M. BUTTERFLY

posted on May 20th, 2019 at 4:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Victor/Victoria’s gender-bending trickery pales in comparison to the deception perpetrated on M. Butterfly’s Rene Gallimard in David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Best Play Tony-winning rumination on race, gender, and sexuality, whose 2017 Broadway-revival rewrite now burns up the South Coast Repertory stage with two of the most powerful lead performances in town.
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BRONCO BILLY THE MUSICAL

posted on May 19th, 2019 at 4:15 PM by Steven Stanley

An heiress on the run finds an unexpected hideout and a unique new family of friends while being pursued by a gang of comic villains who can’t manage to shoot straight in the infectiously crowd-pleasing World Premiere musical Bronco Billy, quite possibly the most tuneful and entertaining L.A.-cast Broadway hopeful since Sister Act made its Pasadena Playhouse debut back in 2006.
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AT THE TABLE

posted on May 19th, 2019 at 8:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Booze and pot lower inhibitions, loosen tongues, and reveal cracks in the fifteen-year-long friendship of a quartet of 30somethings in Michael Perlman’s At The Table, a Road Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere that proves as edge-of-your-seat compelling as it is provocatively button-pushing.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

MAMMA MIA!

posted on May 17th, 2019 at 11:53 AM by Steven Stanley

An all-POC cast (primarily Asian, significantly Filipino), inspired direction, electrifying choreography, and the most gorgeous of production designs breathe fresh new life into East West Players’ thrillingly trailblazing Mamma Mia!, the all-around best of the many MM!s I’ve seen.
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ANNA IN THE TROPICS

posted on May 14th, 2019 at 5:20 PM by Steven Stanley

Life imitates art as Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina inflames dormant passions amongst Cuban emigres in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, an Open Fist Theatre Company triumph.
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THE END OF SEX (OR WHAT’S WRONG WITH MOM)

posted on May 14th, 2019 at 11:11 AM by Steven Stanley

A menopausal wife informs her husband of thirty-five years that she never wants to have sex again, not with him, not with anybody. A young wife’s sudden success threatens a husband whose career isn’t going nearly as well. Gay Walch’s The End Of Sex (Or What’s Wrong With Mom), the latest Victory Theatre Center World Premiere is nothing if not conversation-provoking.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review

TIGERS BE STILL

posted on May 12th, 2019 at 11:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Grief, loss, guilt, depression, and a ferocious jungle feline on the loose might seem the unlikeliest of ingredients for comedy, but playwright Kim Rosenstock weaves them all together to laugh-packed effect in Tigers Be Still, the latest Chance Theater winner.
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THE PRICE

posted on May 12th, 2019 at 8:18 AM by Steven Stanley

Arthur Miller was still going strong when The Price made its Broadway debut two decades after All My Sons and Death Of A Salesman made him a Broadway household name, and if his 1968 family drama isn’t in quite the same league as those two 20th-century masterpieces, it still makes for powerful, thought-provoking drama on the International City Theatre stage.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

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