SHEEPDOG

posted on April 22nd, 2019 at 6:13 PM by Steven Stanley

UNARMED BLACK TEEN SHOT, KILLED BY POLICE The headline happens to come from the June 20, 2018 issue of USA Today, but it could just as well describe the shooting experienced first-hand by Cleveland police officers Ryan and Amina in Kevin Artigue’s conversation-provoking Sheepdog, a gut-punching South Coast Repertory World Premiere.
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posted in Orange County, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

posted on April 22nd, 2019 at 2:01 PM by Steven Stanley

A hot young director-choreographer, a groundbreakingly diverse trio of lead performers, and a fresh, from-the-ground-up production design breath new life into McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Singin’ In The Rain at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL

posted on April 21st, 2019 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley

Few High School Musicals guarantee as much dark and twisted fun as Heathers: The Musical, a terrific talent showcase for the Musical Theater BFA majors who’ve made Cal State Fullerton their pre-professional training grounds.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

DIANA OF DOBSON’S

posted on April 20th, 2019 at 8:04 AM by Steven Stanley

Minimum-Wage Worker Goes Wild On 15-Grand Inheritance.

If this sounds like the log-line for an upcoming Emma Stone romcom, think again. Playwright Cicely Hamilton came up with this one way back in 1908 when she wrote Diana Of Dobson’s, a largely forgotten frothy romp with feminist teeth now being given a splendiferous 21st-century Antaeus Theatre Company revival.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

FALSETTOS

posted on April 18th, 2019 at 12:23 PM by Steven Stanley

A freshly out New Yorker’s life before and after the AIDS epidemic wreaked havoc on his city makes for the most unlikely of Broadway musicals, and one of the most richly rewarding, in Falsettos, now moving audience to laughter through tears at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

posted on April 15th, 2019 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley

In need of a good laugh? A good cry? A message of comfort and joy in these particularly troubled times? Then look no further than the Pasadena Playhouse, where My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos has set up house this month with her powerful stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on April 14th, 2019 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley

The Wayward Artist opens its second season with a flawless intimate staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal, as dramatically moving and emotionally potent a musical as you’ll see all year.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

posted on April 13th, 2019 at 3:48 PM by Steven Stanley

Kevin McCorkle makes for a masterful, deeply affecting Willy Loman in The Process 360’s 70th-anniversary intimate staging of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, now playing at North Hollywood’s Secret Rose Theatre.
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