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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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!

THE COLOR PURPLE

posted on November 12th, 2018 at 12:39 AM by Steven Stanley

Sensational performances and an intimate theatrical setting make Greenway Arts Alliance’s The Color Purple an exciting addition to the L.A. holiday scene if not as spectacular a revival as the musical’s 2012 99-seat L.A. debut.
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CORPUS CHRISTI

posted on November 10th, 2018 at 3:49 PM by Steven Stanley

Terrence McNally poses the provocative question, “What if Jesus were gay?” in Corpus Christi, the Tony Award-winning playwright’s highly controversial reimagining of The Life Of Christ as set in his Texas hometown and performed by an all-male cast, a memorable freshman-season closer for Orange County’s The Wayward Artist.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on November 9th, 2018 at 10:55 AM by Steven Stanley

A New York-based director, star, and production design team have joined forces to bring Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to spectacular solo-performance life at the Geffen Playhouse.
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posted in Solo Performance, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

VALLEY OF THE HEART

posted on November 8th, 2018 at 11:44 PM by Steven Stanley

Epic in scope, educational in intent, and exquisite in design, Luis Valdez’s Valley Of The Heart examines America’s WWII internment of its Japanese-American citizens and their foreign-born family members in ways both familiar (the Broadway musical Allegiance played L.A. just ten months ago) and original (our narrator is Mexican-American). If only the Zoot Suit playwright proved more adept at creating authentic-sounding dialog. If only Valley Of The Heart didn’t so often feel like Wikipedia on stage.
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SIGNING THE SONG

posted on November 6th, 2018 at 12:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Musical theater performer William Martinez escorts audiences on a journey so uniquely entertaining and inspiring, it’s no wonder SIGNing The Song has become a coast-to-coast phenomenon.
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