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

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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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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!

MY THING OF LOVE

posted on May 10th, 2019 at 11:53 AM by Steven Stanley

An alternate cast prove the wrong trio of actors to make Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ offbeat comic drama My Thing Of Love come to explosive life in its Sixty-Six Theater Co. debut under Paul Rush’s direction.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

posted on May 8th, 2019 at 5:10 PM by Steven Stanley

If you’ve any doubt that Fiddler On The Roof is a true musical theater masterpiece, check out the dazzling National Tour now playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts for proof positive that the Broadway classic is as great as it gets.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

posted on May 6th, 2019 at 5:31 PM by Steven Stanley

The concert staged reading masters at Musical Theatre Guild put together a stunningly performed and directed Sunday In The Park With George (on a Sunday no less) with just enough production design thrown in that audience members might well have thought they were witnessing a fully-staged production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine masterpiece and not a book-in-hand “reading” put together with a mere twenty-five hours of rehearsal.
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BOXING LESSONS

posted on May 4th, 2019 at 10:47 AM by Steven Stanley

A TV season’s worth of secrets and lies come to light over the course of one tumultuous weekend in John Bunzel’s darkly comedic, ever so slightly absurdist Boxing Lessons, an expertly acted, directed, and designed New American Theatre World Premiere.
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