LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on June 17th, 2018 at 1:40 PM by Steven Stanley

Rising musical theater star Callandra Olivia is a pretty-in-pink Harvard Law School stunner as Elle Woods in Candlelight Pavilion’s irresistible big-stage production of the 2007 Hollywood-to-Broadway hit Legally Blonde.
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posted in Musical Play, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

MEXICAN DAY

posted on June 16th, 2018 at 4:59 PM by Steven Stanley

Following the hallucinogenic surrealism of Plunge and the real-time fireworks of Tar, playwright Tom Jacobson concludes his mammoth Bimini Bath Trilogy with no less than an old-fashioned 1940s-style screwball comedy (with dramatic overtones) called Mexican Day, like its predecessors an enthralling, enlightening look at 20th-century L.A. history.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

SKELETON CREW

posted on June 15th, 2018 at 4:50 PM by Steven Stanley

If Arthur Miller had written a play about auto workers facing the personal and professional consequences of a possible plant closure, it might have been Skeleton Crew, which is about the highest praise I can bestow upon Dominique Morisseau’s powerful blue-collar drama, now making a breathtakingly designed, directed, and performed Geffen Playhouse debut.

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

PLUNGE

posted on June 13th, 2018 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley


Long-buried secrets of power, passion, and perversion propel Plunge, the first installment of Tom Jacobson’s concurrently running Bimini Baths Trilogy, as provocative a World Premiere play as you’re likely to experience any time soon.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

CLYBOURNE PARK

posted on June 11th, 2018 at 11:07 PM by Steven Stanley

White flight circa 1959 and urban gentrification five decades later fuel Bruce Norris’s button-pushing, political-correctness-be-damned comedy Clybourne Park, winner of both the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play, the finest production I’ve seen at Laguna Playhouse and one of the year’s very best.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

TAR

posted on June 10th, 2018 at 11:02 PM by Steven Stanley

L.A.’s fabled Bimini Hot Springs and Sanitarium (1903-1956) provide the backdrop for Tom Jacobson’s The Ballad of Bimini Baths trilogy, the prolific Angelino playwright’s most ambitious project to date, and if the Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere Tar is any indication of what Plunge and Mexican Day hold in store, audiences are in for an exhilarating, elucidating three-part treat.
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AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL

posted on June 9th, 2018 at 12:04 PM by Steven Stanley

Harold Pinter’s backwards-moving Betrayal and an abridged Othello told from finish to start add up to An Evening Of Betrayal that proves one of late spring’s most exciting theatrical surprises.
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posted in Classic Play, North Hollywood, Theater Review

AS WE BABBLE ON

posted on June 7th, 2018 at 6:49 PM by Steven Stanley

Millennials get their turn in the East West Players spotlight in Nathan Ramos’s World Premiere comedy As We Babble On, a crowd-pleasing Asian-American take on Friends with more than just laughter on its mind.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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