PETER PAN

posted on July 18th, 2024 at 3:02 PM by Steven Stanley


You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
(read more)

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

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

posted on July 16th, 2024 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Whether you’ve seen The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee umpteen times or it’s your first time at the Bee, I guarantee you will fall head over heels for the dazzlingly fresh reinterpretation it’s being given at Santa Ana’s The Wayward Artist.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

NEWSIES

posted on July 15th, 2024 at 5:57 PM by Steven Stanley


With Dillon Klena reprising his signature role to sensational effect and director-choreographer Jeffry Denman giving the production a fresh new look and feel, Musical Theatre West treats audiences to one of the best Newsies ever.
(read more)

Tags: , , , ,
posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE

posted on July 14th, 2024 at 12:32 PM by Steven Stanley

Five years after his acclaimed star turn as Willy Loman, Rob Morrow returns to the Ruskin Group Theatre in another powerhouse role, that of Holocaust survivor-turned-New York publisher Isaac Geldhart in Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance Of Fire, a family drama unfortunately not in the same league as Death Of A Salesman.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB

posted on July 9th, 2024 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


A debonair British secret agent faces his evilest and most nefarious foe, i.e., his own alcohol, nicotine, gambling, and sex addictions (with anger issues thrown in for good measure), in Gregg Ostrin’s deliciously clever, fiendishly funny The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DESIGN FOR LIVING

posted on July 7th, 2024 at 6:17 PM by Steven Stanley

An Americanized trio of romantic protagonists and a gay subtext made explicit are two reasons Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s provocative but problematic staging of Noël Coward’s Design For Living is a far cry from the one Broadway audiences first discovered back in 1933.
(read more)

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

ANNIE

posted on July 6th, 2024 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley

That little orphan named Annie is back, reminding audiences at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center that the sun will indeed come out tomorrow in Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s entertaining community theater revival of the Broadway musical smash.
(read more)

Tags: , , , , ,
posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County

THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD

posted on July 5th, 2024 at 11:48 AM by Steven Stanley

Garrett Deagon’s chameleon-like transformation into our nation’s 16th President opposite Samantha Craton’s luminous Mary Todd Lincoln elevates Terrence L. Cranert’s The Lincolns Of Springfield into something more than the overly romanticized by-the-numbers Abraham Lincoln bio-musical it would be without their presence on the Colony Theatre stage.
(read more)

Tags: , , , ,
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review

Next PagePrevious Page