TWO STOP

posted on May 24th, 2024 at 11:40 AM by Steven Stanley


A Korean convenience store owner and a half-Black, half-Korean teen square off as the Los Angeles riots rage only blocks away in David Johann Kim’s you-are-there-on-the-edge-of-your-seat World Premiere drama Two Stop, the pulse-pounding latest from Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles.
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PANG SPA

posted on May 21st, 2024 at 5:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Chalk Repertory Theatre returns with its first fully-staged production since 2018’s Death And Cockroaches, an absolutely superb World Premiere staging of David Johann Kim’s mesmerizing Pang Spa.
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MISALLIANCE

posted on May 20th, 2024 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley


George Bernard Shaw fans won’t find a more sparklingly performed or exquisitely designed production of Misalliance than the one now playing at A Noise Within, and even if like me you find Shaw plays overly long and talky, this one’s suddenly zippy second act will have you singing its praises.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on May 19th, 2024 at 10:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Jayde Mitchell and Jackie Bonsignore and Bryan Mittelstadt and Margaret Berkowitz deliver four breakout star turns in the eighteenth production I’ve seen of Jason Robert Brown’s mesmerizing romantic musical two-hander The Last Five Years, Sierra Madre Playhouse’s first traditional stage production since its reimagining as a performing arts center and one I made it a point to see with two equally fabulous casts.
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GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

posted on May 17th, 2024 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


A quintessentially Irish playwright and a quintessentially American music legend recall the bleakest days of the Great Depression in the most transcendent of new musicals, Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan’s Tony-winning Girl From The North Country, now touring the U.S. with a three-week stop at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater.
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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

posted on May 13th, 2024 at 10:20 AM by Steven Stanley

Musical theater star Kelley Dorney captivates without singing a note in What The Constitution Means To Me, Heidi Schreck’s initially entertaining but ultimately long-winded lecture on the U.S. Constitution’s failure to protect the rights of women, people of color, immigrants, Native Americans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

AMERICAN MARIACHI

posted on May 13th, 2024 at 10:12 AM by Steven Stanley


A half-dozen years after its Old Globe world premiere, José Cruz González’s American Mariachi makes an endlessly entertaining Latino Theater Co. L.A. debut under under José Luis Valenzuela’s incisive direction at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on May 11th, 2024 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley


The Nocturne Theatre makes it four hits in a row with a terrifically crowd-pleasing, family-friendly in-the-round staging of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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