SHOOTING STAR – A REVEALING NEW MUSICAL

posted on May 26th, 2019 at 3:16 PM by Steven Stanley

If there’s anything gay men adore, it’s musical theater and porn, just two of the reasons why Shooting Star – A Revealing New Musical, a Hudson Mainstage World Premiere, is the gay porn musical event of this or any other year.

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BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW

posted on May 25th, 2019 at 9:34 AM by Steven Stanley

Life presents unexpected challenges to a newlywed bride in Bekah Brunstetter’s gut-puncher of a dramedy Be A Good Little Widow, a particularly fine visiting production at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.

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MAMA METAL

posted on May 24th, 2019 at 2:57 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Sigrid Gilmer deals with a lifetime’s worth of mother-daughter issues in the most theatrically adventurous of ways in Mama Metal, the head-banging latest from IAMA Theatre Company.
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LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL

posted on May 23rd, 2019 at 3:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Billie Holiday sings again at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Deidrie Henry’s searing tour-de-force star turn in Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Theater Review, WOW!

DANIEL’S HUSBAND

posted on May 21st, 2019 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley

Daniel and Mitchell have been together for seven years. One of them wants to tie the knot. The other does not. And that’s about all you need to know before making a beeline for the Fountain Theatre to savor Michael McKeever’s laugh-out-loud-then-get-out-your-hankies stunner Daniel’s Husband.
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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!

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