THE ADDAMS FAMILY

posted on October 29th, 2018 at 7:36 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre welcomes the ghosts-and-goblins season with the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky clan known as The Addams Family, providing Southland audiences with the snap-snappiest Halloween entertainment in town.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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

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