THE BABY DANCE: MIXED

posted on May 6th, 2018 at 5:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Jane Anderson factors in race to her 1991 hit The Baby Dance’s already heady mix of adoption and class to give 2018 audiences a play distinct enough from its source material to merit World Premiere status, Rubicon Theatre Company’s compelling, talk-provoking The Baby Dance: Mixed.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

CARDBOARD PIANO

posted on May 5th, 2018 at 10:17 AM by Steven Stanley

War and homophobia wreak havoc on the lives of an overseas missionary couple’s teenage daughter, her Ugandan girlfriend, and the outwardly maimed, inwardly wounded 13-year-old soldier who interrupts their impromptu wedding ceremony one dark and devastating night in Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano, the gut-punching latest from International City Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

BLUES IN THE NIGHT

posted on May 3rd, 2018 at 2:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Chester Gregory may have Yvette Cason, Paulette Ivory, and Bryce Charles singing the lovesick blues from dusk to dawn, but for audiences at The Wallis, Sheldon Epps’ 1982 Best Musical Tony nominee Blues In the Night proves this year’s feel-best musical revue.
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posted in Musical Revue, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

posted on May 1st, 2018 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Springtime skies may be cloudless in Claremont, but audiences will be Singin’ In The Rain through June 2nd at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s terrific big-stage revival of Broadway’s 1985 take on the 1952 Gene Kelly-Donald O’Connor-Debbie Reynolds MGM classic.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

NOISES OFF

posted on April 30th, 2018 at 6:25 PM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within re-revives its all-time biggest money-maker, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, guaranteeing audiences two-and-a-half hours of comedic bliss, and not just in Acts One, Two, and Three. This farce-to-end-all-farces is so out-and-out hilarious, you may even find yourself experiencing delayed-reaction laughter during intermissions.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

GOOD PEOPLE

posted on April 29th, 2018 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Good People’s Orange County Premiere makes at least two things abundantly clear. First of all that David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2011 Broadway hit is easily one of the past decade’s finest, most compelling new plays, and second, that Chance Theater continues to reign supreme among intimate OC stages.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

42nd STREET

posted on April 28th, 2018 at 4:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Palos Verdes Performing Arts welcomes a fabulous lead cast and twenty of L.A.’s most precision tappers for their crowd-pleasing revival of Gower Champion’s 1980 Broadway megasmash 42nd Street.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

WEST SIDE STORY

posted on April 27th, 2018 at 1:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Glendale Centre Theatre presents West Side Story as you may never have seen it before–up close and in the round. Terrific lead and supporting performances guarantee GCT yet another hit, and whenever the production’s top-drawer dance ensemble launch into one of Jerome Robbins’s iconic dance numbers as adapted by Orlando Alexander, the show takes particularly high flight.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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