MAYAKOVSKY AND STALIN

posted on July 22nd, 2018 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Some good actors attempt to breathe life into writer-director Murray Mednick’s talky, tedious Mayakovsky And Stalin, the longest two-and-a-half hours I’ve spent in a theater in years.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on July 21st, 2018 at 11:25 PM by Steven Stanley

A luminous Susan Egan’s return to the role that made her a Broadway star is just one reason not to miss 5-Star Theatricals’ five-star revival of Disney Beauty And The Beast, though it is easily Egan’s incandescent star turn that gives the production’s two-weekend run at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza event status.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

MARY POPPINS

posted on July 20th, 2018 at 4:55 PM by Steven Stanley

In-the-round staging proves a perfect fit for Mary Poppins at Glendale Centre Theater, placing the emphasis firmly on P.L. Travers’ storytelling, the Sherman Brothers’ hum-along songs, a bunch of infectious dance numbers, and leading lady Deborah Robin, quite possibly the best of the seven Marys I’ve seen on stage.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MUTT HOUSE

posted on July 19th, 2018 at 5:23 PM by Steven Stanley

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I defy anyone to resist the canine charmers of Mutt House, or their human companions, or the songs, or the laughter, or the romance, or the heart of this Kirk Douglas Theatre guest production, as gem-perfect an L.A. World Premiere musical as I’ve seen in at least a dog’s year.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

CRY IT OUT

posted on July 17th, 2018 at 5:39 PM by Steven Stanley

You don’t have to be a stay-at-home nursing mom to fall in love with Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out, but if you are, this one’s especially for you, and it’s about time.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

BIG FISH

posted on July 17th, 2018 at 11:27 AM by Steven Stanley

Chance Theater takes full advantage of Big Fish The Musical’s newly revised “small cast edition” to transform an overblown Broadway flop into an intimate gem that could touch even a heart of stone.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE

posted on July 16th, 2018 at 11:47 PM by Steven Stanley

A deaf New York film professor and a hearing-impaired bookkeeper fall head over heels into adulterous love in Arrival & Departure, playwright Stephen Sachs’ 21st-century updating of Noel Coward’s über-romantic cinematic classic Brief Encounter, a compelling, excitingly staged, terrifically acted Fountain Theatre World Premiere whose script could still use some work.
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THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY

posted on July 15th, 2018 at 12:12 AM by Steven Stanley

Unrequited love has rarely been as delightful to witness as it is in Three Days In The Country, playwright Patrick Marber’s tasty new “version of” Ivan Turgenev’s considerably older (by about a hundred seventy years), longer (by an hour and a half), and stodgier (or so I’m told) A Month In The Country, and a glorious return to partner-cast form for L.A.’s crème-de-la-crème Antaeus Theatre Company.
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