PIGS AND CHICKENS

posted on April 7th, 2018 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley

The Office meets A.I. meets Orwell’s Big Brother in Marek Glinski’s entertaining if a tad over-complicated satirical absurdist black comedy Pigs And Chickens, the latest Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA World Premiere.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

posted on April 6th, 2018 at 3:22 PM by Steven Stanley

A ragtag team of pint-sized spellers make musical theater magic at Burbank’s Grove Theatre Center as Domino One productions debuts its imaginatively directed and choreographed, delightfully performed intimate staging of the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
(read more)

Tags: , , , ,
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

SHREW!

posted on April 4th, 2018 at 5:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Amy Freed returns to South Coast Repertory with another hit-or-miss (but mostly miss) World Premiere comedy, this time a purportedly feminist take on William Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew retitled simply Shrew!
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere

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.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
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.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
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.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
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.
(read more)

Tags: , ,
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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.
(read more)

Tags: , , ,
posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

Next PagePrevious Page