VIOLET

posted on May 26th, 2018 at 11:15 AM by Steven Stanley

Director Richard Israel and a couldn’t-be-better cast and design team get everything right in Actors Co-op’s soul-reviving intimate staging of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

CULT OF LOVE

posted on May 25th, 2018 at 3:41 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s no place like home for a dysfunctional family Christmas as playwright Leslye Headland makes abundantly clear in her gripping, talk-provoking, edge-of-your-seat hilarious Cult Of Love, the long-awaited final installment of her Seven Deadly Plays, the series of vice-based black comedies that put both Headland and IAMA Theatre Company on the map.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

SPRING AWAKENING

posted on May 24th, 2018 at 11:41 AM by Steven Stanley

A century before Spring Awakening The Musical took Broadway by storm (and won eight Tony awards in the bargain), German playwright Frank Wedekind shocked and outraged audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with Frühlings Erwachen, whose 2007 Jonathan Franzen translation proves a sensational UCLA Department Of Theater showcase for its director, designers, and cast.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

FOREVER BOUND

posted on May 22nd, 2018 at 10:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Expect the unexpected from the money-making scheme concocted by the cash-starved protagonists of Steve Apostolina’s astonishing Forever Bound, now getting a rock-your-socks-off World Premiere at the Atwater Village Theater
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG

posted on May 21st, 2018 at 4:31 PM by Steven Stanley

Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni Rosensweig are back and every bit as smart and sassy and engaging at South Coast Repertory as they were when playwright Wendy Wasserman, fresh from her Pulitzer Prize win for The Heidi Chronicles, debuted The Sisters Rosensweig back in 1992.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

ELEVADA

posted on May 21st, 2018 at 10:00 AM by Steven Stanley

A rather nonsensical premise is all that’s holding back Sheila Callaghan’s Elevada from being the unqualified smash romantic comedy it sets out to be. Even so, romcom lovers like this reviewer will find themselves captivated by its terrifically acted, stunningly designed Chance Theater West Coast Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

SPRING AWAKENING

posted on May 20th, 2018 at 6:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Director-choreographer-designer Madeleine Heil reinvents Broadway’s Best Musical Tony winner Spring Awakening so sensationally at NoHo’s Cupcake Theater, it’s easily one of the two or three finest of the dozen productions I’ve seen so far.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

WOOD BOY DOG FISH

posted on May 20th, 2018 at 5:29 PM by Steven Stanley

Wood Boy Dog Fish, Rogue Artists Ensemble’s deliciously twisted take on Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio has moved uptown and upscale from the Bootleg to Toluca Lake, terrific news for those who like their fairy tales dark and dirty and theatrically magical.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

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