SHOWPONY

posted on September 29th, 2018 at 10:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Workplace tensions explode when the acquisition of an African-American-owned company by a major New York advertising agency adds racial sparks to already rampant sexism in Judith Leora’s scathingly funny World Premiere comedy Showpony, the latest from Burbank’s Victory Theatre Center.
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

posted on September 27th, 2018 at 5:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Cassandra Marie Murphy and Caleb Shaw are sheer perfection as the star-crossed lovers of The Bridges Of Madison County, bringing composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s and book writer Marsha Norman’s exquisite take on Robert James Waller’s novel to soaringly romantic life in an all too brief, just concluded three-performance-only Inland Valley Repertory Theatre run at Candlelight Pavilion.
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GLORIA

posted on September 25th, 2018 at 5:16 PM by Steven Stanley

The office banter amongst the millennials who toil for a New Yorker-style magazine in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Gloria may be catty, querulous, gossipy, back-stabbing, and hilarious as all get-out, but the 33-year-old playwright has far more than edgy cable sitcom humor on his mind in his 2015 off-Broadway hit, a ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher of an Echo Theater Company West Coast Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

MAME

posted on September 24th, 2018 at 11:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Musical Theatre Guild treated lucky L.A. audiences to a one-night-only concert staged reading of Jerry Hermans’s Mame that proved not only a terrifically directed-and-performed look back at the 1500-performance 1966 Broadway smash but illustrates to perfection precisely why MTG is a SoCal treasure.
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BONNIE & CLYDE

posted on September 24th, 2018 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater makes a Broadway buff’s dreams come true with L.A.’s first major professional production of the Tony-nominated Bonnie & Clyde since its 2011 debut, not only one of Candlelight’s very best ever but one that more than merits being called “Broadway caliber all the way.”
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SHE LOVES ME

posted on September 24th, 2018 at 7:54 AM by Steven Stanley

Feuding co-workers who’ve no idea they’re secretly in love with each other make for romantic musical comedy magic in the 1963 Broadway classic She Loves Me, Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delightful 2018-2019 season opener.
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THE RESCUED

posted on September 22nd, 2018 at 4:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Abuse survivors living in a group home would seem unlikely to inspire a comedy as sweet and touching and funny as Julie Marie Myatt’s The Rescued, but the Road Theatre Company’s latest World Premiere proves an utterly charming if still-a-bit-in-need-of-a polish gem.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

posted on September 19th, 2018 at 5:55 PM by Steven Stanley

The Dashwood sisters fall truly, madly, deeply in love once again as South Coast Repertory treats Jane Austen fans to Sense And Sensibility, its daringly cast and deliciously performed 2018-2019 season opener.
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