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!

LOVE NEVER DIES

posted on April 25th, 2018 at 1:50 PM by Steven Stanley

The music is gorgeous, the plot ridiculous, and the show’s raison d’etre purely monetary, but for those curious to know what happened to the Phantom and Christine a decade after the chandelier fell in the Paris Opera House, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies provides answers this week and next at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review

BELLEVILLE

posted on April 23rd, 2018 at 1:12 PM by Steven Stanley

Young marrieds don’t get much more appealing than Americans in Paris Abby and Zack, but don’t let their Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks looks and charm fool you into thinking Amy Herzog’s Belleville will be the next big romcom. What the Obie-winning Pulitzer Prize finalist has up her sleeve in Belleville is something considerably darker and more twisted, just one reason the latest from the Pasadena Playhouse is one of the season’s must-see productions.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

SOUTH PACIFIC

posted on April 22nd, 2018 at 12:15 PM by Steven Stanley

No matter how many times you’ve seen Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (I myself am at nine productions and counting), you might just feel you’re experiencing it for the first time ever at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, so thrillingly performed and gorgeously designed is this 69th-anniversary McCoy Rigby Entertainment revival.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on April 21st, 2018 at 7:29 PM by Steven Stanley


Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the misshapen Quasimodo and the shapely gypsy beauty who wins his lonely, aching heart comes to glorious musical life thanks to Alan Menken’s gift for melody and a couple dozen of SoCal’s most multi-talented performers in 5-Star Theatricals’ The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

NATIVE SON

posted on April 21st, 2018 at 7:10 PM by Steven Stanley

Lead performances are powerhouse and production design one of the year’s most electrifying, but Richard Wright’s 20th-century classic Native Son is ill-served at Antaeus Theatre Company by Nambi E. Kelley’s 21st-century stage adaptation’s temporal zigzags, sledgehammer approach to issues of race, and the addition of a “character” not found in the original novel.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review

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