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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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!

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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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!

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