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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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