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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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