WITH LOVE, MARILYN

posted on June 5th, 2018 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Marilyn Monroe is crossing the country to tell her rags-to-riches, obscurity-to-stardom life story in song, and since it’s triple-threat blonde bombshell Erin Sullivan doing the telling and the singing, With Love, Marilyn makes for a fabulously performed trip down memory lane.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

DO RE MI

posted on June 4th, 2018 at 11:11 AM by Steven Stanley

It’s precisely for shows like Do Re Mi that Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series was created, Broadway chestnuts that for one reason or another have faded from memory despite Tony recognition and decent runs, and with Daniel Smith directing a crème-de-la-crème cast at Long Beach’s Beverly O’Neill Theatre, Do Re Mi’s one-night-only concert staged reading provided more than a few delights.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

NEWSIES

posted on June 3rd, 2018 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley

1899 newsboys on strike give 2018 audiences abundant reason to stand up and cheer La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Broadway-caliber staging of Disney’s Newsies The Musical.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

posted on June 2nd, 2018 at 12:30 PM by Steven Stanley

You are hereby invited to dine in elegance whilst savoring the equally delectable delights of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest as The 413 Project Theater serves up high tea dinner and a show at Pasadena’s Madeline Gardens, as appetizing an evening of Oscar as any Wilde fan could possibly wish for.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

posted on June 1st, 2018 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley

The audience is locked up side by side with the loonies in After Hours Theatre Company’s über-immersive One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and if Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of Ken Kessey’s novel isn’t ideally served by this you-are-there approach or the production’s younger-than-written crazies, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The Experience is a theatrical adventure you won’t want to miss.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

HOSTAGE

posted on May 29th, 2018 at 5:23 PM by Steven Stanley

A Wisconsin mother visits her captive son at the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis in Michelle Kholos Brooks’ compelling, eye-opening, fact-based World Premiere drama Hostage, the latest from Skylight Theatre Company.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

RED SPEEDO

posted on May 28th, 2018 at 2:46 PM by Steven Stanley

Obie-winning Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath (The Christians, A Doll’s House, Part 2) takes on Sex, Drugs, and Olympic Sports in Red Speedo, the theatrical equivalent of a Raging Waters thrill ride now getting a gold-medal Southern California Premiere at the Road on Magnolia.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

SEX

posted on May 27th, 2018 at 12:37 AM by Steven Stanley

The sound you hear at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre is Mae West turning over in her grave at the travesty being made of Sex, the 1926 play that outraged critics but proved that season’s biggest Broadway hit and put its one-of-a-kind playwright-star on the map.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

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