A SPLINTERED SOUL

posted on October 22nd, 2018 at 8:06 AM by Steven Stanley

World War II Holocaust survivors and Los Angeles theater audiences deserve far better than the preposterously plotted 1940s B-movie melodramatics of Long Beach playwright Alan L. Brooks’ A Splintered Soul, a major misfire from the almost always stellar International City Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

BRIGHT STAR

posted on October 22nd, 2018 at 7:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Gorgeous bluegrass melodies, a leading lady’s incandescent star turn, all-around terrific supporting performances, ingenious staging, and a plot straight out of a 1930s/40s Hollywood weeper will have you crying joyful tears that Musical Theatre West has made Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star its 66th season opener.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

posted on October 19th, 2018 at 2:55 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s no better month for a ghost story than October and no better place for Halloween chills this year than the City Of Roses as Pasadena Playhouse trick-or-treats audiences to the The Woman In Black, the West End smash comedy thriller staged just as Londoners have been eating it up nonstop since 1989.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, National Tour, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

BABY EYES

posted on October 16th, 2018 at 2:06 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Donald Jolly takes us back to 1950s Baltimore via Ancient Greece in Baby Eyes, a Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere that scores points for ambitious intentions if not for its campy mix of ancient myth, Greek tragedy, ’50s melodrama, and men in drag.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY

posted on October 15th, 2018 at 4:51 PM by Steven Stanley

Thirteen multitalented millennials, an inspired director and choreographer, and one of the most tuneful and insightful scores in years make for musical theater magic in Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s The Theory Of Relativity, now playing at NoHo’s Gray Studios.
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posted in Musical Revue, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

posted on October 14th, 2018 at 11:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Tom Stoppard ponders the absurdity of life and the inevitability of death in his existentialist comedy classic Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, the thrillingly staged if occasionally inscrutable latest from A Noise Within.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES

posted on October 13th, 2018 at 3:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Real women not only have curves, they join forces to bring audiences a female-fueled revival of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves, a Garry Marshall Theatre crowd-pleaser if there ever was one.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

posted on October 10th, 2018 at 10:08 AM by Steven Stanley

You’d swear it was the real Carole up there singing hit after hit after hit, so spot-on is Sarah Bockel’s star-making performance as the 1960s/70s songwriting legend in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, this week’s best entertainment bet down Orange County way.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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