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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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