ELF THE MUSICAL

posted on December 1st, 2018 at 11:40 AM by Steven Stanley

After taking the movies by storm in 2003 and winning Broadway’s heart seven years later, Buddy The Elf has traveled by iceberg to Long Beach to offer Musical Theatre West audiences the season’s most delightful musical treat for grown-ups and kids alike.
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WHOLE FOODS: THE MUSICAL

posted on November 28th, 2018 at 4:46 PM by Steven Stanley

If you love musicals and you love comedy but you’ve got less than an hour to spare on the fourth Tuesday of every month, Upright Citizens Brigade on Sunset is the place to be for UCB’s Quick & Funny Musicals as the monthly series’ latest installment, Whole Foods: The Musical, made mirthfully, melodically clear.
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FINKS

posted on November 27th, 2018 at 6:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Joe McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts and the ensuing Hollywood blacklist may have seemed misty water-colored memories of sixty-year-old injustices when Joe Gilford’s Finks made its off-Broadway debut in the Obama-era early 2010s. Such is not the case a half dozen-years later, just one of many reasons not to miss its searing Los Angeles Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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OPPENHEIMER

posted on November 27th, 2018 at 6:34 PM by Steven Stanley

Epic in scope. As cinematic as it is theatrical. A lesson in history and a cautionary tale for future generations. Tim Morton-Smith’s monumental bio-drama Oppenheimer is all this and a spectacular achievement for Rogue Machine Theatre in its American Premiere.
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MORE GUNS!

posted on November 25th, 2018 at 11:25 PM by Steven Stanley

Would the United States actually be safer if every single one of us owned a gun? Philip Labes and Michael O’Konis take that notion and run with it in their clever, tuneful, unexpectedly heart-filled More Guns! A Musical Comedy About The NRA, a Saturday night smash for Hollywood’s The Second City.
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STEAMBATH

posted on November 24th, 2018 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Six towel-clad men and one similarly draped young woman kvetch about the insignificant lives they have left behind as they await who knows what lies ahead in Bruce Jay Friedman’s Steambath, an only fitfully diverting Odyssey Theatre Ensemble revival of a 1970 off-Broadway play that, even with Anthony Perkins as its star, couldn’t manage to make it past 128 performances.
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COST OF LIVING

posted on November 21st, 2018 at 11:57 AM by Steven Stanley

The costs of living are high indeed for the four damaged protagonists of Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Cost Of Living, now being given a gut-punchingly powerful West Coast Premiere at the Fountain.
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SHE LOVES ME

posted on November 19th, 2018 at 6:19 PM by Steven Stanley

Director-choreographer Cate Caplin and a pitch-perfect cast do everything right in Actors Co-op’s intimate revival of the 1963 Broadway charmer She Loves Me, perhaps better known today as the pre-Internet You’ve Got Mail.
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