CHICAGO

posted on September 18th, 2018 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Having spent the better part of the past fourteen years wowing worldwide audiences as Chicago’s Velma Kelly, Terra C. MacLeod returns to Moonlight Stage Productions to deliver a sensational star turn as Roxie Hart, the first of many very good reasons not to miss this terrific new take on an old favorite.

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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN

posted on September 16th, 2018 at 3:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Janis Joplin lives and breathes and sings out hit after hit after hit in her gravely gift of a voice as Mary Bridget Davies revives her Tony-nominated performance as the Queen Of Rock-&-Roll in A Night With Janis Joplin at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

SWANSONG

posted on September 15th, 2018 at 3:34 PM by Steven Stanley

Australian powerhouse André de Vanny does tour-de-force work as a mentally and emotionally disabled young Irishman in Connor McDermottroe’s one-man play Swansong, a star turn almost as exhausting for de Vanny to perform as the Australian Theatre Company/Skylight Theatre Company West Coast premiere is to experience.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, Theater Review

THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA

posted on September 14th, 2018 at 12:29 PM by Steven Stanley

An intriguing premise and promising first act are sabotaged by a ridiculous post-intermission trek to the hereafter that bodes little to no regional theater afterlife for José Rivera’s The Untranslatable Secrets Of Nikki Corona, a Jo Bonney-directed Geffen Playhouse World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

NATIVE GARDENS

posted on September 10th, 2018 at 5:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Racism, sexism, ageism, and a fence add up to one of the year’s funniest—and most button-pushing—comedies in Karen Zacarías’s Native Gardens, now getting its most star-studded production to date at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY

posted on September 10th, 2018 at 7:14 AM by Steven Stanley

Regina George has met her Ghanaian match in Jocelyn Bioh’s side-splittingly funny, acerbically perceptive, unexpectedly touching School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, imported to the Kirk Douglas Theatre from its hit off-Broadway run with most of its original MCC Theater cast intact.
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posted in Presented Production, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

posted on September 8th, 2018 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley

Director Stan Zimmerman’s high-concept, Latino-cast The Diary Of Anne Frank scores points for its thought-provoking premise. In execution, however, it proves a mixed bag at best.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

SWEAT

posted on September 7th, 2018 at 4:11 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Lynn Nottage gives voice to blue-collar America in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, now making a gut-punching Los Angeles debut at the Mark Taper Forum, a suspenseful, insightful look at an electorate so disillusioned by their failed American Dreams that they ended up doing the unthinkable.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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