BAD JEWS

posted on May 18th, 2018 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews is back in a terrifically acted and directed Odyssey Theatre Ensemble production that does its smart, button-pushing source material proud.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SOFT POWER

posted on May 18th, 2018 at 8:25 AM by Steven Stanley

A New York cast and production team bring Los Angeles audiences the World Premiere latest from Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Tony-winning composer-lyricist Jeanine Tesori, the crowd-pleasing East-meets-West “play with a musical” Soft Power, as audacious in concept as it is for the most part effective in execution.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on May 14th, 2018 at 4:10 PM by Steven Stanley

A spectacular Mazie Rudolph’s star turn as a woman struggling with manic depression is just one reason Broadway’s Next To Normal makes for one of Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s best.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

DIE, MOMMIE, DIE!

posted on May 13th, 2018 at 1:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Over-the-top doesn’t begin to describe the performances–or the fun of seeing so much scenery chewed by so sensational a cast–in Center Theatre Group’s Block Party reprise of Celebration Theatre’s 2017 comedy smash Die, Mommie, Die!
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF CLUELESS

posted on May 13th, 2018 at 9:00 AM by Steven Stanley

East Coast transfer student Tai Frasier may have been clueless when she showed up at Beverly Hill High just aching for a makeover, but the folks at Rockwell prove themselves masterful movie spoofers once again with their riotous, rollicking latest, The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Clueless.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

HAMILTON

posted on May 10th, 2018 at 6:08 PM by Steven Stanley

The American Revolution revolutionizes American musical theater in Lin Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking, game-changing Hamilton, now thrilling audiences at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts like virtually nothing before.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

HONEYMOON IN VEGAS

posted on May 8th, 2018 at 5:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Musical Theatre Guild has concluded its 20th-anniversary with a Honeymoon In Vegas so thrillingly staged, choreographed, and performed that yesterday’s audience could be excused for forgetting that they were seeing a mere “concert staged reading” put together in a mere twenty-five hours from table read to showtime.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

KNIFE TO THE HEART

posted on May 8th, 2018 at 5:10 PM by Steven Stanley

To cut or not to cut. That is the question facing Marshall and his shiksa spouse when pregnant-with-twins Julie Ann learns that the postpartum shindig her Jewish mother-in-law’s got planned will involve not just cocktails but a bit of infant cock-snipping. No wonder Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin have titled their entertaining, unexpectedly touching 80-minute stage sitcom Knife To The Heart.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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