE IN MIND

posted on October 6th, 2024 at 6:51 PM by Steven Stanley

A stunning Kimi Walker delivers what may well be a career-best lead performance in Actors Co-op’s mostly successful revival of pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble In Mind.
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THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

posted on September 30th, 2024 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Star turns don’t get more stunning than the pair delivered by Kim Huber and Valerie Larsen in Musical Theatre Guild’s spectacular one-night-only concert staged reading of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s The Light In The Piazza.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES

posted on September 30th, 2024 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

A GOING AWAY PARTY PLAY

posted on September 29th, 2024 at 5:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Keyanna Khatiblou pays tribute to her Iranian father and English mother while recounting the events leading up to and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 amidst a party attended by four of her closest friends in A Going Away Party Play, and if the playwright’s approach is too all-over-the-place to be entirely successful, there is still much to recommend in this Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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