[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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Tags: Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Broadwater Second Stage, Up Next Productions
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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Tags: Gilbert And Sullivan, Glendale Centre Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review
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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Tags: Actors Co-op, Los Angeles Theater Review, Robert Harling
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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Tags: Frank Abagnale Jr., Los Angeles Theater Review, Marc Shaiman, Musical Theatre West, Scott Wittman, Terrence McNally
posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
posted on March 30th, 2019 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley
USC School Of Dramatic Arts offers musical theater aficionados the rare opportunity to see Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sunday In The Park With George fully staged, fully orchestrated, exquisitely designed, and most importantly of all, superbly performed by a stellar student cast.
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Tags: George Seurat, James Lapine, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim, USC School Of Dramatic Arts
posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!
TOO MUCH SUN
posted on March 29th, 2019 at 11:41 PM by Steven Stanley
Tony-nominated playwright Nicky Silver goes Chekhovian without abandoning his gift for snappy one-liners in Too Much Sun, a West Coast Premiere that manages to transition from comedy to something befitting the Greeks without missing a beat.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Nicky Silver, Odyssey Theatre
posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
posted on March 28th, 2019 at 3:51 PM by Steven Stanley
Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Sally, Snoopy, and that adorable blockhead Charlie Brown provide a terrific triple-threat talent showcase for six Cal State Fullerton Musical Theater BFA majors in the delightful song-and-sketch cycle You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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Tags: Andrew Lippa, Cal State Fullerton, Charles M. Schulz, Clark Gesner, Michael Mayer, Orange County Theater Review
posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
posted on March 26th, 2019 at 3:52 PM by Steven Stanley
Mushnik’s Skid Row Florists are open for business out Santa Monica way in Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s solid revival of the 1982 cult musical classic Little Shop Of Horrors.
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Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Morgan-Wixson Theatre
posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!
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