IT IS DONE

posted on February 1st, 2019 at 5:34 PM by Steven Stanley

Sparks fly in the most horrifyingly unexpected of ways in a seedy bar ninety miles from nowhere in Alex Goldberg’s edge-of-your-seat chiller It Is Done, the risk-taking latest from Beverly Hills’ venerable Theatre 40.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

HELLO, DOLLY!

posted on January 31st, 2019 at 2:33 PM by Steven Stanley

Betty Buckley is making matches right and left while earning ovation after ovation as only a Broadway legend can in the 10-Tony-award-winning 1964 classic Hello, Dolly!, now paying L.A. a three-week visit to Hollywood’s Pantages.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

SWEENEY TODD

posted on January 29th, 2019 at 5:12 PM by Steven Stanley

There will be blood all month in Costa Mesa as South Coast Repertory debuts its scaled-down but still powerful, sensationally performed 40th-anniversary revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Weaver’s musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street..
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

PARADISE

posted on January 28th, 2019 at 3:41 PM by Steven Stanley

A Columbia University professor reduced to teaching science in an overcrowded, underfunded Bronx high school and a Muslim-American student with dreams far loftier than her Yemeni immigrant family are likely ever to allow. From these two disparate, desperate souls, Laura Maria Censabella has written Paradise, as intelligent, thought-provoking, compelling, heartbreaking, and satisfying a two-hander as I’ve seen in a good long while.
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posted in Theater Review, Two-Hander, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN

posted on January 26th, 2019 at 4:00 PM by Steven Stanley

A stageful of stereotype-defying Irish islanders, an abundance of well-earned laughs and maybe even a tear or two thrown in for good measure are just a few of the reasons Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple Of Inishmaan at Antaeus Theatre Company adds up to one supremely satisfying (and pardon my Irish) fecking entertaining evening of L.A. theater.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

TITANIC THE MUSICAL

posted on January 21st, 2019 at 6:11 PM by Steven Stanley

Titanic The Musical sails into Claremont to give Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre one of its best productions ever—superb performances, gorgeous songs, first-class design, and a live orchestra to boot.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

PICK OF THE VINE 2019

posted on January 21st, 2019 at 1:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Pick Of The Vine ups the quirky a bit too much in 2019, the main reason why, for this reviewer at least, only about half of Little Fish Theatre’s annual collection of “This Year’s Best Short Plays” hit the mark the way almost all of last year’s did.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Short One-Act, Theater Review

DEATH HOUSE

posted on January 19th, 2019 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley

What starts off as a capital punishment-vs.-life imprisonment debate develops into something considerably deeper and more powerful in Jason Karasev’s profoundly moving Death House, a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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