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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LIFE COULD BE A DREAM

posted on February 23rd, 2019 at 12:42 PM by Steven Stanley

Doo Wop harmonies reign supreme out Long Beach way as International Theatre takes audiences on a tuneful trip down memory lane in Life Could Be A Dream, two delightful hours of late-1950s/early ‘60s nostalgia from Roger Bean.
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HIR

posted on February 21st, 2019 at 5:44 PM by Steven Stanley

There are dysfunctional family comedies … and then there’s Taylor Mac’s Hir, a dysfunctional family comedy that takes the genre to such extremes that not everyone will make it past intermission. I, on the other hand, relished every twisted second of this Odyssey Theatre Ensemble Los Angeles Premiere.
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LIZZIE

posted on February 19th, 2019 at 5:36 PM by Steven Stanley

You’ve seen the movies and read the biographies (or at the very least, you’ve heard the rhyme). Now, wielding her axe to a punk rock beat, LIZZIE ignites the Chance Theater stage like it’s never been ignited before.
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A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

posted on February 18th, 2019 at 5:21 PM by Steven Stanley

A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, the homicidally hilarious quadruple-Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014, now fills the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts with murderous mirth as the latest Broadway-caliber regional premiere from 3-D Theatricals.
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