YES, VIRGINIA

posted on December 17th, 2018 at 11:20 AM by Steven Stanley

Mindy Sterling and Arnetia Walker do some late-ish-in-life female bonding on New Year’s Eve in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s feel-good holiday two-hander Yes, Virginia, the latest from Pop-Up Playhouse.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander

SCISSORHANDS

posted on December 16th, 2018 at 6:09 PM by Steven Stanley

The magic and wonder and humor and heart of a Tim Burton movie classic come to haunting musical life as Rockwell Table + Stage and The Fuse Project debut Scissorhands, the ideal holiday alternative for those who prefer their Christmas season entertainment with an edge.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE WONDERFUL WINTER OF OZ

posted on December 15th, 2018 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley

The Yellow Brick Road leads to Pasadena this week and next as Lythgoe Family Panto debuts its latest kids-friendly holiday musical spoof, a seasonally retitled The Wonderful Winter Of Oz.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE RADIO PLAY

posted on December 14th, 2018 at 10:59 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s more than one Christmas miracle in store for the cast and characters of Theatre Unleashed’s It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Jim Martyka’s double-your-pleasure adaptation of the holiday perennial.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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!

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