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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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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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!

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