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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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MIDDLE8

posted on November 19th, 2018 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley

If Thornton Wilder were still alive to write a rock opera about five musicians dealing with issues of love, life, death, and what comes after, he might choose to title it Our Band. Stefan Marks calls his play-with-songs Middle8, and for anyone who’s seen the playwright-actor-director-musician-designer’s past work, it should come as no surprise that Middle8 is label-defyingly special.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS

posted on November 17th, 2018 at 1:16 PM by Steven Stanley

Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, its past, its present, and the challenges it faces in the future, make for an eye-opening theatrical experience in Casa 0101’s World Premiere docudrama Remembering Boyle Heights.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

DEATH AND COCKROACHES

posted on November 16th, 2018 at 5:59 PM by Steven Stanley

A man-sized cockroach with the body of a gay porn god offers a cock-addicted aspiring TV writer unexpected aid in dealing with his father’s imminent death in Eric Reyes Loo’s raunchy, risk-taking, emotionally rewarding dysfunctional-family dramedy Death And Cockroaches, a Chalk Repertory Theatre World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on November 15th, 2018 at 6:33 PM by Steven Stanley

Legally Blonde, already as perfect a musical adaption of a hit movie as any romcom lover could wish for, proves just as perfect a vehicle for a couple dozen UC Irvine student performers with bright professional careers ahead.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

WAITRESS

posted on November 15th, 2018 at 12:26 AM by Steven Stanley

Broadway aficionados with a thing for romantic comedies will be in musical romcom heaven this week and next as the Segerstrom Center For The Arts welcomes Waitress, the winningest Broadway musical romcom since Elle Woods stole hearts in Legally Blonde.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)

posted on November 13th, 2018 at 6:04 PM by Steven Stanley

Clementine, Maddy, and Antonia are women on the verge of a nervous breakdown in North Orange, New Jersey circa 1960 in Jami Brandli’s BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!). That they’re also Clytemnestra, Medea, and Antigone reincarnated is one reason Brandli’s take on mid-20th-century suburbia works considerably less well than it would if she had stuck to satire. The other is the play’s two-and-a-half-hour running time.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

ZORBA

posted on November 12th, 2018 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only Zorba proved a perfect example of everything a concert staged reading should be, i.e., a superbly performed, imaginatively staged revival of a rarely produced Broadway gem well worth a second look.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

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