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

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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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

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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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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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!

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