LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE

posted on December 13th, 2018 at 6:21 PM by Steven Stanley

Forget about streaming it on Netflix for the umpteen December or pulling out your much viewed DVD for another annual look-see. Instead, run, don’t walk to Beverly Hills for The Wallis & For The Record’s Love Actually Live.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

A HARMONY BOYS CHRISTMAS: LIVE FROM WAIKIKI BEACH!

posted on December 10th, 2018 at 6:43 PM by Steven Stanley

The Harmony Boys throw good taste out the window, and thank Santa for that, as Bobby, Barry, Billy, and Xian Ling Moon Harmony reunite at the Grand Kahulahani Resort And Sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds for “some Christmas cheer, some song and dance, and some very poorly researched appropriation of Pacific Island culture” in A Harmony Boys Christmas: Live From Waikiki Beach, Aaron Matijasic’s gift to L.A. theatergoers in search of politically incorrect, R-rated fun for the holidays.
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SOUTH PACIFIC

posted on December 9th, 2018 at 4:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Intimacy isn’t a word normally associated with the Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, just one reason the 200-seat Rubicon Theatre Company’s two-piano revival is a December must-see. Others are its superb quartet of lead performers, an all-around terrific supporting cast, direction by a gifted young Brit, refreshingly original choreography by a SoCal star, and a simply gorgeous production design, all of which more than do justice to a 20th-century American musical theater classic.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A CHRISTMAS ROSE

posted on December 8th, 2018 at 12:39 PM by Steven Stanley

Belle calls Laguna Beach home this holiday season as Laguna Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Panto treat SoCal audiences to Beauty And The Beast: A Christmas Rose, the funniest and most pop-hits-filled version yet of the classic 18th-century conte de fées.
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posted in Musical Spoof, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

BUS STOP

posted on December 7th, 2018 at 4:00 PM by Steven Stanley

No one wrote about 1950s middle-America more accurately, astringently, and affectionately than “Playwright of the Midwest” William Inge, proof positive of which can now be seen in Theatre 40’s absolutely terrific revival of Inge’s 1955 gem. (read more)

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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

KING LEAR

posted on December 3rd, 2018 at 7:20 PM by Steven Stanley

No one trims the Bard down to basics better than director-of-all-trades Denise Devin, and with Robert A. Prior editing and adapting Shakespeare’s mammoth text in addition to delivering a masterful star turn in the title role, Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group’s 90-minute King Lear packs a powerful punch whenever His Royal Majesty is center stage.
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A CAROL CHRISTMAS

posted on December 3rd, 2018 at 12:14 AM by Steven Stanley

A bossy, workaholic fashion mogul makes major life changes thanks to a trio of late-night visitors in The Group Rep’s World Premiere holiday musical A Carol Christmas, a tuneful Charles Dickens-inspired crowd-pleaser that with some astute revisions could well end up a regional December delight.
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL

posted on December 2nd, 2018 at 1:59 PM by Steven Stanley

If Jane Austen didn’t exactly invent the contemporary romantic comedy, she came pretty darned close, proof positive of which can be found in Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical, Paul Gordon’s magical stage adaptation of Miss Emma Woodhouse’s misadventures in matchmaking circa 1815, now getting a picture-perfect Orange County Premiere at Chance Theater.
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