A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

posted on June 9th, 2019 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Lead performances to rival those of the original Broadway and touring casts and an ingeniously scaled-down production design are two very good reasons not to miss the hilarious salute to homicide that is Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, the murderously mirthful quadruple-Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on June 8th, 2019 at 3:01 PM by Steven Stanley

If you’re any kind of musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at least once. But trust me. You’ve never seen, heard, or breathed in anything like The Last Five Years: A Multisensory Experience, the latest from the adventurous After Hours Theatre Company.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Special Event, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

THE PAJAMA GAME

posted on June 7th, 2019 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley

Racially diverse casting skyrockets a sixty-five-year-old Broadway classic into the 21st century without sacrificing an iota of its Golden Era charm in UCI Claire Trevor School Of The Arts’ big-stage, big-talent revival of 1954’s The Pajama Game.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

SUCKER PUNCH

posted on June 5th, 2019 at 12:04 PM by Steven Stanley

South London accents either too thick to be understood or virtually non-existent along with loads of British slang prove detrimental to Coeurage Theatre Company’s site-specific West Coast Premiere of Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch. So do view-blocking sight lines for certain audience members squeezed into the Tiger Boxing Gym just off Melrose.
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THE END OF BEAUTY

posted on June 4th, 2019 at 5:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Musings on art and beauty serve as an intellectual prelude to a provocative look at a marriage in crisis in Cory Hinkle’s The End Of Beauty, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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HARVEY

posted on June 3rd, 2019 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Harvey is back, and French Stewart is seeing him (even if we can’t) in Laguna Playhouse’s spiffy 2019 revival of Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic.
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posted in Classic Play, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on June 2nd, 2019 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley

Laurie Veldheer and Todd Adamson are simply sublime in La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Disney Beauty And The Beast, the all-around best and most spectacular of the six big-stage regional productions I’ve seen so far.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CHRISTIANS

posted on June 1st, 2019 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley

A bombshell announcement dropped one Sunday morning by the pastor of a major American megachurch threatens the future of the institution he has spent years building into mega-proportions in Lucas Hnath’s extraordinary 2014 drama The Christians, now getting a superb L.A.-cast production at Actors Co-op.
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