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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BUS STOP

posted on December 7th, 2018 at 4:00 PM by Steven Stanley

No one wrote about 1950s middle-America more accurately, astringently, and affectionately than “Playwright of the Midwest” William Inge, proof positive of which can now be seen in Theatre 40’s absolutely terrific revival of Inge’s 1955 gem. (read more)

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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

KING LEAR

posted on December 3rd, 2018 at 7:20 PM by Steven Stanley

No one trims the Bard down to basics better than director-of-all-trades Denise Devin, and with Robert A. Prior editing and adapting Shakespeare’s mammoth text in addition to delivering a masterful star turn in the title role, Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group’s 90-minute King Lear packs a powerful punch whenever His Royal Majesty is center stage.
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A CAROL CHRISTMAS

posted on December 3rd, 2018 at 12:14 AM by Steven Stanley

A bossy, workaholic fashion mogul makes major life changes thanks to a trio of late-night visitors in The Group Rep’s World Premiere holiday musical A Carol Christmas, a tuneful Charles Dickens-inspired crowd-pleaser that with some astute revisions could well end up a regional December delight.
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL

posted on December 2nd, 2018 at 1:59 PM by Steven Stanley

If Jane Austen didn’t exactly invent the contemporary romantic comedy, she came pretty darned close, proof positive of which can be found in Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical, Paul Gordon’s magical stage adaptation of Miss Emma Woodhouse’s misadventures in matchmaking circa 1815, now getting a picture-perfect Orange County Premiere at Chance Theater.
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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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