VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

posted on October 8th, 2018 at 5:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Squabbling siblings have rarely inspired as much laughter as they do in Christopher Durang’s scrumdiddlyumptious 2013 Best Play Tony winner Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike, now being given a bang-up big-stage production at South Coast Repertory.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED

posted on October 8th, 2018 at 10:02 AM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Sarah B. Mantell rights centuries of wrong done Shakespeare’s Jessica, Lorenzo, and Shylock in The Theatre @ Boston Court’s adventurous, challenging Everything That Never Happened. But be forewarned and forearmed. The more familiar you are with its Merchant Of Venice protagonists, the greater the rewards of Mantell’s World Premiere romcom will be.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

AMERICAN HERO

posted on October 6th, 2018 at 12:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Times are tough for the heroic “sandwich artists” of Bess Wohl’s absurdist, existentialist, surrealist, and non-stop hilarious American Hero, the latest Los Angeles Premiere from IAMA Theatre Company.
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26 PEBBLES

posted on October 5th, 2018 at 4:49 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Eric Ulloa puts a personal face on fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history and the deadliest ever at a high school or grade school in his riveting, touching, inspiring 26 Pebbles, Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 at its most risk-taking and cutting-edge.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

STROKE OF LUCK

posted on October 4th, 2018 at 6:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Farley Cadena, whose scene-stealing performances as Singin’ In The Rain’s Miss Dinsmore, The Producers’ Hold-Me-Touch-Me, and Bye Bye Birdie’s Doris MacAfee have made her a SoCal musical theater treasure now gets the center-stage star vehicle that has long been her due in Stroke Of Luck (or how my brain broke & I crawled my way back), her inspired, inspiring one-woman show.
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posted in North Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

THE GIN GAME

posted on October 2nd, 2018 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley

Real-life marrieds Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James give bravura performances as a pair of nursing home residents for whom a simple game of cards could spell either an end to solitude or a continuation of a lifetime of loneliness in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s pitch-perfect revival of D.L. Coburn’s 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner The Gin Game.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

ROPE

posted on October 1st, 2018 at 5:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Cohabitating young Londoners strangle a university classmate to death, hide the body in a living room trunk, then welcome the victim’s father, his aunt, a pair of fellow students, and the teacher whose beliefs inspired their cold-blooded act for a dinner soiree in Patrick Hamilton’s Rope, easily the darkest. deadliest, and most daring offering in Actors Co-op’s 27-year history.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

A PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

posted on September 30th, 2018 at 9:48 PM by Steven Stanley

A Picture Of Dorian Gray, Michael Michetti’s spectacular take on the Oscar Wilde classic, is back, twelve years after its Theatre @ Boston Court debut, stunningly restaged by its director-adapter and easily the most provocative, boundary-pushing production ever to ignite the A Noise Within stage.
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