COMPANY

posted on August 3rd, 2024 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley


Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

CLUE

posted on August 1st, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

posted on July 30th, 2024 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre is back with an entertaining mid-sized revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the University of La Verne.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

THE PITCH

posted on July 29th, 2024 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley

A widowed single father finds himself in hot water with the IRS soon after embarking on a phone sales job he seems woefully ill suited for in Tom Alper’s overly padded but mostly entertaining The Pitch, an Odyssey Theatre visiting production.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

CREVASSE

posted on July 27th, 2024 at 3:51 PM by Steven Stanley


Adolph Hitler’s favorite filmmaker meets the man who made animated movie stars of Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi in Tom Jacobson‘s Crevasse, a fascinating, stunningly staged co-production of Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

INTO THE WOODS

posted on July 22nd, 2024 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley


There’s something particularly magical about Knot Free Productions’ intimate revival of Into The Woods at the Greenway Court Theatre, and as someone who’s seen 22 different live productions of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, I know what I’m talking about.
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SWEENEY TODD

posted on July 21st, 2024 at 8:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Late 18th-century London is a living nightmare in Chance Theater’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and while the scaled-down revival’s pitch-black tone and bare-minimum number of players do not make it the best introduction to this Stephen Sondheim classic, there’s still a lot for Sondheim aficionados to applaud.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BAUHAUS PROJECT: BAUHAUS WEIMER

posted on July 20th, 2024 at 3:54 PM by Steven Stanley

Over the past two decades, Tom Jacobson has established himself as one of L.A.’s most adventurous and original playwrights, creating such risk-taking winners as Bunbury, Ouroboros, The Twentieth Century Way, and his extraordinary Bimini Baths Trilogy. I can’t, unfortunately, add Bauhaus Weimer, Part One of his World Premiere triptych The Bauhaus Project, to that list.
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