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!

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!

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