DAMES AT SEA

posted on June 23rd, 2019 at 12:00 PM by Steven Stanley

42nd Street meets Anything Goes in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s deliciously campy Dames At Sea,  a nonstop song-and-dance extravaganza guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a tap in your step.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

posted on June 22nd, 2019 at 4:04 PM by Steven Stanley

A revelatory Rob Morrow heads an all-around superb cast in The Ruskin Group Theatre’s meticulously directed, stunningly performed 70th-anniversary revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

posted on June 22nd, 2019 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction in Michael Mitnick’s time-traveling, mind-tripping look at the Mysterious Circumstances surrounding the still unsolved death of the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes scholar.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

ANNE, A NEW PLAY

posted on June 17th, 2019 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Anne Frank is alive and well and living in Paris when first we meet her in Anne, A New Play, Nick Blaemire’s trimmed-down adaptation of a 2014 Dutch-language hit whose powerful U.S. Premiere more than merits a visit to the Museum Of Tolerance.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

AVENUE Q

posted on June 16th, 2019 at 12:10 PM by Steven Stanley

The Group Rep treats audiences to a crowd-pleasing Avenue Q, the 2004 Robert Lopez-Jeff Marx-Jeff Whitty musical comedy smash that imagines what might happen if Jim Henson’s Muppets started singing songs and teaching life lessons about adult topics like sexual orientation, racism, and Internet porn.
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posted in North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

BESTSELLER

posted on June 15th, 2019 at 11:49 AM by Steven Stanley

The quirky young writers who populate Peter Quilter’s new comedy may have funny things to say, but engaging characters and amusing one-liners aren’t nearly enough to suggest post-World Premiere life for Bestseller, that is unless the author of Glorious! and End Of The Rainbow can provide them with something every playwright should have in his bag of tricks. A plot.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, World Premiere

LADIES

posted on June 14th, 2019 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley

An all-female creative team join forces to bring a quartet of mid-18th-century pre-feminist Englishwomen to sporadically intriguing but too often meandering 21st-century life in Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies, a Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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INDECENT

posted on June 10th, 2019 at 5:11 PM by Steven Stanley

A gut-punching, all-too relevant look at Antisemitism, censorship, homophobia, anti-immigration hysteria, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism during the first half of the 20th Century, Paula Vogel’s Indecent is also a thought-provoking demonstration of the power of live theater to both inspire and inflame, and for Los Angeles theatergoers, a chance to see the production that scored director Rebecca Taichman a Tony win two years ago.
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posted in Los Angeles, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

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