VIETGONE

posted on October 27th, 2018 at 8:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Romantic comedy lovers are in for a treat as a couple of Vietnamese evacuees in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 fall reluctantly in love in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, one of East West Players’ all-around best productions in years.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LITTLE FOXES

posted on October 26th, 2018 at 4:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Lillian Hellman might have written The Little Foxes in post-Depression 1939, but her tale of the Alabama Hubbard clan’s quest for even more filthy lucre hasn’t aged a day, just one reason her three-act Southern-fried melodrama makes for an especially scrumptious Antaeus Theatre Company three-course meal.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

KINGS

posted on October 24th, 2018 at 5:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Rising playwright Sarah Burgess takes deadly aim at the political strings pulled by big-money-powered PACs in Kings, a South Coast Repertory West Coast Premiere as entertaining as it is riveting as it is cynical about the state of our nation.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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!

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