THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND

posted on September 6th, 2018 at 4:12 PM by Steven Stanley

Five of L.A.’s most talented triple-treats performing twenty-nine Kander & Ebb gems add up to one non-stop entertaining evening of musical theater as Reprise 2.0 treats audiences to its sensationally performed, imaginatively directed, gorgeously designed The World Goes ‘Round.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Musical Revue, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SPRING AWAKENING

posted on September 2nd, 2018 at 4:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Spring Awakening has arrived at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre in what is easily the most “high-concept” of the fourteen productions I’ve seen. Promoted as “Spring Awakening For Gun Safety” and drawing overt connections between its 1891 teen protagonists and the 2018 world we live in, this thoroughly original vision is as stunningly directed and choreographed as it is strikingly designed and powerfully performed.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE

posted on September 1st, 2018 at 4:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Cori Cable Kidder reprises her Ovation Award-nominated, Scenie-winning star turn as Patsy Cline opposite SoCal musical theater treasure Ann Myers in Glendale Centre Theatre’s Always … Patsy Cline for two hours of country music memories backed by a live band. Need I say more?
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

posted on August 31st, 2018 at 4:04 PM by Steven Stanley

The Glass Menagerie is in expert hands as International City Theatre revives the masterpiece that first put Tennessee Williams’ name on the map, giving it a 74th-anniversary revival sparked by impeccable direction, striking design, and performances that breathe fresh new life into a classic.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Classic Play, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CHALK GARDEN

posted on August 28th, 2018 at 5:39 PM by Steven Stanley

Brits don’t get more delightfully eccentric than the residents of Mrs. St. Maugham’s Sussex manor house in Enid Bagnold’s 1955 charmer The Chalk Garden, the latest Theatricum Botanicum gem.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE

posted on August 27th, 2018 at 5:50 PM by Steven Stanley

An emotionally abusive childhood provides the backstory to the celebration of survival that is Inda Craig-Galván’s memory play I Go Somewhere Else, a playwrights’ Arena World Premiere as superbly acted as it is strikingly designed. If only it were easier to figure out who’s who and what’s what.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, World Premiere

AIN’T TOO PROUD

posted on August 26th, 2018 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley

The Motown sound is ready once again to take New York by storm when Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now earning some of the loudest Ahmanson Theatre audience cheers I’ve heard in years, transfers to Broadway’s Imperial this spring.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
posted in Los Angeles, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD

posted on August 25th, 2018 at 1:55 PM by Steven Stanley

Maid Marian is far from the only resident of Nottingham and its neighboring Sherwood Forest to blur gender and sexuality in Adam Szymkowicz’s LGBTQ-celebratory, song-and-swordplay-packed Marian, Or The True Tale Of Robin Hood, one of Theatre Of NOTE’s most exhilarating hits in years.
(read more)

Tags: , , , ,
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

Next PagePrevious Page