THE BOOK OF MORMON

posted on March 22nd, 2018 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Six years into touring the U.S. and still going strong, The Book Of Mormon pays its third visit to the Segerstrom Center For Arts with an absolutely fabulous, almost entirely new cast, the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner continuing to entertain and delight audiences with its distinctive mix of raunch and romance, hilarity and heart.
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HENRY V

posted on March 20th, 2018 at 4:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Those who insist on three-plus hours of Shakespeare may well get their knickers in a twist over the sixty-some minutes chopped from Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott’s excitement-packed Henry V now on show at Pasadena’s A Noise Within. Not this reviewer, who welcomes not just its refreshingly brief two-hours-and-change running time but its multitude of action movie-ready thrills.
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LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL

posted on March 19th, 2018 at 4:51 PM by Steven Stanley

Santa Monica’s venerable Morgan-Wixson Theatre once again blurs the lines between community and professional theater with the best performed of the more than half-dozen big-and-small-stage Little Women, The Musicals I’ve seen.
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AN UNDIVIDED HEART

posted on March 18th, 2018 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley

Pedophile Catholic priests and toxic waste-dumping chemical plants form the backdrop of Yusuf Toropov’s An Undivided Heart, a Circle X. Theatre Co./Echo Theater Company World Premiere that despite occasional tonal inconsistency and lack of clarity proves a powerful indictment of church-and-corporation-sanctioned abuse.
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BINGO HALL

posted on March 17th, 2018 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

A high school boy navigating unrequited feelings for a female best friend while making college plans either to stay close to home or to travel thousands of miles away is a tale, if not as old as time, at least as ancient as the John Hughes 1980s, but it feels fresh and new when the high schooler in question has only ever known life on a New Mexico Indian reservation in Dillon Chitto’s World Premiere comedy Bingo Hall.
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DAMN YANKEES

posted on March 15th, 2018 at 11:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre serves up midweek musical entertainment at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion with its revival of the 1955 Broadway smash Damn Yankees.
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CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND

posted on March 15th, 2018 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley

The Cambodian genocide may seem the least likely of subject matters for a raucous rock-music comedy, but this is precisely what Lauren Yee has pulled off in Cambodian Rock Band, her most accomplished, fulfilling play to date.
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posted in Orange County, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

posted on March 14th, 2018 at 12:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion treats audiences to a crowd-pleasing revival of Irving Berlin’s 1948 classic Annie Get Your Gun, the song-and-dance tale of legendary 1880s “cham-peen” sharpshooter Annie Oakley as reimagined by Oscar-Emmy-Tony winner Peter Stone.
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