THE DOUBLE V

posted on August 26th, 2024 at 8:59 AM by Steven Stanley

A little-known aspect of World War II-era African-American history is brought to life in Carole Eglash-Kosoff’s entertaining, elucidating, mostly successful The Double V, an International City Theatre World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE 39 STEPS

posted on August 19th, 2024 at 9:04 AM by Steven Stanley


South Pasadena Theatre Workshop treats audiences to 75 minutes of virtually nonstop laughter in their somewhat abridged take on Patrick Barlow’s masterful four-actor stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version of John Buchan’s spy classic The 39 Steps.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE MUSIC MAN

posted on August 17th, 2024 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Harold Hill is back in town and aiming to bilk the citizens of River City, Iowa in Meredith Willson’s bona fide Broadway classic The Music Man, now being given an all-around splendid 67th-anniversary revival at La Crescenta’s Highlands Theater.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN

posted on August 13th, 2024 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley


That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

HUMAN ERROR

posted on August 11th, 2024 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley


A fertility clinic snafu wreaks hilarious havoc on the lives of two married couples, one Red State, one Blue State, in Rogue Machine Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s smart, topical, and very, very funny Human Error.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on August 10th, 2024 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley


Dramatic and compelling and jam-packed with equal parts spectacle and heart, The Nocturne Theatre’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is all this and more, though not however a kids-friendly family musical like Disney’s The Little Mermaid or Beauty And The Beast.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

IF I NEEDED SOMEONE

posted on August 6th, 2024 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Drunken hookups aren’t what they used to be, at least according to Neil LaBute in his undeniably provocative, bitingly funny, and potentially button-pushing World Premiere two-hander If I Needed Someone at Santa Monica’s City Garage Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on August 5th, 2024 at 4:51 PM by Steven Stanley


The volunteer performers lighting up the James Armstrong Theatre stage give the pros a run for their money in Torrance Theatre Company’s dazzlingly designed, imaginatively directed, and delightfully performed big-stage, live-orchestra production of Disney The Little Mermaid.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, WOW!

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