SUCKER PUNCH

posted on June 5th, 2019 at 12:04 PM by Steven Stanley

South London accents either too thick to be understood or virtually non-existent along with loads of British slang prove detrimental to Coeurage Theatre Company’s site-specific West Coast Premiere of Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch. So do view-blocking sight lines for certain audience members squeezed into the Tiger Boxing Gym just off Melrose.
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THE END OF BEAUTY

posted on June 4th, 2019 at 5:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Musings on art and beauty serve as an intellectual prelude to a provocative look at a marriage in crisis in Cory Hinkle’s The End Of Beauty, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

HARVEY

posted on June 3rd, 2019 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Harvey is back, and French Stewart is seeing him (even if we can’t) in Laguna Playhouse’s spiffy 2019 revival of Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic.
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posted in Classic Play, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on June 2nd, 2019 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley

Laurie Veldheer and Todd Adamson are simply sublime in La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Disney Beauty And The Beast, the all-around best and most spectacular of the six big-stage regional productions I’ve seen so far.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CHRISTIANS

posted on June 1st, 2019 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley

A bombshell announcement dropped one Sunday morning by the pastor of a major American megachurch threatens the future of the institution he has spent years building into mega-proportions in Lucas Hnath’s extraordinary 2014 drama The Christians, now getting a superb L.A.-cast production at Actors Co-op.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on May 30th, 2019 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley

The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown’s exquisite musical two-hander, showcases UCLA talent to stunning effect as part of Pacific Resident Theatre’s Sunday Concert Series in the company’s newly inaugurated intimate cabaret space.
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posted in Theater Review, Two-Hander, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

posted on May 29th, 2019 at 12:25 PM by Steven Stanley

The Broadway National Tour of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory scores points for its colorful performances and sets (and for its singing-dancing Oompa Loompas), but audiences looking for characters they can care about, a plot that will maintain their interest, and songs they’ll want to hear more than once won’t find them at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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DEAD ACCOUNTS

posted on May 27th, 2019 at 3:32 PM by Steven Stanley

A New York Banker returns to his family’s Cincinnati home with wads of cash and a secret that’s about to rock their world in Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic look at the Red State-Blue State divide, now getting a terrifically acted Southern California Premiere at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

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