COME FROM AWAY

posted on February 6th, 2019 at 8:46 AM by Steven Stanley

Heroism, humanity, and heart triumph over terror in Come From Away, the 2017 Broadway Tony winner that turns the most unlikely of subject matters into the most feel-good of musicals. (That it’s also the best-directed, most powerfully performed show now touring the country is icing on the cake.)
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

LAST CALL

posted on February 4th, 2019 at 5:32 PM by Steven Stanley

Anne Kenney is hardly the first writer to tackle the issues confronting adult children of aging parents but her theatrical debut, Last Call, an Open Fist Theatre Company World Premiere, is as perceptive and powerful as family dramas get.
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AUGUST WILSON’S TWO TRAINS RUNNING

posted on February 3rd, 2019 at 5:36 PM by Steven Stanley

August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Two Trains Running arrives at the Matrix just in time for Black History Month in as powerfully staged and performed a production as any theatergoer, regardless of color, could possibly wish for.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

posted on February 2nd, 2019 at 1:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Multitalented director Michael Marchak ups the physical comedy to entertaining effect in Crown City Theatre Company’s 124th-anniversary revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest, but it remains Wilde’s way with words delivered by a terrific cast of Crown City favorites that earn the lion’s share of laughs.
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posted in Classic Play, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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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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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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!

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