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

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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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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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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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