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!

SPRING AWAKENING

posted on January 18th, 2019 at 3:49 PM by Steven Stanley

Outstanding performances, nuanced direction, and thrillingly original choreography (all by USC students) make Musical Theatre Repertory’s intimate staging of the 2007 Broadway musical hit Spring Awakening one of the best in a long line of Grade-A MTR productions.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

LINDA VISTA

posted on January 17th, 2019 at 12:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Tracy Letts could just as easily have called his latest play Train Wreck, so hot a mess is its 50-year-old protagonist that much of the pleasure of Letts’ relentlessly funny, defiantly unsentimental Linda Vista (a Steppenwolf visitor to the Mark Taper Forum) is watching its antihero (emphasis on the anti) get what he so richly deserves.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

MAMMA MIA!

posted on January 15th, 2019 at 10:11 AM by Steven Stanley

Get out your disco boots and spandex as Cupcake Theater gives L.A. audiences their very first chance to enjoy the international megasmash Mamma Mia! up close and personal.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review

1776

posted on January 14th, 2019 at 12:52 PM by Steven Stanley

American history comes stirringly alive in Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s 1776, turning audiences at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts into flies on the walls of the Continental Congress of 1776 as our country’s Founding Fathers wrangle over the question of Independence.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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