SOUTHERNMOST

posted on April 10th, 2019 at 5:08 PM by Steven Stanley

A big-city transplant returns to the small Hawaiian town her parents still call home for a volcanic family reunion in Mary Lyon Kamitaki’s highly entertaining generation-gap/culture-clash dramedy Southernmost, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

POOR YELLA REDNECKS

posted on April 9th, 2019 at 3:19 PM by Steven Stanley

Vietgone’s Quang and Tong are back at South Coast Repertory and facing their not quite happily ever after in Qui Nguyen’s laugh-and-rap-packed World Premiere comedy Poor Yella Rednecks.
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posted in Orange County, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE

posted on April 9th, 2019 at 12:23 AM by Steven Stanley

Children’s theater doesn’t get much darker than 24th STreet Theatre’s The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, and not just because the lights are turned way down low on the starkest of production designs. Dwayne Hartford’s adaptation of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo’s tale of a toy rabbit’s passage from owner to owner in Depression-era America is grim as can be, though not without hope and moments of joy.
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posted in Los Angeles, Play With Songs, Theater Review

THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

posted on April 7th, 2019 at 11:16 AM by Steven Stanley

10 Things I Hate About You, 1999’s teen-movie takeoff on Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, is back for its 20th-anniversary Unauthorized Musical Parody at Rockwell Table + Stage, the latest smash UMPO song-&-dance laughfest from the folks who previously spoofed teen classics Mean Girls and Clueless to equally hilarious/raunchy effect.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

[title of show]

posted on April 6th, 2019 at 10:07 AM by Steven Stanley

Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s [title of show] provides a couldn’t-be-better talent showcase for four charismatic young triple-threats and a supremely imaginative young director, today only on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

PIRATES OF PENZANCE

posted on April 5th, 2019 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance has been delighting the world for a whopping 140 years, though you’d hardly guess its age, not with a libretto as fresh and funny as the latest live-audience sitcom, and certainly not as directed, choreographed, and performed with effervescence and charm at Glendale Centre Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

posted on April 1st, 2019 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley

Six Southern women with deceptively delicate exteriors give six Actors Co-op treasures the chance to strut their comedic-dramatic stuff like the L.A. theater stars they are in Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

posted on April 1st, 2019 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley

Teen con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. is once again scamming his way across the country—but this time he’s doing it “Live In Living Color”—in Musical Theatre West’s pizzazzy spring offering Catch Me If You Can, the big-stage musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s popular 2002 biopic.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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