THE ALTRUISTS

posted on June 9th, 2024 at 9:56 AM by Steven Stanley

A talented bunch of recent AAMDA grads have joined creative forces at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival to bring audiences The Altruists, Nicky Silver’s outrageously funny skewering of liberal causes gone berserk.
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DURAN DURANTONY & CLEOPATRA

posted on June 8th, 2024 at 10:43 AM by Steven Stanley


William Shakespeare meets The Troubies meet one of the 1980s’ most iconic rock bands in Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra, the latest musical-spoofy treat from Troubadour Theater Company “in cahoots with” the Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

JELLY’S LAST JAM

posted on June 4th, 2024 at 9:38 AM by Steven Stanley


A year after its record-breaking Sondheim Celebration, Pasadena Playhouse gives Jelly Roll’s Jam as spectacularly staged and phenomenally performed a 33rd-anniversary revival as any lover of rarely produced musicals could wish for.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on June 2nd, 2024 at 10:01 AM by Steven Stanley


Get ready to stand up and cheer director Glenn Casale’s ingeniously reconceived, spectacularly staged revival of Disney The Little Mermaid at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the absolute best of the now eight productions I’ve seen of this most enchanting of musicals.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

posted on June 1st, 2024 at 9:55 AM by Steven Stanley


Few golden age Broadway comedies hold up anywhere near as marvelously as George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1936 classic You Can’t Take It With You, the playwriting duo’s laugh-packed look at a charmingly eccentric multi-generational family residing together in perfect, if oddball, harmony in a large New York City home in the mid-1930s.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

THE EXPLORERS CLUB

posted on May 28th, 2024 at 10:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Things get wild and wacky when a comely female anthropologist is proposed for membership in a heretofore all-male scientific society in Nell Benjamin’s madcap Victorian romp The Explorers Club, now getting a delectably acted West Coast Premiere at Theatre 40.
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MY WHITE HUSBAND

posted on May 27th, 2024 at 3:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Despite a promising setup, Leviticus Jelks’s My White Husband turns out to be an awkward mix of 1950s sitcom spoofery, marital discord dramatics, sex comedy raunch, network TV politics, and Black Lives Matter activism.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

MIX-MIX: THE FILIPINO ADVENTURES OF A GERMAN JEWISH BOY

posted on May 25th, 2024 at 11:58 AM by Steven Stanley


Prolific Filipino-American playwright Boni B. Alvarez takes audiences on the most thrilling and danger-packed of WWII escapes in Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy, a fact-based action-adventure epic as vividly cinematic as it is imaginatively theatrical.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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