AVENUE Q

posted on November 2nd, 2018 at 3:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Avenue Q proves an ideal showcase for ten terrifically talented Trojans, eight of whom are making their Musical Theatre Repertory debuts, as USC’s premier all-student musical theater company opens its 13th season with 2004’s Tony-winning grown-up take on a children’s TV classic.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

THE GAME’S AFOOT

posted on November 1st, 2018 at 7:16 PM by Steven Stanley

You don’t have to be a murder mystery fan to enjoy Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot; Or Holmes For The Holidays, but if you are, this Ludwig-meets-Conan Doyle-meets-Agatha Christie farce will prove a particularly tangy holiday treat at Pasadena’s Madeline Gardens, and one served with a high-tea dinner as scrumptious as the show itself.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

QUACK

posted on October 30th, 2018 at 1:40 PM by Steven Stanley

Allegations of medical advice turned fatal threaten to destroy TV’s most beloved physician in Eliza Clark’s Quack, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere that proves as hilarious as it is timely as it is button-pushing and thought-provoking.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

TWO MILE HOLLOW

posted on October 29th, 2018 at 7:59 AM by Steven Stanley

Anton Chekhov meets Aaron Spelling in Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow, an Artists At Play World Premiere whose first act is so deliciously, risk-takingly hilarious, one can’t help wishing there were about a quarter-hour less of Act Two.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY

posted on October 29th, 2018 at 7:36 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre welcomes the ghosts-and-goblins season with the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky clan known as The Addams Family, providing Southland audiences with the snap-snappiest Halloween entertainment in town.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

VIETGONE

posted on October 27th, 2018 at 8:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Romantic comedy lovers are in for a treat as a couple of Vietnamese evacuees in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 fall reluctantly in love in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, one of East West Players’ all-around best productions in years.
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THE LITTLE FOXES

posted on October 26th, 2018 at 4:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Lillian Hellman might have written The Little Foxes in post-Depression 1939, but her tale of the Alabama Hubbard clan’s quest for even more filthy lucre hasn’t aged a day, just one reason her three-act Southern-fried melodrama makes for an especially scrumptious Antaeus Theatre Company three-course meal.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

KINGS

posted on October 24th, 2018 at 5:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Rising playwright Sarah Burgess takes deadly aim at the political strings pulled by big-money-powered PACs in Kings, a South Coast Repertory West Coast Premiere as entertaining as it is riveting as it is cynical about the state of our nation.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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