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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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere

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!

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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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

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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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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