ALADDIN

posted on March 8th, 2019 at 4:48 PM by Steven Stanley

A tale as old as A Thousand And One Arabian Nights, not only is Disney’s Aladdin an entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, it just might be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Segerstrom Center For The Arts stage.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

AMERICA ADJACENT

posted on March 5th, 2019 at 5:48 PM by Steven Stanley

The United States proves far from paradise for six Filipino women seeking a brighter future for their unborn (or recently born) infants in Boni B. Alvarez’s captivating and compelling hot-button-issue dramedy America Adjacent, a Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere.
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NEWSIES

posted on March 4th, 2019 at 11:15 AM by Steven Stanley

Newsies makes its entertaining community theater debut at Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center as Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi premieres its enthusiastically performed, proudly pro-labor 2019 season opener.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

posted on March 3rd, 2019 at 9:46 PM by Steven Stanley

Director Geoff Elliott reinvigorates a 20th-century classic to stunning effect in A Noise Within’s 2019 revival of Tennessee Williams’ 1944 chef-d’oeuvre The Glass Menagerie.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

ATTACK OF THE SECOND BANANAS

posted on March 3rd, 2019 at 2:17 AM by Steven Stanley

Dueling divas get double-murdered in Gina Torrecilla’s Attack Of The Second Bananas, a World Premiere backstage comedy whodunnit that despite occasional bright moments mostly falls flat.
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CANYON

posted on March 2nd, 2019 at 12:40 PM by Steven Stanley

Memories of the way we were pre-Election 2016 ignite Jonathan Caren’s Canyon, the explosive latest from IAMA Theatre Company, Latino Theater Company, and the playwright who gave IAMA its much-awarded The Recommendation a half-dozen or so years back.
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

posted on February 26th, 2019 at 6:22 PM by Steven Stanley

A dying septuagenarian college professor with life lessons to impart. A career-obsessed 30something sports reporter in dire need of them. Welcome to Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom’s stage adaptation of Albom’s international best-seller Tuesdays With Morrie, a chuckles-inducing, crowd-pleasing tear-jerker from Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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THE JUDAS KISS

posted on February 25th, 2019 at 5:47 PM by Steven Stanley

What he did for love. What he sacrificed for love. What he suffered for love. Playwright David Hare asks audiences to ponder whether Oscar Wilde’s unconditional devotion to Lord Alfred Douglas was worth the years of pain he endured in The Judas Kiss, the powerful, provocative latest from The Theatre @ Boston Court.
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