THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE

posted on April 2nd, 2018 at 11:13 PM by Steven Stanley

A dysfunctional family in mourning makes for unexpected holiday hilarity and heart in Jami Brandli’s Through The Eye Of A Needle, a humdinger of a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on April 2nd, 2018 at 7:08 PM by Steven Stanley

A fresh new look and some exciting casting choices make RCC Performance Riverside’s Disney The Little Mermaid as captivating for those who’ve seen the 2007 Broadway adaptation before as for those experiencing its “Under The Sea” wonders for the first time.
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posted in Inland Empire, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

AKUMA-SHIN

posted on April 1st, 2018 at 11:24 PM by Steven Stanley

Terrific performances and an ingenious production design cannot salvage the perplexing jumble that is Kenley Smith’s big-ideas sci-fi-parody-fantasy-thriller black comedy Akuma-Shin, a Sacred Fools Theater Company World Premiere, any more than its cast of characters—Dr. Joyce Brothers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer among them—are able to save Tokyo from Godzilla.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE MADRES

posted on March 28th, 2018 at 1:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker pays tribute to the women who would not be silenced when their sons and daughters started disappearing by the thousands during the “dirty war” waged by the Argentine military dictatorship on its own citizens beginning in the mid-1970s in The Madres, another powerhouse Skylight Theatre World Premiere.
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DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on March 27th, 2018 at 4:26 PM by Steven Stanley


A tremendously talented cast and a terrific, all-original production design make Cal State Fullerton’s Disney The Little Mermaid a tuneful treat for audiences of all ages.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

posted on March 26th, 2018 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

Actors Co-op brings 16th-century English history to vibrant life with their 21st-century revival of the 1962 Best Play Tony winner A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s thought-provoking if overlong look at Sir Thomas More, torn between moral conscience and political expediency during Henry VIII’s reign as King.
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LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR

posted on March 24th, 2018 at 11:47 AM by Steven Stanley

Neil Simon takes us back to 1953 when Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows ruled the airwaves in Laughter On The 23rd Floor, his 1993 Broadway valentine to TV’s early years now getting a sensationally directed and performed Toluca Lake revival at The Garry Marshall Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

CABARET

posted on March 23rd, 2018 at 2:29 PM by Steven Stanley

USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory once again rivals the finest intimate professional theater in town with its all-around smashing student-performed, student-directed, student-designed revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb classic Cabaret.
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