BRIGHT STAR

posted on April 29th, 2019 at 2:10 PM by Steven Stanley

Christanna Rowader’s star shines bright in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, a Golden Era-style Hollywood weeper given the most gorgeous of bluegrass scores and just as many joyous laughs as soapy tears on the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre stage.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SKYLIGHT

posted on April 28th, 2019 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Skylight, David Hare’s postmortem look at an adulterous couple’s unexpected reunion, gets a terrific 24th-anniversary Chance Theater revival under Oanh Nguyen’s incisive direction.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

HAIRSPRAY

posted on April 27th, 2019 at 4:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Director Kari Hayter breathes such fresh new life into the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray that no matter how many times you’ve seen the 2003 Broadway smash, it will feel like your first.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

BIG FISH

posted on April 25th, 2019 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Gorgeously scored and emotionally impactful, Broadway’s Big Fish gets a terrific regional staging at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion, one of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s most successful big-cast musicals in years.
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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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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!

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