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

ON YOUR FEET!

posted on August 23rd, 2018 at 11:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Love and family, tragedy and triumph, and música, música, música propel the immigrant American dream as lived by the one-and-only Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet!, now evoking justified cheers at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on August 21st, 2018 at 9:58 AM by Steven Stanley

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo’s classic take on Beauty And The Beast, arrives at Moonlight Stages in a powerfully acted and gorgeously sung production that is, make no mistake, not the kids-friendly Disney musical some parents might be expecting despite the presence of half-a-dozen or so songs from the 1996 animated movie hit.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

MAMMA MIA!

posted on August 19th, 2018 at 6:44 PM by Steven Stanley

Fresh new direction/choreography and a look infinitely superior to the Broadway/Tour design that audiences have been seeing since Mamma Mia! first opened back in 2001 are several big reasons to welcome the international megasmash’s arrival at 3-D Theatricals’ stunning new home, the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

YELLOW FACE

posted on August 18th, 2018 at 2:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang blurs fact and fiction in the most devilishly clever of ways while tackling issues of racism and race in his 2007 off-Broadway hit Yellow Face, now provoking gales of laughter, plenty of post-performance discussion, and an unexpected tear or two at Beverly Hills Playhouse.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

posted on August 17th, 2018 at 12:32 PM by Steven Stanley

Ingenious staging and a talented young cast make Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a guest production at the Colony Theater, the summer’s brightest musical comedy surprise.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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